belies its much grander past: This was the site of the ancient kingdom of Colchis, best known as the place where Jason took the Golden Fleece and found a Colchian wife, Medea. Ancient historian Herodotus identified the Rioni, then known as the Phasis, as the border between Europe and As...
You can still find metallic-looking garlands to display for holidays. However, the strands of tinsel once used to decorate trees were once made of silver and lead back in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Since then, companies started making tinsel out of plastic materials, usually mylar. However, ...
Here we can find the lesson we can take for the Ebola pandemic for the deaths we are witnessing today in west Africa are in a very real sense a measure of people’s humanity as if nature, perversely, set out to target those who are acting in a way that is most humane. For, absent...