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Why Read the Classics? What is a Classic?
That means you’re going to have to be extremely picky on what you spend your time reading. Because even if you read a book a day for the rest of your life, you aren’t even going to make a 1% dent in the archives of the Library of Congress. And if you don’t read them the right way, you aren’t going to get anything from it! What do I mean by this? Let’s just say a year or two into my classic’s studies I picked up a book called: The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli – tried reading it, and put it down after 10 painful-to-read pages.
The Great Khan !
One of the greatest achievements in history is the amalgamation of the nomadic Mongol tribes in the Eurasian steppe. These seemingly irrelevant peoples from the vast and open grasslands of Mongolia managed to take the world by storm, and form the largest contiguous empire theworld has seen. Throughout the Mongol’s history, they had been aContinue reading “The Great Khan !”
What Were The Dark-Ages?
The Dark Ages are a time period surrounding the first and following several hundred years around 1000AD.
A time where Cities went quiet, farms and fallows over grew, music and art seemed to stop in its tracks, and history failed to be written…
What Can We Learn From Robbie Burns? (1759 – 1796)
Every January 25th, people around the world – especially those of Scottish descent – raise a wee dram of their favourite single malt Scotch to the memory of the man known as the National Bard: Robbie Burns.
What makes a poet so hugely popular, even centuries after his demise?