There may well have been actual nuns here (from which the tavern took its name) – it’s suggested that there was a nunnery here which may have been connected to the Augustinian Priory of St John the Baptist founded in the 12th century at Holywell (in what is nowShoreditch). A local l...
“I thought I was going to change the world. Now I live in Tracy and I have to pay a mortgage.” I searched for the name of the boy who died at seventeen. In the vast cyberspace, there was nothing. He did not survive into that world, where it seems almost everyone leaves a trace...
one of the characters said that Native American children were given names on the basis of the first noticeable thing spotted after their birth. I don’t know if that is true, but if it is, it means that in Central Rome, where I live, there would be no chance of being called Soaring...
Nowhere is it more true that dogs are everyone's best friend than in the United States, wheremore than 48 million householdshave at least one dog. The figure means that 38.4% of all homes have one or more canine companions. When tallied up, the total number of dogs as companion pets in...
depicted a woman who was able to find joy in even the smallest things in life and was not afraid to get her hands dirty. It also reminded me of the nuns who taught classes at my school when I was young. I admit I was so entranced by their holiness that I even became somewhat intim...
weapons and knowledge so that he can speed up the process of ape evolution. The main question posed at the end of KINGDOM is an old one in the franchise: can apes and humans live together, where apes function as a reminder of the animal nature and dark side of human action in the ...
Haskins (1923) argued that this knowledge “burst the bonds of the cathedral and monastery schools” where religious instruction was provided by monks and nuns, and created instead the “learned professions” along with the academic guilds of Paris and Bologna, “our first and our best definition...
Larraín’s latest centers on a group of priests and nuns sent to a beach town to purify their sinful pasts involving everything from pedophilia to kidnapping. The only other film that truly stands a chance is Matias Lira's “El Bosque de Karadima,” which deals with similar themes ...
Then we were back on the bus to visit another monestary. We’ve seen several of these along the way, and while I was looking forward to roaming around the grounds, seeing how the monks/nuns lived and worked, in every case, we were shown into the Orthodox church, and that was it. ...
Her parents got divorced when she was three, and her mother put her into an orphanage run by nuns. Eva was 14 when she returned to live with her abusive father; she later claimed that "he beat the daylights out of me on a daily basis". Living with her father proved to be so ...