Several times, I’ve mention the Thinker of Cernavoda, a small, seven-thousand-year-old terracotta statue that is without a doubt my favorite work of art, and for largely the same reason I also love this piece, the […]
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Weights and Measures
From our throne here at the pinnacle of the present, the reforms of the past seem rather quaint. We read in grade school history textbooks, for example, that it was quite an achievement for Hammurabi, […]
(Curiosity) Not Right
Ne Fas Day From the Latin ne meaning not, and fas, which is more difficult to translate since there isn’t an English cognate. Roman society, like all classical societies — including those that still exist […]
(Music) Ambush from Ten Sides
One single ethnic group constitutes fully 18% of the entire human species. At 1.3 billion in number, Han Chinese are the largest “tribe” in the world. There is simply nothing analogous to them in the […]
