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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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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