Researchers from Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast have identified and defined 500 lost Irish words and unlocked the secrets of many other misunderstood terms. Their findings can now be freely accessed in the revised version of the online dictionary of Medieval Irish. If you were choosing where to live in medieval Ireland, you might insist ...
Once the apostle Paul enlightened to who Jesus was, he lived the life of a hermit in the wilderness of Arabia, where he received a revelation from Heaven. When he returned to society, he had discarded his arrogance and selfishness and no longer acted as he pleased. He knew that all things occurred according to ...
The apostle Paul spent his early life working to arrest Jesus’ followers, jailing them and attempting to force them to turn against Jesus. But one incident changed him, altering his path in life completely. He went on to become an evangelist for Jesus, writing much of the New Testament. His story shows that no matter ...
Accounts of the early settlers of America often tend to evoke fascination among history buffs. The Pioneers, a book written by popular historian and author David McCullough, explores the lives of people who became some of the first settlers in the region that is now Ohio. The book McCullough presents the book as a story ...
Stone tools uncovered in Mongolia by an international team of archaeologists indicate that modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. The date is about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously believed that humans migrated to Mongolia. The site also points to a ...
Between 1979 and 2015, the Chinese government imposed a strict one-child policy in the country in a bid to control population growth. One would assume that this was limited to pregnancies. But the harsh and unnatural rule extended to babies already born who ended up being massacred. The policy According to the policy, citizens could ...
Humans in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead, they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale Mountains. There, they had enough water, built tools out of obsidian, and relied mainly on giant rodents for nourishment. This discovery was made by an international team of researchers led by Martin ...
A group of figurines discovered in the 19th century is now the subject of deep interest. Researchers in Puerto Rico who studied the stone figures claim that it has carvings of a mystery language that points to a lost civilization. Lost civilization of Puerto Rico In the 1800s, a monk named José Maria Nazario discovered ...
A few years back, Frankfurt in East Germany was a quiet little town with little to no foreigners. Thus. immigration was not an issue. After Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to allow refugees to come into the country in 2015, the city saw a massive influx of migrants. Today, the natives of Frankfurt and the new ...
In 1838 during the Qing Dynasty, Wu Qi (Wu Xun) was born in Liulin Township, Shandong Province, China. Wu Qi showed a strong interest in reading from early childhood. However, the family was too poor to buy his books. At the age of eight, his father died and the family became even poorer. After his ...
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