Recent content by Rubym

They no doubt ate some fish, but while Ireland is an island and fairly small, it is still often far from the sea or the rivers, like the Shannon. They had no refrigeration in those days, and really probably no ice in Ireland, or very little, no high mountains, so fish had to either be cooked and...

Christianity has come a long way, but if you look back at things like the Spanish Inquisition, there was no tolerance at all for anything that was against Christianity. I don't think there were cases like that, but still there was no tolerance at all for Islam or Judaism. Christianity has a long...

Christianity has come a long way, but if you look back at things like the Spanish Inquisition, there was no tolerance at all for anything that was against Christianity. I don't think there were cases like that, but still there was no tolerance at all for Islam or Judaism. Christianity has a long...

Christianity has come a long way, but if you look back at things like the Spanish Inquisition, there was no tolerance at all for anything that was against Christianity. I don't think there were cases like that, but still there was no tolerance at all for Islam or Judaism. Christianity has a long...

A Plebians and patricians

They would have to have a complete change in government, not just dictator, because the religious leaders, mullahs, or clerics are in charge and have been since 1978 or 1979 when they overthrew the Shah. It is not like Iraq, where when Saddam was out of power, that government was gone. I...

You're talking about teenagers? Do you need to say anything else. Back in the middle ages, I mean 1960's when I was one of them, I remember hearing people say things like "When I was 15 I 'knew' everything. Boy, did I get dumb in a few years!" Don't worry about it, ignore them and they'll go...

It was the year of the Beijing Olympics and Michael Phelps' records, the Olympics started on 8/8/08. I think the whole Drew Peterson thing was going on then with the murder investigations of his missing wife and previous wives. Being a Cardinal fan, it seems to me the Cubs had a good year in...

It was the year of the Beijing Olympics and Michael Phelps' records, the Olympics started on 8/8/08. I think the whole Drew Peterson thing was going on then with the murder investigations of his missing wife and previous wives. Being a Cardinal fan, it seems to me the Cubs had a good year in...

I would think if somebody wanted to hike in Iraq (or Afghanistan) they would join the Army or Marines. I'm sure they would see to it they got a lot of hiking done. And other things like shooting, etc. There are a lot of areas in the world to hike, but in a war zone? There just must be some rush...

While it is true, millions of Native Americans lived in the "New World", and others, including Vikings had reached America from Europe previously. But Americans and Europeans tend to be Eurocentric, and Europe was where the power was and it took old Chris to find the Americas and take the news...

20th Century America and the world in general. I think future generations will be amazed at how a fairly weak country at the start of the century became the most advanced country on Earth, complete with most of the major scientific discoveries of the 19th and 20th century, including the...

MAD was mutually assured destruction, the term was used in regards to nuclear war, if one country launched an attack, the other country would retalliate and destroy the other country. There was no winning. That is the only MAD I know about and I don't know how it applies to Vietnam since it...

MAD was mutually assured destruction, the term was used in regards to nuclear war, if one country launched an attack, the other country would retalliate and destroy the other country. There was no winning. That is the only MAD I know about and I don't know how it applies to Vietnam since it...

The wheel, Spears, bows and arrows and other hunting tools pottery using metal writing (I'm not sure if it is technically an 'invention') telephone radio airplane internal combustion engines penicillin and other antibiotics computers