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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Woman Beyond Her Time
Marriage of Eleanor and Louis VII and Louis Leaving for Crusade, 15th c., Chroniques de St. Denis (image public domain) By Emmanuel...
Chimpanzees and Bees or Genetics and Morality of Individuals and Societies – A Review of The Progressive Gene
How Conservative Britain saw the New America in 1776: “Rebellious Slut” By P. F. Sommerfeldt – Morality is often such a morass of competing and...
Paleolithic Instincts and Insights?
Bison painting, Chauvet Cave, Ardeche France, ca 32,000 BP (Image public domain) By Patrick Hunt – How much human behavior can be quantitatively attributed...
Neanderthals, Scandinavian Trolls and Troglodytes
By Patrick Hunt – Neanderthal humans (Homo neanderthalensis) are documented in European contexts for around 430,000 years according to new studies,(1) and...
Four Popes and a Would-Be Emperor: The Council of Constance 1414-1418
Fig. 1 Council of Constance, 1414-18, illustration from Chronicle of Ulrich von Richenthal (image in public domain) By Andrea M. Gáldy – Das Konstanzer...
Mozart and Mathematics
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart, posthumous 1819 Barbara Krafft portrait (Image public domain) By Patrick Hunt – In the great scheme of things theoretical, one might...
Plague and the Medieval Triumph of Death, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo
Triumph of Death Wall Painting, ca. 1448, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo (Photo Rob Cook, 2012) By Patrick Hunt – Plague in the Middle Ages was a constant...
Africa’s Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe’s Great Enclosure (photo in public domain) By Patrick Hunt – The Great Zimbabwe ruins in Zimbabwe form what is probably the greatest...
Archaeology in the Petén: The Early Classic Maya Site of Holmul in Guatemala
by Brianna Rego Holmul Excavation of Structure 1 in 2005 (Photo: Brianna Rego, 2005...
Thinking in planetary time scales: How modern technology helps us understand ancient episodes of climate change
by James Geary Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland, 2007 (courtesy of Jo Simon, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License) When did human beings start changing...