When did the Apache tribe start? When did postmodernism end? When did secular humanism begin? When was the praxinoscope invented? When did Renaissance theatre begin? When did modern architecture begin? When did electronic dance music begin?
When did the Akkadian Empire start? When was the Brazilian Empire created? When was Carolingian writing invented? When was the Fatimid Caliphate conquered? When did Charlemagnes empire break up? When did the Ottoman Empire take over the Byzantine Empire?
I was quickly singled out as the monkey with the white white stripe and picked on pretty regularly by a contingent of meat-headed kids that I quickly identified as the 8th grade jocks, those little darlings of every school system who just can’t seem to do wrong in the ...
March 24. However, because the Church observes the equinox on March 21, the full Moon technically did not occur “on or just after” the equinox, meaning that the next full Moon would determine Easter’s date instead. Thus, in 2019, Easter was held on Sunday, April 21, after...
That is how the Catholic church helped create a feudal system. They also changed some texts. The Hindu system had a more caste-like system to reflect certain humans being closer to god. Certain religious groups (and cults) see themselves as ...
“This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment, the subversion of the Masonic order, and is the colour for the ravings against him of Robinson, Barruel & Morse, whose real fears are that the craft would be endangered by the spreading of information...
Jacobson, who served as the pastor of a Swedish Lutheran church in Cambridge, had been vaccinated against smallpox in Sweden when he was 6 years old, an experience thathe later saidcaused him “great and extreme suffering.” So when Dr. E. Edwin Spencer, chairman of the Cambridge Board of...
A decade before the Duran Chapel was built, a sister chapel was built in 1828. This first one, built in honor of San Juan de Los Lagos, remains in good condition and in active use as a chapel of ease for the famous church of St. Francis. The presence of these two chapels named ...
I could point to a thousand more examples of institutions letting people down: sex scandals in the Catholic church, airlines charging you to have a wee, the historic flameout of the Red Sox last September (or maybe that was just one institution returning to its old ways? Anyway.). There...
The motet began inthe early 13th centuryas an application of a new text (i.e., “word”) to older music. Specifically, the text was added to the wordless upper-voice parts of descant clausulae. Who invented the motet? From its roots in the Notre Dame church and initial innovations made...