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Pliny’s vast Historia naturalis has survived intact because for so many centuries it symbolized human knowledge, and even the “old wives’ tales” it injudiciously included were unquestioningly copied into many later encyclopaedias. The influence of St. Isidore’s work can be traced in writings...
In a 1979 interview withGuitar Playermagazine, Bean explained what led him to the idea of building necks out of aluminium, “It was based on my non-experience with guitars and my ignorance of old wives’ tales that would have made me believe a metal neck had to be wrong. Quite simply,...
Amongst the popular themes were depictions of beautiful women; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. Wikipedia Even Japanese poets found inspiration from kaya. An old poem attributed to the famous poetess...
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
From the minute they were old enough to join society, it became clear that Mary stood out. Socialite and author, Eliza Rennie, wrote of Mary that ‘Nature in any of its wild vagaries never fashioned anything more grotesque looking than was this, Miss Dods.’ Although Mary did suffer from ...
英国文学史 Outline of the History of the English Literature 5thcentury B.C. The earliest inhabitants of the British islands —Celtics, one tribe of which, Bretons, invaded the Great Britain and settled there for nearly 500 years. 55B.C. Roman conquest by Julius Caesar brought the ancient ...
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These vary from tales of people descending from the sky to stories of migration from far-off places. Archaeologists have found evidence of Neolithic humans who inhabited what is now Nigeria as far back as 12,000 B.C.E. The histories of the people in northern and southern Nigeria prior to...