As an American citizen, it’s impossible to watch the news without hearing some kind of reference to diplomacy – be it Barack Obama’s promise to meet America’s enemies in his first year of presidency, Hillary Clinton’s chastising of that naivety, or calls for discussion with Iran and North Korea on their nuclear weapons programs, and ...
Many of you may have learned about these people or heard these terms back when you were still in middle or high schools. Well, here’s a guide to 157 of the most common terms and people from the world’s history! This is great for review, especially if any of you have kids that are learning ...
Hannibal was among the greats of ancient military history, the equal of Caesar and surpassed only by Scipio and Alexander. It is a tragedy that a novel as poor as this bears his name. Ross Leckie’s first mistake is to try and compress Hannibal’s expansive career into a work of less than 300 pages. This ...
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian Augustus Germanicus Caligula – yes that’s all one person, and you’ve probably more than one time in your life seen one of these monstrously sized Roman names and asked yourself, “What exactly does it mean?” In the United States and most of Western Culture we have three basic names that are ...
