A Brief History Shortly before 1 AM Eastern Time on January 4, 2015, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) light heavyweight champion Jon Jones defeated formerly undefeated Olympian Daniel Cormier in a grueling five-round battle in Las Vegas. With this victory, Jones cements his position as the all-time greatest light heavyweight mixed martial artist. The youngest fighter to win a UFC championship, his accomplishments include having the most successful consecutive title defenses in the division and the longest win streak in UFC light heavyweight history. Digging Deeper Yet, probably one of his finest moments actually occurred outside of the cage. On…
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Dr. Zar
Dr. Matthew Zar graduated with a B.A. in French and history, a Master’s in History, and a Ph.D. in History. He currently teaches history in Ohio.
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A Brief History December 2nd is a key date in French history. On this day in 1804, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in about a thousand years. The next year, on December 2, 1805, French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeated a joint Russo-Austrian force at the Battle of Austerlitz during the Napoleonic Wars. Less than fifty years later, on December 2, 1851, French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic. Then, on December 2, 1852, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte became Emperor of the French as Napoleon III. The article…
You at last arrive at the throne room! All hail your queens!
You have followed the path of Satan and have undeterred passed by some of the evils of the world. Those who choose to live a wicked life shall spend an eternity in torment. Yet, within the box before you resides something wonderful… …hope. Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost. So, fight on and hope that your path does not end here. Perhaps, even you can find redemption!
As you plunge toward oblivion, perhaps you have descended through the dark depths of the Baroque Sea, Luna Sea, Tartarus Deep, Texcoco Great Lake, North Sea, West Ocean, or even Panthalassa, the Sea of Evil. On this part of your odyssey, you find no real rapture, but rather such monsters as Ahuizotl, Charybdis, Dagon, Hydra, Kaliya, Karkinos, Kerberos, Kraken, Leviathan, Medusa, Midgardsorm, Naga, Poseidon, Rahab, Scylla, Umi-Bozu, and Vritra. The terrors of the Seven Seas are but a taste of the horrors that await you in the five great rivers of the underworld–Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx–should you continue…