Tag: Black Death
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12. The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ages
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Apr. 26, 2022) — Sometimes historical writing tells us more about the times in which it is written than the times it purports to describe. So it is with the historians and essayists of the eighteenth century “Enlightenment” when it comes to the “dark ages.” Edward Gibbon and his contemporaries saw themselves…
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Conversation at the Outpost
WHAT ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR? by OPOVV, ©2016 (Jun. 10, 2016) — “I’ve got an idea. What do you say we give a name to this place?” “Like what do you suggest?” “Well, maybe ‘Lookout Post Worthless;’ maybe ‘Very Worthless.’ I like it.” “Already been taken.” “That describes 99% of them. There’s nothing here that would…
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“But Words Will Never Hurt Me”
LIFE’S LESSONS LEARNED…OR NOT by OPOVV, ©2015 (May 13, 2015) — Childhood. The lazy days of summer. Strange, isn’t it, though, that the older one gets, the faster time seems to fly by. They say it’s because of memory, that the more memories one has, time, in a relative manner, speeds up. Santa Claus’s knowledge…
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Modern Rats and the Bubonic Plague
CONCLUSION by Steven Neill, ©2014 (Jan. 27, 2014) —[Editor’s Note: The following is the third installment and conclusion of this series. Parts 1 and 2 can be found here and here, respectively.] China has now become the world’s biggest importer of oil, (30) passing the US for the second time in October 2013 and the…
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Modern Rats and the Bubonic Plague
PART 1 by Steven Neill, ©2014 (Jan. 19, 2014) — The course of history is often set by small events nudging it this or that way as it moves towards its climax. Occasionally, however, an event so cataclysmic slams it to a different course, forever altering life as it was. Noah’s flood, the K-Pg event,…
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Unity vs. Diversity
“THE COUNTDOWN TO OUR DEMISE” by OPOVV, ©2013 (Apr. 27, 2013) — Put all your eggs in one basket and if you trip, or the horse is spooked, your goose just got cooked. On the other hand, placing the eggs in multiple baskets has its advantages, to be sure. Of course that’s not to say “unity” can’t…