Sparks Commentary

Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead once collaborated on a book. It was a three-volume work entitled “ Principia Mathematica ” – no...

I was expecting something very different from this audiobook. Specifically, I was expecting to get an overview of  agnostics ,  atheists , a...

In the United States , the most famous general in our  War of 1812  was probably  Andrew Jackson , who now appears on our $20 bill. But my v...

In 1898, President William McKinley sent American troops to fight in Cuba and the Philippines . This conflict is now known as the  “Spanis...

In 1993, the original “Jurassic Park” film brought chaos theory to a wide audience. In that movie, the character of  Ian Malcolm  predicts...

In the 1970s, a British television network made a series called  “The World at War,”  possibly the most comprehensive television history ev...

Anecdote about the European blockade of Venezuela, in the early twentieth century In 1902, three European nations imposed a  naval blockade...