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… barley ( left ) and hops ( right ) are the acceptable ingredients in beer according to the  Reinheitsgebot.   Half a … a city in present-day Bavaria, limited the acceptable ingredients in beer to “barley, hops, and water.” At the time, a … the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A …

… cultures, and belief systems. In the Late Antique and medieval eras, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and … was crucified. Elias bought Jesus’ robe from a Roman soldier at Golgotha and brought it back to Mtskheta. As he … only after St. Nino spent an entire night praying for it to come back. From its bark, once it was grounded, flowed holy …

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … of the nation that Catherine had begun. Many, many died and many were killed. Then in 1954, Khrushchev … and Leticia Wiggins. Find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu . And you can find us on Twitter, …

… Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … is a distinct possibility that William II was assassinated) died violent deaths at the hands of their subjects. Some, … quietly murdered. Others, like Richard I and Richard III, died fighting the rebels. Another two, King Stephen in 1141 …

… the number of dollars in circulation in order to buy these bonds, with an end result of depreciating the … the late 1990s and Argentina in the early 2000s. Various studies have found that currency appreciation played a role in … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …

… Gaul, or today’s Emilia Romagna—the statesman and accomplished general Julius Caesar crossed the little Rubicon … However, when their third ally, Marcus Crassus, died shortly after the death of Julia, Caesar’s daughter and … Caesar crossed the river, uttering his famous phrase, “the die is cast,” which Appian wrote that he spoke “like a man …

… China is the principle actor.  I'm still not sure if I buy the argument but it's admittedly an intriguing premise, … in the Cold War — it drove decision-making within the communist bloc through the 1950s.  For Lüthi, alternative … war in Vietnam, the military partnership between the two communist giants was irreparably broken.      Lüthi frames …

… ] An increasing proportion of these ships were fast diesel- and gasoline-powered vessels, which were much more … of effort. Profits became less assured for many fishing companies beginning in the 1970s and accelerating in later … continued, as both Canadian and American management bodies—composed of government officials and fishers—set TACs …

… whose members can deliberately and calmly assess the outcome of an election and judge its impact upon the public …

… World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information, led by journalist George … at home to save fats, to plant victory gardens and to buy bonds. Radio messages carried word of the American commitment to audiences around the world, largely through the format of …

… in the Islamic world and the reasons why they have become so explosive in Iraq, it is hardly surprising that … individuals accepted the authority of scripture as embodied in the Quran and the hadith , and recognized the … both Shi'I sects assert that their last Imam did not die, but disappeared into a kind of spiritual concealment to …

… about a block north of New Orleans’s famed French Quarter. Completely walled in, the cemetery is unwelcoming. The Roman … that grow so hot in the subtropical climate that the bodies of the dead within are rendered to little more than … memorial in honor of the thousands of enslaved children who died before reaching the age of three (right). The tour …

… first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa … Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center, the Goldberg Center for Teaching Excellence in … opening of new markets that it can then sell and kind of buy goods from, but also this extraction of natural …

… the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … Authority (FHA) mortgages that our parents had used to buy our homes; the Social Security checks that paid our … band of streets. Bit by bit African-American families began buying homes in sections of the city that had long been …

… chapter two by the motivations and actions that led to the coming of the Ten Years' War. In chapter three, Lendon … in the political dimension. If one Greek state gave a command to another, this usually implied that the commanded … and a grand reinterpretation into this extensively studied war. …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … on these plantations were seasonal workers from the West Indies, where cricket had been much more popular. These … Fernando Tatis Jr. , to remain relevant to those younger audiences. Still, with the sheer number of Latinx players in …

… history of the Cossacks for Ukraine. The freedom they embodied became a potent inspiration for Ukrainian readers. His … village girl seduced and then betrayed by a Russian soldier. It warns from the first lines, “Fall in love, you … was, but we should keep this as it is now.” Learn More: The Complete Kobzar: The Poetry of Taras Shevchenko. Translated …

… But what exactly does Russia want? And how does this compare to its ambitions in the past? In this episode of … of Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Ohio.   Stephen Norris      … piece that will be on Origins, which is kind of your sister website of History Talk. There's shameless self-promotion.   …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… the words “The End” on a popular, long-running American comedy named “The Roaring Twenties: The New Era of Eternal … sun will shine forever.”  The trouble was that mass buying required that purchasing be widely diffused among the … on credit to consumers who did not have the money to buy them. But by the summer of 1929 too many people’s credit …

… history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … became a U.S. possession. Victorious American soldiers atop a rampart in Intramuros. Later, the American … whole neighborhoods to slow the invaders. Japanese soldiers systematically doused residences—and sometimes …

… 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a temperature of … Solar System at the center, surrounded by other celestial bodies and galaxies, and cosmic microwave radiation and plasma … heavier elements, beginning the cycle of creating the ingredients necessary for life. 6. It All Become Cloudy An image …