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...various weekend jaunts around the country and into the European continent. Although the two of us were fairly willing travelers, especially for the more exotic trips, we often complained that we were forced to relinquish our precious weekend sleep week after week to see one more medieval this or ancient that...
...first and second centuries B.C., wine from the Greek island of Kos was the toast of the Mediterranean. Famed for its medicinal qualities, this sun-blessed nectar was enjoyed across the ancient world and even reached the western coast of India...
...unpredictable. It "has worked silently for millennia without being given a name," writes the author, a former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review now at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. And it moves through "a multitude of threads connecting us to faraway places from an ancient time." As proof, he has his DNA tested and learns that his distant forebears arrived in the Indian subcontinent by way of Africa...
...contrived, elucidative or banal, but they mostly entertain in the way that popular history can. For example, he writes that today's sprawling multinational corporations are modeled on the crown-backed trading houses of England, Portugal and Holland, whose empires themselves followed a continuum stretching back to the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia. He contends that the silver and gold bullion mined in Mexico and Peru and shipped across oceans in galleons by the conquering Spanish preceded the convertible currencies and credit cards that now keep the world's economy ticking. NGOs like Human Rights Watch, defending the rights of Latino...
Surrounded by over 180,000 Palestinians, the hundreds of Israeli settlers in the ancient city of Hebron are always braced for a siege. On Tuesday, however, their adversaries were not angry Palestinians but the very same Israeli police and security forces that usually protect the settlers...