Louis XIV      The War of the Spanish Succession was a problem for Europe from 1701-1714. Charles II was the ruler of Spain. Charles II...

An “economic miracle” occurred at the beginning of  the Cold War. America was thriving for a decade or so up until the 1950s. How could a...

Shakespeare sets the stage in the first few scenes of his play Hamlet. Hamlet the king has just died while his son, the protagonist...

In the second half of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar , Brutus has already aided in Caesar’s death. Now what? Soon after Marc...

Bombing during WWII was happening after China refused to concede unconditionally. The popular opinion is that the bombing going on like...

“Et tu, Brute?” One of the most well-known examples of betrayal is when Julius Caesar’s best friend participated in his murder. What got...

In WWII, Hitler and FDR were obviously on opposing sides, so you'd be surprised to find so many similarities between the two leaders....

Canto ten of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene  is set in the House of Holiness. Una took the Redcrosse Knight there to help him heal...

Most Nazis had a copy of Mein Kampf  in their home, but very few people had actually read the thing, they just took each other’s word for...

In canto 4 of Book 1 of The Faerie Queene  by Edmund Spenser, there is a lot of focus on the seven deadly sins, and the characters...

In Canto 8 of Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene, the main antagonist Duessa unveils her true form. Stories use appearances to highlight...

Communist Russia, for a long time they believed their ideology was backed up by science, which made them even more steadfast in their...

The Greeks watched the changing of seasons Flowers come and go the sun rise and set The people watched and wanted a reason Dreaming...

Karl Marx used the labor theory of value. The basic idea of this theory was that the value of goods and services should be based on the...

Romanticism. An artistic movement in Europe starting around the late 18th century in contrast to the Neoclassical Era. The Neoclassical...

In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the wife of Bath had married five times and she described each marriage before telling a tale of a knight...

The seventeenth century was an interesting time for England because the government started trying new things. At this point, Henry VIII...

The Prose Edda  has many sections, and within each section there are sometimes a dozen stories. Mentionable sections for now include...

Richard Kotch authored The 80/20 Principle, and many books surrounding this helpful philosophy. His main point throughout his books is...

About half way through the "Gylfaginning" in the Prose Edda , there is a section between the setup, introduction to new characters, and...