that has made it such an important place. Look to the north and there’s Macedonia – freshly dubbed North Macedonia to resolve the decades-old naming dispute – Bulgaria and the rump of Europe stretching away. To the east, the old Empires that the city was ...
The photo further down below (juxtaposed with a very recent one of me) is ofCSA Gen. William F. Payne— one of my distant paternal bloodline (I am descended on my father’s side from a branch of the Virginia Payne’s that made its way to the deep South and then to Mississippi and ...
I’d not originally planned to come this way, but during the week had found an ancient Ordnance Survey map in the back of a book covering the entire Borders area that suggested a 20 mile road south of Hawick to Newcastleton was a convenient bridge through some unknown terrain, and I foun...
Empire of the Black Seaarrives at a propitious time, as novelists, playwrights and historians jockey to tell the stories of overlooked individuals, groups and empires, encouraging audiences to see stale material with fresh eyes. Roller’s book, nudging the Ptolemies and togas to the side, tells...
We have often spoken about the grand themes of scripture and, not surprisingly, each week we have focused on one of those themes during the season of Advent, and this week is no different. While we have already, in the first week, mentioned the theme of hope, we visit that theme again...
”It happens that empires collapse suddenly, being quite viable (like the Russian Empire in 1917). It happens that empires disappear after many decades (and even centuries) of excruciating agony (like the Western Roman Empire in 476). But if the empire collapses, two conditions must always coi...
(who is sometimes depicted as a black African from Ethiopia), the Ancient Greek writers who laid the foundations for Western philosophy and epistemology were European Caucasians. The Roman Empire was founded by ‘whites’, too. The Industrial Revolution and the modern scientific revolution both ...
In his idea,“Empire has located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall,of beginning and end,of catastrophe”(146).A general survey of the world history shows that the formation of empires is always acco...
and that the Las Vegas shooting was not done by the man found dead in the hotel room. Most likely it was a military or secret service agent, and the dead body of the accused shooter put there to mislead the public. During the entire Las Vegas shooting, and for more than half...
as the long 18th century, which spans the Georgian era that either ended in 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, or in 1830, which marks the death of King George IV (these dates are still under discussion), the British empire oversaw a dominant position among the major European trading empires....