Is the US devolving into several major wealthy city-state regions, much like Italy during the Renaissance period?
Remember there was a millennium between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance.
All That's Not Creation Is Imitation
Insights and anecdotes about mostly fun forgotten history - with all sorts of other oddities thrown in.
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Why did the Rolling Stones perform two days after Brian Jones's death?
Mick Jagger and crew controversially decided to go ahead with a previously scheduled free concert in Hyde Park, London, on July 5, 1969.
The great romantic novel that was banned in 1928 for more than three decades
Lady Chatterley's Lover had the distinction of being "illegal" for decades before a notorious obscenity trial in 1960 found the publisher not guilty.
Why is "Ann Boleyn's castle" special?
It's not much more than an hour's drive from West London but prepare to be transported to another place and time.
When did the United States replace Great Britain as the world's most powerful nation?
To be precise, April 2, 1917, when the United States entered the Great War.
Was the British Empire a martial empire?
The history of Great Britain's colonial activity shows the main impetus was opportunistic and commercial, enabling a small island nation to punch above its weight without waging war most of the time.
Would the French Revolution have happened if the American Revolution had turned out differently or never happened at all?
Yes.
Winston wages war in the East End
In 1911, an ambitious politician declares war on the streets of London.
Israel's war of liberation
Jewish insurgency groups waged a war of terror against the British.
Why couldn't the British Royals ever rival the Palace of Versailles?
If you're looking for shocking extravagance and beauty, there are the homes of the British Rothschilds. They built a baker’s dozen of these around the county of Buckinghamshire in the 19th century.