Softness overcomes hardness.
Nuclear deterrents.
The Phoenicians are also credited with the first alphabet. Chinese and Egyptian languages used pictographs, drawings depicting objects or concepts. Babylonian, which became the international language...
Romans often took family names from agriculture, Cato
Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.
Cathars
The Poor Men of Lyons,
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen...
The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.
The most famous ice cream shop in Italy, and now the oldest continuously operated café in the world, was Florian in Piazza San Marco in Venice. It was opened in 1720.
Saracens
Hamdanid
Even the name, Celt, is not from their own Indo-European language but from Greek. Keltoi, the name given to them by Greek historians, among them Herodotus, means one who lives in hiding or under cover...
I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye
The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power. Julius
Garrison
Modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.
The name potash is derived from the process used for making potassium carbonate, cooking down water and wood ash in earthen pots.
The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride.
Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.