Sparks Commentary
Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Forgotten battlegrounds of World War One: The Balkans and Eastern Europe
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A war that killed at least 15 million people began with two quick gunshots in the Balkans . The fighting of World War One began in the B...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
A review of “The Salem Witch Trials” (History Channel)
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“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” – The Hebrew Bible, “The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus,” Chapter 22, Verse 18 (as translated b...
Friday, June 6, 2025
Why World War II continues to fascinate so many
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World War II has been depicted in countless books , documentaries , and Hollywood movies . Some of these movies are basically action films o...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Naval air power: Aircraft carrier tactics in the Pacific War
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In Italy, the distant Battle of Taranto proved the effectiveness of aircraft carriers In November 1940, a British aircraft carrier launch...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
A review of Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”
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“The best writings of antiquity upon government those I mean of Aristotle , Zeno and Cicero are lost. We have human nature, society, and un...
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Postmodernists seem to misunderstand the natural sciences
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“Rather, they cling to the dogma imposed by the long post-Enlightenment hegemony over the Western intellectual outlook , which can be summar...
Saturday, May 17, 2025
The Seven Years’ War was a massive worldwide conflict
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“The free exercise of the roman religion [in Canada] is granted, likewise safe guards to all religious persons, as well as to the Bishop, w...
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