This sparked a rebellion and a guerilla war which was led by a priest named Matthias and his five sons. The most prominent of these was Judas Maccabeus. Antiochus IV had many other problems, especially with the Persians to the east and the rising power of Rome to the west, and could nev...
While there are thousands upon thousands of practitioners of the commonplace book tradition using the notebook format, there is a smaller less well known set who have used these methods with index cards or other slip-like formats. I’ll present just a handful of some that I’m aware of, b...
The main issues of this controversy surround new Arabic and Turkish translations. Here are three examples native speakers give: First, Wycliffe and SIL have producedStories of the Prophets, an Arabic Bible that uses an Arabic equivalent of“Lord” instead of “Father” and “Messiah” instead of...
There is the garden (in the form of perfected nature) considered as book: Jacques's somewhat dyspeptic speech about this topos - 'sermons in stones, books in the running brooks' - in Shakespeare's As You like It is well known. There is then the book considered as a garden, a ...
Below is a short Q&A with Professor Jerven about his new book, including his experience interviewing government statisticians across Africa, interacting with World Bank officials, and trying to convince the development community to better understand the available data. (more…) by Dan Hirschman on ...
000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family. He’s made fun of my brother because of his Down’s Syndrome. He’s said I was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.” (In a classy move, he did this while his producers put up the cover of my book, which tells ...
According to Ingle, the class was forced to watch a Ted-Talk on February 28 featuring Paula Stone, a transgender woman, who gave examples of “mansplaining,”“male privilege,” and systematic sexism. Following the video, Ingle wrote that the instructor “opened the floor to WOMEN ONLY. Barri...
not humble gardeners. This is not to say that The Silmarilion is not a good book to read. It is an excellent book, and Tolkien is, in his way, comparable to the great composers of national epics like Homer or Vergil. That was indeed his intention when he began writing these stories ...
“It’s automated, so it’s 10 times faster than previous examples,” said Christopher Lutz, a staff scientist at IBM Research-Almaden in San Jose, Calif. Still, “this is very exploratory. It’s important not to see this one-kilobyte memory result as something that can be taken directly...
Even those who have followed this issue closely are sure to find at least one eye opener in this book. Just a few examples include, The earth has not gotten warmer since 1998 There is no direct link in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the earth’s temperature. Solar ...