Word: kingdoms
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...maps focuses on the complex networks of patronage and scholarly collaboration that led to their creation. Inevitably, the maps sometimes flatter the rulers for whom they were drawn. The 12th century Moroccan nobleman Al-Idrisi, for example, produced a world map for Roger II of Sicily that swelled his kingdom so that it was approximately half the size of the Iberian Peninsula. Yet Al-Idrisi also achieved a new level of accuracy by integrating the knowledge of Muslim mariners with that of Christian scholars, so that Asia was at last separated from Africa by an island-dotted Indian Ocean...
...university is not a separate kingdom,” Wolf says. “It has to relate to a community and people have to be able to get adequate information to have adequate protection...
King Mswati III of Swaziland has always had extravagant tastes. But as the tiny southern African kingdom sinks deeper into poverty and an AIDS crisis, the latest royal purchases - 10 new BMW X5 4.4i sport-utility vehicles, worth around $800,000, one for each of his 10 official wives - must qualify as a personal best. Africa's last absolute ruler presides over a land where 70% live in destitution and 38.8% are infected with HIV, the world's worst rate. And ordinary Swazis are increasingly fed up with Mswati's gold-plated insensitivity, profligate spending and authoritarian ways, says...
...down in history as one of the pioneers of the now infamous “heavy metal umlaut,” joining the ranks of Motörhead, Assück, Hüsker Dü and Blue Öyster Cult. Yet, all was not well in the kingdom of tough German punctuation; The Crüe era of sex, drugs and little rock and roll came to an end in the early ’90s with the departure of drummer and Playböy sugardaddy Tommy Lee. But the band was so proud of this infusion...
Paul Sassieni, a United Kingdom native with a background in banking and corporate finance, joins Hillel at an “auspicious moment” that has seen an influx of paid professionals into the organization’s leadership and a drastic recent transformation of its board of directors, according to Dr. Bernard Steinberg, President and CEO of Harvard Hillel...