How did Midas, the mythical king of Phyrgia who could change anything he touched to gold, get his donkey ears? For seducing Zeus' wife, Hera For cursing Zeus' name As punishment for judging Pan a more accomplished musician than Apollo ...
Boo and I got off the bus at the same bus stop, if I was willing to trudge up the hill to my house afterwards. Boo, assumptive of accolades, attention, happiness. Sports fields existed for his Friday night glory, he did not know of the shifting tides of fame, fortune, the ramificati...
He lost his beloved mother. In England it is a very common thing to send out cards in memory of the departed ones, and they put upon them great borders of black--sometimes a quarter of an inch of black border--but this friend had put on a gold border; he did not put on black ...
King Midas came to the throne in 738 BC, and the Cimmerians defeated him in 695 BC. The capital city was Gordion. Buddhist stupa at Sanchi built during the Mauryan Empire 1 / 2 India (3000 BC - 0 AD) 16. Harappan Civilization (Indus Valley Civilization) Around 2600 BC, the Indus ...
Furthermore, the first wordswith which Arrian describeshis account are theverbσυνέγραψανand the nounξυγγραφήν.These echo theverbξυνέγραψεin Thucydides’preface(Th.1.1. 1) and the nounξυγγραφῇin Thucy-dides’openingremarks to his account on ...
The interesting part of the journey aspect of the plot would NOT be Charlie Sheen trying to make his way back to “Two And A Half Men”, because that may not be what he wanted. Maybe he did not want to go back to “Two And A Half Men”, and even if he did, his normal san...
— Bill Powers, found in Willey Ley’sThe Borders of Mathematics, (c) 1967. May I have a month, professor, To figure these, you brain assessor? Calculate, student, calculate now! As the figuring gets longer, My friend, hope you get stronger ...