One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.
It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
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.
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
While every major language has a word for violence, there is no word to express the idea of nonviolence
The story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.
The longer wars last, the less popular they become.
Nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.
What stronger denunciation of an agrarian society than the charge of bestiality? Even in modern times, when Basque peasants engage in the duel by insults known as xikito, the accusation of bestiality...
There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even tacitly take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the g...
The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara and Thebes were taken from tombs and brought to...
The adversary must first be made into a demon before people will accept the war. This was why during the Cold War, the U.S. government became infuriated at any
Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.
Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
La no violencia, exactamente igual que la violencia, es una forma de persuadir, una técnica para el activismo político, un sistema para prevalecer. La
Ketchup became a tomato sauce, originally called tomato ketchup in America, which is appropriate since the tomato is an American plant, brought to Europe by Hernán Cortés, embraced in the Mediterranea...
It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.
It turned out that salt was a microcosm for one of the oldest concepts of nature and the order of the universe. From the fourth-century-B.C. Chinese belief in the forces of yin and yang, to most of th...
It had all been predicted in Herzl’s 1902 novel, Old New Land, in which he imagines visiting the new Jewish state in 1923 and finding the Jews not only exploiting the Dead Sea’s mineral wealth but mak...