Ellatzbaas launched his invasion from Ethiopia
Then Ellatzbaas launched his invasion from Ethiopia, beginning with a solemn Mass in Axum cathedral, followed by the blessing of a fleet of seventy...
Neither Cosmas nor his contemporaries
Neither Cosmas nor his contemporaries would have spoken of the Roman empire as a free-trade zone, or praised the blessings of a single currency...
Science measures boldly the unimaginably large
Small wonder that they understood their world so poorly. Small wonder as well that even when we know better in principle and when we...
Unscholarly duties as provost of a great university
I have meditated and written this book in some unusual places, on travels to every continent save one, in the intermissions of my unscholarly...
A single piece of gleaming white marble
The throne was cut from a single piece of gleaming white marble. The visitors were surprised to see this, because they knew of such...
An American soldier posted in Anbar
An American soldier posted in Anbar province during the twilight war over the remains of Saddam’s Mesopotamian kingdom might have been surprised to learn...
