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The 1686 Treaty of Perpetual Peace and the Russia Ukraine War ​By Robert Korczynski Poland and Russia have been fighting over Kiev and the Ukraine for well over 500 years, and it is impossible to address the current Russian Ukraine War without acknowledging that Russia literally bought Kiev and all of the lands to the east, and that they still have the bill of sale and the deed to the land. ​ 882–1240: Kievan Rus' Prince Oleg establishes Kiev as the capital of the unified East Slavic state, Kievan Rus'. This is the foundation of the Russian historical claim. ​ 1240: Mongol Invasion The Mongol Empire sacks Kiev, effectively ending the central authority of Kievan Rus' and fracturing the region into separate principalities. ​ Early 1300s–1569: Grand Duchy of Lithuania Lithuania gradually incorporates Kiev and surrounding Ukrainian lands into its territory following the decline of Mongol influence. ​ 1480s–1500s: Muscovite Claims Begin Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow cl...

AI Predicts Universal Peace By 2080 By Robert Korczynski   I pointed out to Google Gemini Flash that the Baháʼí Faith was obsessed with the number 19, and that they appeared to have increased in population 5-fold every 19 years throughout the 1900s, and asked it to predict based on the data from 1985 and before how long before everyone on Earth was a Baháʼí. I also gave it the task of calculating growth patterns for Christians, Muslims, and Hindus, and to generate a number of projections for the global population by 2080, both conservative, and then based on the same repeating patterns of growth used for world religions and for the Baháʼí Faith. This is what it wrote: If you want to know the future of politics and religion on Earth, start looking at the math. We have arrived at a point where human history is no longer being written by debate or legislation; it is being written by the relentless, compounding logic of growth cycles. The 43-Year Countdown While the Baháʼí communi...

The Tears of The Peacock Angel And Sea Level Rise By Robert Korczynski ​The Yazidis are an ancient ethnic and religious group that lives on Mount Ararat and in the countries that surround it, famous for worshipping a monotheistic God and the head of seven angels that serve him called Malak Taus or the Peacock Angel. ​The Yazidis say that Christians and Muslims have tried to wipe them off the face of the Earth 73 times over the last more than 1,400 years because the story in the Bible about an archangel that goes to war with God and gets cast into hell is true, but that the Christian and Muslim texts don't include the end of the story where he was forgiven by God who then put him in charge of the Earth as its ruler. ​Because the angel that rebelled against God is called Satan or Lucifer in the Bible , Christians and Muslims have spent more than 1,400 years murdering Yazidis every chance they get, though in recent years only Muslims murder Yazidis and many live in Europe where th...

Lamenting the Loss of Catholic Indulgences By Robert Korczynski The History of Indulgences ​Martin Luther objected to the Catholic system of buying your way out of purgatory because he claimed it unfairly taxed the poor to fund the construction of church buildings like St. Peter's Basilica (it didn't), because he questioned the Church's authority to declare the destination of a human soul based on money paid (which was heresy), and because he said the practice discouraged people from truly repenting. Protestants generally view the doctrine of purgatory as unbiblical and, historically, have often characterized the indulgence system as a cynical marketing tool used to exploit the fear of the afterlife for financial gain. This skepticism is bolstered by the fact that the Eastern Orthodox Church, which shares roots with the early Church, does not hold to the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory, nor did it utilize the Western system of indulgences. ​Because of Luther's atta...

How Naoki Sakai Saved Automotive Design with Puff Pants ​By Robert Korczynski For the 40th anniversary of the release of the Nissan Be-1 concept car at the 1985 Tokyo Motor Show, an automotive profile written by Alex Kwanten was published on hagerty.com in December of 2025. The piece covered the entire Pike Factory lineup, including the Pao and the Figaro, and talked to Nissan engineers, not Naoki Sakai. The article focused heavily on the internal staff's engineering and assembly efforts, directly quoting Yoshiro Kobata, who led the design team at the factory. In the profile, Kobata noted, "No one imagined it would become popular," adding that his crew was trepidatious about public reaction to a car hastily prepped for the show. ​While the article highlighted the frantic scramble to build the cars, it downplays the outside creative spark that made the project possible in the first place, Naoki Sakai and Water Design, unlike every other article that has been written over t...

High School Principal Quits After School Lunch Quran Giveaway ​The intersection of religious freedom, public school policy, and statutory law has become one of the most contentious battlegrounds in modern American culture. To understand the boundaries of the law, one must look at how the judicial system built the rules governing religious expression on public school property. The legal architecture developed over decades makes a clear distinction between protected private student speech and illegal religious endorsement by outside adult organizations. ​High School Student Clubs and the Equal Access Act of 1990 ​The modern era of religious speech in public secondary schools began with a major legal battle over student rights, culminating in the landmark Supreme Court case Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990). Bridget Mergens, a high school senior in Nebraska, sought to form a Christian student club at her school. The administration denied her request, asser...