History

Founding Fathers: John Hancock

SimonJanuary 8, 20261

“In matters of principle stand like a rock, in matter of taste blow with the wind.” The painting is of John...

Maxims

SimonAugust 13, 20241

Study history, realize people have been this stupid for thousands of...

Maxims

SimonOctober 11, 20230

“Everything you buy makes everything you own less valuable.” In Trento, Italy they discovered the remains...

Travel

SimonSeptember 20, 20230

Otzi the Iceman was discovered in 1991by some hikers in the high Alps near the border of Austria and Italy. He had...

SimonJuly 14, 20220

"Before printing the total number of books in Europe was well under one hundred thousand. By 1500, after...

Ideas

SimonFebruary 16, 20220

"That people do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of the lessons that history...

Maxims

SimonMay 22, 20200

"Most history is guessing and the rest is prejudice." Will Durant In Volume One of The Story of...

Politics

SimonMarch 5, 20190

The End of History by Francis Fukuyama I tried to read The End of History back in the 1990s when it first came out...

Hohokam

SimonNovember 6, 20180

A Hohokam petroglyph site near Badger Springs AZ Politics is applied ethics No matter how the election turns out...

Simon Says

SimonAugust 3, 20181

"To the Heroes who have fallen in the various battles with ______ Indians in the Territory of New Mexico." We...