Being Roman.Episode 2: The Vengeance of Turia.This was a fantastic episode. The assassination of Caesar was followed by ten years of civil war. It’s easy to forget the perils of picking a side in a brutal, vicious civil war, where there is no stable government and when the sides keep...
In its heyday, this picturesque site featured in the 1972 Hollywood film Siddhartha.Today it is a depleted version of its former glory. One of the park's distinctive fea- tures was the presence of extensive heronries — nesting colonies of storks, ibises, spoonbills, herons and cormorants. ...
a process that unfolded from the 1940s through to the 1980s. Despite the time that has elapsed, this episode of the past continues to resonate today, and still shapes the institutions and practices of agricultural
serving as the capital of various Vietnamese dynasties and kingdoms. During the French colonial period in the 19th century, it became the capital of French Indochina, reflected in some of its lingering boulevards and villas that are still in the city today. ...
TheBokor Palace Hotel & Casinoonce stood as an empty reminder of a long-gone era but has now been revived to its 4-star luxury hotel glory. Abandoned remnants include the spooky abandoned Catholic church standing solitary next to the roadside. These are all part of the wider living area pla...
There, Folly or Stultitia explained that the prophet Jeremiah would not have a man glory in his wisdom because man has no wisdom at all.Footnote 50 The acrostic in the Ecstasis solves the conundrum posed by the poem which is almost a Cretan paradox: how far should we take seriously ...
survival, growth, and eventual success of the insurgency: (1) intelligence gathering and transmission; (2) provision of supplies and financial resources; (13) recruitment; (4) political expansion and penetration; (5) sabotage, terrorism, and intimidation; and (6) establishment of a shadow ...
What stands out fromŠhāh-nāmain reference to the entry of chess into Baghdad, then, is not so much its originality or antiquity but the inclusion of that quotation in the book that was conceived to rescue the expressions of the Persian culture during its time of imperial glory. In that...
manifestly not on the side of peoples of the soil. He isn’t your friend. He’s not on your side. He’s not on the side of ordinary Americans or Brits or anybody anywhere but himself. In the context of his war for historical glory, it is the Ukrainian people who are your side. ...
given to usury and communal selfishness, but recognized the noble characterof ancient Israel. They believed that doing away with the legal disabilities of themodern Jews could return them to that former state of glory. Jewish emancipationwas, in other words, a project of national restoration. Some...