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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9d37a06 | There're going to be a lot of unexplained scars in the morning. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 42db3c5 | There is far more evil in the world than there are things trying to destroy it. | Eric R. Asher | ||
| 05848c5 | The title 'Lord of All-Rus' did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kyivan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself 'Lord o.. | Norman Davies | ||
| cf2fe60 | NB. Carlos III of Spain, Carlo I of Parma, Carlo VIII of Naples and Carlo V of Sicily were the same man. | Norman Davies | ||
| b0f3359 | By 1939 the Gulag was the largest employer in Europe. | Norman Davies | ||
| cc25633 | Arguably, the only fruit of the Crusades kept by the Christians was the apricot. | Norman Davies | ||
| cd21653 | We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" . . . and the death of post-modernism." -- | Norman Davies | ||
| 9c1b023 | The Muslim Era of Hegira, which marks the flight of the Prophet from Mecca, corresponds to Friday, 16 July AD 622. | Norman Davies | ||
| 20490bd | NOMISMA, MEANING 'COIN', was used by both Greeks and Romans. Our own word 'money' derives, via the French monnaie, from the Latin moneta, meaning the mint, where coins are struck. (In early Rome the mint was situated on the Capitoline Hill in the temple of Juno Moneta.) | Norman Davies | ||
| c9e2d8f | So long as men slaughter animals,' the master said, 'they won't stop killing each other.'1 [KONOPIPTE] | Norman Davies | ||
| 29a87b2 | According to whether one follows St Luke or St Matthew, the Christian Era began either in the last year of Herod the Great (4 BC) or in the year of the first Roman census in Judaea (AD 6-7). | Norman Davies | ||
| f2e423a | All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand. The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human material is atomized and recycled. But if we know where to look, there is always a remnant, a remainder, an irreducible residue. | Norman Davies | ||
| 7c8a763 | wars can be traced to a scuffle between a man and a boy, both of whom summon aid to their respective sides. | Norman Davies | ||
| a847c25 | The debased coinage of his reign bore his initials, ICR: Iohannes Casimirus Rex. These were taken to stand for Initium Calamitatum Reipublicae, the Beginning of the Republic's Catastrophes. | Norman Davies | ||
| 0ac9554 | As from the 1490s, the double-headed eagle began to appear as the symbol of state in Moscow as in Vienna, as indeed in Constantinople. | Norman Davies | ||
| 28d9ee2 | The difference between a referendum and a plebiscite is a fine one. Both pertain to collective decisions made by the direct vote of all qualified adults. The referendum, which derives from Swiss practice, involves an issue that is provisionally determined in advance, but that is then 'referred' for a final decision by the whole electorate. This | Norman Davies | ||
| 9b2e1a9 | Also in 1492, and also for the first time, the 'new Constantinople--Moscow' may have been given its more familiar label of 'the Third Rome'. | Norman Davies | ||
| fd67341 | Grain prices in France, for example, where the supply of coin was relatively scarce, were over seven times higher in 1600 than in 1500. | Norman Davies | ||
| 8308434 | It was at 'The Little Lodge' I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced ... Mrs Everest produced a book called Reading without Tears. It certainly did not justify its title in my case ... [When] the Governess was due to arrive, I did what so many oppressed peoples have done in similar circumstances: I took to the woods. I | Norman Davies | ||
| 24528d2 | The city of Florence stood in the centre of the squalls and sun-shafts of late medieval Italy. Nurtured on the wool of its beautiful Apennine contado, it grew in the thirteenth century into a thriving community of perhaps 100,000 turbulent souls. Its gold coin, the florin, became standard currency far beyond Italy. | Norman Davies | ||
| 92cd2c4 | By the seventeenth century the thaler had become a unit of currency all over central Europe. It had also been copied in Habsburg Spain, whose taleros or 'pieces of eight' circulated throughout the Americas. They were known in English as 'dollars'. | Norman Davies | ||
| e65e44b | Maria Theresa dollar of 1751. | Norman Davies | ||
| 3cedb5a | Extensive coin hoards, two from eighth-century Central Asia, showed that Novgorod's far-flung trading contacts had never been seriously interrupted, even by the Mongol invasions. [DIRHAM] | Norman Davies | ||
| ef61586 | The dirham or dirhem was a coin of pure silver weighing 2.97 grammes, and worth one-tenth of a dinar. It was minted both in North Africa and in Central Asia under various dynasties. It was standard currency in Eastern Europe in the era before local mints existed. Hoards of dirhams have been found all over European Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, the Baltic States, Sweden, and northern Poland. The largest of them contained over 50,000 coins. B.. | Norman Davies | ||
| c134b2c | And now I say unto Thee, take care and take heed, pious Tsar: all the empires of Christendom are united in thine. For two Romes have fallen, and the Third exists; and there will not be a fourth. | Norman Davies | ||
| f981cd5 | Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it. | writing vocabulary trouble | Davis Miller | |
| df8aa4d | Wooden was a very good fundamental coach. He was very good at planning practices. He was very good at the relationships with the players," Norman said. "But he didn't have much in the way of strategy. His whole attitude was you play the way you practice." | Seth Davis | ||
| a7a8c09 | Problem dewastacji srodowiska przyciagal uwage greckich wladcow juz na poczatku VI w. p. n. e. Prawodawca Solon proponowal wprowadzenie zakazu uprawiania ziemi na stromych stokach, aby zapobiec erozji; Pizystrat wprowadzil premie dla rolnikow, ktorzy sadzili drzewa oliwne, wyrownujac w ten sposob straty spowodowane wyrebem lasow i nadmiernym wypasem. Dwiescie lat pozniej Platon pisal o spustoszeniu, jakiego dokonano na ziemiach Attyki: l j.. | Norman Davies | ||
| f268a07 | the Welsh name for 'England', Lloegr, meant 'the Lost Land', I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting the name expresses. A learned colleague has since told me that my imagination had outrun the etymology. Yet as someone brought up in English surroundings, I never cease to be amazed that everywhere which we now call 'England' was once not English at all. | Norman Davies | ||
| e394d17 | Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history, French history, German history, Russian history, American history, Chinese history, Indian history, Brazilian history or whatever. Whether consciously or not, they are seeking the roots of the present, thereby putting themselves in danger of reading history backwards. As soon as great powers arise, .. | Norman Davies | ||
| 54700c7 | The title 'Lord of All-Rus'' did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kievan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself 'Lord .. | history lithuania | Norman Davies | |
| edfecde | Marcus Aurelius had a marvellous sense of who, and where, he was: As the Emperor Antoninus, Rome is my city and my country; but as a man, I am a citizen of the world . . . Asia and Europe are mere corners of the globe, the Great Ocean a mere drop of water, Mount Athos is a grain of sand in the universe. The present instant of time is only a point compared to eternity. All things here are diminutive, subject to change and decay; yet all thin.. | Norman Davies | ||
| a5eac62 | O dearest Warsaw of my youth, Which encompassed the whole of my world! If only for a moment and in the dark I wish to catch a glimpse Of the ashes and the flowers Of that good past.10 | Norman Davies | ||
| b81c65d | Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable | Norman Davies | ||
| a0d1808 | Discord among the ex-Soviet nationalities was fuelling an ugly brand of Russian nationalism. Voices in Moscow called for the re-conquest of Russia's 'near abroad'. For after Abkhazia, there waited several further targets for Russian intervention, including Tatarstan and Chechenia, and other non-Russian lands within the Russian Federation. Sooner or later, Russia would be forced to choose between its new-style democracy and its old-style imp.. | nationalism russia | Norman Davies | |
| 6576eb8 | The formula Muscovy + Ukraine = Russia does not feature in the Russians' own version of their history; but it is fundamental. | muscovy ukraine московия россия росія украина україна russia | Norman Davies | |
| 393a78e | A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses.. -Thurston Moore | DAVID RAT | ||
| a0c068f | fact, if there was a fire in their house, and Mum could only save either a sparkly gold tap-shoe once worn by Flavio Flavioli (the shiny, tanned dancer and heartbreaker from Italy who appeared on every series of the hit TV show) or her only child, Ben thought she would probably go for the shoe. | David Walliams | ||
| 235e351 | Dancing Master of the On-Going" -Scott Wannberg-" -- | DAVID RAT | ||
| bcba59d | Briefcase Crunch time. To escape the gravity of Jupiter, a spacecraft would have to travel over 134,000 miles per hour! Compare that to how fast space shuttles have to travel to clear the earth's gravity-seven miles a second, or about 25,000 miles per hour. Get too close to Jupiter, and you're not coming back! People are made for gravity. Astronauts in space have a great time floating around without gravity. But weightlessness eventually do.. | Lee Strobel | ||
| f2015ef | Goliath said with somber voice, "Since it is our custom to grant defeated deities some amount of vassal-like privilege, the Lord of Ashdod, Mutallu, thought it only gracious to allow this Yahweh an audience in Dagon's presence. But the next morning when the priests opened the temple, the image of Dagon was on the floor, face down before the Israelite ark." Lahmi and Ittai gasped. Warati sighed. Ishbi said, "That is only the beginning of the.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| bc68f9e | You have achieved nothing. Do you not see? Nothing. We scurry through time, like the rats in Fizqwik's wheel. Over and over the same mistakes. I am glad to be done. I am sick of it. | sharpwit skaven warhammer | David Guymer | |
| 31f7b02 | I think the Horned Rat prefers his children blind or we would surely have the world now. And he knows we would betray even him if we could. | skaven warhammer | David Guymer | |
| b38df5f | She began by taking R. Carter's resonating silver key, and unlocking the Rat-Thing door that led into the corpse garden where all hope was to be ended. | Kent David Kelly |