quote [ Nine hundred years ago, a medieval monk taught children a memory sys...

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quote [ A remote village in north-western China, on the edge of the Gobi desert, is said to have been founded by Roman soldiers. According to this controversial theory, the village of Zhelaizhai in China's Gansu Province was established by Roman legionaries who were captured after a disastrous battle, carried across Central Asia, and eventually settled on the far eastern edge of the known world. ]

quote [ He shows how the trials? consideration of the events leading up to the war and then the war itself became, in effect, a first draft of a contested history: for those who believed Japan to be guilty of terrible crimes [?] and for those who regarded Japan?s actions as forced upon it by Western imperialism. ]

quote [ During the 1944 Cowra breakout, over 900 prisoners attempted to escape from an Allied camp in Australia. The uprising resulted in the deaths of 234 Japanese men and 5 Australians ]

quote [ Christopher Nolan posits the Trojan War as the cause of the Bronze Age Collapse, a spiritual poison that entered the bloodstream of the Achaean people and destroyed them from within. The Trojan Horse, in this telling, is a weapon to break the world, to destroy the bonds of civilization by introducing deceit into a system upheld by honor and trust. ]

quote [ Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the Ars notoria, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it had upon some users. ]

quote [ More than two thousand years before modern engineers bored tunnels beneath rivers and seas, ancient writers told of an astonishing passage hidden beneath the waters of the Euphrates. According to these accounts, a brick-lined tunnel ran beneath the river at Babylon, linking the city's two halves and allowing people to cross unseen below the current. ]

quote [ A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ?the ancient world? ]

quote [ Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future. ]

quote [ Renault designer Michel Boué's Renault 5 ferried millions of urban families through cramped city streets for 40 years. ]