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...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 their blood was collected in bowls and their limbs eaten. The Aztecs also offered up their own blood by painfully mutilating their tongues, ears, legs and penises. Even their games were lethal. In one, players tried to move stone balls in the direction they thought the sun was heading. The player...
...What's startling is the sheer variety of workmanship, from the spiral stone carvings of the chambered mounds of County Meath in Ireland, to the huge mortice - and - tenoned pedestals of the island of Menorca. The Scandinavians stood their stones in boat formation; the Portuguese shaped them like eggs. What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent...
Despite Fox25’s harrowing footage of two women fighting, the random destruction of a Sovereign Bank sign in Kendall Square, and a man fleeing, resisting arrest, there is some objectively poetic beauty in such a win. There is something that you yourself acknowledge in the sheer improbability of the Red Sox beating the Yankees. There is something about sports enthusiasm coming to Harvard, albeit in the worst...
...Sullivan), decide to probe what potential their creation might have: They explore the commercial possibilities of time-travel for a few hours each day, encounter dreadful mishaps in a Scooby Doo-esque fashion and finally, things end quite badly, with the audience, plot and characters in a state of sheer confusion. If Carruth proves anything with his film, it is that sci-fi movies dealing with the tenuous nature of the time-continuum need Christopher Lloyd...
...sheer poetry and perfection of it all, that produced the most improbable of results...