Dive into the archives.
- The three R’s
Read, wRite and Research. Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You matches my research style almost perfectly. Below are some of my comments:
1. Use Search Engines and Wikipedia to Find Quality Research Sources
Of course I would never cite Wikipedia or take what it says at face value, but if [...]
- “New Great Game”? Says Who?
I was just checking out the wikipedia article for the “Great Game“, a phrase coined ala-”World War II” to describe a series of political and military events and which all the namesakes to this blog were contributors. In the article, I saw this sub-section:
New Great Game
Main article: New Great GameWith the end of the [...]
- The Ancient War Uniforms Fallacy
Battles were never this simple.
A common misconception, arising from children’s history books, Hollywood movies and real-time strategy video games (such as the scene above from ROME: Total War) is that pre-modern battles were fought by two sides with clearly distinct uniforms and easily distinguishable colors. This was in fact very rare—with the exception of [...]
- Wikiwars
Many thanks to Marmot for what must be the awesomest wiki article ever: Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars. Happy reading!
