Things Have Changed

These principles become even more rigorous when it is a matter of dealing with privileged orders. I take “privileged” to mean anyone who f...

On this date in 1914, the British light cruiser HMS Birmingham rammed and sunk the U-15, the first German submarine to be lost in World War ...

On June 18, 1815, Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby had what could be characterized as either a very, very, bad day or a miraculous day, because ...

On the morning of April 11, 1241 King Bela IV of Hungary, a large and prosperous kingdom, awoke near the small village of Mohi.  With him we...

 Came across this remarkable 1850 photo of Rome. It looks like it is taken from inside the Colosseum, probably on its second level, and it p...

On the evening of August 4, 1789 the newly assembled National Assembly of France voted to abolish the " privileges " of nobility. ...

For twenty four years in the 9th century an Arab Emirate existed in southern Italy.  In 847 the seaport of Bari, on the Adriatic Coast, was ...

 In the early part of the 16th century, a Portuguese explorer and aristocrat, Afonso de Alberquerque became known as the Caesar of the Eas...

Silver penny minted around 660AD The 5th century collapse of the Roman Empire in western Europe began a slow decline in the monetary econ...

Of all excesses the most dangerous perhaps is the excess of good; it is at least that of which it is most difficult to correct oneself, for...

Today is the 90th anniversary of Josef Stalin's declaration of war on the kulaks.  Or, as he put it in his own inimitable style on Decem...

Twenty one years . . .  On September 28, 1644 galleys of the Knights of Malta attacked an Ottoman convoy enroute from Constantinople to Al...

At the 1937 international exposition in Paris the pavilions of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union faced off against each other.  Thank God bo...

It was seventy years ago this month that Berlin became a city divided, a status it retained until the Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961, came...