Word: barbarianism
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...half expected to be attacked by a barbarian horde bearing pikes and torches on Monday, when we increased the number of bonus armies a team receives for successfully controlling an entire region of the map. The reaction was fast and quite furious. “REPLAY LAST ROUND!” one player exclaimed. “What a douchy rule,” another hissed. “I’m continually amazed at what some of the smartest students in the world can screw...
...chemically analyzing the sand of the previously excavated burial site, Carver said he and his team were able to produce a more detailed picture of Sutton Hoo’s original layout, even inferring the number of daggers on the king’s corpse. “The barbarian as unsophisticated was giving way to barbarian as sophisticated,” Carver said. Carver said that it is now crucial to expose the findings to the “criticism of anthropologists.” “We have not begun to try to understand the minds...
...Moscow. Klebnikov, the chief editor of Forbes' Russian edition, was shot dead as he left his Moscow office in July 2004. The prosecution had alleged that the two Chechens killed the editor on orders from Chechen separatist Kozh-Akhmed Nukhayev, the subject of Klebnikov's book Conversations with a Barbarian...
...Somehow, I doubt that the Academy is interested in avoiding controversy in this category. They’ve chosen euthanasia-friendly fare two years in a row, with 2004’s “The Sea Inside” and 2003’s “The Barbarian Invasions.” But I think they will turn down “Paradise Now” in favor of South Africa’s “Tsotsi,” which has just enough exotic feel-goodery to make voters feel pleased with themselves...
...through several short-lived kingdoms up to the Tang dynasty (618 A.D. to 907 A.D.). Some of these pieces are not much better than those found today in the backrooms of dealers on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road. Still, there are some truly remarkable treasures on show, like the Barbarian with Horn, a large sancai (three-color) glazed terra-cotta sculpture of an elaborately dressed man with bulging eyes, a handlebar moustache and full beard. Obviously he is not Han Chinese, and that's what makes figures from the vibrant Tang dynasty so interesting. During this period, trade along...