Historical
First Olympiad in Greece
The curtain fell on April 3 at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens' first Olympic Games, where the winners were awarded and presented with medals and diplomas by King George I at first Olympic Games in Athens. While the international media welcomed the revival of the Games, Greek newspapers commented on the ignorance of the organizers and their decision not to take the games to the stadium.
By Cs Sapkota4 years ago in FYI
Source Analysis
From its inception, Christendom’s relationship with Rome was at best ambivalent. Throughout the 1st century, Emperor Nero was viewed with distrust, with the Diocletianic Persecutions throughout the early 4th century substantiating such dubiety. Whilst Constantine’s issuance of the Edict of Milan (c.a. 313.A.D.) saw Christianity’s distrust of Rome recede, the relationship between Rome and Christian apocalypticism was inconsistent. Apart from the persistent anxiety that Nero would return as Antichrist, Roman emperor’s rarely featured in late antique eschatology. Negative discourse surrounding the Roman emperor abruptly changed in the late seventh century due to the work known as The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius. Whilst certain mainstream aspects of Christian apocalyptic tradition are coherent throughout Pseudo-Methodius, such as the Son of Perdition and the Enclosed Nations narrative, the fascinating Last Roman Emperor is of particular significance to eschatological scholars. Pseudo-Methodius’s’ Last Roman Emperor promoted the quintessential Christian monarch, elevating kingship to a godly position intrinsically tethered to Christ’s second coming. Whilst the significance of the Last Roman Emperor cannot be disputed, Witakowski’s view that Pseudo-Methodius’s invented such a concept is fallacious. In the upcoming paper, I am going to argue that Pseudo-Methodius’s’ Last World Emperor was not a unique concept, rather an amalgamation of Jewish Messianism, Biblical scripture and Syriac literature. I will explain how the author used Jewish Messianism for the basic structure of his Last World Emperor, substantiating the concept through allegorically interpreting biblical scripture and localising it within the Syriac socio-political environment.
By T.P Schofield4 years ago in FYI
Instrumentalising Horror
Introduction On April 14 1990, fifty years after the event, Mikhail Gorbachev officially accepted the Soviet Union's responsibility for the Katyn Massacre. Although this admission had a profound political significance, it did not contain any surprising historical revelations. It merely confirmed what international leaders had known for almost five decades - that in April 1940, the NKVD had carried out systematic mass executions of 22,000 Polish officers and members of the Polish intelligentsia in the Katyn Forest. The discrepancy between the Soviet official narrative and the historical evidence of the massacre illustrates the limits of conventional historiography and its principle aim to understand how the past creates the present. Although historical methodology is theoretically predicated on archival sources as evidence and disinterested analysis, in practice, historiography is inevitably shaped by subjective interpretation and personal perception. These mercurial properties inherent in all historiography makes history itself vulnerable to exploitation and instrumentalisation.
By T.P Schofield4 years ago in FYI
Malayan Emergency 1948–1960-brief overview
The Malaysian Emergency (1948-1960) was a terrorist war in the then Malaysian Federation (now Malaysia) fought by Communist and independent Malaysian National Liberation Army (MNLA) (armed forces of the Malaysian Communist Party (MCP) against the British Commonwealth). The Malaysian Communist Party, a party made up mainly of Chinese members representing Malaysia's independent Communist Party, launched a coup d'état on June 18, 1948, after the government declared a state of emergency. 18, the British declared a "critical situation" everywhere.
By Tsunami Karki4 years ago in FYI
Who invented the telephone? – A Brief History
Who invented the telephone? So, who invented the telephone? It might surprise you but the answer are from simple. Was it Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, Robert Hooke, maybe Innocenzo Manzetti or even, Johann Philipp Reis?
By siva rathour 4 years ago in FYI
Stick a Pin In It
It’s 1849 and inventor Walter Hunt is sitting in his New York workshop, worrying about how to pay off a $15 debt he owed a friend. While he racks his brain for a solution to his money woes, he mindlessly twists a piece of metal wire around his fingers. Suddenly, he realizes he’s done something. After twisting the wire a few times and folding it in upon itself, Walter notices that the wire held enough tension to clasp together and enough spring to open and close over and over. While distracted by financial problems, he had redesigned an item that hadn’t been changed in literally thousands of years. Walter Hunt had accidentally invented the Safety Pin. He spent the rest of the night making a prototype and sketching designs for the tool, had them patented on April 10th of the same year, and then went on to sell the patten for $400 to the very man he owed $15.
By Chelsea Adler4 years ago in FYI
