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Machiavelli's The Prince is widely misquoted based on his famous question about love and fear, and which is better between the two. He...

These parodies expose cynicism, corruption, cruelty and murder.

Marco Polo's adventure was hardly a dry and plodding literary travelogue. Polo's focus was on two things- mercantile affairs (money)

Marco Polo on Russia, circa 1200 AD: Russia is a very large province lying towards the north. The people are Christians and observe the...

In earlier posts we examined some of the correlations between Infant Mortality and other variables. The most interesting discovery was...

Worldwide Infant Mortality generally follows socio-economic expectations given current levels of economic development. More developed...

Starting in 1994 there were 20 countries with Infant Mortality rates less than 5 per thousand births. In 2016 there were 58 countries...