The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle…
The problem? Historical scholars were all white.
When President Biden spoke on Sept. 1st, to tell the nation that democracy is in danger, his warnings echoed the…
Scientists make major breakthrough to save coral
Scientists at the Florida Aquarium have made a breakthrough in the race to save Caribbean coral: For the first time, marine…
Vietnam court upholds jail sentence for activist
Prominent human rights campaigner and writer Pham Doan Trang was sentenced to nine years for ‘propaganda against the state’. A…
The Emerald Tablet
The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Tablet or the Tabula Smaragdina (Latin, from the Arabic: لَوْح الزُّمُرُّذ, Lawḥ al-zumurrudh), is a compact and cryptic Hermetic text. It…
Hugh Mercer
Hugh Mercer (16 January 1726 – 12 January 1777) was a Scottish soldier and physician who participated in the Seven Years’ War and American…
Manly Palmer Hall
Manly Palmer Hall (18 March 1901 – 29 August 1990) was a Canadian author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures, including…
Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, 1827 – October 21, 1908) was an American author, social critic, and professor of art based…
Charles Adiel Lewis Totten
Charles Adiel Lewis Totten (February 3, 1851 – April 12, 1908) was an American military officer, a professor of military tactics, a prolific…
Roerich Pact and Banner Of Peace
Nicholas Roerich was involved throughout his career with the problems of cultural preservation. From an early age, when, as a…
Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich (October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих), was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher,…
Arahant – one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence
In Buddhism, an arahant (Pali: अर्हत्) or arhat (Sanskrit: अरहन्त) is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has…
The L’Enfant Plan
The L’Enfant Plan for the city of Washington is the urban plan developed in 1791 by Major Pierre (Peter) Charles L’Enfant for George Washington, the first president of the United…
Rosslyn Chapel
Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Church of St Matthew, was originally a Roman Catholic church founded in the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland,…
Cintāmaṇi
Cintāmaṇi (Sanskrit; Devanagari: चिंतामणि; Chinese: 如意寶珠; Pinyin: Rúyì bǎozhū; Japanese Romaji: Nyoihōju; Tamil:சிந்தாமணி), also spelled as Chintamani (or the Chintamani Stone), is a wish-fulfilling jewel within both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, said by some to be the equivalent…
toughest abortion laws – weakest maternal supports
Nearly two dozen states have moved to restrict abortion or ban it altogether since the reversal of Roe v. Wade — meaning more people,…
turtle nests in LA for the first time in 75 years
The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana’s wilds for the first known time in more than 75…
ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER
Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just briefly soaked…
Opelousas massacre
The Opelousas massacre, which began on September 28, 1868, was one of the bloodiest massacres of the Reconstruction era in the United States.…
Colfax massacre
The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to by the euphemism Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant Parish.…
Michael Ruark 