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When you’re in a hopeless situation, ‘Pray for Shackleton’

August 8, 2022

Talk about timing. In January, 2022, author Ranulph Fiennes released his new book, Shackleton: The Biography. The book is another treatment of the exploits of the famed Irish adventurer, Ernest Shackleton….

That time an Army officer tried to reach the center of the Earth

April 16, 2022

By Logan Nye

By the beginning of the 19th Century, it was already well established that indeed the Earth was round instead of flat. But the study of modern geology was still in its infancy and prompted many to established some hair brained ideas about how the Ea…

This is why these Old World countries came to the New World and failed

March 13, 2022

By Blake Stilwell

The Americas were not “discovered.” We all know this by now. However the natives arrived in the “New World,” the very fact that there were natives here means the idea of “discovery” is absurd. They had well developed societies and one of