The word “assassin” derives from a secretive murder cult in the 11th and 12th centuries called the “Hashishin”, meaning “hashish eaters”. While much of the origin of this cult has been lost, the original leader was Hasan Ben Sabah, a prominent devotee of Isma’ili beliefs. Hasan’s...
He does not condone breaking laws, even if the laws are ones that he disagrees with. What makes a woman intimidating? Intimidating is a word to describewoman of being complex, outspoken, and strong willed. Intimidating can be many things, but for me, it means they've put themselves out t...
but it was when, in September 1934 he and his brother, George set off for South Africa in his own DH Puss Moth to visit potential customers that the story of “The Flying Business Man,” really set the local press alight. They
such as the forest of the Hesperides is thought to have been. Every race of wild beasts were present, intermingled with the domestic, and many a bird was suspended above the poet, but he himself lie dead, torn
and bribes the judge who tries them. An American JUDGE GETS TEN DOLLARS FOR EVERY VICTIM HE CONSIGNS to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so. The oath of any two villains is sufficient, under this hell-black enactment, to send the most pious and exemplary black man into the remo...
Herakles: Lifeless bodies. Where does the soul travel when the body slumbers? Aphrodite: Wherever it wants, I suppose. Herakles: Do we have one? Aphrodite: No. Herakles: Gods don’t have souls? Aphrodite: Singular souls, no. Even animals have multi-part souls. But technically you’re corr...
In the documentary, director King Vidor recalls his experience directing Lillian Gish in La Boheme, saying her death scene was so convincing that “I began to see headlines: ‘Actress Does The Scene So Well That She Actually Dies.’” The story focuses on the ill-fated love affair between ...
when the disgusting pap is allowed to run away by means of a highly complicated system of drainage ditches until it finally reaches the Ganges.At the point the Ganges provides both bathing and drinking water for the pious who have gathered together in Benares, the Rome of the Hindus and prob...
6. The minimum space which can be offered to tourists is 25 m² with a minimum of 14 m² per guest. My understanding is this does not require bedrooms larger than the average master bedroom, rather can be calculated on the total space dedicated to the guest(s). 7. Bedrooms and liv...
The life of Christ alone was perfect, being both human and divine. Not one of the other volumes, like the Koran, that claims divinity of origin, agrees with common sense. There is nothing at all in the Bible that does not conform to common sense. What it tells us about the world ...