Defending the Legacy

There was within his cantonments a very splendidly furnished palace, called the Hubertsburg Schloss, belonging to the King of Poland.  On th...

"The Byzantine Empire actually became a manifest monument to the beneficence of Christian culture.  Throughout the Middle East, across ...

I recently listened to a new collection of music.  Called "The Road that Takes Me Home", its songs are a unique combination of bal...

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden.  Culloden was a decisive defeat for Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobites.  But even in ...

During the Seven Years War, French power in India was broken--not so much by the British as by official thieves in the government, who stole...

As the War of the Austrian Succession drew to a close, the French Marshal Saxe maneuvered his army to besiege the city of Maastrect.  Cau...

'Twas thence concluded, by Rousseau, That all refinement did but go To alter nature's simple plan, And scoundrelize the creature ...