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Tash Sultana

Tash Sultana: The Multi-Instrumental Phenomenon Forging a New Era of Independent Music

In contemporary popular music, true autonomy and unadulterated multi-instrumental mastery are increasingly rare commodities. In an industry heavily…

The Diplomat's Eye – Priscus at the Court of the Barbarian King 448 AD. The Roman embassy approaches the great wooden palace of the Hun king. T…

World War II

Introduction: The Shadows of Munich On a freezing night in November 1923, the splintered wood of a Munich beer hall door splintered under the force…

The Sacred Disease In ancient Greece, when a person fell ill, the first question was never "What is wrong with you?" It was "Which …

Roman Empire

The Surgeon Who Stitched Gladiators Back Together In the arena of Pergamon, wounded gladiators lay bleeding on the sand. They had fought for the …

Persian Scholars

The Book That Changed the World In the year 830 CE, a scholar in Baghdad wrote a book that would change the course of human history. His name was…

Polymath

The Boy Who Healed a King In the year 997, a seventeen-year-old boy walked into the court of the Samanid ruler in Bukhara. He had already memorize…