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...starters, I'm not. I'm just plain middle class, but I talk as if my family live in a stately home and don't have to work. My ancestors were mainly teachers, vicars, profs and bishops - careers which might require a top-of-the-range voice. That may explain why I speak a distinctly upmarket version of received pronunciation (RP) - shorthand for the standard English of bbc newsreaders. Which is fine if you want to marry a landowner or work in a top art auction house, but not so much fun if you just want to fade into...
...That might explain an understandable apprehension about similar conversions on a mass scale, if the Ottomans took Constantinople. But if so, it turned out to be unwarranted. When the city finally fell, says Barber, the Muslims eliminated the political structure but kept the church up and running, using the Eastern Orthodox patriarch as spokesman for the Christian peoples within their own empire...
...near Ankara - by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both. It was presumably the emperor himself who set down this dialogue, during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402; and this would explain why his arguments are given in greater detail than those of his Persian interlocutor. The dialogue ranges widely over the structures of faith contained in the Bible and in the Qur'an, and deals especially with the image of God and of man, while necessarily returning repeatedly to the relationship...
...calculations always overshoot the actual value. For decades, the issue of how such a finely-tuned constant could exist has puzzled top scholars. “If any constants of nature were a tiny bit different it would totally disturb the universe,” Arkani-Hamed explained. The theory of multiverses posits that there are many universes with different sets of natural laws—and cosmological constants. Some universes have tiny constants, while others have large constants corresponding to accelerating forces that result in uninhabitable, instable universes. Arkani-Hamed said that different multiverses might have different, randomly...
...alums with “non-linear” trajectories might find it harder to encapsulate their experiences with the answer choices and allowed two free-form answers to “capture everyone.” Jessica S. Banthin ’81 used the qualitative space to explain her “subtle trade-off” when settling into a “quiet career” with more flexibility because she wanted to spend time with her children. As a division director in the Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Banthin said she holds...