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...ercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into between the merely human party, and his or her supernatural assistant. But modern times have amply supplied this defect. The witch or sorcerer could not secure th...

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...to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any league of mutual benefit entered into betwe... ...ng the antiquity of Witchcraft, we must needs confess that it hath been of very ancient time, because the Scriptures do testify so much, for in the t... ...t the stake in the Carrefour du Bordage, in Guernsey, the square devoted by the city authorities of that island to this kind of punishment. The last... ...ively by those who remained in visible communion with the See of Rome, and many Roman Catholic writers of those periods maintained that no such powe... ...timent of danger. Sailing upon the river is one of the common amusements of the city of Rouen, in France. My father also took great pleasure in thes... ...ted by the tavern keeper, and his body concealed beneath a dunghill outside the city gates. Terrified at this second appiration , the Arcadian hesita... ...rmous piece of rock fell from the height of the capitol , and carried with it a Roman standard bearer, who was on guard, at the opening of the road... ...d seems connected a lusus nature of ashtree bough, resembling the litui of the Roman augurs and the Christian pastoral staff, which still obtains a... ...ers of the Middle Ages and biblical times, and many of the magi and wise men of ancient ages, succeeded in curing numbers of diseases, without any m...

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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ...erbial or not, next to metropolises. Terah left Ur only to settle near yet another city, Harran, on the current border between Turkey and Syria. He... ...ic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizations - such as Troy, long considered a mere fab... ... Automatic Switchboard (Phone Exchange) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertak... ...sts in yet another botched campaign, he retreated and captured Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia in December 1814. After a series of uninterr... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ...s etched in our minds. The crossword puzzle appears to be a British institution, as ancient as the monarchy and a lot more rewarding. The surpri... ...reat_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that virtually every bit of modern knowle...

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... 28 to a good job as a talent agent with the William Morris Agency in New York City. Eager to make it on my own, I quit the agency, and moved to Ca... ...lowers, those age­ old tributes you give to your beloved? Cupid, that cherub of Roman mythology who inspires romantic love by quaintly shooting arro... ...48 by moment. What you choose to do with each moment is up to you. But just as ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tse noted in the Tao-Te Ching, even... ...time" isn't just a metaphor; it is the way of life. Many of us spend our lives planning for our future. From youth through our years as adults, we... ...tly trying to decide what we will be when we grow up, and as grown­ ups we are planning our retirement. But life, like time itself, is a continuum...

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...e protagonists that populate this work of fiction. In a way, therefore, this is a roman-a-clef. Still, names and circumstances were altered to p... ...t it or was the data merely corrupt? Maybe the file could be opened by one of those ancient word-processing applications still in use only by my mot... ...s played host to King David and to Jesus, to King Solomon and to countless wannabe Roman emperors. It is one of the cradles of civilization and you ... ...rprisingly authoritative. Eichmann leaves us without a further murmur. “When the city of Graz expelled the Jews in the 15 th century, tradition i... ...chalutz, a Zionist agricultural movement. I was trained as a pioneer-farmer. I was planning to emigrate to Palestine when my father intervened and o... ...ry we knew that a visit to Gestapo headquarters anywhere – let alone in the capital city of the Third Reich - meant protracted and agonizing death a... ... answer, Jew-dog!” – he barked shrilly. “My great-great grandfather was the wild, romantic artist type. He had a fling with a German servant-girl ... ...xecute 100,000 feeble-minded and insane Germans. In 1940, the Interior Ministry was planning to exterminate millions of healthy Germans deemed asoci... ...it’s going to be different.” – interjected Grease Ball. “Different?” “They are planning something more substantial. We don’t know what is in th...

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... journeys to the interior, however, the British started to investigate and the activities of this ancient secret society came to light. Lord Bentinc... ...y little, auburn haired cousin, Helen. She will do just as well as any other woman.” ‘Not a very romantic acceptance, Uncle, which is hardly surpris... ...d. Gavin is not exactly the ardent suitor. He is merely doing his duty by marrying me. Not a very romantic proposal.’ Rosita seemed suddenly anxious... ...married again. Gavin was the son of this second marriage. Helen, herself, had firmly quelled that romantic dream of her adolescence and plunged hers... ...houting, ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin ... ...he lovely, deep-water, island- studded harbour of Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the dowry of the P... ...ns, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and at the southern end of the City, ‘Fort William‘. THE CURSE OF KALI 35 Joh... ...du festival. Large effigies of the demon Ravana stuffed with fireworks were exploded all over the city and Helen thought how far removed all this wa... ...id Lady Cameron, tossing her head in her own inimitable ‘horsy’ manner, ‘this great highway is as ancient as India, itself, and has for centuries be...

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...n that took them out of Huamark and through other adjacent sections of the city eventually led them to her area. He did not remember the name of it: ... ...ce. The sun was feeling hot and it made him dizzy and mad as Akhenaten in Ancient Egypt. Nawin, the legal alias of Jatupon, was feeling a weight dea... ...behind them. There had been a time that he would have sniffed at this new city like one of the myriad crazed but gently starving dogs (after all, in ... ...tial. It was this mesmerizing dynamism that most lured his eyes. The city was fetid as his older brother's shoes in the back of his girl friend'... ... and being "in love" as something more spectacular than bottle rockets and Roman candles lit from the bridges over the Chao Phraya River in the Loi kr... ...ance of dragons just like the television shows they had seen of the kings' ancient boats that were housed in the Royal Barge Museum. The ni... ...and turn with universal movement. He was the oddity. This Nawin, the romancer of whores, was all for show. Deep inside was not impetuousness bu... ...n. They get it out of their system for a few hours but a woman percolates romantically throughout the day. She loses all sense of reason. She does e... ...he sun-god (the night having deadened his soul and put him to sleep as any ancient Egyptian laborer long ago believed of his own life), so Kazem in da...

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...only difference between them being the manner of the logic. It is rather like an ancient tongue translated into four languages. It is self-evident th... ...en according to its power, direction and character. The wisdom of Kabbalah is an ancient and proven method. Through it, man can receive higher awaren... ...ntually attaining all the wonderful achievements the Creator intended for us in planning Creation. Those who do not attain them in this incarnation ... ...5 CE). Rabbi Akiva and several of his disciples were tortured and killed by the Romans, who felt threatened by his teaching of the Kabbalah. They fl... ...50 years). This is a life belt for our generation, since it enables us to study ancient texts as if they had been written now, and to use them as a ... ...ain of Shabbat” (Tehum Shabbat) but the World of Atzilut itself is called Yir (city). Even when all the Worlds of BYA ascend to the World of Atzilut... ...at is why in our world, it is allowed during Shabbat to cross the limits of the city, but only in the limits of the city within the boundaries of Teh... ...ilut even though it is located outside it. It is an outer strip surrounding the city. The distance from the Hazeh of the world Beria to the Hazeh of...

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...erials. They painted it green and mounted it on large, thin-tyred, wheels borrowed from an ancient pram. They attached to it a partitioned table-top... ... On the Bus to Town by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. I must catch the city-bound bus. I have to change at the Central Station ... ...rsized tunic as she volunteers: "She is a terrorist and he is a convict and they were both planning to blow this bus up." "Twaddle!" – roars my nei... ... am serious, I am told, I am like a battered and deserted child and this provokes in you an ancient cuddling instinct. When I am proximate, your bod... ...and Freud and Tolstoy. That night he called upon the spirits of his library, whose books he romanced on benches under all the lampposts in the towns... ...ont, I scrutinised the flower beds, the tourists, and the spout. Even at dusk, I found this city languid. All shops were closed. I had a dinner dat... ...ake in his books and lock the entrance door. Sometimes we would proceed to patronise an Old City coffeehouse. But usually I would return to my alcov... ...y: "Marc, we will leave you, guys, alone. Be a man, won't you? Show your love, woo her, be romantic. A woman is not a cow, to mount, to screw, and ... ...peared. He wanted to revive unto their moisture. But the nauseating scents of vinegar and Roman legionnaires, the dampness of the cave, and then ...

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...quick light, then massive explosions simultaneously lit of in every major city across the world. The intense heat, fames, and wind scorched and dest... ...ed the car and hit the gas to get out of what was lef of the once capital city of Connecticut. “Where are we going?” asked Josh. “ Away from here,” r... ...uch and no one else has made it back since,” Talbot re- sponded. “ Are you planning something?” “I’m just trying to get my bearings around here. So I ... ...anbury, Connecticut. Prior to the Flash Storm, it was the seventh largest city in the state. Adjoining New York, commuters were able to live in Conn... ... Josh. Lexi had her eyes glued to the article. “XCIX…XCIX…wait… that’s the Roman Numeral for 99. The group is Rebel 99. I remem- ber that thing at Mil... ...hing big. Lord Zodiac is modeling himself afer the Pharaohs and rulers of ancient times. He wants to show that he commands the resources to surpass ... ...sterious and highly dangerous Rebel XCIX or Rebel 99 if you translate the Roman Numerals. This group was public in their goal to undermine and ultim... ...these cases, he had shown no fear. Now, the thought of having any type of romantic atachment to someone else frightened him beyond words…and he didn... ...side hallways that reminded them of old documentaries on the discovery of Ancient Egyptian tombs. They didn’t leave the entry area. A man in army fa...

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...o India, and he went to London. He arrived penniless and began roaming the city. For three years he lived idly in the streets. His friends saw him as... ...xpression to it. _______ To talk of eternal bliss, love—all of that is romantic poetry. You see, if you translate what I am saying in terms of yo... ...ibed in terms of bliss, love, compassion and all that poetic nonsense and romantic stuff because you have no way of experiencing what is there betwe... ...ot is of no importance at all. You cannot talk of that state in a poetic, romantic language. And one in that state won't be hiding somewhere. He wil... ...ation in your life, but actually when there is a physical danger all your planning and all that you have thought about to be prepared to meet every k... ...he gullible and credulous people everywhere, not only by the purveyors of ancient wisdom, the holy men, but also by the modern scientists. The psych...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...alace at Cambalue -- Description of its size and splendors -- The walls of the city -- Its battlements and streets -- How the social evil of Cambalue ... ...ngi -- Flight of Fanfur -- His wife captured by the Khan -- Attack on the rich city of Sainfu -- Assaulted by engines devised by the Polos -- A bombar... ... engines devised by the Polos -- A bombardment with stones which compelled the city's capitulation -- A wondrously rich and populous country -- The ci... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...e it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, ...

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... back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. T...

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... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...ry “Hello” and climbed onto the pier. How pleased he was to see me! Was I planning another trip? Sitting on piles of rope, he told me of an underwat... ...nning another trip? Sitting on piles of rope, he told me of an underwater city he had seen, with a great bronze statue of Poseidon by a temple... “... ...“Oh yes, coral...and plenty of fish, big ones. I swam halfway down to the city, but there was no air in me to swim deeper. A fish watched me, from o... ... forgot why I came. P I went to Alcaeus, to tell him about the submerged city. “You mean Helike?” he asked. “A quake tore apart the coast and it we... ...to the history of typesetting was substantial. He perfected the design of Roman type: The fonts that he cut beginning in 1531 were recognized as pos... ...the 1730s, Englishman William Caslon refined Garamond’s version of Aldine roman, the well-balanced typeface became popular, and was introduced to th...

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...el next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradit...

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...of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his wh... ...voice rose into a cadence of a Gregorian chant, the beauty of the alliterated ancient Latin echoed through the chapel like a spiritual sonnet. As h... ...him, feeling alone and very uncomfortable before the premiere Eminence of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he had dedicated his life The Pope a... ... Antonio?” he asked. “Of course, Holy Father,” he replied and sat down in an ancient wooden chair. “Antonio,” the Pope began with a smile, “tell m... ...oped down into it's final landing pattern, Father Antonio looked out over the city of Rome, it's lights shimmered like jewels set into a royal crown ... ...ne may have merely viewed the beauty of Rome, but Father Antonio saw the Holy Roman Empire, headed by the most powerful religious leader in the worl... ...ross/Artemis It had been two years since Antonio had been home. The ancient city of Palermo with its ornate fountains and cobblestone streets that... .... Antonio took his time, savoring everything. His family had moved into the city since his mother had become ill. His father wanted her closer to ... ... mother described their meeting as if she were telling a fairy tale: a young, romantic girl meets her daring knight and sweeps her off her feet and ...

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...Sarah wanted to escape the city life and her wealthy family. Moving from mainland Australia, she purchased a farm in Tasmania. Persistent, yet green to rural living, the new next door neighbour has her attention and she is out to win his heart in the m...

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...d my handbag and car keys. I broke every speed limit in my travels to the city. Still in my overalls, I took a deep breath and snuck into this weird ... ...dicating the end of the pipe. It takes quite a bit of muscle to remove an ancient metal device from the end. Supposedly, it lets the water into the ... ...sweet; there will definitely be no partying or night clubbing. I hate the city; this place with all its problems is home to me. I had a feeling Ali ... ...on the mainland, least not for the term of my natural life. I’ve left the city life behind me; the taste of freedom and rural life has made me comfo... ... a few days of peace. I have to admit, it’s a rather unique poster of the Roman Catholic Church, conveniently stuck to the toilet door. The fridge i... ...m part of me is my hand nestled in his. All right, this is it; this is the romance bit. Let’s see if I can better Jack and Rose’s car romp on the Tit... ...ael enquires with a smile. “Crutching sheep, they’re really daggy.” I’m so romantic; it’s ugly. I might as well drown myself in the toilet and be don... ...omething, but I’m literally biting my tongue. I know there is nothing but ancient trash here, but I’m not getting R rated movies and that’s final. Al... ... arse off.” Though I didn’t catch the fly’s added mumbles, probably some ancient insect curse he’s put on me, he did relay the message. “Your boyfr...

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...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ...ng in modern day religion. I enrolled in Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York for a post-graduate degree, hoping to fill the gap within ... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ... a less intensive scale. They appear to have been primarily organized on a city to city, or town to town, basis with local shrines, temples, and pries... ...itial stages Hebrew religious culture was organized along clan and village/city lines. It became progressively more unified and centralized until it wa... ...under King Akhenaton. 11 It was later blended with religious elements from ancient Palestine of about the same era, as well as with organized Arab rel... ...Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1948; A.H. Gardiner... ...irect progenitor of modern day Judaism. 13. For the overall development of ancient Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress P... ...ng many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during the first centuries AD and ...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...s on different continents. People who have country homes and travel from the city to the country every week: are the highest class of humans there ... ...nd the most detached from the earth. People who live in the country: despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the weather is nice. C... ... etc. History is full of examples of what happens to any race, nation, creed, city, etc. when their major enemy disappears and there is too much pea... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall...

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...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...nning another trip? Sitting on piles of rope, he told me of an underwater city he had seen, with a great bronze statue of Poseidon by a temple... “... ...“Oh yes, coral...and plenty of fish, big ones. I swam halfway down to the city, but there was no air in me to swim deeper. A fish watched me, from o... ... forgot why I came. P I went to Alcaeus, to tell him about the submerged city. “You mean Helike?” he asked. “A quake tore apart the coast and it we... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft...

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...e sky to cool the 110 to 120 degree furnace that roasted and parched this ancient plain. There were no sacred cows blocking our way. This count... ...o the sex trade is particularly brutal. Calcutta, Mumbai, and every major city and minor town provides a home for the sex traders. ―Cruelt... ...hools in the world. I was in Bangalore not too long ago. It is a bustling city with huge numbers of graduate engineers and high tech people. It is a... ... in our globalized technological dog-eat-dog world.‖ ―Your capitol city reminds me much more of old Calcutta than modern Mumbai. Do you have ... ...sent Indira from office for a term and set back any idea of family 23 planning as a necessary program. It took some time before she was able to o... ... been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced th... ...his world so that they could unite with God. And you 50 know that our Roman Catholic priesthood is celibate, as are our nuns and brothers. So the... ...hey will have to rely on their children for their old age care—just as our ancient traditions required. ―Factories have also been set up for t... ...mocracy. ―You have loud authoritative voices claiming the truth of ancient religious myths of an ancient illiterate people over the findings ...

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... closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's re... ...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...uggernaut without precedent. Though history rarely repeats itself in details - both Ancient Rome and Byzantium hold relevant - albeit very limited -... ...nd religion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their condu... ...uired wealth rather than one's arbitrary birth determined one's place in life. The Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the U... ...lic was mourned only by the discarded ancien regime and by intellectuals. Rome the city-state was no more. It has matured into an Empire. And now, ... ...ld come true. On May 29, 1453 Turkish soldiers forced their way into the shattered city. Most of the commanders (among them Venetians and Genoese) ... ...it was nothing special when they took over Kandahar in 1994. Kandahar was a Pashtun city and the strict interpretation of Islam the Taliban propoun... ...istan's own international status. Afghanistan is an historical buffer zone in the ancient Great Game of Central Eurasia. It is the gateway through...

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... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...torical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then with ancient historical documents we have to be concerned with the biases of th... ...cism is also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to whic... ...on that there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun ... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...fferent from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple theistic gods. So p... ...istan might come out as best. If it is Catholic then the God-based Vatican City might come out on top. -- ―I see another problem. When a l... ...es. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health care and furlough employees. ... ...‖ ---―Right. I think it is more likely that God was upset with the city because its professional football team was called the Saints. And the...