Going against modern day religious beliefs, in 1095AD the Christians went to war to claim the holy city of Jerusalem, massacring the Muslims in a bloody attempt to worship their God. Pope Urban II’s speech at Clermont inspired by claims made by the Byzantium Emperor encouraged the Christians...
Maybe i just want to get a certain insight into this guy who i thought was really cool in the eighties just to maybe make up my mind whether he is guilty or innocent. Moonwalker is part biography, part feature film which i remember going to see at the cinema when it was originally ...
David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, a...
That leaves the question: What about the companionship of the in-person interpreter, someone who might know the whole family for years, someone to accompany the patient from clinic to clinic all day or stay at the bedside all night on what might be the hardest day of their lives? That was...
poem or vignette that needed very little editing. It came straight from that holiest of holy places inside where insight, instinct, imagination, intuition and deepest spiritual or universal guidance conspired with everything we know and perceive and have experienced to create that perfect piece of ...
Verse of the day Isaiah 11:6 (Lion & Lamb magically changes to Lamb & Wolf) Verse #2 is Amos 11:6 the famine of God’s words on Earth. The Lion of Judah Jesus the Son of God no longer lies with the lambs. He has left both the churches and the holy books. He has gone to ...
Western European Christians wanted to stop the spread of Islam and take back the Holy Land, located in the Eastern Mediterranean. They followed the words of Pope Urban II plea to go to war against Muslim forces. He stated, “it was God’s will.” The Pope was able to convince these ...
`blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English meronym, part name - a word that names a part of a larger whole; "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'" metonym - a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United ...
and Shanghainese. Most modern Chinese dialects take the form of two written systems: Simplified and Traditional. Modern Chinese was established around 700 AD until the middle of the 20th century, when the Chinese civil war pushed Chiang Kai-shek and his forces to Taiwan while Chairman Mao start...
An editor once suggested that, since I’m a constant reader, I should blog about how to read better and faster. That hit me like the time another editor asked for an article on gluttony. That very day, I had consumed three large meals. But I thought, “Who better than me, who knows...