Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Monday, January 26, 2026

The Great Turkish War: How Europe fought back against the Ottomans

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In the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire was making many enemies in Europe The seventeenth century was rocked by several wars in Euro...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: A metaphor for the ages

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Plato wrote many great works, such as his records of the  trial of Socrates . Specifically, his work “Apology” alone  alone could earn him a...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

What the War of 1812 did for the United States

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“His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

My inner conflicts about learning Latin

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“In the last century [then the seventeenth century], Latin was the universal language of Europe . Correspondence among the learned, and inde...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

What areas of archeology are most relevant to Biblical Studies?

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I have been learning the Ancient Greek language since 2013. I’ve even used it to read some Plato in the original . But my main goal with th...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

What are the Intolerable Acts?

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“An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in Ameri...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

How the British Empire was replaced by the British Commonwealth

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“We refer to the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions. Their position and mutual relation may be ...
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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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