June 13: The WNBAs Identity Debate Began Long Before Caitlin Clark The first month of the WNBA season has been full of compelling on-court storylines. The Connecticut Sun looks ready to contend for a title. The defending champion Las Vegas Aces have struggled to find their footing with veter...
By bus, you can reach more destinations which don’t have a railway station. Since the distances in Xinjiang are quite long, there are sleeping buses connecting Urumqi or Kashgar with most of the other smaller cities. For example, there is a long-distance bus from Hotan to Urumqi, which ...
It’s no wonder — Naples is often called Italy’s most operatic city, where splendor and squalor have long existed in equal measure. Naples is nothing if not a sensory overload. Scooters zip through the streets, vendors loudly hawk their wares at outdoor markets, street musicians play ...
taking eight hundred concubines (besides numerous wives) and erecting pagan statues and shrines to gods. He may have attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing the thunder-god, Perun, as a supreme deity. "Although Christianity in Kiev existed before Vladimir’s time, ...
But in this contest between status quo actors and revisionist actors, the tendency of the former is to cling too long and rely too heavily on forms of power that have grown obsolete with time. Whereas the revisionist actors are more creative, more risk tolerant, and more willing to invest ...
(However, it is learned that all sections of the Arab community have been placed under the command of the Haifa Arab national committee, who feel that it is in their own interest to maintain peace in the city for as long as possible. This, and the fact that the moneyed Jewish community...
(2016) describing the vampire tradition as a European one can be understood as symptomatic of Western academia’s appropriation of cultural narratives and literary traditions that existed long before those claimed for themselves by Europe and the UK. Whether the literary vampire is a European or ...
In the Middle Ages, European traders traveled along long difficult roads and plied treacherous waters looking for things to trade. Deals were made, and traders returned with useful and beautiful things. The European traders who did business with Turks, Indians, Persians, Morroccans, etc. often le...
Until now, the business of being twigs ran partially through Young (formerly Young Turks), the indie label she’s been signed to since the beginning, and through herself, with her partners largely working on retainers. That means when the British government was giving out loans to small ...
You haven’t seen a Ukrainian movie in a very long time. If you have, then you haven’t seen a decent Ukrainian movie in a very long time. You can’t seriously expect to be able to transact business, or deal with officials, without paying bribes. Having friends in the right places ...