1,654 Articles 7 Followers
17 Mar 2025 4 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z9goPtEcFH6uQTfv Propaganda and fake data based on someone else's opinion. I sometimes make such short mini-parsing of messages that I receive in private messages through the telegram channel, t...
16 Mar 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Yttrandefrihet
Onomastic congruence. Say that five times in a row without slipping on your tongue if you can! It's quite a mouthful, but what is it about? So, if you've ever read the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, and/or the book of Acts, all found in the Ne...
15 Mar 2025 16 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
In the late sixth century BC, the small Greek city-state of Athens emerged onto the world’s stage as a new centre of democracy. Since then, its ambitions took it right across the Greek world, and into conflict with neighbouring great powers; the Pers...
13 Mar 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z9MnXTfRIVviccbs How do you like the SteamPunk-style look (summer festival in the USA)? I decided to share with you about the Halloween celebration. How do I feel about this holiday? I treat...
13 Mar 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Mounted deer on backside of Marlen’s house After leaving the hospital, Allie and his crew head home. The rest of us agree to meet over at this BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse. Dad makes it as far as drifting inside the building, but then un...
9 Mar 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Z81PktQrhChgKE46 Without truth, there is no freedom and it is difficult to choose between good and evil. I have no illusions, but truth is a blessing for every single person, because, like Plato...
8 Mar 2025 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The Peloponnesian War had been a seemingly never-ending cycle of great victories and terrible defeats, primarily for Athens. Having started the war at the height of their power under the great statesman Pericles, one year later they found themselves...
6 Mar 2025 20 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
While we're waiting, I observe that Mom does seem somewhat out of it. Dad's convinced that he knows all the signs, and that she's just had another stroke. Marlen meanwhile is nowhere to be found, has obviously wandered away somewhere, possi...
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...
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...
