Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas. It means complete, perfect and definitive. It’s also a beautiful, powerful, resonating language, with a structure and richness not found within most modern languages. All scientific, philosophical, historical works were...
In November of 2010 I spent a little over a week in Egypt. I was fascinated and humbled by the history and culture of the country. This travelogue isn’t a picture-book; there are far better pictures available on the internet and in travel magazines than the...
Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan...
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” – Michael Crichton “The new Library of Congress Student Discovery Sets bring together historical artifacts and...
“The country by the sea which is now called Macedonia… Alexander, the father of Perdiccas, and his forefathers, who were originally Temenidae from Argos” – Thucydides 99,3 (Loeb, C F Smith)Macedonia, officially the Republic of Macedonia, is a...
