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5 days ago · The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the very beginning of the European Bronze Age, arising from around 2800 BC. Bell Beaker culture lasted in Britain from c. 2450 BC, with the appearance of single ...
May 14, 2024 · How Catholics Can Protect Democracy in 2024. Chris Crawford writes: This moment in our history demands that we work to ensure a free and fair election, as well as a peaceful transition to a new presidential term. Each of us should discern the ways that we can protect the democratic institutions that preserve our way of life.
May 17, 2024 · Dreadful or joyful? YOU KNOW the feeling. You have a job to do or maybe a meeting to attend. And you’re dreading it. Perhaps it’s a family get together or some other social event. And you really don’t want to go. For years now, modern wisdom tells us: hey, if you don’t want to do it, if you really don’t want to go, then follow your heart.
May 20, 2024 · Hinduism is a major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual. If the Indus valley civilization (3rd–2nd millennium BCE) was the earliest source of Hindu traditions, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth.
23 hours ago · Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead.
2 days ago · Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). Cisalpine Gaul (238–146 BC) and Alpine valleys (16–7 BC) were later added. The Roman Republic in 500 BC is marked with dark red.
May 3, 2024 · A semi-random assessment of our world today. The good, the bad, and the ugly… but with a promise.
