We are able to predict the future in a range of ways. Divination is a means used to predict the future by the usage of signs from nature and the spirit world. Oracle bones (animal bones and shells)...
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Belief is trust or confidence in something being true. God has various meanings including as an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good being or as a more impersonal force. We believe in God for a...
Donata Badoer (1280-1333/6) was the wife of the famed merchant Marco Polo. Donata was born to a Venetian patrician family, daughter of the merchant Vitale Badoèr. She had three daughters. We...
Napoleon Bonaparte was born to a prestigious family on an island off the coast of France. The French Revolution provided an opening for him to thrive, first in the military and then as emperor of...
Richard (Dick) Nixon was in some ways a conservative version of John F. Kennedy, both serving in the navy during World War II and running for president in their forties. Both needed to learn how to...
The King Philip’s War (1675-78) was fought between various Native American tribes against New England colonists and their Native American allies. You can read about the causes of the war here. A...
