The name game
By Subodh Rana.
The thing we call a rose would smell just as sweet if we called it by any other name. Romeo would be just as perfect even if he wasn’t called Romeo. Romeo, lose your name. Trade in your name—which [...]
Did the World’s Oldest Easter Bunnie First Hop into English in 1881?
By Mike Sutton
As far back as etymological investigation currently takes us down the rabbit hole in Google’s Library of 30 million books, we find the earliest known origin of the Easter Bunny is its forebear the “Easter Bunnie” [...]
Is this the Shocking Origin of “Easter Eggs”?
By Mike Sutton
Searching through over 30 million documents that comprise Google’s mighty library project, the earliest currently discovererable use of the term ‘Easter egg/s’ is an old book: Sanderson, W. (1656), [...]
Darwinists Failing in Desperate Attempts to Defend Namesake Against New Data
By Mike Sutton.
Since August 2104, following the publication of my e-book Nullius in Verba , I have been presented with a number of attempted defenses against newly discovered data.
The New Data proves that Darwin’s [...]
Ascetic and Ancestral Memorials in Upper Gangetic India
By Anupma Dixit.
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Imigration: Rick Santorum and your grandparents
By Robert Slayton.
Rick Santorum, a potential Republican presidential candidate, recently commented on immigration policy, providing examples from our history. “I’m not saying shut [unskilled immigration] [...]
The 50th Anniversary of U.S. Marines Landing in Vietnam
By Joseph Palermo.
Fifty years ago, on March 8, 1965, although few Americans could see it at the time, President Lyndon Johnson embarked on a war in Vietnam that would fundamentally transform both societies. He opened up [...]
New York’s 200-Year Conspiracy for Peace
By Lawrence S. Wittner.
As a scholarly specialist on the American peace movement, I am sometimes telephoned for background information by journalists writing articles about current demonstrations against war or against [...]
History between science and ideology
By Sebastian Sârbu.
True enough history may be defined as being the ,,magister vitae”, as the sage old men from ancient times coined this paradigmatic vision.
Far from operate with hollow assertions, we should [...]
Historic Indian sword was masterfully crafted
By Alton Parrish.
The master craftsmanship behind Indian swords was highlighted when scientists and conservationists from Italy and the UK joined forces to study a curved single-edged sword called a shamsheer. The study, led by [...]
Are We Seeing History Repeat Itself?
By Alan Caruba.
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is the famed quote of George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher (1863-1952). I am beginning to think that the world is making its way [...]
Geopolitical significant of the Korean Peninsula
By Pramod Sedhain.
Rival imperialist’s ambition to control the Korean Peninsula has seen a history of confrontations. In fact, Korean Peninsula has been a historic war-point and the intention to control it has been the beginning [...]
Sufism in UAE: A short history
By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem.
There are few sources that talk about the history of mysticism in the Arab Gulf states and particularly in the United Arab Emirates. G.G. Lorimer, who is considered one of the best historians [...]
The Islamist remained
By Frank Salvato.
Conjuring images of the dying who had clawed at the dank walls of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Jordanian Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh grabbed at his head, screaming out in agony as he fell to his knees, his [...]
Sons of Liberty: A Review
By Nelson Hultberg.
The History channel’s new miniseries, Sons of Liberty, will anger the purists and the prudes. But it will delight the swashbuckler in the rest of us. It is a big, bodacious screening with superb production [...]
The myth of Palestinian centrality
By Yoram Ettinger.
The myth of Palestinian centrality has dominated Western policy in the Middle East, while contrasting the reality of the Middle East.
In 2015, following in the footsteps of Presidents Mubarak and Sadat, Egyptian [...]
Elizabeth Thorn: Pregnant and Burying the Dead at Gettysburg
By Kate Kelly.
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During the Civil War, Elizabeth Thorn (1832-1907) was one of the many wives in both the North and the South who were left with the responsibility of keeping the family [...]
Nathaniel Hawthorne observed American dynamism
By Donna Welles.
Witchcraft at Salem Village. Engraving. The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Sometimes famous quotes are clandestinely [...]
The Surrealist Political History of Europe
By Joseph Colomer.
“Intervene. O descend as a dove or
a furious papa or a mild engineer, but descend.”
W. H. Auden, Spain (1937)
In order to understand the current political instability and uncertainty in several [...]
The legacy of Arkino
By Subodh Rana.
“Picasso The Picador”
There have been many myths and legends on child prodigies in all cultures. Lord Krishna’s birth leads to a miraculous baby exchange where his foster parents Nanda [...]