World History
- Winter Olympics History Carnival Is Up!
History Carnival LXXXV, a Winter Olympics Edition, is up at Disability Studies. It looks like a good collection. I am pleased to have received a gold medal for my now notorious and most famous post, Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti....
- Ancient Olympics Games
Archaeology Magazine has a timely themed collection of essays up at Ancient Olympics Guide. It provides good coverage of the ancient Olympics by leading academics. It also includes articles about the games at Nemea and ancient Rome as well as a guide...
- John Titor, Proven Hoax
Put a fork in him, the John Titor story has now been proven to be a hoax. Almost two years ago, I posted John Titor, Fake Time Traveller. That post now has 26 comments on it and I had to reject dozens of others who continued to irrationally claim that...
- Jesse Owens & The 1936 Olympics
Open Culture has two great clips about about the 1936 Olympics when Jesse Owens won medals in the 100 and 200 yard dash , and 4 x100 meter relay and dashed Hitler's visions of an Aryan world. The first shows the actual event and the second is...
- Ancient Greece Website
I am struggling right now to figure out a good way for my students to look at key cultural figures in ancient Greece while getting their main points and doing it in a way that is better than a straight lecture. In that search I found this is a fantastic...
World History
The Ancient Olympics
This is a very interesting and fairly short overview of the ancient Olympics from the National Geographic magazine covers everything from why the athletes wore nothing at all, the opening ceremony, the origin of the Olympics and the female Olympics.
- Winter Olympics History Carnival Is Up!
History Carnival LXXXV, a Winter Olympics Edition, is up at Disability Studies. It looks like a good collection. I am pleased to have received a gold medal for my now notorious and most famous post, Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti....
- Ancient Olympics Games
Archaeology Magazine has a timely themed collection of essays up at Ancient Olympics Guide. It provides good coverage of the ancient Olympics by leading academics. It also includes articles about the games at Nemea and ancient Rome as well as a guide...
- John Titor, Proven Hoax
Put a fork in him, the John Titor story has now been proven to be a hoax. Almost two years ago, I posted John Titor, Fake Time Traveller. That post now has 26 comments on it and I had to reject dozens of others who continued to irrationally claim that...
- Jesse Owens & The 1936 Olympics
Open Culture has two great clips about about the 1936 Olympics when Jesse Owens won medals in the 100 and 200 yard dash , and 4 x100 meter relay and dashed Hitler's visions of an Aryan world. The first shows the actual event and the second is...
- Ancient Greece Website
I am struggling right now to figure out a good way for my students to look at key cultural figures in ancient Greece while getting their main points and doing it in a way that is better than a straight lecture. In that search I found this is a fantastic...