Not wanting to have another of the Baron’s children, she went to the local hideous, unsettling coven of witches, the Crones of Crookback Bog (we’ll cover them in more detail in future entries). The Crones offered Anna a deal: they’ll induce a miscarriage in return for her service....
Education, then, is only necessity shewn to children: legislation is necessity shewn to the members of the body politic: morals is the necessity of the relations subsisting between men, shewn to reasonable beings: in short, man grants necessity in every thing for which he believes he has certa...
No doubt when such a word was first invented it was studied over and lectured upon, just as one might lecture now upon the idea of a rate, or the use of Cartesian co-ordinates, and we may depend upon it that children of the future will use the idea of the calculus, and use ...
Now, airlines have to make changes to their flights so as not to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash. According to KLM. one of Europe’s biggest airlines, airplanes cannot go under the cloud or over it. Going through the cloud can result in ash getting stuck in the airplane’s engin...
pacityisa‘theoryofmind’.Wehavereasontobelievethatautisticchildrenlack sucha‘theory’.Ifthiswereso,thentheywouldbeunabletoimputebeliefsto othersandtopredicttheirbehaviour.ThishypothesiswastestedusingWimmer andPerner’spuppetplayparadigm.NormalchildrenandthosewithDown’s syndromewereusedascontrolsforagroupofautist...
One of the manifestations of a basic metarepresentational capacity is a theory of mind'. We have reason to believe that autistic children lack such a theory'. If this were so, then they would be unable to impute beliefs to others and to predict their behaviour. This hypothesis was tested ...
The partitions of 561 and 567, which reaffirmed the division of Francia, were the sources of innumerable intrigues and family struggles, especially between, on the one hand, Chilperic I, his wife the formerly enslaved Fredegund, and their children, who controlled northwestern Francia, and, on ...
Stoned to death in the streets of San Francisco, in the year of grace 1869 by a mob of halfgrown boys and Christian school children. In Rock Springs, Wyoming, in the summer of 1885, whites attacked five hundred Chinese miners, massacring twenty-eight of them in cold blood. The new ...
disappointment, I couldn’t ignore my perception that all evening she had been struggling to tame her growing attraction to me. Should news regarding the two of us leak out, she would be excoriated by the tabloids for abandoning her husband and adopted children in order to run off with a ...