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How Ancient Sparta Used Iron Money to Discourage Wealth and Luxury
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (198+ words) Sparta’s reputation rests primarily on its military discipline and its rejection of luxury, but the state’s most far-reaching form of control was economic rather than martial. According to tradition, the lawgiver Lycurgus prohibited the use of gold and silver currency…...
NOBTS Archaeology Institute participates in WWII excavation project in Italy
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (588+ words) "Helping Louisiana Baptists Impact the World For Christ" By Timothy Cockes, NOBTS News VETRALLA, Italy (NOBTS News) – This summer, a group of students, graduates and staff from New Orleans Seminary’s Michael and Sara Moskau Institute of Archaeology participated in an…...
Best of Beth Ashley: No dances, no football, but the war years gave us opportunities
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (111+ words) Marin Independent Journal Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2009. There we were, six women on the edge of old age, talking about our hotshot days as undergraduates in college. The…...
History in small print
37+ min ago (311+ words) A written bamboo slip documenting a workplace dispute 2,200 years ago could strike a chord with people today who have grown weary of delicate people-to-people relationships. For Zhao, a township head during the reign of Emperor Qinshihuang, who established the Qin…...
Ethiopia: Looted Maqdala Bible Listed for Sale in Abu Dhabi
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (262+ words) (Nairobi, Kenya) — An 18th-century illuminated Ethiopian Bible manuscript looted during the 1868 Battle of Maqdala and linked to the royal collection of Emperor Tewodros II has been offered for sale in Abu Dhabi for €250,000. The manuscript—written in Ge’ez on vellum…...
Battlefield guide to speak at Civil War Weekend
4+ hour, 41+ min ago (349+ words) SIDNEY — American Civil War author, historian and certified battlefield guide Kevin Pawlak will be a featured speaker at this year’s Civil War Living History Weekend, scheduled for Sept. 19-20 at Tawawa Park. Pawlak, an expert on the 1862 Maryland Campaign, will take…...
Civil War Patton | | wvnews.com
5+ hour, 16+ min ago (47+ words) Portrait of Colonel George S. Patton, Charleston lawyer, who commanded an Infantry Brigade at Droop Mountain Battle. Grandfather of World War II General. WV News Col. George S. Patton, Confederate States of America. CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The following events happened on these dates…...
From modern battlefields to 1898, DLA Troop Support keeps America’s rarest military medals in stock
19+ hour, 41+ min ago (757+ words) While Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support routinely equips the U.S. warfighters with food, clothing and textiles, a variety of equipment and construction gear, along with medical supplies and vaccines, its strategic supply depots also safeguard a century of living history by…...
LHMS invites community to explore New England’s Colonial history
52+ min ago (302+ words) The Laconia Daily Sun LACONIA â The Laconia Historical & Museum Society invites history lovers, readers, and community members to read and discuss "The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier" by Meghan C. L. Howey, professor of anthropology…...
???East of Eden??? published | September 19, 1952
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (880+ words) With the discovery of gold in 1848, thousands of prospectors poured into California. When it came time to create a state, the new residents wanted to make sure California included all potential gold fields in the Sierra Nevada range, and so…...