for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and Oriental despotisms; for such as have the light and the good tidings, and yet have not eyes to see nor ears to hear withal; for the heathen in the far islands of the ...
Today, Christine tells Em about witches who conjured storms, bartered with mythical beings, and caught the ire of Danish sailors. Listen here, then follow Rituals — a Spotify Original from Parcast — for shiny new episodes every Monday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
No one on land had any idea that anything had gone wrong. No search party was coming to look for these men. So most of us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves, but we all know what it's like to be afraid. 岸上的人根本...
a foul creature disguised as a fair-looking mermaid) who had such a seductive singing voice that it would tempt sailors to either jump overboard or sail into rocks where they would be shipwrecked (and then presumably be eaten by the Sirens)...
but rather with the times and the city. I understood the arrogance of the young sailors who marched the streets in marauding gangs, approaching every girl as if she were at best a prostitute and at worst an Axis agent bent on making the U.S.A. lose the war. The undertone of fear th...
England to dunk their hands in ice water and leave them there for as long as they could. It turned out that those who swore like salty sailors were able to withstand the pain of freezing temperatures for 50% longer than those who didn’t swear. Pain, science shows, isn’t just physical...
Why is Jesus' name used by some as a swear word? Christianity abounds with fascinating, little-known trivia. Gas station attendants, for example, enjoy their own patron saint. So do stamp collectors, truss makers and sailors in the Bolivian navy. Jesus and Judas were common names in th.....
In Plato’s vision of a good republic, he condemns those who seek to rule other men, comparing them to mutinous sailors. “The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him.” Having said that, people speak a lot about who will end up on the IT...
Media outlets have countless unnamed ‘experts’ at their beck and call that gladly smear anything the government does, or doesn’t, do – so much that ‘expert’ is fast becoming a swear word in Ukraine. This isn’t much different from RT’s modus operandi. Any headline referencing an ‘...
So, when (not suprisingly) they were killed by a horde of angry gods (I had nothing to do with it, honest!), they stomped out, cussing like drunken sailors who'd gotten slammed in the foot. My point is, (finally), like I said earlier, It's all a matter of personal taste. ...