Last month, as Penny and I drove down through the eastern states to South Carolina to spend a couple of…
(powellponderings.com) Here is a handy index, plus appropriate links, to the blogs I have written: * Attachment #1: Extremist Groups…
I’ve found over my many years of travel that there are three kinds of people one encounters after returning from…
I have placed this at the beginning of my “history themes and patterns” blog as I see this as the…
My process and intention in assembling this “key date document” Why history is important 1. History gives us context –…
Moving from B.C. (before Christ) to A.D. (anno domini – “in the year of our Lord”) Note re systems to measure…
The 19th Century It took over two hundred thousand years of modern human history and 6 million years of human…
For the next, and last, chunk of years see: https://powellponderings.com/attachment-5-key-dates-in-world-history-the-21st-century/
Sources Magazines: National Geographic; The Economist; The Atlantic; Foreign Affairs; The New Yorker; The Walrus; Harpers; Canada’s History Newspaper sources:…
Introduction Since watching the coronation May 6th, I decided to write a blog about what the institution of the monarchy…