They came. They campted. They moved on.
All in History
Nature's schedule, whether fury or calm, cannot be managed by any amount of human tinkering - no matter how much effort the faithful put into trying.
According to Kundera, it started in London then spread to Paris, then on to Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade, and Istanbul.
Kundera thought it odd that an entire species would desert the natural word for the unnatural world.
The Maid of Orleans is probably better known by the anglicized version of her name: Joan of Arc.
The Maccabees influenced in ways known - and in some ways beyond our knowing.
The method used to spin history in Nero’s time was the same as it is now: Tell the truth, but put the emphasis on the parts you want remembered; push the parts you don’t want remembered to marginal status.
Cinema has a thousand fathers, all of them labored at nearly the same time to create the illusion of pictures moving. Innovators in England, France, Germany, and America all contributed significantly to the history of cinema.
When the winds blows wet and warm. When gray winter retreats from blooming green becoming. When new leaves dance like dyads in the rain. When the passion of the equinox stirs the blood and the sap begins to rise, so then does Dionysus, the god of all that is wet and glistening.
There are two inscriptions on the walls of the Temple at Delphi: Know Thyself; and Nothing in Excess. They were inscribed there some twenty-five hundred years ago. These two aphorisms were wise then. They remain so today.
Alchemists struggled for centuries
to turn base metals into gold.
They famously failed. It can’t be done.
Gold only forms when stars explode.
A lot of folks visit Niagara Falls, including me. I went in the mid-sixties. Little did I know that a distinguished Egyptian Pharaoh was there as well.
Antwerp, Netherlands, 1560 – Ludovico Guicciardini sets pen to paper and reflects on the rapid growth of his city in recent years. He finds much to be pleased with. The city is richer and more populous than ever before. Traders of all sorts are flocking to the expanding market at Antwerp.
“Is it true”, asked Ailil of Medb, “that all is well for the wife of a wealthy man”? Medb snaps back,“What puts this foolish question in your head”?
My first notice of Achilles came
when I was very young. I had only to reach behind my head to the bookcase that also served as headboard. The encyclopedia’s of Funk & Wagnalls stretched the length of the shelf
Martha Jane Canary got her handle, Calamity Jane, because a lot of folks said, “ You get crossways of Martha Jane, you’re courtin’ calamity”.
Once every seventeen years the air
is filled with a cacophony of click-clacking buzzing that seems to be vibrating everywhere at once.