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St Benedict of Nursia: The Man Who Wrote the West
The medal fits in a closed fist. On its front, a haloed figure in monastic robes holds a cross in one hand and a...
The New Year Deception — And How the Calendar Shifted
January 1st is widely treated as an inherent threshold in time, a point at which one year concludes and another begins. The date is...
Gladiators Are Fiction: Colosseums Are Enormous Power Plants (Part 2)
For centuries, we’ve been told that colosseums were built for entertainment—grand spectacles of gladiatorial combat, wild animal hunts, and even staged naval battles. This...
Gladiators are Fiction: Colosseums are Enormous Power Plants (Part 1)
Is it possible that, at some point in the past, large audiences were entertained by watching bloody armed fights to the death? Is it...
The Master Builders of Medieval Europe
One of the greatest mysteries of the medieval period lies in the castles that were supposedly built during this time—structures with four-foot-thick walls that...
