2013Jonathan Glazer's emotionally blank, almost wordless sci-fi is a loose and oblique adaptation of Michel Faber's novel – to the extent that almost nothing explicitly survives the translation beyond the central premise of Scarlett Johansson's Woman Who Fell To Earth. Playing the alien with a...
theHan Dynasty(202 BC - 220 AD) of China became a very powerful country, roughly equal to the Roman Empire at that time. The era of Emperor Wu was the most prosperous period of the Western Han Dynasty and one of the greatest
Sinéad O’Connor’s life and career were marked by cycles of rage and forgiveness. For the Irish singer-songwriter, the world’s ills and evils could be traced back to the Roman Empire—and the Roman Catholic Church in particular. Her beef with the Church didn’t repel her from religion,...
The Empire, secure from both internal and external threats, prospered under the reign of the "good" emperors. This time period of peace is often referred to as thePax Romana("Roman Peace"). With the conquest of Dacia during the reign of Trajan, the Empire reached its peak of territorial ...
He is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire to its maximum territorial extent by the time of his death. He was respected by the common people, the Senate, and the military, having made his name through...
In today’s digital age, it’s next to impossible to measure the precise extent to which a product has been covered. Still, it’s safe to say that the Rolex Daytona Ref. 6263, an iteration of the original 1963 Cosmograph Daytona produced from 1971 to the late 1980s, has received more...
by Germanic people whom the Romans had called savage.Consequently,the intellectual development of the European civilization was retarded or even regressed to some extent because of these so-called Dark Ages.It was also a period of some negative and repressive influence from ...
Die studies show that this gigantic amount of silver, the so-called Persian mix, had been used to produce most of the coinage of Alexander the Great himself and to an even greater extent those of the Diadochi, his successors. What remains to be understood is the origin of the silver of ...
a bartender and some bystanders pick up on the vibe and start showing off their own strangely acrobatic moves. But there’s a reason why no other clip has swarmed the web to this extent — or spawned its own bait-and-switch link prank: The video that accompanied Astley’s dance-pop sm...
Precisely 171 different watches returned to us, while the top 50 took just shy of 400 votes (around 80 percent of the tally). It would be fair to say that a consensus was achieved, especially toward the top of the list. However, some watches received the same number of votes. Therefore...