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...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...
...angels, the star, even the wise men. As recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the only one to mention them, the Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even in that guise, some critics suggest, their existence is questionable, possibly merely a preaching device used by the evangelist to suggest the import and universality of the astonishing event: God become man. --TIME...
...Latvia, as well as about 1,200 from countries in Central America. The Multinational Division Central South will control - nominally, at least - 80,000 sq km and 3 million people in south-central Iraq. Will the force make a difference? The Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza called it "Babel in Babylon." Common military doctrine, equipment, even a shared language in this disparate "coalition of the willing" won't be possible. The numbers are a drop in the bucket compared to the 150,000 troops already deployed by the Americans, and don't pack the wallop of the 10,500 British troops...
...want McDonald's to serve escargots. We just want it to let us live vicariously the lives of wealthy people while also looking down on them. A decade ago, Beverly Hills, 90210 flattered heartland viewers by testing the Midwestern values of the transplanted Walsh family in BMW-and-bulimia Babylon. The O.C.'s outsider premise is both older and more radical: when a poor kid in trouble moves to a pampered enclave, who will corrupt whom...