- Personal Connection: Fascination with ancient Egypt, desire to compare real-life experience with depictions in films and literature. 巴黎圣母院(Notre-Dame Cathedral) - Location: Paris, France - Historical Significance: Iconic example of French Gothic architecture, construction began in 1163 and comp...
Historically, in large city-state societies (such as Egypt or Iraq) starting around 5,000 years ago culminated to make religion something kind of new, a sociocultural-governmental-religious monarchy, where all or at least many of the people of such large city-state societies seem familiar with...
Some of them have experienced multiple transformation in terms of energy conditions with countries shifting from being net-importers to net-exporters. Egypt for instance, which is an old oil province, has since mid-1990s strongly expanded the role of gas. However, in the aftermath of the Arab ...
graduating as a radio operator and shipping out in ’42. During his years of service, John sailed around the world multiple times, with ports of call at Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston, the Suez Canal, Egypt, India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and South Africa – ...
Gregory contributes another installment to her series of fictionalized tales of the Tudor monarchy. It is yet another opportunity to show off her rare talents—to make a story even more engrossing because the audience knows how it will turn out. 5/12/08 REVIEW: The Future Happens Twice by Ma...
Foreign interference in Iran, Qajar misrule, and new ideas on government led in 1905 to protests and eventually to the Constitutional Revolution (1905-07), which, at least on paper, limited royal absolutism, created in Iran a constitutional monarchy, and recognized the people as a source of ...