The Rainbow Warrior is planning to sail to the COP26 summit in Glasgow in defiance of port authorities, environmental group Greenpeace has said. The campaign group’s famous ship is carrying youth strikers from communities most hit by climate change to demand world leaders “stop failing us”. Greenpeace said port authorities had warned the group not […]
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Disgraced former governor is recast as MAGA warrior in Senate bid
“Heaven forbid Eric Greitens ever did get into the United States Senate,” said Gregg Keller, a Missouri political strategist who briefly served as an adviser to GOP Sen. Josh Hawley’s 2018 campaign. Pointing to Greitens’ baggage — he resigned the governorship in 2018, midway through his first term, following allegations that he sexually assaulted a […]
General Colin Powell (1937-2021): Warrior and Diplomat Undone by the Establishment He Supported
General Colin Powell, the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, died Monday morning from complications of COVID-19. He led a storied military career and emerged on the political scene as a Republican who challenged his party to do more to reach out to minority communities. His stature was […]
Ancient Hippocratic Surgery Found In The ‘Golden’ Jaw Of A Greek Warrior
The remains of a decapitated 13th-century warrior were discovered in Greece in the 1990s. Now, his unique “gold-threaded jaw” is revealing Hippocratic ancient surgery secrets from 5th-century-BC Thracian Greece. Professor Anagnostis Agelarakis from Adelphi University in New York discovered the Byzantine warrior’s jaw in 1991 at the Polystylon fort archaeological site in Western Thrace, Greece. […]
Bronze Age Coffin and Warrior’s Axe Found In a Pond at a Golf Course!
Archaeologists in England have excavated a rare 4,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin made from a single oak log and complete with a rare warrior’s axe. Unlike all other early Bronze Age warrior burials discovered in Britain, with ceremonial axes, this one was found at the bottom of a golf club pond! The “extremely rare” hollowed-out log […]
Medieval Finnish Warrior Was Non-Gender Specific, Study Finds
A new study claims to have solved the mystery of non-binary gender evidence at a medieval warrior grave. In 1968, in the village of Suontaka Vesitorninmäki in southern Finland, a warrior’s grave dated to the 11th century was discovered. The grave contained a woman in a dress and three brooches, along with a massive sword. […]
Leader calls Ahmed Jibril ‘tireless warrior’
Leader calls Ahmed Jibril ‘tireless warrior’ – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi have expressed condolences in separate messages for the death Palestinian leader Ahmed Jibril. In the message released on Thursday, Ayatollah Khamenei described Jibril as a “tireless warrior” who spent his entire […]
Tiny Greek Warrior Battling Leukemia Needs Help for Cancer Research
Lukas Voelz is supported in the hospital by his father, Jeff. Lukas has been in a battle against acute lymphoblastic leukemia since March of 2019. Courtesy Voelz family. Lukas Voelz, whose extended family come from Tripoli and Thessaloniki, is a leukemia warrior — and he would like your help to find better treatment that is […]
Telesilla, Warrior Poetess From Argos, Who Manned-Up On The Battlefield and Bedroom
An ancient oracle told by a Pythian priestess says, “ But when the time shall come that the female conquers in battle, driving away the male, and wins great glory in Argos, then many wives of the Argives shall tear both cheeks in their mourning .” This oracle was later alluded to by historian Herodotus […]
Gothic Warrior Found Buried With a Folded Sword in Macedonian Basilica
Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, capital of Macedonia, has been the subject of intense archaeological discovery especially in the last decade. In 2010, Thessaloniki’s three-aisled Basilica cemetery was discovered, but as it turns out, not entirely. As part of the ongoing Metro project work at “the Fountain” at Thessaloniki’s Syntrivani station, a lot of hidden […]
The Women Of The Warrior Met Strike
By Madeleine Freeman and Luigi Morris, Left Voice. April 22, 2021 Above photo: Luigi Morris. The strike of UMWA mine workers at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama involves many more people than the 1,100 workers who walked off the job in early April. Next to them on the picket lines are their families and partners […]
The Trials And Tribulations Of Arabian Warrior Queens
In the 12th century BC, the collapse of the complex state system in the Near East led to the rise of ethnic group cohesion that had previously been largely fragmented. These ethnic groups morphed into political units which were mostly organized along ethnic‐tribal lines. They included the Phrygians, Hebrews, Aramaeans and the Arabs. The large-scale […]
Saxo Grammaticus: Warrior Historian of the Danes and a Medieval Influencer
Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian whose writings were instrumental for the preservation of the ancient history of the Danes and their nations. Considered to be one of the major historical figures in Denmark, Saxo Grammaticus left an irreplaceable mark on Europe’s medieval history. With his writings he gave us an important glimpse into the […]
St Guthlac of Crowland: The Medieval Warrior Who Became a Hermit Saint
When most people think about what it means to be a saint, the image that comes to mind is of a benevolent, gracious figure that exudes holiness in every cell of their being, and that every word and action they take is always in the service of a holy cause. St Guthlac of Crowland however, […]
‘He was in enormous pain’: Jeopardy! producer describes ‘warrior’ Alex Trebek’s final days of filming
“He was, you know, ten days away from passing away. And you will not sense that in any of these [final] episodes. He is strong. He sounds great. He’s funny. And he’s amazing,” Mr Richards said. The producer explained how he thought a “normal person” might not have persevered with filming as long as Trebek […]
Why Mossad’s Yossi Cohen, shadow warrior against Iran, is PM’s chosen successor
In August 2019, people close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heard him utter a startling sentence. “There are two people I consider fit to lead Israel — Yossi Cohen and Ron Dermer,” he was quoted by unnamed associates as saying, referring to the head of the Mossad and to Israel’s ambassador to Washington, respectively. It […]
Boudica Iberian Warrior Queen Who Said No To Rome
At a time when the Western Atlantic region was not nations, but confederations of loose tribes or clans, there were no frontiers like there are today. The western Iberian tribes lived in hillforts, and they would join together and run rings round the Roman armies, waving the captured Roman standards from the hilltops. These were […]
Battlefield Archaeology: Ancient Warrior Helmets and Head-Gear
Books, text, manuscripts and oral histories of most ancient cultures abound with heroes wielding an array of ancient weapons including endless famous swords, spears and supernaturally charged armor that were often gifted to the warriors by gods. However, while such weapons of war thrive in historical fictions they are no less prominent in the real […]
Rhodes Island, Home to Famed Warrior-Monks Who Fought for their Beliefs
The island of Rhodes which now forms part of Greece, has a long and dramatic history dating back 12,000 years to the Neolithic era. In the medieval period it was the headquarters of The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem as they were officially known, or more commonly, The Knights […]
Medieval Warrior Undertakes ‘1066 Battle Walk’ for Men’s Mental Health
An Englishman marched 250 miles from York to Hastings wearing heavy medieval armor to raise cash for a mental health charity. Lewis Kirkbride, of Pittington, County Durham, England, marched from the north eastern city of York to the southern town of Hastings, with the specific aim of helping to raise cash and awareness about the […]