Exactly how many churches are there in the world? To be clear, this was a reference to the number of church buildings, not the number of denominations or congregations. And honestly I had no real idea. There are currently between 2.3 and 2.5 billion Christians in the world, about a third...
Where science was once equated with “Taoists” in Chinese history (Sivin 1978), the last two decades have seen a shift towards thinking in terms of polymaths. Among the many recent studies on the topic,1 two stand out for how they apply this, using the polymathy of their subjects to ...
which evolved between the 20th and 21st centuries, and the debate about how to intervene on population trends, which also changed during this period. Finally, the article will chart the way forward and outline the key points of a new policy agenda. (Many elements of this article are taken ...
I cannot emphasize how often I have taken refuge and comfort in such extended family, which I have been able to build over decades of my life, picking and choosing from two and a half millennia of great minds produced by humanity. Near the end of his curriculum for Lucilius (and for the...
The lasttyrannos, or tyrant, to rule Athens was Hippias, who fled the city whenSpartainvaded in 510 B.C. Two or three years later, an Athenian aristocrat named Cleisthenes helped introduce democratic reforms. Over the next several decades, subsequent reforms expanded this political system while...
World War II significantly disrupted the TSE. The exchange was forced to close in 1945 amid the chaos of Japan's defeat. However, it reopened in 1949, symbolizing Japan's economic rebirth and the beginning of its postwar miracle. The decades that followed saw explosive growth, mirroring Japan...
7 Let us suppose that you are fortunate and can describe to your own satisfaction in so many words the exact meaning of your chosen theme. There is still no guarantee that anyone else will be satisfied. Nor need they be. The important thing is that each one feels for himself the specific...
What’s more, Denmark’s stock market has been on fire the past 20 years whereas the UK’s has been moribund. Consequently Britain has slipped into the bottom half of the table, after decades as one of the leading lights. And while it’s true that losing a World War is bad news, Ja...
This is the way to think about writing decades using numbers: they are both abbreviations and plurals. A shorter way of saying “My mother was born in the 1940s” is “My mother was born in the ’40s.” The apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark) indicates where the two cent...
There are many reasons to visit Portugal, from its great weather and rich history to friendly people. Here's my Portugal top tips and travel blogs: Don’t leave Porto in Portugal without doing these things first…. Camino Portuguese Coastal Route Bike Tour – Cycling in Portugal ...