Pencil had the benefit of being spontaneous, and ideally suited to writing notes on bits of scrap paper, totting up an invoice, and doodling in a moment of boredom, basically the sort of stuff that doesn’t survive, but instead is used to light the fire when done with. But if you loo...
I convinced myself that the older the man, the more prepared he would be for marriage; the more willing he would be to get married in 3 years or even less; the more stable he would be, financially and career wise. So, I held unto my word despite the fact that things were not righ...
The Galdeans, led by Field Marshal Dlorn, defeated the darklings at the Crimson Fields and now head south, for word has come that the Black Imelin has turned his aim toward Meisthelm. With the army of the Hierarchy engaged far to the south, Dlorn and his Galdeans are the only forc...
Ira did come back, Piller kept his word, and the rest is history. • The DS9 cast, on the other hand, weren’t particularly happy. There weren’t a lot of stories in the book, but Michael Dorn has confirmed that DS9 was night and day from TNG in terms of cast morale. ...
name originates from the Italian word for “fog,” something it confronts near harvest time each vintage. We began with the Renato Ratti Barolo Marcenasco 2015, a dry wine with soft tannins. Evidence of winemaking on this property dates back to the 12th Century and this release had an expre...
Let’s examine two terms, “Hispanic” and “Latino,” and see if they make any sense etymologically. “Hispania” is the Latin word for Spain and might be used to refer to anyone who resided in what was formally aSpanish colony. ButFlorida was once a Spanish colony and so was Texasan...
What kind of Mus-lims is slightly unclear; Christian converts to Islam are implied by the word mashlmānē(ܫܠܡܢܐ̈ܡ) which denotes both Muslims and traitors, but Taylor argues that the term ṭayāyē (ܝܝܐ̈ܛ), which is also used in the passage, may imply...
Well, a weird digital thing which requires an explanation will be judged almost entirely on that explanation. The jury will have to take your word for those ‘3.2 billion media impressions’ or ‘+673% spontaneous recall’. TV, on the other hand, has nowhere to hide. Sure, it still (ins...
“The American people know that any documents are safe with me because I would never read even one word of them,” he said. “But Joe reads like a demon, and that’s what makes him so scary.” “I call him Reading Joe,” the former President added. https://www.newyorker.c...
In Tunisia, this particular social and religious milieu is still treated as a spontaneous generation, specific to this region: on the contrary, the present article argues that it should be reconnected to a wider process of Islamisation. Is this milieu as autonomous as that which developed in ...