Cathedral of Bonesis the first in a medieval murder mystery series by J. G. Lewis. She imagines what might have happened when Ela of Salisbury, who acted as Sheriff of Wiltshire in the early thirteenth century, conducted her investigations. It’s entertaining and well written. Canadian Boyfrien...
The term refers sometimes to freelancers, at other times to all self-employed people who work independently. La definizione viene applicata talora ai lavoratori freelance e talaltra a tutti i lavoratori non subordinati. EurLex-2 Sometimes it was just Statyllus standing watch, at other times...
The term "outbreeding" is the exact opposite of inbreeding and has become the norm, even amongst royals. As people became aware of the damage they were causing their descendants, they began to reach further for potential mates and, in some cases, brought commoners into the royal bloodlines. ...
For example, ~*foxes were notorious for the obnoxious odor they emitted. According to the late Tang historian Chen Yinque Ji[ t~, the medieval Chinese term for armpit odor, "fox stench" [huchou 111\~], might have been derived from "barbarian odor" [huchou t)j ~], because this type...
U-boat is, of course, the German term for submarine, usually associated with World War II. The true German term is Unterseeboot, or literally ‘undersea boat’. If we go back further, the father of the modern submarine was a Irishman named John Philip Holland (in the photo below), who...
Imtiaz Habib and I were regular SAA (Shakespeare Association of America) friends for many years, from the late 1990s onwards, till his untimely death in 2018. At every meeting we caught up with long chats, which in his native Bengali, one would call Adda –a popular term for “hangout,”...
medieval/urban fantasyNimona, which almost didn’t make it into any kind of distribution. Even with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) edging towards eclipse at the moment, I’m going to put my chips on Miles Morales, even though it’s plausible that Oscar will wait for the third ...
I know the Cien brand well. The tour was fascinating and the palazzo deceptively large given it’s street frontage. It contains within it the last of 26 original lookout towers from the medieval city when it stood on the edge of the harbour. We’re now a good mile inland and most of ...
There are no easy answers for education during a pandemic. However, I don’t think parking American kids in front of low end learning software long term is going to be a good outcome. Maybe it’s better than the alternatives for now. But then what?
’ The word ‘hinnie’ is a dialect one for honey, a term of endearment, and the ‘singin’’ refers to the comforting sizzle of the butter and lard from the cooking griddlecakes, although Jane does point out that ‘the singin’ hinnies made less of a song for many people as they ...