A common modern conception about Medieval times is that the Catholic Church was in absolute control of the hearts and…
Month November 2013
Apparently all the world has been watching as the mayor of Canada’s largest city, Toronto’s very own Rob Ford, bravely…
I’m going to fast-forward again, right past one of the big kahunas in the long, checkered history of messiahs, Jesus…
Every year, I buy two or three or even four blood-red artificial poppies in the first ten days of November,…
In the previous couple of weeks, we looked at two figures from deep history: Sargon the Great of Akkad, and…
Sargon of Akkad was an upstart, a nobody, raised to power by the favour of a goddess—at least, according to the…