A Cypriot reader of Babel drew my attention to what he considered ‘a big mistake’ in the Greek translation: my claim that Turkish is spoken in Northern Cyprus. ‘There is not a country named North Cyprus,’ he countered. ‘The northern part of the island is occupied and only recognised...
Like other cities in Bravo's reality franchise,The Real Housewives of Orange Countyfeatures cast members who love each other but don't always act like it. From trips that turn into complete disasters and innocent parties that become full of yelling and tension, every moment onRHOChas the poten...
“Fanny and the two little girls are gone to take places for to-night at Covent Garden; “Clandestine Marriage” and “Midas.” The latter will be a fine show for L. and M.” (Lizzie and Marianne)—Sept. 15, 1813 (Fanny was the eldest daughter of Jane’s brother Edward Austen Knigh...
Religion, not civil society, regulates personal status (marriage, divorce, gender equality, burial, etc.) Israel as a Zionist state as a preserve for the Jewish people Israel lacks a constitution The Knesset by a majority of 61 of 120 can theoretically pass any law, though the judicial reform...
a story of an old man who kills his woman after many years of marriage. But when Steven Wilson's really smooth and clean voice sings lines like"though all the cogs connected with such poetic grace, time has left its curse upon this place", it feels too smooth and pathetic - especially...
Like my mother before me, I have experienced inequality in my marriage at every turn, from the first moments of its conception until today and it is killing me. Too often I have been told that the Girl in Charge was sent to me because I was special. But I have come to believe with...
The marriage between the golf star and his wife is officially over.Official divorce papers state that “the marriage between the parties is irretrievably broken”, thus bringing to an end the couple’s six-year marriage.Woods and Nordgren have lived apart since Woods’ November 2009 car crash...
Now, as one of the banned, I have done some homework on Esmay and banning from his blog, and one need only Google the two terms and one can come up with more than sixteen people who claim they were banned, and some who even link to the actual post on Esmay’s blog that got the...
It’s been bugging me a lot lately the debate about same-sex marriage. I don’t mean the part where it’s fundamentally humiliating in this day and age to have to beg people for the right to be treated equally. And not the part where it’s just a ridiculous amount of public funds ...
25Still, as Sreenivasan notes about Nainsi’s version of the Kanhadde tale, this mid-seventeenth-century Rathor account depicts the successful, even if posthumous, marriage of Kanhadde’s son with the Sultan’s daughter, who in turn commits sati(ritual suicide through self-immolation) upon the...