Why did the Spanish Revolution fail? Why did the British aristocracy decline? Why did the feudal system collapse? Why was the British Empire so powerful? Why did the British lose the war for America? Why did the Sandinista Revolution fail?
Why was the Russo-Japanese War important to imperialism? Why was the British Empire so powerful? Why did the Philippines help the United States fight the Spanish during the Spanish-American War? Why was there jingoism during the Spanish-American War?
Why was King George III important? Why was King Charles I found guilty of treason? Why was King Leopold II interested in colonizing Africa? How did King Philip cause the Great Schism? Why did Harald Hardrada claim the throne? Why did the Jutes, Angles and Saxons invade the Roman Empire?
and all the streams of the Forest were tinkling happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again, and the little pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the big things they had done, and in the warmth and quiet of the Forest the cuckoo was trying over his voice ...
The last time I had danced with one hand clasped across a woman’s back was 13 years ago at my middle school dance, in a gymnasium surrounded by other tweens, giggling with their hands over their mouths so nobody could see their braces. And at that moment, with the possibility of bot...
even if it no longer included Spain, after the Bourbons had taken over the Spanish throne in 1700. In terms of population, it was the third-largest state in Europe and comprised oneseventh of the population of Europe. In the late eighteenth century the Habsburg lands included, in the west...
At Dilmun, Gilgamesh meets Utnapishtim, the Sumerian Noah, who was granted immortality for riding out the great Flood sent by the gods. He tells Gilgamesh about the plant of immortality. Getting to it, the plant has leaves like razors, cutting him; but Gilgamesh is powerful, pulls it up, ...
My closest friend died after a short illness on the 5th of October, 2018. She was twenty-seven years old. Five years before that, I woke up one morning to find forty or so postcards wrapped up with elastic bands on my doorstep. Over the course of a Spanish holiday Anna had written to...
and Carthage once were thought to be as influential or powerful as cities like London, Tokyo, orWashington, DC, are today. While many faded from prominence, some of the ancient powers continued to thrive after the rise of theRoman Empireand other European nations, while newer cities like Timb...
normal person. I also didn't have to relearn anything. It was more like the memories and the thoughts, they just started to come back to the surface. So yeah, this whole album was healing and therapeutic for me. It's a celebration of life. And it is every single song I wanted to ...