telling the story in a way that becomes inscribed in your mind. The war violence is accurate and sometimes disturbing. The Catholics hanging dead by the train tracks is a re-creation of actual events. Some characters who matter to the viewers don’t end up with happily...
For Christians, the end of the world should not come as a total surprise. Every gospel on the First Sunday of Advent includes a forecast of the apocalypse—the end of the world as we know it. It’s not that uncommon, actually. Who has not experienced apocalypse on a personal level—the...
7. Albertus Magnus was one of the great scholars of the Roman Catholic Church, so much so that he was given the moniker "Albert the ___". From QuizHot Under the Collar Answer:Great Albertus was born near the end of the 12th century (though sadly the exact date is not known) and ...
the second millennium BC to Great Britain in the 20th century, there has been a three thousand year parade of empires marching across the world stage. One has replaced another on a routine basis. At any given time, there has been a greatest empire on Earth, at least until the end […]...
At the end of the first millennium BCE these regions reached a production level (25 000 kcal per capita per day) that largely surpassed that of previous societies, which ranged from 4000 kcal for hunter–gatherer societies to 15 000 kcal for states such as Egypt and Uruk (Figure IA) [86...
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The book God's Chinese Son by Jonathan D. Spence is a clever inside look at the effects had on a society by a colonial trade port enterprise. I liked the way that at the beginning of the book it seems as though there are a lot of unrelated topics, but by the end they each are ...
They must have been pretty desperate to end up there. Maybe they were refugees. Or undocumented. I don’t know. But they didn’t look scared or out of place. They seemed to belong there. And you know, I had the feeling that I belonged there too. We all did. ...
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before the end. Brighten into darkness, or into spring. Here in America, the darkness is already here. As we approach the most consequential—and potentially catastrophic—election of our lifetime, we wonder whether our present world can in fact brighten into spring. If there ever were a time...