Year: 2010

Animal Farm was one of the earliest animations of a novel.

Disney it isn’t.

I have been beavering away on this project and I have a couple more Gibbon's lined up now.  I haven't posted them yet because I want to catch up on…

Would Stonehenge survive a thermonuclear attack? The intense heat of a direct hit would certainly be hot enough to melt solid rock, but Salisbury Plain is not a key military…

Like a lot of others, I love Lord of the Rings.  The plot revolves around the incredible lure of the ring.  It is evil but almost irresistible.  Its offers temptation…

With Caracalla dead, there was only one authority that could make an emperor, the army. Chance had it that most of the troops were gathered in Syria, so it was there and nowhere else that matters would be decided.

(Thanks to Wikipedia for the image of Caracalla and Geta 1907 by  Lawrence Alma-Tadema) Mothers like their children to do well, and jobs don't come much better than being emperor…

 

Us humans pride ourselves on our intelligence. We certainly use our brains differently to all other animals, often in unusual and surprising ways. Does being clever make it likely that human beings as a species will survive for a long time? Far from it, Chomsky suggests.

Severus had two sons, Caracalla and Geta.  Their mother was his second wife, Julia Domna. She was a great beauty and also a friend and patron of artists and writers. …

Right click on the link to download Severus Podcast (Control Click on the Mac) or just click it to listen now.   Sending a severed head is rarely a sign…

Right click on the link to download Civil War Podcast (Control Click on the Mac) or just click it to listen now.   Augustus had discovered that you could get…