However, Themistocles argued in favour of an offensive strategy, aimed at decisively destroying the Persians' naval superiority. He drew on the lessons of Artemisium, pointing out that "battle inclose conditionsworks to our advantage". He eventually won through, and the Allied navy remained off ...
Where do our favorite foods come from? The truth may surprise you. Did you know curry isn’t Indian? Did you know Americans weren’t the first to eat hamburgers? Or did you know pizza wasn’t created in Italy? First, let’s talk about curry. 81 But in reality(事实), wealthy Engli...
The "seventy" kings may have been the rulers of the towns which Adoni-bezek had taken in extending the territory of Bezek. Josephus says seventy-two kings (Antt. v. 2, ? 2), and this common variation is found in some MSS. of the LXX. The Persians treated their Greek captives in ...
But no Persians, and once one is addicted to Persians, one HAS TO have a Persian. Next stop was Animal Care and Control, just around the corner from the SPCA, and it was there I found Chester, peering out at me with big frightened eyes in the Lost Cat section. He doesn’t have ...
In ancient Greece, rhino horn was believed to purify water, while the ancient Persians believed it could detect poisons. In the centuries since it has been used to make the handles of daggers in Yemen, and everything from walking sticks and door handles to the interior of limousines elsewhere...
The genus of thebeluga(called the Great Sturgeon by the Persians) consists of two species:beluga(Husohuso)and kaluga(H. dauricus)(or the Great Siberian sturgeon).Beluga(figure 2.2) inhabits the Caspian, Black, Azov and eastern part of the Mediterranean seas. It is one of the largest fishe...
a good wife should use the custom in her house that the Persians did in the wars, for when their enemies made any invasion either by skirmish, camisado, or main battle, if they rushed upon the pikes with any clamours the Persians received them with silence, but if they assaulted with ...
For the geographic grouping, we divided populations into four regions: the Anatolian/Caucasus region (Anatolians and Caucasus populations), the Iranian plateau (Persians, Iranian Turks, Lurs, Iranian Kurds, Mazandarans, and Gilaks), the Indus Valley (Baluchi, Brahui, Parsi, Sindhi, Pakistani-...
全文: And here is Yazdgird III, famous respond to Omar: 这里是Yazdgird三世,著名的奥马尔回答: From: Shah of Shahs, Shah of Persia and Beyond, Shah of many Kingdoms, Shah of Aryans and Non Aryans, Shah of Persians and many other races as well as Arabs, Shahanshah of Persian Empire, ...