Tag Archive for 'history'

Re-writing history

There is a famous quote by someone who may have been Winston Churchill (or maybe not, you’ve read about my history aptitude already) that says something to the effect that “History is written by the conquerors.” It’s an interesting phrase that only seems to have any meaning once you really look into history (like [...]

Things I didn’t know

There’s a lot of useless crap floating about in my brain and I regularly stumble through Wikipedia to expand that clutter. People have called me a know-it-all but that is hardly the truth. I just know a lot of random stuff. Sometimes I just make educated guesses and every now and then [...]