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One classic problem with weapons systems is that the march of technology renders them obsolete, and the faster the technology advances the s...

Ten years ago I put up what may have been the strangest post I've ever written.  What's funny (both funny ha ha and funny weird) is ...

A lot of people know that this goes all the way back to the Roman Empire - not surprising when you think that the Emperor Constantine made C...

He was one of the first blogs that I followed.  I've been around a lot of smart people in my life, but he set that bar high.  Very occas...

Image from Archeology News Network Scipio Africanus was one of Rome's greatest soldiers, beating the great Hannibal himself in a sta...

Things haven't been looking great for Donald Trump the last couple of weeks, if you listen to the Talking Heads and read The Polls.  It ...

I ran across a blogger who writes like I do (I didn't think that was even possible).  Here's a taste : Obama politically resembles...

( via ) The Battle of Adrinople was the beginning of the end of the Western Roman Empire.  A vast army of barbarians - an entire people...

One of the big tech buzz phrases lately is "the Internet of Things".  Moore's Law has suggested that computing power and memor...

We tend to scoff at philosophers these days, seeing them less as deep thinkers than as whiners.  That misses the great thrust of history, wh...

My favorite class as an Electrical Engineering student was Physical Measurements Lab.  It was nothing but lab work: plasma discharge, nuclea...

OK, so I'm buying a Honda Rebel motorcycle.  What, you might well ask, does that have to do with Classical Music? Image via Wikipedi...

Image via Wikipedia 292 years ago today, J.S. Bach dedicated these six concerti to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.  A...

Nobody did them like the Byzantines.  That rump of the Roman Empire traditionally dates to Constantine* the Great (there's a nickname fo...

My favorite Roman Emperor is Flavius Claudius Julianus, better know to posterity as Julian the Apostate.  He was a reformer who took a run...

The most annoying thing about the Intellectual "Elite" is that they're ignorant of history.  You'd think that history woul...