In short, we don’t know where they came from. We don’t know why they did what they did. We don’t know where they went. The Trincheras seem to be an anomaly on the archaeological landscape. The Athabaskan Arrivals The Athabaskan-speaking peoples – the Navajos and Apaches – ...
This suited me fine: I did not want him prying into my fractured marriage either. I was in the process of leaving my husband but did not want my beloved to know because I did not want him to think that I was somehow doing it for him. In fact, the prospect of finally being able t...
In 1984, the historian Ilii͡a Todo-rov ascertained that the chronicle written by Metodi Draginov in a seventeenth-century prayer book – the source crucial for attesting that the Bulgarian popula-tion had been forced into converting to Islam during the Ottoman rule – was ac-tually a late...
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically. —Ken Follett 22 Belief In God Quotes The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my...
He argued that Muslims during their glory days (i.e., during the life of the prophet and his first four 'rightly guided' Caliphs) did not believe in Jesus' physical ascension to heaven. Such beliefs he argued were corruptions that had slowly crept into Islam over the preceding centuries. ...
I was curious, so I did some Googling. I came across this 2008 Straight Dope forum thread and this one from 2013. The general consensus is that those are not Nation of Islam hats, but rather Gandhi Caps, associated with Gandhi’s nonviolent Indian independence movement. In other words, ...
This came about in 1982. And it was courtesy of a couple academics by the name of Robert Fetter and John Thompson who were public health and epidemiology experts from Yale. And they came up with this system of paying doctors in what are called diagnosis-related groups. And what they did ...
When my friend's older brother came home a few minutes later, it happened. They sat us down, side by side on the couch, and told us there had been an accident. Being young and naïve, we'd never really experienced any "accidents" before. So, being prepared was not something we ...