As I reflected once on Stephanos Sachlikis, first poet to rhyme in Greek:https://opuculuk.quora.com/Ooh-He-Said-Fuck-He-must-be-a-revolutionary. Yes, he was Rabelaisian. He was also an unabashed feudalist. The two are more compatible than you might think. After all, 4chan. J.W. ...
Later, in decaying times, it ground out salt; and now finally, having landed at the bottom of the sea, it is grinding rock and sand, creating a vast whirlpool, the Maelstrom (i.e., the grinding stream, from the verb mala, “to grind”), which is supposed to be a way to the lan...
Galileo Galilei pioneered the experimental scientific method and was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries. He
Old English Belzebub, Philistine god worshipped at Ekron (2 Kings i:2), from Latin, used in Vulgate for New Testament Greek beelzeboub, from Hebrew ba’al-z’bub “lord of the flies,” from ba’al “lord” + z’bhubh “fly.” Apparently Freddy Mercury is using this name to signify...
Lobotomy comes from the Greek word lobos, meaning lobes of the brain, and tomos, meaning cut. It is a psychosurgical procedure in which the connections between the prefrontal cortex and underlying structures are severed. The frontal cortical tissue is destroyed. Doctors performing lobotomies at ...
Now look at the American IT industry in a similar light. American companies have beenpretendingto offer a superior product for a superior price while simultaneously cutting costs and cheating customers. Do you think IBM respects its customers? They don’t. But what if they did?...