The Thrace, Dardanelles, and Gallipoli region of Turkey, serving as the European part of the country, is a corridor between Europe and Asia. Thisregionis known forBattlefieldsof ancientTroyandWorld War I, travelers often make aday-tripor (better yet) an overnight from Istanbul. ...
A day after Kamala Harris visited two churches in Georgia, Donald Trump on Monday declared that she is “destructive to religion” and that Christians will “suffer greatly" if she is president. Trump made the false claim about Harris while speaking at...
Historically, the shape and size of shields varied widely, from the tiny bucklers (maximum eighteen inches in diameter) to the massive Roman scuta (forty-one inches high by sixteen inches wide). Shields could also range from practical to decorative. In the modern day, police and military...
It was later determined that the sixth or seventh layer contained the lost city of Troy and that it was actually destroyed by an earthquake, not a wooden horse. (1).Why did people hide in the White City in the 16th century? A.To survive the war. B.To search for a...
Shark week comes once a year to TVs in the States, but for Australians, shark week is every day. After watching this video of an 18foot “juvenile” great white attacking a smaller shark a few meters away from the shores of Bondi Beach, Lois is glad she stood by her decision not to...
One of the more famous Palladiums was that of Troy that Zeus had gifted to King Dardanus. According to myth, Athena had crafted this Palladia out of grief when she accidentally killed her friend Pallas, a playmate and daughter of Tritonis, her foster-father. Athena took great care to carve...
Led by Palmer and BMI Nashville executive Shannon Sanders, the performers’ lineup will feature Brown, Cowboy Troy, Tony Jackson, Hubby Jenkins, Miko Marks, Wendy Moten, Palmer, Rucker, The War and Treaty and Whitfield. “This is a dream come true for me,” Palmer says. ...
Bonnie from East Troy, W APRIL 28, 2013 This is one of my favorite ads. I knew the first time I saw it that boy was going to do the right thing. It helps me have faith in mankind, there are more good people than bad. It's just that we always hear about the bad, not the go...
Bonus Quotation of the Day… byDon BoudreauxonJanuary 1, 2025 Tweet … is from Clark Packard’s and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon’s April 26, 2024, blog post, “The World Trade Organization at Thirty“; on this date 30 years ago – January 1st, 1995 – the World Trade Organization began ope...
Rifkin (p. 148) goes so far as to say that in The Passenger, Locke is not the true subject of the film. May one likewise say that the main characters of L'eclisse are not Vittoria and Piero, but a broken stick and matchbook, the Remains of a Day?