“Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.”--Jefferson
At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeated a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Cordoba, was killed in the fighting, and the Moors retreated from Gaul, never to return in such force. Martel solidified his position as leader of the Carolingians. His son Pepin became the first Carolingian king of the Franks, and his grandson was Charlemagne.
In the Old Testament, the law allowed for men to divorce their wives because of infertility. Women could not divorce men. I guess the cause was assumed to be female. Homunculus?
At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeated a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Cordoba, was killed in the fighting, and the Moors retreated from Gaul, never to return in such force. Martel solidified his position as leader of the Carolingians. His son Pepin became the first Carolingian king of the Franks, and his grandson was Charlemagne.
In the Old Testament, the law allowed for men to divorce their wives because of infertility. Women could not divorce men. I guess the cause was assumed to be female. Homunculus?
Carlo Gesualdo da Venose, the Prince of Venosa, was an Italian nobleman and composer in the 16th century. He is famous not only for the haunting madrigals he composed, but the vicious murder of his wife, Maria d'Avalos, and her lover, Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria. Gesualdo suspected the lovers and laid a trap for them. The story is filled with gory descriptions and of Gesualdo's exit from the bedchambers, his hands covered with blood, only to return a second time to stab his wife, muttering, 'I believe she may not yet be dead.'
Gesualdo was never punished. Women in late-Renaissance Italy were not allowed amorous dalliances. Spanish convention, which would have included Naples, inclined to the killing of both the adulteress and her lover, the northern Italian tradition to killing only the wife.
Ah, tradition.
Ah, tradition.
The Supreme Court--hardly a conservative group--has unanimously voted against thirteen constitutional positions taken by the Obama/Holder administration.
During the 1944 Warsaw uprising, Stalin ordered the advancing Red Army to stop at the outskirts of the city while the Nazis, for 63 days, annihilated the non-Communist Polish partisans. Only then did Stalin take Warsaw. In a similar way, Turkey is watching as the heroic Islamic State exterminates the Kurds nearby. Turkey hopes to dominate the Middle East and is Sunni. So is the heroic Islamic State. While they might be the Mother of All Loose Cannons, they do hate the same people the Turks hate. Soooo......
Who was...Elmira Shelton?
Light pillar: When light, either natural or man-made comes in to contact with the facets of ice crystals in the air (usually close to the ground) it will bounce. When the source of light is close to or on the ground the light pillar will appear above the floating crystals.
Artemisia was the 5th century BCE Queen of Halicarnassus, a kingdom that would be located in modern-day Turkey. However, she was best known as a naval commander and ally of Xerxes, the King of Persia, in his invasion of the Greek city-states, like the movie 300: Rise of an Empire. She made her mark on history in the Battle of Salamis, where the fleet she commanded was deemed the best against the Greeks. Greek historian Herodotus wrote of her heroics, painting her as a warrior who was decisive and incredibly intelligent in her strategies. This included a ruthless sense of self-preservation. With a Greek vessel bearing down on her ship, Artemisia intentionally steered into another Persian vessel to trick the Greeks into believing she was one of them. It worked. The Greeks left her be. The Persian ship sank. Watching from the shore, Xerxes saw the collision and believed Artemisia had sunk a Greek enemy, not one of his own. So the Greeks and the Persians were both wrong. Symmetry.
The federal government recently began its seventh year of considering whether to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The federal government recently began its seventh year of considering whether to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
In The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo, in 1814 Napoleon was on the run. The advancing coalition troops, led by the Russians, captured Reims, the French briefly recaptured it, and then it fell again to the Russians in the days before Napoleon's surrender. Both Russian and French troops celebrated their respective victories with a little-known local drink called Champagne. Thus began the ascent of Champagne to the world famous drink of celebration we know today.
Dr. Brantly first felt ill with Ebola July 23 but tested negative. Despite that negative result, he was placed into isolation.
Dr. Brantly first felt ill with Ebola July 23 but tested negative. Despite that negative result, he was placed into isolation.
Contumely: a noun that looks like an adverb. Rudeness whose roots are in arrogance; an arrogant remark or action. From Middle English contumelie via Old French from Latin contumelia "abuse, insult, affront," a variant of contumia. Probably related to tumere "swell up; become excited, violent"
2.5 million French live abroad a French parliamentary commission of inquiry has found, according to Le Figaro. Hélène Charveriat, the delegate-general of the Union of French Citizens Abroad told The Independent that while the figure of 2.5 million expatriates is “not enormous”, what is more troubling is the increase of about 2 per cent each year. Luc Chatel, secretary general of the UMP, who chaired the commission. said there is “an anti-work mentality, absurd fiscal pressure, a lack of promotion prospects, and the burden of debt hanging over future generations.”
Only four people have seen the FIFA investigative report into the winning bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. (NY Times)
Against the Ducks, Penguins attempted to pass the puck in the defensive zone to another player in the defensive zone 71 times after gaining possession of the puck. Only 17 times did the puck result in a lost possession for a 76% success rate on the first pass. By comparison, Penguins attempted just 22 passes from the defensive zone to another player in the neutral zone, 14 (63%) were successful.
Against the Ducks, Penguins attempted to pass the puck in the defensive zone to another player in the defensive zone 71 times after gaining possession of the puck. Only 17 times did the puck result in a lost possession for a 76% success rate on the first pass. By comparison, Penguins attempted just 22 passes from the defensive zone to another player in the neutral zone, 14 (63%) were successful.
Golden oldie:
Only 27 per cent of Americans believing that “things in the United States are heading in the right direction” according to a CBS/New York Times poll this week.
Though many Burmese initially fought on the side of the invading Japanese army, the vast majority switched allegiance by 1945; and it was in the aftermath of the war that Aung San negotiated the Panglong Agreement, which guaranteed the country’s independence and firmly established him as the father of modern Burma.
Aung San was assassinated by political rivals six months before his dream of an independent Burma was finally realized.
AAAAAAaaaaannnnnddddd .....light pillars:
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