Where(= in what book, newspaper, etc.) did you read that? 你在哪儿读到的? 牛津词典 Justwhere(= to what situation or final argument) is all this leading us? 这一切到底是要将我们引向何处? 牛津词典 It's one of the few countrieswherepeople drive on the left. ...
The Huns spread like wildfire from there, pushing other nomadic tribes, such as the Goths, into the Roman Empire. In the early 400s, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires quickly felt the brunt of the Huns, too. Under Attila (r. 434-453), the Huns reached the height of their power....
Still, there are two things that haunt me about my reactions to the O.J. Simpson drama. First, the look on the face of our young colleague (a White kid gently raised with good values) as he basically asked me and another African-American woman who was also certain that O.J. did not...
As the population of Mesopotamia expanded, the people needed more land to cultivate. In order to spread their farms into the dry desert areas farther from the rivers, they invented a complicated form of irrigation using canals, dams, and aqueducts. These public works projects also allowed them ...
Where Did Hamburgers Originate – Who Invented The Hamburger? History of Minced beef…..but a hamburger is so much more -1st Century AD: Rome The first stirrings of what came to resemble a hamburger. They often served a ground- (minced-) meat dish which contained pine nuts, pepper, and...
Move and spread throughout my soul, Actuate and fill the whole; Be it I no longer now Living in the flesh, but Thou. In the 20th-century, whose atrocities left our confidence in human potential badly shaken, the Catholic contemplative Thomas Merton could still claim that we “exist solely...
As empires go the Roman Empire in its last days allegedly holds the gold medal for degeneracy, predatory sexual, immoral behaviour, in fighting and bestiality of the worst kind. Truth be told it’s a picnic compared to today’s licentious, vile and evil goings on in the top strata of soc...
based on imagined rather than biological connections. The great empires or the modern nation states would not have been possible without most of their citizens feeling that they belonged to some pan tribal identity, such as the Roman Empire, or the Islamic Caliphate, or Christendom, or the Ameri...
So, we’ve opened our eyes to a wider temporal and geographical world in which the ‘medieval’ sits. But where does this alertness take us? To my mind, it opens up a couple of important questions. What did that wider world look like to medieval travellers who went to all sorts of pl...
Where are those images of the medieval past from in the first place? How did the idea of the Middle Ages become so entangled with the idea of a white race? To answer this we need to look back to the era when our current ideas about race and about Middle Ages developed: the eighteenth...