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Otto von Bismarck, the iron chancellor who unified Germany

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was born at the manor-house of Schoenhausen, in the Mark of Brandenburg, on April 1, 1815. Just a month before, Napoleon had escaped from Elba; and, as the child lay in his cradle, the peasants of the village, who but half a year ago had returned from the great campaign in France, were once more called to arms. A few months passed by; again the King of...

The Intriguing World of Conspiracies and Mirabello’s Six Types of Secret Societies

In a world brimming with complexities and hidden agendas, the term “conspiracy theory” often ignites a swift dismissal, akin to labeling someone as a ‘nazi’ or a ‘racist’. However, delving deeper, one finds that conspiracies are not merely the stuff of fiction but a reality entrenched in various facets of human society. Renowned historians like Dr. Mark Mirabello, Professor of History at Shawnee State University, have delved into the intricate...

The Euphrates flowed into the Tiber

The change of the Roman ethnic make-up contributed to the empire’s ruin. Tenney Frank earned his A.B. at the University of Kansas in 1898 and A.M. the following year. Frank went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1903. Frank taught at Bryn Mawr College as Professor of Latin from 1904 until 1919, when he moved to the Johns Hopkins University. One of his remarkable researches was “An Economic History of Rome”. He wrote periodically for […]...

A genius for Deception

The British enjoy deceiving their enemies. When the Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz defined war in 1833 as ‘those acts of force to compel our enemy to do our will’, he missed out the dimension that the British political philosopher Thomas Hobbes had spotted nearly two centuries earlier: ‘Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.’ ‘The British like to pretend,’ observes a former US Ambassador, Raymond Seitz....