by Lucille Turner | Jun 21, 2020 | History
Present-day Istanbul was once called Constantinople, and it was in Greek hands until it fell to the Ottoman army in 1453. For centuries the city was the principal capital of the Christian world, until Rome replaced it little by little, exerting its power through the...
by Lucille Turner | May 7, 2020 | Spotlight Blogs
What is Happiness? People have been engaged in the search for happiness for a very long time. Identifying what makes us happy has preoccupied us for millennia. It is a subject that connects deeply with our sense of purpose. Is happiness the ultimate purpose of life,...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 18, 2020 | History, Philosophy
History is full of pandemics. As populations have expanded, epidemics have increased. Even in ancient times great epidemics scoured the globe, bringing monumental changes in their wake. Some of these epidemics became pandemics, although in ancient times the world was...
by Lucille Turner | Mar 22, 2020 | History and Fiction
One day, in a nineteenth century idle moment, Leo Tolstoy announced that boredom was the desire for desires. In other words, a person was only bored if he had no desires or because he was unable to identify any at a given time. This ‘I don’t know what I want’...
by Lucille Turner | Oct 17, 2019 | History and Fiction
BANKING BY STICK It is hard to believe that for hundreds of years the national method of accounting carried out by the London Treasurer consisted of taking a length of wood and cracking it in two. At first sight, wood cracking hardly seems a proper way to run a...
