ISSUE#10 THE ISRAEL PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

The Palestinian Israel conflict is an example of people letting pride and anger control them. On both sides. We see on the news suicide bombers and mothers happy about the death of their children.
It began with WWI like many of the last century’s conflicts. After the war the middle east map was redrawn. England [...]

History of the conflict part 1

History of the conflict part 2

History of the conflict part 3

ISSUE#9 THE MONGOLS

The Mongols were the largest land mass empire the world has known. They changed the world they opened trade routs. They like the Huns centuries before them road on horseback and terrorized all they encountered as they headed west. They united peoples and founded an amazing empire. In their path millions were slain and [...]

The Mongols part 1

The Mongols part 2

The Mongols part 3

The Mongols part 4

The Mongols part 5

ISSUE#8 PRE COLUMBIAN VOYAGES TO AMERICA

For years the prevailing notion has been that Columbus discovered America. This notion has in recent years been proven to be false. It seems strange that it ever existed, people lived here before Columbus. The Native Americans did not wait for him!
Viking settlements and artifacts have been found in parts of Canada and New [...]

Gunner Tompson

ISSUE#7 THE KOREAN WAR AND M*A*S*H

The TV show M*A*S*H was huge success. It told the story of a U.S. Mobil Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. It made audience around the country laugh and cry for over a decade.
How much was it like the real Korean War? I am a member of the military and [...]

Korean War in color

M*A*S*H Final

M*A*S*H clip

ISSUE#6 ZOROASTER

You may not have heard of him but his impact on our world is immeasurable. He was the founder of one of the first Monotheistic religions. Mohamed? Moses? Abraham? Jesus? No his name was Zarathustra known also as Zoroaster a man ahead of his time and perhaps one of the first to teach of [...]

Zoroaster

ISSUE#5 THE LITTLE ICE AGE

What do the French Revolution, the decline of the Vikings, The Renaissance, The Black Death, and the fall of the Spanish Empire all have in common? They were all products of The little Ice Age. A 500 year period of history in which the climate cooled greatly as is shown in the graft to [...]

The Little Ice Age 1

The Little Ice Age 2

The Little Ice Age 3

The Little Ice Age 4

The Little Ice Age 5

The Little Ice Age 6

The Little Ice Age 7

The Little Ice Age 8

The Little Ice Age 9

The Little Ice Age 10

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ISSUE#4 THE BLACK DEATH

Imagine what would happen to our society if half the people were killed by disease. how would we deal with it? What if it was a family member that died? What if we lost 2/3 of the people? We would have to change our society in many ways for it to survive.
This is what [...]

The Black Death

ISSUE#3 THE HUNS

In the 4th and 5th century AD the Huns Exploded on the world Scene. To Europeans they seemed to come from nowhere. An army of horseback riding warriors that were unlike any the world had seen before. They brought the Eastern and Western Romain Empires to their knees. Scholars vary in opinion about where [...]

The Huns 1

The Huns 2

The Huns 3

The Huns 4

The Huns 5

ISSUE#2 THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE

This not a happy subject. But if we are to learn from history we must not ignore the bad. From 1975-1979 a nation was turned into a slaughter house. The nation of Cambodia suffered through a bizarre experiment in social engineering.
The Khmer Rouge was Cambodia’s version of Communism. The country had suffered much (like [...]

Cambodian Genocide

ISSUE#1 THE GREAT WAR

The last 90 years of world history have been some of the bloodiest in human history. Empires have risen and crumbled. Science and technology have exploded making the world in many ways smaller. The three largest conflicts of the last century and many smaller ones have there root in one conflict World War I, [...]

 WWI