2014年3月26日 · "The Fisherman and the Jinni" has a genie/jinn bound in a jar. When the jar is opened the genie comes out in a plume of smoke. This is not that different from the tale of the lamp, so I think the concept of a genie bound to a household container has a basis in Arabic myth. –

Let me recommend Mark Kurlansky's "1968". If I correctly summarize Kurlansky's discussion, it would be due to the turmoil left in the wake of World War 2, the end of colonialism, that produced a longing for freedom and rejection of the establishment blamed for causing the WW 1, WW 2 and the existing cold war of that time.

6 天之前 · The dashboard of a car takes its name from the eponymous piece of wood on a stagecoach; the same concept eventually gave its name to a software design pattern showing a row of data readouts.

In the Great Gatsby, in Chapter 9 Fitzgerald writes that Nick visited Meyer Wolfsheim and that he was in an office with a door marked "Swastika Holding Company." The Great Gatsby was written between

2012年5月10日 · According to Google ngrams, the terms started to take off around 1970. Early uses of "dog people" and "dog person" mostly seem to be referring to people who have expertise about dogs (e.g. a 1915 article in Dog Fancier that refers to judging shows by "dog people"), but by the early 1970s the terms are clearly being used mainly to indicate people who just prefer …

2017年3月16日 · Movie where a genie suggests giving everyone a ball Novel title search: Post-apocalyptic science fiction novel about a moonbase sending teams to repopulate an obliterated Earth more hot questions

In Germany, a comprehensive account of winter rapeseed production in the Rhineland area dates from 1570 with the oil being used as a lamp oil, a cheaper alternative to olive oil, and as a cooking fat in “a poor man’s kitchen.”

2021年4月27日 · @DJClayworth Yeah, I read that first bullet, then thought of the 3d printed toy sitting on my desk, the portable phone next to it, the led lamp next to that, the solar panels on the roof above it, the electric car on the other side of the …

2016年4月1日 · Historically, name of a land is typically just a name of people (tribe) who reside there. Like, France is the land of Franks, or Germany is the land of Germans.

The Moors were foot soldiers of the Ummayad dynasties of Syria who crossed the straits of Gibraltar into the Iberian peninsula. Later in that period, two new dynasties emerged: the Almoravids and the