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20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 4 comments AliGul88
♦ Travel is not my passion put I love it in my early life I didn't travel more because of my family restrictions but as I started my bachelor life I also started travel and explor of things.during the winter vacations I travel towards the fort of U...
18 Aug 2020 3 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
An author colleague today was musing about the use of 'basic' to mean "I don't really like it, but I don't really want to think about it." and she compared it to the older 'decent'. This led me to think of the way we now use 'fine' and how difficult...
17 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Gonso perez
On the beaches of San Bernardo del viento, a magical place where you sleep on impaled bamboo pallets facing the sea, I found an incredible diving dog, it was the most daring dog I ever thought I would meet. He spent all day in the water. When the fis...
17 Aug 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Cordelia L Rochie
Cinderella The story of Cinderella we hear today (tortured by her stepmother, riding on a pumpkin wagon, leaving behind her glass shoes) is a version of Charles Perrault that has been "beautified" as well as slightly censored (including removing the...
16 Aug 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Cordelia L Rochie
You are guaranteed not to think that "Sleeping Beauty" was inspired by an ancient Viking fairy tale entitled "Brynhlild" which was inspired by a historical figure named Princess Brunhilda who lived in the sixth century. Once upon a time, a valkyrie n...
10 Aug 2020 3 minute read 2 comments YoungMan
Perpetua et firma libertas This was Cospaia's motto. A land where there was no taxation, no monopoly over the use of force, and a strong community supporting it's astounding development, which had the tobacco business as their greatest ally as the n...
10 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." "Once I had the strength but no wisdom.Now I have the wisdom but no strength." "Don't cut down the tree which gives you shade." "It takes 10 pounds of common sense to carry 1 pound of learning.1 pou...
9 Aug 2020 11 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Founder of a new dynasty, Cyrus's conquests had proven to be rapid, taking out the Medean and Lydian Empires within the span of a few years. His next target would be perhaps the richest and most prestigious city of the east - Babylon - and his ambiti...
6 Aug 2020 18 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked
Cyrus was born into royalty in c.590 BC. When his father Cambyses I died, Cyrus, now Cyrus II, took over as ruler of the Achaemenid dynasty in 559 BC, expanding his territory further than ever before. Not just a conqueror, Cyrus showed great mercy an...
6 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SmileToBeFree
In the third of a series of short articles and accompanying mobile documentaries, I hope to introduce you all to some of the historical facts and historical fictions, interwoven into the hidden gem that is the Dolaucothi Gold Mines. Since 1941 the Do...
