Many of the elements that make history exciting are the same ones that make movies worth watching: heroism, scandal, intelligence, and tragedy. While Hollywood frequently uses past events for inspiration, there remains a good number of historical events and figures that have yet to be tapped. Pl...
studied in many European countries: in the Czech Republic24,35,108, France61, Italy109, Slovakia71,110, Slovenia57,101,111 and historical regions of Saxony (today part of Germany), Silesia (today part of the Czech Republic and Poland), Galicia/Halychyna (today part of Poland and Ukraine)...
Nobunaga no Chef fires on a lot of cylinders. It’s a fan-favorite because it centers around the exploits of one of Japan’s most beloved historical figures, Oda Nobunaga, and takes place in one of Japan’s most romanticized times. It blends comedic elements into the setting effortlessly, ...
and a frame of appliqué figures so finely executed that the stitches were almost invisible. And yet, for all the delicate needlework, the design of the quilt seemed to be quite random, the fabrics so various and contrasted it could have been made by several people, over...
include the history of large historically interconnected areas (such as the history of Europe and other continents and of particular regions, such as the Near East or Middle Asia) and the history of individual countries and peoples, such as the history of France, the USSR, and the Ukraine. ...
Organization)/EU (European Union) expansion, from the "democracy" project mounted within Ukraine by the West, from a failure by leading Western countries to consider Russian strategic interests, and from a lack of prudence by key Western figures who have not foreseen the consequences of their ...
(a wall of shields & spears) slowly until they came within range of the Persian archers, when they broke into a run. The arrows were ineffective at close range compared to the Greek spears. Soon they retreated, but the Greeks ran them down them from behind and killed them and war as ...
This realization prompted an archaeology of the city, an analytical consideration of life within these urban places (Dickens 1982:xix; Rothschild and Wall 2014:20–21; Zierden and Calhoun 1984).Footnote 1 Key figures began to emerge as archaeologists with the responsibility of overseeing these ...
It is in part due to figures like Mendoza that the Sephardic community was so successful. Taking advantage of England’s “tolerant” attitudes towards religious minorities and the effects of the Enlightenment, the Jewish community was allowed a degree of integration that was not possible in most...
A number of para-academic tendencies in Russian social science helped prepare the Ukraine war. In addition to propaganda and disinformation campaigns by the Kremlin, an intellectual deformation of the Russian elite by the Manichean ideas of such theorists as Lev Gumilyov and Aleksandr Dugin is partl...