参考译文:传统上,一个被称为昂道(on-daw)的椰子会被悬挂在房屋的西南柱上,象征着家庭守护神纳特。图片来源:Wagaung at the English-language Wikipedia 9.5 绘画 缅甸一开始用贝叶画画,十一世纪开始出现壁画,到十三世纪为止是壁画的鼎盛时期,主要出现在蒲甘王宫,十四世纪后,造纸术传入开始用树皮(黑色)和亚麻(白色)...
In the past, Taoists believed that magic potions could be created that bestowed eternal life on people who drank them and that beings known as hsien gained immortality in this way. Both Taoism and Confucianism stress the importance of paying proper respect to elders, especially parents and ...
Or this: Is the scroll through(?) view being removed from the people born on this day? I hope not. As morbid as this might seem, I enjoy going through the 'people born on ___' only to look at the ones who have passed. It is my way of remembering the departed. ...
may have been castrated during the rebellion since the Northern Wei would castrated the rebel tribe's young elite. Fengyi prefecture's Lirun town according to the Weishu was where Wang Yu was born, Lirun was to Xi'ans's northeast by 100 miles and modern day Chengcheng stands at its site...
Like many of AHS’s villains, March is based on a real-life historical figure, none other than the first documented serial killer in American history, H.H. Holmes. The Hotel Cortez is an homage to Holmes's “Murder Castle.” Born Herman Webster Mudgett, H.H. Holmes renamed himself ...
Winona Ryder, born as Winona Laura Horowitz in October 1971, is a distinguished American actress. Born and raised in Minnesota, Ryder's journey to stardom began at a young age when she was spotted by a talent scout at a local theater. This serendipitous encounter led to her deb...
As before, and always, thanks for reading this blog. I truly appreciate it. I hope you found a link or two — or ten! — worth your while. Comments Off on 28 or so interesting things I wanted to write about and maybe will some day Posted in blog Tagged culture, history, LASS, ...
This has led to massive new issues for individuals and society, involving governments and corporations, and how we all relate to one another. Attempts to resolve these issues have spawned some projects to decentralize the Web.When the Web was born, browsers rendered HTML documents, and ...
and so on. The crippling poverty of the peasants and the proverbial greed of the priests often made this bargaining process long and heated. Peasant brides would be left standing in the church for hours, or the dead left unburied for several days, while the peasants and the priest haggled...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati