The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell 54 Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. — Alfred Sheinwold 49 The past will be your te...
“Most of the Arab thinkers today are only interpreters to the ruler or ruling party. You conform to the ruler or you get banished or punished. What you write must be liked by the government and OKd by the censors. So creativity withers, and talent dies out of fear.” In most of the...
aaccording to one legend that is well known in Iran,Nevruz was first celebrated after the military campaign led by the legendary ruler Cemshit to Azerbaijian (i.e. a region outside of Iranian territory) 根据是知名的在伊朗的一个传奇, Nevruz首先庆祝了,在传奇统治者带领的军事行动Cemshit Azerba...
12/Jan/1967Dr. James Bedford is cryonically preserved, the first person to be suspended for the sake of waking up in the future 13/Jan/1930“Mickey Mouse” comic strip 1st appears 14/Jan/1761Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmed Shah Abdali, the ruler of Afghanistan, defeats the Marathas ...
and was in charge of the restoration of the pyramid of unas. this son was buried in the serapeum. ramesses ii outlived the first thirteen of his heirs. ramesses was named co-ruler with his father, seti i, early in his life. he accompanied his f...
In the mid-1850s, a French diplomat, Ferdinand de Lesseps, obtained permission from the Ottoman ruler of Egypt to start a company to build a canal that would serve ships of all nations. The plan was that the company would operate the canal for 99 years, after which the Egyptian govern-...
The exploration of the Greater Yuezhi continues. In summer 2023, Wang carried out research in Mongolia. In Yiwu, Xinjiang, an archaeological team from Northwest University found a large Yuezhi tomb, which Wang believes could be the first tomb of a Yuezhi ruler ever to be discovered....