History from a science fiction fan's perspective
Check any standard reference on the history of the Lombards and you’ll most likely find very few facts about their origins but much speculation — speculation which, when considered carefully, makes very little sense. Traditionally the Lombard tribal name is ….
If you have ever been curious about old languages you have probably browsed special dictionaries — of which many may be found online — that “translate” ancient or medieval languages into modern English. If you have studied J.R.R. Tolkien’s literature ….
The Daily Mail reports that a recent book is claiming to make the case for identifying the historical figure behind the legends of Robin Hood. Historian David Baldwin’s book, Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked, was published in 2010 and ….
French author Jules Verne certainly did his best to imagine the future but he also wrote plenty of “contemporary” stories that today would be considered either science fiction or fantasy simply because they went beyond the mundane qualities of the ….
Historians often have to work with only bits and pieces of information when reconstructing the past. Astronomers do much the same thing. The farther out into the universe they look, the farther back into the past they probe. But the ….
What if they gave a birthday party for one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world and didn’t tell anyone about it. Everyone on Earth probably knows that Hanoi, Vietnam is celebrating its 1,000th year of history this ….
A very interesting news article was published last year, but hardly anyone in the American anti-war community noticed it. It seems that American oil companies had little interest in bidding on Iraqi oil contracts in 2009. The significance of this ….
Do you think Hitler was a Jew? That notion has been shared in idle conversations, books, and TV documentaries countless times through the past several decades. The veracity of the idea is unimportant to the conversation because the mere supposition ….