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Focus On: Salisbury, NC

24 Jul 2024 18 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey

  Though situated along a major interstate, I-85, and boasting some 35,000 residents, it seems as though Salisbury is less well known than virtually any of the other nearby cities surrounding it. Even its Wikipedia page is a bit of a snoozefest. How...

THE BATTLE OF CYZICUS, 410 BC: War for the Hellespont

21 Jul 2024 16 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked

With the death of the veteran and historian Thucydides around 400 BC, the narrative of the Peloponnesian War now, in 410 BC, flips primarily over to Xenophon, a renowned commander of his own time. With Athens striking back hard against Sparta at sea,...

THE ATHENIAN COUP, 411 BC: The Battle of Cynossema

18 Jul 2024 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Sparta and Persia, once the most bitter of rivals at battles like Thermopylae and Plataea, had now forged an alliance against Athens. Coupled with Alcibiades's defection, a recent defeat at Syme and revolts across the Delian League, many Athenians be...

Movie Review: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)

16 Jul 2024 6 minute read 2 comments peerynt

[Cross-posting - the original post can be seen here.] Directed by Kevin Costner (also plays a character named Hayes Ellison), written by Jon Baird, Costner and Mark Kasdan, this Western of Westerns, the ultimate Wild West drama impresses right off th...

What The Tech?! VHS & VCR

15 Jul 2024 7 minute read 10 comments Investigator515

In a digital world, it’s easy to forget how vital media storage once was If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As we’ve moved through our technical evolution, it's more than fair to say that we’ve seen substantial c...

THE SPARTAN-PERSIAN ALLIANCE, 413 - 411 BC: The Aegean Revolution

14 Jul 2024 24 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

In the late summer of 413, the once seemingly invincible state of Athens, at the head of its Delian League, now saw its complete destruction on the horizon. Constant raids against their homeland, the deadliest plague in memory at the time, great defe...

Historical Hacks: The Target Breach

7 Jul 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Looking back in time at one of the largest retail attacks to occur From a security perspective, when you look back at a data breach or cyber security incident, there is often plenty of interesting data that are able to be reviewed to understand how t...

What The Tech?! Radar

1 Jul 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack The early days of aviation provided plenty of excitement. Not only was humanity learning about aviation and aerodynamics, but as aircraft evolved and performance increased, even...

A peasant's house and a rich peasant's house on the basis of houses in the Silesian open-air museum

26 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

The first house - the house of an ordinary peasant from the village of Istebna The history of these houses dates back to the mid-nineteenth century. Both were located in the small village of Istebna in the Beskidy Mountains. In one a normal pea...

Some notes about Prosvjeta 240623

23 Jun 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

I want to write more about the history of Bildung and Bildungish ideas and practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1890-1920. I am focusing on Prosvjeta (meaning education or enlightenment - Prosvjeta in Bosnian standard dialect, while Prosveta in...