Tag: Battle

January 05, 1664: Mughal general Shaista Khan has spent three years fighting the Marathas in the south (India). The financial condition of the latter has become dire. Chhatrapati Raje plans to attack the Mughal port of Surat. Surat port is the hub of trade of the Arabian sea and it is genera...

Hey there, my fellow food adventurers and culture connoisseurs! Ever had that moment of culinary confusion when you wondered why some cultures are all, “Nuh-uh, no hands allowed!” while others are like, “Hands-on dining is the way to go, baby!” It’s like a flavor roller...

Starting from humble backgrounds, the citizens of Rome drove out their Etruscan Kings in the 6th century BC to found the Roman Republic, an entity that with time, turned out to be quite aggressive and ambitious, but at the same time, was also capable of mobilizing its manpower for war more efficient...

Just last week, a colleague mentioned that while he does a lot of study design these days, he no longer does much data analysis. His main reason was that 80% of the work in data analysis is preparing the data for analysis. Data preparation is s-l-o-w and he found that few colleagues and...

Back in early 2015, ABC released its new family sitcom, Fresh Off the Boat, which was inspired by the memoir with the same name written by Eddie Huang. The first season of the show focused on Eddie, the eldest of three boys, and his struggle to integrate into his new school as well as the daily...

Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any stupider or weirder: for over a month now, a battle has raged in some corners of the internet over the question of whether “2+2=4” is always true. The combatants, broadly speaking, are “woke” progressives (a.k.a. “soc...

So I have no interest in horse race politics, I long ago realized that like Hunter S Thompson wrote rhetorically in the “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved” (1970) in Scanlan’s Monthly speaking to Jimbo from Houston: “There’s going to be tro...

In the year 732 the Christian army at the Battle of Tours defeated the Muslim Army preventing Europe from becoming a Muslim continent. Now those pesky loud mouth jews plant themselves in the middle of the muslim shit show and and just want to dance the hora and argue from sunrise to sunset. Bu...

It got so bad that even their brothers and sisters living in the surrounding exiled lands urged them to give up and come “home” (Nehemiah 4:12). However, their resolve could not be crushed. They continued to work with danger looming. Half the men worked as guards, and low points in...