TimaeusBy Plato Written 360 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett Persons of the Dialogue-SOCRATES- CRITIAS- TIMAEUS- HERMOCRATES Socrates. One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day? Timaeus. He...
http://www.visitashbourne.co.uk/ashbourne-royal-shrovetide-football/ There are plenty of sports out there, and plenty of weird sports at that; Aussie Rules Football for instance, or boot tossing. However, there are none in the world as bizarre, as unhinged and downright potty as the ten sports...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
Pumpernickel bread is a kind of German bread that is already being made way back in the 1450s. Pumpernickel bread possesses a dark color, almost no crust and taste that is reminiscent of rye. The traditional way of making this kind of bread is by combining both coarse and fine rye flour and then...
Heed my warning, if you don’t one day you will hear, “I get picked on at school, I have no friends, others won’t date me, and I can’t wait until I turn 18 so I can change my name! I hate you dad!” There are essentially two different avenues that you can pursue when choosing a name for a baby....
Paul of TarsusSaul of Tarsus, a.k.a. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus [?-65 c.e.] was a Hellenistic Jew and student of Gamaliel the Elder who served as enforcer for the Pharisaic Sanhedrin against the apostate Christian sect following the crucifixion of Jesus. Around 33 c.e. he experienced a dramatic...
Mark Twain stated in 1890, "you may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopathists [conventional physicians] to destroy it" and his sentiment from hundreds of years ago holds firm in today's medicine given the present health care crisis in the United States and...
The word geisha refers to Japanese women who are very skilled in traditional culture particularly traditional Japanese dance and songs. The word geisha means person of the arts referring to the carefully trained girls in the ancient Kyoto and in many parts of Japan. However, the large concentration...
Hawthorn Fruit is an herb that is actually a genus of the rose family. It can be found in North America, Europe, and East Asia. There are so many – more than a hundred, in fact – species of the Hawthorn Fruit, and they can be used for a variety of medical conditions. Traditional Chinese medicine,...
Dating has evolved from traditional house calls to blind dates, newspaper ads, and now, online dating. Although almost every girl dreams of old-fashioned romance, not everybody has the time (or demographic) to go out on traditional dates. Although convenience gives online dating an edge over the...
