America
How the US Civil War created the candy industry
The American Civil War killed hundreds of thousands of people and was one of the first indicators of what modern technological advances could do for the military and military action....
Year: 2022
Christianity
Ecumenical Councils and Conciliarism
St. Vikenty Lerinsky tries to define this infallibility of the church consciousness as follows: We maintain what has been believed everywhere, always and by all - this is what is...
Archeology
Bronze Age stone board game found in Oman
Archaeologists working in the deserts of the Middle East have discovered a board game in an ancient settlement that people played four thousand years ago. The excavations are carried out...
ENTERTAINMENT
An Englishman arrested for trying to pay at a petrol station with a £ 100 coin
Brett Chamberlain, 50, of Tiverton, refueled his car for £ 60 with diesel at a Tesco petrol station and demanded payment of £ 100 end of 2021. This caused a...
Christianity
Forbidden to appoint godparents in Sicily
Is film “The Godfather” to blame for everything? In the Italian city of Catania, the Catholic diocese has decided to ban the appointment of godparents for three years. This is...
International
How the creator of the hydrogen bomb won the Nobel Peace Prize
He was born 100 years ago and goes down in history as one of the most successful nuclear weapons developers in the history of the world. His project managed to...
Christianity
About the icon-painting canon
The iconographic canon is a set of rules and norms that regulate the writing of icons. It basically contains a concept of image and symbol and fixes those features of...
Culture
Cyrillic or Latin
In the history of mankind, there have been only a few powerful spiritual and religious directions of world outlook associated with certain types of writing. In the history of European...
Books
Teachers resorting to buying books for their classrooms – report
Primary school teachers are having to buy books to stock their classrooms because of limited access to budgets, a new report reveals. In a study released for the 25th anniversary...
Europe
Security Council sets up UN General Assembly session on Ukraine crisis
Security Council vote sets up emergency UN General Assembly session on Ukraine crisis The Security Council voted on Sunday to call for a rare emergency special session of the 193-member...