The world’s financial markets are destined to be stuck in a loop, forever repeating history, as overspending and bad business decisions result in financial crisis for everyone. This has been the pattern in the world since the financial industry began. A look back over the last 30 years or so sees the same pattern repeating …
The end of the 18th century was a period of great change around the world. By 1776, Britain’s colonies in America — fueled by revolutionary rhetoric and Enlightenment thought that challenged the existing ideas about government and power — revolted and overthrew what many considered to be the most powerful nation in the world. And …
The Irish Potato Famine, or the ‘Great Hunger’, was the last great famine in Western Europe and one of the most catastrophic recorded in that region. It led to the death of up to a million people and the emigration of two million people from the island of Ireland. It changed Ireland and its influence …
Four miles north of Boonville on state route 12D, just over the Lewis County line, a small cluster of homes and buildings looms amid rustic farms and fields. Not quite a village, Talcottville with its one hundred or so inhabitants rests between Tug Hill and the Adirondack Mountains. It is but one of scores of …