Word: collectedness
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For sheer barbaric brutality, it was hard to beat the Aztecs. They believed their gods required human blood and hearts as sustenance, and they faithfully delivered. Sacrificial victims--often captured enemy warriors--were spread-eagled before temples, and their hearts, still beating, were cut out with flint knives, after which...
There are startling images of Field’s makeshift lab on the Marshlands, taking measurements and physical samples. Overall, Field collected 221 profiles of men, describing their physical characteristics and recording anthropological measurements (dimensions of the body, facial and skill ratios) in statistical tables.
A Phoenix foundation called the People's Choice for President went looking for a state where the rules could be changed by ballot initiative. In Colorado, case law has established that such initiatives are the equivalent of legislative acts. The foundation teamed up with reform-minded Coloradans, who started a...
Easier said than done. “Over a period of about 40 years, the Grimms collected not one but several versions of their stories,” Tatar explains. They often conflated them, resulting in a style that is “raw, fairly coarse and conversational,?...
Earlier, senior forward Alisha Moran displayed her uncanny nose for the ball when she collected the rebound of her initial shot from a group of players and slid the ball into the goal to erase an early Big Red lead.