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...
Cherokee faction of fewer than 500 people in a nation of 17,000 who were agreeable to removal.
A form of entertainment that has recently become very popular, particularly in the smaller towns, is the Coca-Cola party. Usually the ladies assemble between eleven and twelve in the morning at the ho...
While every major language has a word for violence, there is no word to express the idea of nonviolence
Nonviolence is more effective than violence, that violence does not work.
Ahimsa, or nonviolence,
The first of the great Roman roads, the Via Salaria, Salt Road, was built to bring this salt not only to Rome but across the interior of the peninsula. This worked well in the Roman part of the Italia...
The Roman army required salt for its soldiers and for its horses and livestock. At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression worth his salt or e...
Segundo’s best friend Silvio traded appliances for clothes, designer clothes—well, not really, but he thought they were—Chinese-made Armani suits and Italian silk shirts from Vietnam, all with designe...
Quakers
One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.
It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.
It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
In 1928, Celulosa Cubana, S.A., founded by sugar tycoon Manuel Rionda, began making bagasse paper in Tuinucu, Cuba.
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.
History teaches over and over again that a conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the a...
Davy’s work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments of promoting not only atheism but the French Revolutio...
According to Seneca, Apicius committed suicide because, having spent one tenth of a considerable fortune on his kitchen, he realized that he could not long continue in the style he had chosen.
A world without fishing would be sad.
The story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.