There are more ways to win a war than just running and hacking – these historical figures defeated their enemies by hardly lifting a finger or just by being jerks.

More Prisoners of Eternity.

Anybody here into the ubiquitous reality shows on TV these days? The Bachelor seems to be a huge hit – one guy surrounded by twenty five gorgeous women. If they had cameras and reality shows back in Persia around 400 BC, I don’t think the content of the following story could be shown on national television.

History teaches us about ourselves, if we take the time to learn it.

This gives an insight to the real 300 Spartans that defended Thermopylae, and an overview of growing up Spartan.

England, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, and pretty much every country has something in common; they all have had war experience in one shape or another.

On December 22, 856, an earthquake of magnitude 8 struck the city of Damghan, at that time the capital of the area we now know as Iran.

Abbas the Great, Safavid Shah of Iran (1587–1629), was a civilizer by inclination as well as a builder, not least of a grand capital at Isfahan starting in 1597.

Imagine yourself being born in the ancient days and seeing yourself as the bride or the bridegroom.

Many great empires have been built. Most of these empires have given their people the right to prosecute their own ideas and religions.