Charlotte
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Attila the Hun and the Sword of God
When Attila was a young boy his mother would have told him the story of an ancient Scythian sword that was forged by the Gods for Scythian kings. During his childhood, the Sword of God was that of legend since it had been lost, and the children would often hear the elders exclaim “Look for it, search for it, for he who finds God’s sword will rule the world”. The Sword of God, also called the Sword of Mars and the Sword of Attila, was forged from the iron of a meteorite by the Gods so that the Scythian kings would have the power to conquer all nations. Legend says…
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Leonidas I: The Unlikely King
Not much is known about the life of Leonidas and most of what we do know today comes from the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Leonidas was never expected to be king, with two older brothers and their chances of producing male heirs, no one even thought it was a possibility. Anaxandrides was a Spartan king who ruled from roughly 560 B.C. until his death in 520 B.C. During his reign, his Queen was unable to provide Anaxandrides with children and heirs for such a long period of time that the elected administrators of the Spartan constitution, called ephors, tried to convince him to set aside his Queen for another.…
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The Terror
Dear Diary: December 5, 1793 The Revolution here in France has already been going on for 2 years but the worst seems to have started only recently. See, the revolution began as a response to the monarchy having complete power and taking advantage of the people in this country. France then did the next rational thing that could be thought of, abolish the monarchy and throw King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette from the throne. Why was it so important that monarchy be abolished? We wanted lower taxes, especially since it was only the population in the Third Estate that were paying taxes to the government. The First Estate…
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Mystery Even in Death
One of the largest misconceptions about Edgar Allan Poe is that he was a supposed drug addict and alcoholic which led to his untimely and mysterious death. On a chilly October afternoon in Baltimore, Poe was seen spending time in a bar room before being found in a delirious state wearing ragged clothes – that were not his mind you – that led to a one-way trip to the hospital. While this has lead to many theories about what happened to Poe that afternoon, and in the following days, it has always been assumed that Poe was drunk and died of alcohol poisoning. Even though this has been popular theory…
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Leon Trotsky: Assassination of a Revolutionary
An exiled Leon Trotsky sat at his desk on the evening of August 20, 1940 with long-time friend, Frank Jackson, who was helping edit an article. Except there was no editing and certainly no Frank Jackson. And death was imminent. A Russian revolutionary born in the Ukraine, Lev Davidovich Brohnstein was born to a farmer and a middle class mother on November 7, 1879. The first taste of any revolutionary ideas came soon after Leon moved to Nikolayev to finish his education in 1896 where he found a group of Marxists that he was immediately drawn to. By 1898 at the age of 18, young Leon found himself on the…
