Offering it unasked to those who do not is, while certainly not required, something that Millicent is likely to regard as a positive blessing — but that doesn’t mean it’s in your best interest to do it. Why? Knowing from the get-go that a manuscript is too short or too long for...
how dysfunctional its current government is, or how many bad pizzas there are in ratio to good ones, Rome remains. It’s persisted and resisted for more than 2,775 years, and even at this ripe old age, Rome is still evolving.
Though named for the Roman Catholic saint of the blind (the word "Lucia" comes from the Latin lux, meaning "light"), the holiday is now more secular than religious, and its celebrations bring light to Norwegian communities on what was historically considered the shortest day of the year. ...
We talked about this earlier in the post, but I’ll repeat myself: if you’re getting bored, the warning sign is that your mindset is off. A lot of people are happy to leave their bed messy all day and then crawl into the same dirty old bed at night. And it turns out that’s...
the biggest tombstone in the church’s old cemetery, which was in truth a rather meager monument (the tombstone, that is, not the cemetery, though it too was a small and dismal place), lacking the ornate carvings, the lengthy inscriptions, and – most importantly to our ...
is the day-long highlight of the season. While Mardi Gras most certainly has pagan, pre-Christian origins, the Roman Catholic Church legitimized the festival as a brief celebration before the penitential season ofLent. The idea was to eat up all the rich foods in the house ahead of time...
About Julie Julie is the main author for Earth Trekkers. Hiker, foodie, photographer, and triathlete, Julie loves traveling the world in search of new experiences and then sharing them on this site. Her goal is to make your travel planning process easier and to inspire you to visit new plac...
This article shows you ways to not only pass (and survive) English Literature class but how to get good grades! (You'll also learn Shakespeare!)
Let’s go back once again to 1977, to the leafy streets of Windsor where a 14 year old Weatherall had just had his mind blown by the Sex Pistols. He’d found inspiration a few years earlier when he picked up ‘Pinups’ by David Bowie. “There was a picture of him on the back,”...
Poor old Charles would have a heck of a time getting this opening past Millicent today — and not only because anything that read remotely like this would now be immediately dismissed as derivative of Dickens. That’s the trouble with those much-vaunted experiments in which disgruntled writers ...