Beirut to Batumi. It means “gathering place” or “square," often in the middle of a city. The word originates in Arabic, but translates to Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Ukrainian, and even Latin. It's one of
When I was in the Marine Corps, part of the preparatory training for deployment to Vietnam included a class entitled Know Your Enemy in which the enemy was profiled; what he liked to eat, where he liked to sleep, what his tactics were, what he was taught about you, and what he looke...
which is, as we all know, a far dustier dust, being tainted with old methodology, than what classical archaeologists encounter in the Roman Forum. Or, alternatively, we are interested in so-called modern linguistic techniques, but these have the stench of social ...
When Should I Apply? Within the one-month application period,the actual time of application is irrelevant.An application made on February 1 has the same chances as an application made on February 28.The only way to obt...
in 1743 he died in Vyborg, north of St. Petersburg, near the Finnish border, at the age of 33, and I don’t know what of. It was his love of botany and his friendship with Carl Linnaeus that likely inspired Linnaeus’s friend and patron, Jan Frederik Gronovius, to name a flowering...
The Meaning of Tingo Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means 'to take off your clothes in order to dance'? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or that the Dutch word for skimming stones is plimpplampplettere... AJD Boinod 被引量:...
costumes,seductive dance moves, and lots ofmelodramatic overacting. While all this extravagance is certainly an integral aspect of the industry, you may be surprised to learn about a saintlier side of Bollywood that I will discuss here today: the use of Meera-bai’s texts in Hindi film ...
Besides it’s always somebody else who’s going to get killed, not you. Every man in uniform felt the same way, including those whose graves are supposed to be decorated with flowers today. I don’t know what one does to honor the thousands who simply disintegrated in the mud of battle...
A does not know the exact amount and hence he makes out a blank cheque in favour of B, signs and delivers it to B with a request to fill up the amount due payable by him. B fills up fraudulently the amount larger than the amount due payable by A and endorses the cheque t...
Watching her is just like seeing a bosom friend trying to pretend she’s happy when both of you know she’s not only in this case, Rosanna is truly happy. Her non-knowledge of her plight is what is particularly heart-curling…”– Times Jornal, October 24, 1972 (READ MORE) Golden ...