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SPARTA'S RESURGENCE: The Battle of Notium, 406 BC

6 Mar 2025 8 minute read 5 comments YouveBeenGreeked

The Battle of Cyzicus in 410 BC had momentarily restored Athenian dominance at sea, but the consequences of the victory were far more complex than immediate celebrations suggested. While Alcibiades, Thrasybulus, and Theramenes had shattered the Spart...

Castles in Poland - Ogrodzieniec Castle in the Podzamcze village

6 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The ruins of the castle in the village of Podzamcze, in the Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska, built on the so-called Eagles' Nests trail, in the village of Podzamcze in the Silesian Voivodeship. The gothic castle was built in the mid-fourteent...

COLLECTIVISM VS INDIVIDUALISM: Humanity's Greatest Struggle

5 Mar 2025 11 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

What's more important: the individual or the group? Is it more important to judge and act upon the issues of people based upon their individual needs or their collective, shared needs? Is the individual tree more important than the concept of the for...

BYZANTIUM: The Empire that Never Existed

4 Mar 2025 9 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Ah, the Roman Empire - well and truly, my intellectual, mental and spiritual comfort zone. And maybe when time travel becomes a thing, my physical comfort zone too. It's often regarded as one of humanity's peaks, at least for its time, encompassing...

ONE-SIDED REPARATIONS: If it were Ever the Other way Round...

3 Mar 2025 10 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

There's often a large call in many western countries today for reparations to be paid to... well, vague, non-western countries I guess because of actions committed by our ancestors. The narrative seems to be that European and American history is brim...

What The Tech?! Drones

2 Mar 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Drone Technology would help usher in a new technological shift In the years following the Second World War, we saw the rapid development of new technology across many sectors. This would cause ongoing changes to things like life expectancy and our ov...

Crypto Mindset Mar, 2025--Learn from my errors. Please.

1 Mar 2025 3 minute read 2 comments Zeddicus

The Drop Folks, we are in the deep. The markets are dropping hotter than a piece of metal falling to the floor, after it burned your palms. But, what should you do? Well, first, don't panic sell. If you have currency you've been hodl-ing, right now i...

2022, October 8-9: From Mocksville to Melbourne

28 Feb 2025 24 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

    Somehow I've written approximately 1000x more about my friends than I have my family, which I guess is a little strange. The material is certainly here in spades. I think I've really just struggled with finding some footing on how to...

Vichy regime in Ukrainian

25 Feb 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z6nlarHHAV5vV3yr The Russian 100-day economic plan for Ukraine. Ukraine will need Europe. Moscow wants to turn Ukraine into something like Vichy France of the 1940s (Reference: The Vichy regime...

Focus On: Hilliard, Ohio

20 Feb 2025 28 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

As of the 2000 census, Hilliard had the highest birthrate of any town in Ohio. Which probably helps explain and has also fueled the explosive growth rate around this region. It’s one of those “suburbs” of Columbus which has more or less been surroun...