Aesop's Fables: Truth and the Traveller

A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. He inquired of her, "Who art thou?" "My name is Truth," she replied. "And for what cause," he asked, "have you left the city to dwell alone here in the wilderness?" She made answer, "Because in former times, falsehood was with few, but is now with all men."

Фото от Юрий

Barry Trower a former mircowave weapons expert explains the dangers of WIFI and how the secret services have research which academics and the public do not.

Territorial #Map: Map of the Roman Empire's Territory (only up to the Romulus - the fall of the Western Roman Empire Emphasised)

Infographic illustrating the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and the land they controlled. Originally created as part of an installation for the Vindolanda Museum at Hadrian's Wall on the English / Scottish border. Exhibition design by Studio MB, all design and animation by ISO.

Territorial #Map: Roman Empire Territory Map: 510 BC - 1453 AD
(East & West Roman Empire)

Eastern Roman Empire #Map (395 - 1453)
Listed by Emperor.

History of the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire. Theodosian Dynasty, Justinian Dynasty, Byzantine-Sassanian Wars, Gothic Wars, Heraclian Dynasty, Byzantine-Arab Wars, Isaurian Dynasty, Iconoclasm, Amorian Dynasty, Macedonian Dynasty, Macedonian Renaissance, Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars, Seljuk, Comnenian Restoration, Angelos Dynasty, Crusades, Sack of Constantinople, Empire of Nicaea, Restoration of Constantinople, Palaiologos Dynasty, Fall of Constantinople. Compiled by Costas Melas.

Territorial #Map: Roman Empire - Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. (370 AD - 493 AD). Compiled by Costas Melas.

Hunnic Empire, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Suebi, Burgundians, Alans, Vandals, Franks, Alemanni

Archimedes' Death "[..]intent upon working out some problem by a diagram, and having fixed his mind alike and his eyes upon the subject [..] In this transport of study and contemplation, a soldier, unexpectedly coming up to him, commanded him to follow to Marcellus; which he declining to do before he had worked out his problem to a demonstration, the soldier, enraged, drew his sword and ran him through. Others write, that a Roman soldier, running upon him with a drawn sword, offered to kill him; and that Archimedes, looking back, earnestly besought him to hold his hand a little while, that he might not leave what he was then at work upon inconclusive and imperfect; but the soldier, nothing moved by his entreaty, instantly killed him. Others again relate, that as Archimedes was carrying to Marcellus mathematical instruments, dials, spheres, and angles, by which the magnitude of the sun might be measured to the sight, some soldiers seeing him, and thinking that he carried gold in a vessel, slew him"

The Khazar Khaganate
This is from a YouTube channel called "Neglected History" - "This little known empire dominated the Caucasus and Pontiac steppes while becoming extremely wealthy through it's taxation on the silk road. I'm here to tell you about really the only Jewish Empire in History." Svyatoslav of Kiev (a Slav) abolished this kingdom.

Czech Republic Weapon Amnesty

"When we shot the video for the weapon amnesty, in which we used exaggeration in the form of a surrendered tank, we had no idea that this inspired the public. Another of the submitted "beads" - self-propelled gun SD-100 and Tank T 34/85." (Czech Police, 2021)

Explanation of the Structural and Functional Characteristics of Geographical Buffer Spaces
Mohammad Reza Hafeznia

“A buffer state is a weak power between two or more stronger ones, maintained or even created with the purpose of reducing conflict between them” (Wight,1995:160).

A well written article on Buffer States.

"Great powers try their best to prevent their rivals from annexing buffer states or converting them into their satellites. Under the balance of power (and sometimes even in its absence) any attempt by one of the buffered powers to invade the buffer, causes reciprocal actions by the other buffered power (s)."

The dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the European Union (2001)
Erik Faucompret

"Yugoslavia was such an artificial state created by the superpowers after World War ΙΙ, to keep the peace in Central-Europe. It is [possible] for a government to succeed in keeping alive artificial states. Belgium is a case in point. Nations require from their governments three objectives to be achieved: domestic and international security, material welfare and cultural commitment."

"...alliances with buffer states carry a very real risk of dragging its members into a conflict at an inopportune time."

"In today’s world there are two conflicting tendencies. On the one hand there is the so-called globalisation process, ensuing from international trade, international migration, international capital movements, internet, international news media and international transport. The world becomes one village. On the other hand there is the rise in ethnic nationalism. Ethnic minorities rejecting the multicultural societal model..."

Трофейные турецкие знамена, взятые при штурме крепости Эрзерум.

Кавказский фронт. 1916 год.