What makes the perfect prince? Is it his bravery in battle or the sagely laws he passes, his great compassion or the punishment he metes out to the wicked? These qualities and more are discussed in Niccolo Machiavelli's sixteenth century book The Prince (1532), a how-to manual for would-be rulers. This work was written during the Italian Renaissance. Could it be used to gauge the princely worth of...

The Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) is best known as a painter and a sculptor. His two most famous works are the fresco The Creation of Adam (1510-11) and his marble statue of David (1501-04). But few people know that he was also an accomplished poet. Two of his poems reveal his Christian-based philosophy on art.

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Continuing on with the James Williams mystery as started by Col Hill in his memoirs. Entry #5 provided some detail regarding Thomas Sumter and some other officers who frequently served with him. Particularly Hill and Lacey who were the primary enemies to Williams on hand during the march to King's Mountain. Here in entry #6 we should take a look at a couple of Williams...

After World War II the rate of decolonization around the world dramatically increased as a number of colonies were striving for independence from their foreign rulers. France and the United Kingdom, holding some of the largest colonies in the world, were feeling this wave of nationalism, and both suffered colonial loss around the same time. The United Kingdom lost India in 1947, and France lost the colony of Indochina, modern day Vietnam, shortly after World War II in 1945. The two colonies were...