The day was going badly for my body until glorious King Alexander shattered the enemy formation with a lightning cavalry charge from between my temples to the base of my neck. Astride wild Bucephalus, he cut a figure of terrible beauty.   The emperor Napoleon has ordered a barrage of cannons to dislodge the forces… Continue reading A Historian Catches The Flu

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The prin­ci­ples of effec­tive punch­ing are: decep­tion, effec­tive weight trans­fer­ence, and place­ment. Ide­ally a blow will uti­lize all three but any one of them is enough to cre­ate a punch that will knock the aver­age man unconscious. If a man is expect­ing to get hit, if he can see the punch com­ing and steel him­self… Continue reading Punching Hard

The closest he came to getting beat during his prime was that left hook at the end of the fourth in his first match with Henry Cooper. It was one of the only times he ever seemed really dazed. His best performance was probably against Cleveland Williams. That one was a ballet of violence. The pinnacle of his long career… Continue reading Muhammad Ali 1942 -2016