We only know how this story ended, and it doesn’t seem to have been a happy story. “In 1836 five boys hunting for rabbits found a set of 17 miniature coffins containing small wooden figures in a cave on the crags of Arthur’s Seat. The purpose has remained a mystery […]
How far has comedy come since the ancient days of early civilisation? You’d be surprised! “Although the Philogelos is the oldest surviving joke book, there are known to be prior joke books that have since become lost. Athenaeus wrote in the Deipnosophistae that Philip II of Macedon paid for a […]
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Why kill your enemy when you can terrify him, and then kill him? “Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign and psychological warfare effort exercised by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. It was an attempt to increase desertions and defections from Việt Cộng forces and weaken their morale. It […]
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Can you still get in to heaven after taking God to court? These people apparently didn’t care. “Lawsuits against supernatural beings, such as God or the devil, have occurred in real life and in fiction. Issues debated in the actions include the problem of evil and harmful “acts of God”.” […]
Byzantine historian Procopius documented many details from the empire’s numerous wars, but he also mentions something that modern historians can’t quite figure out. “Porphyrios is mentioned in the writings of the 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius, both in the History of the Wars (VII 29) and The Secret History. According to […]
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