Pancakes are one of the oldest known foodstuffs, made from cereals in prehistoric societies. Pancakes were being flipped and consumed circa 4000 BC when ‘writing’ was in its embryonic stage and the Bronze Age was just kicking off. The pancake is a very diverse food made since forever all over
Andrew M. McClellan San Diego State University Andrew M. McClellan’s research and teaching interests range widely across ancient and modern literature with a particular focus on the topic of violence (physical, rhetorical, metapoetic) in the arts and in the public sphere. He has published articles and book chapters on
Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the fourth of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for
Hannah Cox mercatornet.com Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. In the dystopian novel 1984, the government relied on the use of telescreens and informants to enforce its massive, repressive regime. And while that
Living as we do in an age where every teenager with a mobile phone and an Instagram account can aspire to fame, we often forget that almost all written history ignores the vast bulk of the humans who lived and died. Until just a few centuries ago, anyone who wasn’
Hanukkah is the Jewish eight day winter time “Festival of Lights”. It is celebrated by a nightly lighting of candles, special prayers and the rather unhealthy tradition of eating fried foods. The festival celebrates the “miracle” that the oil in the lamp in the Jerusalem Temple lasted for eight days
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the third of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for
Michael J. Socolow University of Maine Michael J. Socolow is the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine and is a media historian whose research centers upon America’s original radio networks in the 1920s and 1930s. His scholarship on media history has appeared in Journalism
Here’s a little puzzle for you: a dam is drained and at its bottom are found the remnants of an old farm. Do you conclude that a) the water level was once as low or lower than now, when the farm was built; or b) that the find shows
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more
Whatever may be said of its modern offspring, the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s is one of the great moments in American history. Contrary to the hateful narrative of the fraudulent 1619 Project and the racist Marxism of Black Lives Matter, the Civil Rights movement is a
hobsonspledge.nz He Puapua is a report which was commissioned in 2019 by Te Puni Kokiri (the Ministry of Maori Development) to guide the Government application of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This divisive and highly controversial report, which proposes a comprehensive change to New
Rebekah King University of Cambridge Rebekah King is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge writing a thesis on the figure of King Solomon in early modern drama. It’s 1.30am in the morning, and I’m about to watch a duel between magicians. One is a “demonolater”
Vampires are so ubiquitous in modern literature, cinema and popular culture that it seems like they’ve been un-living with us forever. Indeed, Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles trace the ancestry of vampires to Ancient Egypt. But scholars suggest a much more recent, European origin for the vampire: some
