The Black Death first struck almost 700 years ago—but we’re still learning about it. New evidence has shed light on the infamous plague and teaches us about the science of disease. Bubonic plague is under the microscope again. […]
The Wako pirates were flexible like the vikings and could be traders or pirates, depending on the situation. They were efficient and fierce. […]
The Pearl River Delta Pirates were organized and administrated by the piratical widow, Cheng I Sao, under whose rule they prospered. […]
Though Chiang Kai-shek agreed to form an alliance with Mao against Japan, he continued to view the Chinese communists as an existential threat. They were again in direct conflict in 1946, in a national civil war. […]
Though the Guomindang and the Communist Party together declared a new national government in China, they were split over their political objectives. These differences meant that there could never be a long-term consensus between the two. […]
Though imperial rule in China had been replaced with a republic, the alliance between nationalists and communists was fragile. Russia’s Bolshevik’ convinced them to join forces to defeat the warlords, imperialists, and feudal landlords. […]
The Qing dynasty collapsed in 1912 due to the exploitation by foreign powers. The first Opium War irrevocably altered China’s fate, with China being declared a republic and Sun Yat-sen its provisional president. […]
The brave who face death in battle and killed by weapons, bring glory to Odin by joining his army in Valhalla in his final stand at Ragnarok. […]
The Saga of Gautrek establishes Odin and Thor’s feud across the fjord and highlights that individuals and families might favor one not just over the other, but in opposition to the other. […]
Odin, the harvester of the dead, has died on at least one occasion himself. In numerous poems, he is described as ‘the hanged god’, or given other titles hinting that this story was fairly widely known. […]
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