Matt Clayton History, Mythology
Similar to the myths of some other cultures, Egyptian creation stories talk of a time before creation which was filled with void and chaos—an expanse called “Nu.” To the Egyptians, the beginning of all things was Zep Tepi (“first occasion”). The void itself was described as a primordial body of water out of which rose […]
Matt Clayton Featured, Historical Leaders, History
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the thirty-second president of the United States on March 4, 1933 during the country’s worst economic depression in history. At this time, one out of four Americans were unemployed, and agricultural prices fell by sixty percent. That same day, thirty-two of forty-eight states closed their banks and discarded the […]
Matt Clayton Featured, History, Wars and Revolutions
The slave rebellion that was to shake the western world started in the Northern Province. In the region with the most to lose, the slaves had the most to gain by rising against the people who hoped to turn the French Revolution to their own advantage. The wealthy and powerful plantation owners were so narrowly […]
Matt Clayton Featured, Historical Leaders, History
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, into the influential and aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer-Churchill family, in the closely knit inner circle of Victorian society. Winston S. Churchill’s father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a direct descendent of John Churchill, […]
Matt Clayton Featured, History, Mythology
Perhaps the most important myth of Ancient Egypt is that of Osiris. In it, his wife Isis and his son Horus battled against his brother Seth. The spellings with which we are most familiar are modern versions of the Greek. The original Egyptian names were more like the following: Osiris—Auser Isis—Asett Seth—Sett Horus—Heru The double […]
Hi everyone, We just wanted to drop a quick message, and thank all of you who participated in the launch of Norse Mythology. You guys are absolutely amazing. For those of you who haven’t checked it out yet, go to https://www.amazon.com/Norse-Mythology-Fascinating-Understanding-Egyptian-ebook/dp/B071VJG9LG and get your copy. It contains a lot of great stories! Take care, everyone!
There is a story that when Nancy Wake parachuted into Nazi-occupied France in the spring of 1944, she got tangled up in a tree, and when the head of the local resistance unit pulled her down he said, “I hope all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year,” to which she replied, […]
So one of our most loyal readers asked us yesterday; why are you giving away this book for free? I told him that it’s a way of giving back to the community. It’s also an excellent way to get people interested in our work. I continued and asked him, wasn’t that how you first was introduced […]
In the early nineteenth century, as the Industrial Revolution began to spread from Europe and make its way across the Atlantic, it settled happily into the New England states, especially Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. This was a time when most people still farmed, and farming was hard in the far Northeast. The terrain was […]
If you live in a country that is run by a corrupt, violent dictator, you may decide to choose between two options—stay there, or get out and go to live somewhere else. If you decide to stay, you still have two choices. Do you follow the advice that former U. S. Speaker of the House […]