Frustrated by his abandonment, Mardonius burned Athena, he continued to conquer the Plataea region, making the people here pray for the Spartans. The Spartans accepted the invitation and sent the general Pausanias to bring the most elite warriors of Sparta to fight. In the battle of Plataea, thanks to his superior combat skills and weapons, […]
Extant bears are found in sixty countries primary in the Northern Hemisphere and are concentrated in Asia, North America, and Europe. An exception is the spectacled bear; native to South America, it inhabits the Andean region. The sun bear’s range extends below the equator in Southeast Asia. The Atlas bear, a subspecies of the brown […]
The contemporary world in which Jesus lived is always volatile, marked by successive cultural and political standoffs. Culturally, for the Jews were grappled with the philosophy and values of Greek civilization and with the intrinsic contradiction of the Torah, for while the Torah revealed truths of value to the whole. For the human kind, its […]
A legal guardian is a person who has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to care for the personal and property interests of another person, called a ward. Guardians are typically used in three situations: guardianship for an incapacitated senior (due to old age or infirmity), guardianship for a minor, and guardianship for developmentally […]
Provided that road safety is not jeopardised, and to enable a driver to reach a suitable stopping place, a departure from the EU rules may be permitted to the extent necessary to ensure the safety of persons, the vehicle or its load. Drivers must note all the reasons for doing so on the back of […]
Both types of extant tree sloth tend to occupy the same forests; in most areas, a particular species of the somewhat smaller and generally slower-moving three-toed sloth (Bradypus) and a single species of the two-toed type will jointly predominate. Based on morphological comparisons, it was thought the two-toed sloths nested phylogenetically within one of the […]
Another common chicken variant of South American origin is called the Araucana chicken, raised by the Mapuche people in southern Chile. Araucana spawns eggs that are blue and green in color. It has long been thought that araucana existed in South America before the Spaniards brought European chickens to the continent, and that araucana is […]
A jenny is normally pregnant for about 12 months, though the gestation period varies from 11 to 14 months, and usually gives birth to a single foal. Births of twins are rare, though less so than in horses. About 1.7 percent of donkey pregnancies result in twins; both foals survive in about 14 percent of […]
It is believed that Ethiopia’s Kaffa province is the original land of the coffee tree. From the 9th century people have been talking about this plant here. In the 14th century slave traders brought coffee from Ethiopia to the Arab region. But it was not until the mid-15th century that it was known to roast […]
When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. It was a memorable day when one of the most respected hardware gurus explained to everyone in […]