![]() ![]() At first I did not know what to make of it. I first came across the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity as a PhD student at Cambridge University working one afternoon in the University Library.I will never forget my astonishment as I came upon the story of Perpetua and her fellow martyrs. The following extract describes how he came to write the book after becoming fascinated by the Perpetua story. 978 0 19 977757 0, a new edition and commentary of this remarkable text – an account, told in the first person, of the imprisonment and condemnation of Perpetua, and her slave Felicitas. Professor Heffernan is the author of The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. On completing his Ph.D., Tom was awarded a fellowship by the Medieval Academy of America for the study of Latin palaeography at Harvard University. He is the author of six books. is a study of religious literature and reform in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. He did post doctoral work at Harvard University. ![]() at Cambridge University (1977) and was the recipient of Emmanuel College scholarships while in residence in Cambridge. ![]() cum laude 1968) and New York University (M.A.1971). Professor Heffernan is a native of New York City and studied at Manhattan College (B.A. Heffernan is a member of the Departments of English and Religious Studies and the Program in Medieval Studies. Heffernan holds the Kenneth Curry Professorship at the University of Tennessee. ![]()
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Laura Hillenbrand (born May 15, 1967) is the author of the acclaimed An American Legend, a non-fiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clichés about the color of skin or the choice of foods are, still to this day, floating about in our society. Mirta’s story defies stereotyping, showing that umbrella terms are narrow and “more often than not, label andĬorral people into groups that are simply inaccurate. I couldn’t differentiate betweenĪrgentine customs, Yiddish baba maises (literally grandma stories) or Russian superstitions.” Uncles and cousins, I had a mish-mash of rituals and traditions in my brain. Mirta told me, “As a child, growing up away from my extended family of grandparents, aunts, Mirta becomes fiercely patriotic yet pulled to Argentina. Guided by her extended Argentina and US family, ![]() Historical and she cannot be compartmentalized. In With Love, The Argentina Family, Mirta frequently to visit the Argentina family and her, when her fatherīegins working for Pan Am. Where does she belong? Who is she? Her identity struggles are internal and Not only were we immigrants, but we didn’t quite fit the mold. ![]() ![]() Here at home, I struggled to find myself within the American tapestry. Teachers couldn’t pronounce her name and students couldn’t figure out what group she belonged to. Mirta Ines Trupp searches for family history and her identity in her memoir, With Love, The Argentinaįamily and in her historical fiction, Becoming Malka: the story of a Russian, Argentinian, American and ![]() ![]() King is best known for his iconic, immersive long novels, but he is also a master of the short story, and this is a magnificent collection. “Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. “The Raft”- “Word Processor of the Gods” This “wonderfully gruesome” collection ( The New York Times Book Review) includes: ![]() And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. A woman driving a Jaguar finds a scary shortcut to paradise. 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They can be found most commonly in houses or keeps, but can also be found in some caves. Platters can be found almost anywhere, and despite being only worth five gold, are maybe the most valuable and useful items in the game. This is where 'The Whispering Hillock' begins. But of course, you don't have to.Īs it would turn out, you can get through almost any door, wall or barrier in the game, and all you need is a small platter. After completing the objectives of the quest, Geralt will learn that there is an evil spirit inhabiting a nearby tree. Have you ever found yourself separated from precious loot by some stupid door that can't be opened until later, or without first fighting through some incredibly creepy dungeon in Skyrim? You could play the game properly and attain the loot on the other side in the way that the developers intended, by getting the key or finding an alternative way inside, and you probably should do that on your first playthrough. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hyperbole and a Half is Allie Brosh's first book. So there's really a lot of work that goes into "perfecting" this crudeness. a millimeter to either side can make such a gigantic difference in a facial expression, or shaving a tiny bit off the corner of the line of the mouth. There's a huge difference between drawing the pupil a slightly different size. Really, a lot of time goes into this crudeness. It's funny people often give me a hard time about how crude and simplistic my art style is. So it's more of a raw representation of what it feels like to be me. I am this crude absurd little thing, this squiggly little thing on the inside. It's a better tool for communicating my sense of humor and actually getting across what I'm trying to say than, say, being there in the flesh. The reason I draw myself this way is that I feel that this absurd squiggly thing is actually a much more accurate representation of myself than I am. ![]() It's a strange sort of animal-like creature. I've got these buggy eyes, I've got a sort of tube body and a little triangle ponytail thing on the top of my head. I draw myself with very crude illustrations in a program called Paintbrush. ![]() ![]() ![]() I Am Enough by Darnell Peters (Christian pop):.All Kinds of Kinds by Miranda Lambert (country):.Sing a Song performed by Earth, Wind & Fire (rock/pop):.Free to Be Me by Francesca Battistelli (Christian/pop):.This Is Me from The Greatest Showman (musical anthem):.Come and Get Your Love by Redbone (rock with Native American roots):.Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God’s own. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name. We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. We know what we are, but not what we may be. ![]() ![]() ![]() This led to Gibbon being called the first "modern historian of ancient Rome". Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, unusual at the time, its methodology became a model for later historians. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West. The original volumes were published in quarto sections, a common publishing practice of the time. Spanning a period of nearly 1500 years, this monumental work of history tracks the orbit of one of the greatest Empires of all time. 'The great English historian that wrote the superb work of genius: ‘The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire'. ![]() Volumes II and III were published in 1781 volumes IV, V, and VI in 1788–89. Original post by Celtic Mathemagician (Telegram) Happy birthday Edward Gibbon. ![]() Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. ![]() The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (sometimes shortened to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) is a book of history written by the English historian Edward Gibbon, which traces the trajectory of Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. ![]() ![]() ![]() We could easily have populated the entire list with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen songs, so many of which touch on Jewishness that entire books have been written about them, so we tried to limit those entries in the spirit of inclusiveness. We then culled the replies down to a somewhat manageable list of 150, with annotations and links. We got back from them an astonishing list of 300 songs in all, as diverse as the contributors themselves, not all of whom are Jewish – at least we don’t think so we didn’t ask. We then sent out invitations to a couple dozen writers, musicians, and writer/musicians, asking them to share their lists and thoughts about their favorite rock songs that address Jewish culture, ideas, themes, history, or religion. You can find the whole list and accompanying essays here.Īfter Rolling Stone magazine published its list of the 500 Greatest Albums last September, we started asking ourselves what are the greatest Jewish songs of the rock era? We began drawing up lists of our own, but soon realized that were we to be serious about it, this was a task that required input from a larger cohort. ![]() Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, along came Dutch prime minister Kok who, at his closing press conference, undid our efforts by saying M áastricht, with main stress on the initial syllable. ![]() I explained that it is Maastr ícht, with main stress on the second syllable, and this was duly incorporated into the BBC's Pronunciation Guidelines. They wanted to know how to instruct their newsreaders on the proper way of saying 'Maastricht' in Dutch. In 1992, in the run-up to the Maastricht Treaty, I was contacted at UCL by the BBC's Pronunciation Unit. ![]() In his contribution, Professor Reinier Salverda of University College London (UCL) zooms in on the big and often funny impact that interaction has on each other's language. Last year, the Anglo-Netherlands Society of London, to mark its centenary, published North Sea Neighbours, a collection of wide-ranging essays on important aspects of Dutch-British interaction across the sea. ![]() |