How many days was Noah on the ark? After150 days, "God remembered Noah ... and the waters subsided" until the Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. On the 27th day of the second month of Noah's six hundred and first year the earth was dry. Where is Noah buried? There are severa...
The real Dracula had a reputation for unfathomable brutality (a reputation many Romanians claim is inaccurate), but there is not much evidence showing that people believed he was a vampire. Stoker's fictional villain is not closely modeled after the real Dracula, though they are sometimes linked...
Over time, this frequent use ofwonderfulled to a dilution in the literal meaning “full of wonder” and an increase in the positive “extremely good” use. This change happened gradually, however: well into the 1800s, Abraham Lincoln was still using it to mean “astonishing”: It is notwo...
Nearly a century before Europe's "Age of Enlightenment," while most of the world was still ruled by kings, tsars, sultans, emperors, and chieftains, Pilgrims and Puritans fled from the King of England to settle New England. They...
Of course the brown hair and brown eyes helped, too. It was always good to have common coloring. James doubted there were very many successful red-headed operatives. Back to Top ↑ Buy ↓ But one year earlier, his cover had been blown when a Napoleonic spy had revealed his identity to ...
In England I was told of a lady who had been bedridden for years. She was one of those saints whom God polishes up for the kingdom; for I believe there are many saints in this world whom we never hear about; we never see their names heralded through the press; they live very near...
It was like why did I even have to work? Steve: Yeah, that’s a great lifestyle, man! Neville: No, it’s… it’s one of those funny things. There was… A few years ago, me and Noah took this trip over… Noah is the founder of Face… he was like number 30th of Facebook,...
I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy. — Christopher Hitchens 0 I don't dictate to anyone...
Many mormons don’t dare stop paying tithing, because they believe misfortune will visit them if they do. The randomness in my life didn’t change at all after I stopped paying it. What did happen is that I gained a 10% raise and developed an internal locus of control. ...
Making many illuminating, but disquieting, parallels to contemporary society, Samuel Noah Kramer (1981, pp. 259–269) used Sumerian literary documents from 4000 years ago to chronicle the first “sick” society. Kramer showed how Sumerian society asserted equanimity but was incessantly at war; avowe...