History, Travel & Culture

PRE-HISTORY (50,000 Before Present – 3000 BCE)

• Cave Art
• Doggerland
• The Extinction Of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Humans To Invent Civilization
• The Inga Stone
• Stone Tools Used By Homo Erectus Discovered
• Venus Figurines

ANCIENT HISTORY (3000 BCE – 500 CE)

Ancient History

• Myth Busting Classical History
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Three Great Minds

Ancient China

• Chinese Thought: Confucius 孔子 (551–479 BCE)

Mesopotamia

• Hammurabi

POST-CLASSICAL HISTORY / Medieval History (500 CE – 1500)

European History

• Battle of Bosworth Field
• The Black Death (The Plague)
• Blarney Castle’s “Poison Garden”
• The Catholic Church vs. Cats
• Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales
• Globe Theatre
• Medieval Cats
• Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings
• Plague Doctors
• Richard the Lionheart
• St. George’s Day
• Worst year ever?

Court Life

• Stages of courtly love

MODERN HISTORY (1500 – Present)

European History

• Dr. William Price
• Joan of Arc Beatified
• Papal bull Inter gravissimas
• The Mud March
• The Wyrd Case of Margaret Dickson

Today in History

• HMS Beagle First Voyage
• Leonardo da Vinci

United States History

• Bloody Sunday
• Declaration of Independence
• Democratic Party Symbolized As A Donkey
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• First Person Cryonically Preserved
• Greensboro Four
• Juneteenth
• Ken Burns NYT Interview
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Lincoln’s House Divided Speech
• Myth Busting: Christopher Columbus
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Remember Pearl Harbor Day
• Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March
• Serum Run to Nome
• Today in History —> Butterfly McQueen
• Ulysses S. Grant on Religion & Taxation
• Who Were The Puritans?
• 19th Amendment Ratified

Anthropology & Archaeology

Anthropology

• Ubuntu

Archaeological Finds

• 3500 years old Ancient Egyptian Lost City Discovered
• The Euphronios Krater
• Galloway Hoard
• Iron Age Burial Uncovered In West Sussex
• Oldest Woven Basket
• Mijikenda Tribes and the Vigango Statues
• Rosetta Stone Discovered
• Terracotta Army

Top Archaeological Finds 2020

• Archaeological Finds 2020: Lost Capital of Maya Kingdom
• Archaeological Finds 2020: Over 100 Ancient Sarcophagi
• Archaeological Finds 2020: The Red Lion
• Archaeological Finds 2020: 6000 ancient tombs spanning more than 2000 years discovered in Sichuan province, China

European and Other Travel

European Travel (Non-France)

• Alexander Golod’s Pyramids(Ostashkov, Russia)
• The Chained Books of Hereford Cathedral (Hereford, Herefordshire – Great Britain)
• The Crooked Forest (Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania – Poland)
• The Devil Heads (Želízy, Czech Republic)
• Hill of Crosses (Meškuičiai, Šiauliai – Lithuania)
• The Merry Cemetery (Săpânţa, Maramureş, Romania)
• Temple of All Religions (Kazan, Russia)
• Wieliczka Salt Mine (Wieliczka, Poland)

Scandinavia Travel

• The Arctic Henge (Raufarhöfn, Iceland)
• Battle of Hafrsfjord Monument (Hafrsfjord, Norway)
• Icelandic Elf School (Reykjavík, Iceland)
• Kjeragbolten (Forsand, Rogaland – Norway)
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Longyearbyen, Svalbard – Norway)
• Svanslös Crosswalk
• Tollund Man (Silkeborg, Central Denmark)

Travel Essays – Other

• New Zealand Travel Ad
• President’s Room (Jerusalem, Israel)
• Razzouk Ink (Jerusalem, Israel)
• St. George’s Monastery (West Bank, Palestine)
• World’s Longest Road
• Zedekiah’s Cave / Solomon’s Quarries (Jerusalem, Israel)