Sparks Commentary

In 1969, the BBC released a classic television series called  “Civilisation”  (spelled in the British way). This prior series was presented...

In  America , Ken Burns once said something interesting about American history . That is, he said that the history of the  United States  i...

“And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great co...

“The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war : they agree upon the continuation of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break ...

“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...

He had more influence upon the  English language  than any other individual – perhaps even more than the Biblical translator William Tyndale...

During the  Dark Ages , there were a number of invasions of what is today  “England.”  Some of them were before the state of  England  was c...

“Representing the will of the people of the entire nation, it has formulated the organization law for the Central People's Government ...

“... t here was not one single hide, nor a yard [endnote] of land, nay, moreover (it is shameful to tell, though he thought it no shame t...

"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...

A disturbing and intensely fascinating human drama ... It caused the fall of empires, and the rise of a new one in their place. It chang...