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7 Jul 2020 7 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked
For about 50 years, in around 1,200 BC, the major palace centres of Mycenaean culture were burnt to the ground, with the major remnants of the civilization following suit in 1,150 BC. The palace economy was wiped out of existence, politically and mil...
6 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SmileToBeFree
Over a series of short articles and short mobile documentaries, I hope to introduce you to some of the magic and mystery, history fact and history fiction that is woven into the story of wonderful and hidden gem that is Dolaucothi. Now in the care of...
6 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The Mycenaean Era of roughly 1,600 to 1,070 BC saw the rise of important palace centres, such as Mycenae, Pylos, Tiryns, Thebes, Iolkos and Athens. For Greece, this era was the final stage of the Bronze Age, thought to have begun for the Greeks in ar...
5 Jul 2020 1 minute read 5 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I have to say, David Starkey's comments about slavery, Black Lives Matter and just the general conversation going on socially about racism in the UK (and worldwide) are amazing! And I quote "Slavery was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so...
5 Jul 2020 4 minute read 4 comments Simplify Crypto
Tim May was the founder of the Cypherpunks and the Crypto-Anaquia Movement. In order to attract more followers to his cause, he created and shared, in the late 1980s, in cryptography and hacking conferences, the Crypto-Anarchic Manifesto. In it, May...
3 Jul 2020 5 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Greece is undoubtedly the cradle of most of Western civilisation today, and its history spans back several millennia to the Mycenaean Greeks, who famously fought at Troy. However, before even these ancient Greeks flourished, another peoples of the Gr...
3 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ilodz24hd
Translated by google translator After three months of sitting at home by covid19, I dared to go out into the city. During these three months I was able to partially renovate the house, of course along with the rest of my family members. I started lea...
3 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Jesyan
Ghost Month also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in several East Asian countries. According to the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Moon Phantom is on the 15th night of the seventh mo...
2 Jul 2020 4 minute read 2 comments Simplify Crypto
We have been following the path that led to the creation of Bitcoin. We already know prof. David Chaum responsible for the first electronic money - eCash - and for feeding many young people on the issues of digital and online privacy; and Dr. Adam Ba...
1 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Simplify Crypto
In the last article on Bitcoin's Prehistory and the creations that made its invention possible, we talked about David Chaum and how he created a form of private digital money that could be used on the internet. However, eCash was still centralized as...
