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What The Tech?! The Centrifuge

24 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Centrifuges would play a key role in developing the defence and medical sectors. When you’re writing about technology, you’ll often be looking at and talking about very obvious and visible pieces of technology. While many people often won’t fully und...

Vital knowledge of German history and experience

23 Jun 2025 9 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aFmYS89sGhUbWTvF No monuments or memorials can convey the enormity of military losses, or truly perpetuate the myriads of senseless victims. The best memory for them is the truth about the war,...

Why Religion Is a Convenient Cover for Wars

23 Jun 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aFlorFguvWUiVRLd There is a common myth that all wars were religious. But this is a fundamentally wrong point of view. Of course, religion was often used as a cover or justification for wars, es...

EURIPIDES, 480 - 406 BC: The Most Tragic Poet

18 Jun 2025 29 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

He was the creator of that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare’s Othello, Racine’s Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg, in which imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their lives and hates. - B.M. Knox   Among the great t...

Nuclear Power and Global Standards: Why Some Nations Are Permitted and Others Are Prevented

16 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Johnbull Myson

Introduction The question of nuclear weapons proliferation is one of the most sensitive and complex issues in international relations. A recurring debate often arises:Why are certain countries allowed to possess nuclear weapons, while others are aggr...

LA SERENISSIMA: The Most Successful Nation in History

14 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

In the grand sweep of history, when people discuss the most successful states, they often mention the Roman Empire, the British Empire, or the Mongol conquests. These were vast, mighty, and influential, but often short-lived or prone to internal chao...

2022: a zoo trip and other adventures

12 Jun 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  We have a few more relatively quiet days. Dad M and Cheryl sent $200 for Emma to spend this summer, which was really cool of them, so Erin takes her shopping - 2 brand new shirts, a couple of pencils she loves, a spiffy water bottle are the procee...

Prometheus merely stole fire, it took mortals to unleash it

7 Jun 2025 10 minute read 0 comments Wopney

  LONDON 1780: THE BURNING OF NEWGATE PRISON                                                               “Strike, and let the fire spread, For in the ashes lies the seed.” The protestors start by attacking the carriages of those arriving at Parliam...

The difference between Nazi Germany and Russia

6 Jun 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Ship Shard

Publication in the Zen blog in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/aELkSRsFZDanlc3S Once again, there was some misunderstanding with those incorrigible romantics who, in connection with Alexei Navalny's birthday, once again lost sympathy and began to dream of a...

2022: another epic summer begins

6 Jun 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

McKayla and Emma, sitting on an interstate divider near Livingston, Kentucky These summers have become so epic in my mind, and I try to never take them for granted. My daughter Emma is 16 and currently lives with her mom and sister in Kentucky...