2020年11月8日 · The "smile" seems very unnatural, I think it is an irrational hysterical reaction to the terrible horror these soldiers were subjected over weeks or months. His gaze also shows that the fellow has almost gone mad.

2025年2月24日 · Wealth is the most enduring measure of a person's value in a civilization. The sources of wealth are often different, but the wealthiest people in a civilization always have major influences over it. Today, I list the wealthiest people from …

2025年2月14日 · An article in the Railway Magazine in December 1905 prompted a look at the Manchester and Leeds Railway. For a number of years my parents lived in sheltered housing in Mirfield which is on the line. Looking at the line as it appeared in 1905 and again in the 21st century seemed a worthwhile...

2024年12月17日 · This thread will be about "having several wives" and not about polygamy. It will also be about wives and not mistresses. Today, in many countries, due to the trend of modern world culture "On the equality of the sexes", many people certainly prefer "one wife". In addition, historically in many...

2011年7月8日 · The North Koreans thought he was one of their officers trying to lead them to charge. The Americans thought he was too tall to be Korean. Therefore, both sides let him run right through the middle of a ferocious battle with bullets flying and artillery exploding all around. He made it through without a scratch. Some guy just can't be killed ...

2025年2月3日 · What you say has been consistently rejected and disproven by historians from the 70s on. Henry II was the guy who initiated the crusade tax and also spent very little time in England Why? because England was a largely peaceful and stable part of the Angevin realm during the reigns of both Henry II and Richard which means the presence of a monarch was not required very often.

2025年2月8日 · This guy claims that the fighting was taking place across what is today India and not just in the North, as is commonly believed and that the outbreaks of violence against the British were observed as far south as Tamil Nadu, in the Himalayan region and along the border with Burma, ergo it was in its essence an all-India uprising.

2013年11月10日 · That's a fine question Salah, its something we perhaps don't like to admit This is something even homer understood when composing the Iliad. the warfare he describes is extremely graphic with none of it showing any hope for those who die or that it was for anything worthwhile. yet at the same time he describes what the participants and even the reader feels as well, the adrenaline rush of it ...

2010年2月25日 · During that period, this was not so common, so he was seen as an innovative artist. Mona Lisa is in our space, as though she is in the room with us, and the lighting only accentuates her gaze at the viewer, particularly her smile, which seems at some points there, and at other points to disappear.

2025年1月29日 · Naah. None of those "bad guy sent flying" bits are intended to be taken seriously at all. Although a few naive greenhorn very very naive very very greenhorn novices might have been fooled. But the arm/hand twists and locks might have been real, with some diligent coaching under a real competent master and some choreography.