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Egypt. Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes in southern Egypt, was the pharaohs' capital at the height of their power during the New Kingdom from the 16th century BC to the 11th century BC. Seen by many as the world's largest open-air museum, ...
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History of Mesopotamia, the region in southwestern Asia where the world’s earliest civilization developed. Centered between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the region in ancient times was home to several civilizations, including the Sumerians, Babyloni
In the book The Travels of Marco Polo, he wrote about his travels along the Silk Road in Asia, especially in China.Marco Polo’s father and uncle were successful Silk Road merchants(商人). They took Marco on their journey to the East in 1271 when he was a teenager. The Polos took a...
Chinese civilization is one of the world’s ancient river civilizations. It began thousands of years ago along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, linking (联系) the culture to water from its beginning. However, the way people and water get along ...
Such a reversal of values would scarcely be possible if the substances that are expelled from the body were not doomed by their strong smells to share the fate which overtook olfactory stimuli after man adopted the erect posture. Anal erotism, therefore, succumbs in the first instance to the ...
T.S. Eliot once wrote, 'Humankind cannot bear very much reality' perhaps suggesting a reason for the existence of madness. Although human madness has contr... ??? ??? ??? and Céza Kassem-Draz - 《Alif Journal of Comparative Poetics》 被引量: 0发表: 1994年 Madness and Civilization...
Death wasn't an option. I had a mission to fulfill. I had wrote the story & now I was living it! THIS TIME IT WASN'T FICTION! Everything was/is at stake. The world is divided & WW3 looms over us! I HAD the manuscript that held the solution until agents in the government took...
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