Word: babylon
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...told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know more about life Down Under? Then you're urged to check out David Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon for a "compelling insight into the dynamics of early-colonial Australia." Stocking fillers have rarely been so free-ranging or informative...
...told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know more about life Down Under? Then you're urged to check out David Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon for a "compelling insight into the dynamics of early-colonial Australia." Stocking fillers have rarely been so free-ranging or informative. The same might be said of the Luxe city guides - the other hot seasonal choice. Billed as "brutally frank and sometimes, frankly, brutal," these slick, concertina booklets offer an arch-insider...
...runs 20 m to the top. Looking up at the wall, it seems the sandstone slabs might topple at any moment. That, indeed, is the fear of Israeli archaeologists. Since Solomon erected his temple on Mount Moriah in 960 B.C., it has been destroyed and sacked by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Syria's Antiochus IV and two Roman Emperors. Each time it rose again, a symbol of the world's monotheistic religions. Now it is menaced by a different destroyer - the hatred between Palestinians and Israelis, for whom the old stones are nationalist territorial markers. Israelis say Palestinian reconstruction work inside...
...between 30 and 40 degrees latitude, ensuring that Silk Road kingdoms from the Mediterranean to China saw the same stars and could benefit from shared observations. Manuscripts depicting the movements of the Moon and planets found in Arabic and Indian astronomy, which had been shaped by the discoveries of Babylon, also show up in Chinese studies of the heavens. A likely product of this cumulative knowledge is an early chart of the night sky found in the Chinese city of Dunhuang in Gansu province. The manuscript, which closely resembles a projection developed eight centuries later by the Flemish cartographer, Gerardus...
...between cultural and political capital—I am sure nobody at the U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization cried as the U.S. Marines toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. Other destruction, such as at the site of the ancient city of Babylon where Iraqi opposition troops were strategically positioned during the invasion, is considered unavoidable collateral damage and is largely overlooked by the international community. Beyond this, however, a line is drawn by the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. According to some...