Japanese and Chinese leaders visit opposing capitals in Ukraine war21 March 2023 I read:الجزيرة (Al Jazeera) Babylon BeeBritish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)Chicago Sun TimesChicago TribuneGrand Rapids Pressג’רוזלם פוסט (Jerusalem Post)MLiveNot the […]

“Dead whales are a “really easy” food source for great white sharks, researchers say.” Video shows 2 enormous great white sharks feasting on a dead humpback whale off Cape Cod

On pair of bears enntered Noah’s Art. They are the ancestors of all bears.

I must balter. Can one really find joyfulness without a good balter now and again?

Someone posted this to a list-serve: After noting that James Dobson has begun campaigning for Roy Moore, saying “God has called him to run for the senate,” WIlliam Saletan wrote […]

With key Greek city-states in submission, Philip II turned to Sparta; he sent them a message: “If I win this war, you will be slaves forever.” In another version, he warned: […]

  Map Key/ Legend Many different terms for one thing. Many different things called one term.   What do you call those roads with interchanges, exit ramps, entrance ramps, and […]

“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

raison d’État f (plural raisons d’État) a state interest, especially when invoked as politically superior to moral or even legal considerations La raison d’État constitue l’excuse parfaite pour tout abus politique […]