I recently described the Catholic Church as a super power during the Middle Ages and was surprised a respected member of the board (LangLangC) objected to that characterization and thought the Catholic Authority during the Middle Ages was overstated. Now selecting the period After Charlemagne's ...

From Alain Daniélou, Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus, p. 59: the megaliths found in England, Brittany, Corsica, and all over the world, from India to the extreme west. Although there is very little information concerning the megalithic monuments of the West,...

Jews-Wikipedia says Jews originated as an ethnic and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, so why were they in poland during the Holocaust?

I'm currently reading through the The Life and Times of Adam Worth and as much as I'm fascinated by Adam Worth and his mastermind for 19th century crime, there is one thing that the book fails to mention: How did he keep his crooks from keeping most of the loot they stole? This question extend...

So, I ran into this answer and noticed a typo. It looked something like this: f So Since this was obviously a typo, so I thought, I would correct it and suggest an edit. So I submit the edit and than decide to look at its edit history and notice something peculiar. #4 basically put in the ...