One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.
Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer
New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too...
In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated.Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt...
The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but
And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.
Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou
A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.
The poor were duped into fighting to defend the privileges of the rich.
Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.
It was said that in the markets to the south of Taghaza salt was exchanged for its weight in gold, which was an exaggeration. The misconception comes from the West African style of silent barter noted...
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND QUENTIN FIORE, The Medium Is the Massage, 196...
For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings because they came from the east, a...
Baby formula contains three salts: magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, and sodium chloride.
At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression worth his salt or earning his salt. In fact, the Latin word sal became the French word solde, meani...
General Motors, ITT, and Ford come most readily to mind as having plants protected by Hitler,
At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.
The hams of Westphalia, which were dried, salted, and then smoked with unique local woods—a recipe still followed today in Westphalia—were very popular with Romans.
Anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. The