because of all the theories involving God to which this had given rise."[46] "I also told [Ralph] Richardson that if by Godot I had meant God I would [have] said God, and not Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly."[47] That said, Beckett did once concede, "It would be...
Women dancers in ancient Egypt and Rome wore similar hairstyles, Sherrow wrote, but most historical accounts of ponytails are about men. The "queue" (meaning "tail" in French), which was a single long pony- tail, often braided, worn at the back of the head with the forehead shaved, ...
pride in its determination to show as little “enthusiasm” as possible: In the year that the Glorious Revolution put Protestants William and Mary on the English throne in place of Catholic James II, a book appeared by one William Wharton titled The Enthusiasm of the Church of Rome … ...
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to ensure social stability and a stable economy. Most scholars agree that the first cities were developed somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia, though there are disagreements about exactly where. Most early cities were small by today’s standards, and the largest was most likely Rome, with about 650...
3. The difference in speech between southern England and northern England: 英格兰南方人和北方人语言上的差别:Southerners speak the type of English close to BBC English. In northern England, regional speech is usually broader than that of southern England. 南方人讲的英语接近BBC,北英格兰人的发音...
The government of the People’s Republic of China officially espouses atheism, though Chinese civilization has historically long been a cradle and host to a variety of the most enduring religio-philosophical traditions of the world. Confucianism and Taoism, later joined by Buddhism, constitute the ...
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even scientific investigator inMiddlemarchand her narrator as conscious "of the historiographical questions involved in writing a social and political history of provincial life". This critic compares the novel to "a work of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus", who is often described as "The Fath...
In 1914, paleontologist Othenio Abel surmised the origins of the Cyclops to be the result of ancient Greeks finding an elephant skull.[29] The enormous nasal passage in the middle of the forehead could have looked like the eye socket of a giant, to those who had never seen a living elep...