King James Version 5 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in ...
Baldwin and Hawise had a daughter named Alice and in 1203 Baldwin and Marshal arranged that their children should marry. William Marshal the Younger who was probably fostered by Marshal’s lifelong friend would marry Alice when she came of age and the two families would be tied by blood. Alic...
Given the significance of these men, it's reasonable to wonder: who was the world's very first king? The answer, it seems, may be lost to the dust of history, simply because written records of the first king may not have survived time. It is, then, "possibly, an unanswerable question...
I dreamt that there were two very small children playing in a puddle (not pool) near by where I was sitting in some place. Then, there was just one and I noticed him playing okay for a while but when I looked away (remember now I wasn’t necessarily charged with looking after these...
Complete facsimile copies of Egyptian monuments have been published since the 1890s, providing a separate record that becomes more vital as the originalsdecay. The pioneer of this scientificepigraphywasJames Henry Breastedof the Oriental Institute (now the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures)...
In The King in the Stone, the mountains of northern Spain watch the last free Spaniards take their last stand against the Arabian invaders. A historical event as important in Spanish history as Washington’s crossing of the Delaware is for the United States. ...
In Chinese stories, the “Dragon King”makes the rain fall. When he sneezes, it rains. Chinese emperors liked dragons. They wore clothes with dragon pictures on them. However, in western countries, people have different ideas about dragons. In Bible (圣经), there is a...