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...
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
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. ...
He was buried on St Helena, but in 1840 he was disinterred by Louis-Phillipe who was hoping for some reflected glory. Roberts thinks that Napoleon kept the best bits of the French Revolution, but there was such bloodshed. He thinks that Napoleon is unfairly stigmatized by the “...
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 ...
His children ask, “Having gone to the region above for more than ten years (emphasis added), you must be returning in success and glory” (Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 1, p. 150). [3] This dates his first ascension somewhere below the range 150–136 BCE (160–146 BCE?). Again, I ...
As the genre grew a sub-genre of contemporary praise and worship music grew out of Calvary Chapel beginning with an album calledThe Praise Album.These were simple worship songs that small groups especially youth groups and college age groups could easily sing with just a guitar. They fit what...
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. ...
Honor and glory will pertain to military matters, to the service as official, and to one’s family, which will be prosperous and splendid. Among the countless descendants, the fathers will be merciful and the children filial. Sons and daughters will be loyal and dependable, the older brothers...