Margaret Leigh
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Margaret Leigh
It is now clear that when the Mycenaeans took over Crete, probably sometime between 1450 and 1350 BC, as mentioned above, they also took over the international trade routes to Egypt and the Near East. They suddenly became players in the cosmopolitan world—a role that they would continue to exploit for the next several centuries, until the end of
... See moreEric H. Cline • 1177 B.C.
paths should cross at certain times on certain days. That they’d become friends seemed to her both natural and miraculous. From the minute she’d seen him blinking behind the hard dark ranks of Bethesda’s pews, she’d felt he belonged to her: evidently God had ordained the whole business.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Then words emerged among them – words she could hear. < . . . bring heat, bring it up, bubble it up, and store it away, there it goes, keep the heat there, oh, please, how I love to make the tank hot . . . > < . . . will NOT let anyone in, absolutely NO ONE, they CANNOT enter unless they possess KEY, key is VERY IMPORTANT, and I . . . > < . . .
... See moreRobert Jackson Bennett • Foundryside: a dazzling new series from the author of The Divine Cities (The Founders Book 1)
Proto–Indo–European contained a vocabulary related to gift giving and gift taking that is interpreted as referring to potlatch–like feasts meant to build prestige and display wealth. The public performance of praise poetry, animal sacrifices, and the distribution of meat and mead were central elements of the show. Calvert Watkins found a special
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Old age confers anonymity, which makes it the most effective disguise of all.
Tess Gerritsen • The Spy Coast
Well-timed, skilful articulation of observations is the hallmark of the highly accomplished coach. Clumsy, ill-timed interventions can risk the safety, trust and confidence that are so vital to the working alliance.
Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova, David A. Clutterbuck • The Complete Handbook of Coaching
The Proto-Indo-European vocabulary contained a compound word (*weik-potis) that referred to a village chief, an individual who held power within a residential group; another root (*re-) referred to another kind of powerful officer. This second root was later used for king in Italic (rēx), Celtic (rīx), and Old Indic (raj-), but it might originally
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
In death his severed head and arms were displayed on stakes at a place which came to be known as Oswald’s Tree or Oswestry and his skull, a sacred possession of Durham Cathedral, exhibits a sword-cut wide enough to accommodate three fingers. His post-mortem career was as extraordinary as his life and death had been. Many miracles were said to have
... See moreMax Adams • The King in the North
‘Thank you. Have you always been this kind?’ ‘I don’t think so,’ said Ronald, ‘but I can’t remember.’ This was true: life seemed always to have consisted of days meted out in portions of sleep, pain, sleep, the nurses’ arrivals and departures, sleep, pain, sleep.