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Embark on a captivating journey through time with the best world history books! Uncover ancient civilizations, epic events, and untold stories.

Those who write off the medieval period as an unchanging backwater are overlooking the seismic advances that redefined what it meant to be human.

"...it's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it." - Sigrid Undset I first came across Sigrid Undset during my first year of teaching. The school where I taught had a set of…

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

For 23 years, Charles V “The Wise” of France suffered from a mysterious fistula on his left arm that continuously drained pus. For all this time, he believed that as soon as the fistula ceased to weep, he would have a mere 15 days before death followed. His death in 1380, at the young age of 42, seemingly proved this assumption correct. This paper explores the possible explanations from arsenic poisoning at the hands of his longtime nemesis Charles II, as many of his contemporaries believed,...

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Today's Water Cooler: Open Thread

We have notionally a new government with a sense of social justice, a vision opposed to inequality. But it is promptly, a neocon enthusiast.

In “The World the Plague Made,” James Belich argues that the Black Death had a profound impact beyond Europe.

11/14/2008: The year was 1876. Sixteen-year-old Theodore Roosevelt was just starting his freshman year at Harvard. While unpacking his personal belongings, including a catalogue of birds he had produced, Roosevelt heard a knock. Opening the door, he discovered Henry Minot.