Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 28, 2017 Stefan Andrews It must have been a joyful return to Rome in 46 BC for Julius Caesar. Following his success in Egypt, he had, reportedly, come back with quite a sweeping, exotic menagerie, among which the main attraction was a very “strange” species. The animal had a long neck and … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 27, 2017 Tijana Radeska Nganga-Nksi Author:Hans Hillewaert CC BY-SA2.0 Witches, witchcraft, good witches, bad witches, white magic, black magic… the stuff of books and movies, right? But there are places today where witchcraft is still incorporated into the culture and everyday life of ordinary people. Witchcraft is very common in many … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 28, 2017 Kate Bulo The German state of Bavaria is famous for its fairytale castles and enchanting palaces. Its nobility did not hesitate to commission the greatest architects and artisans to build residences fit for kings. The interiors of these residences were enriched with magnificent frescoes, fine furniture, and extraordinary ornaments. Luckily, … Read more
Please read this carefully and get your son or daughter to read it too. This post is about what happened in a typical middle-class household. The son didn’t like living in his father’s house. This was because of his father’s constant ‘nagging’; “You are leaving the room without switching off the fan” “The TV is … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Jan 6, 2018 E.L. Hamilton Talk about laundering money! A popular folk tale from the Gold Rush era has it that a Chinese laundryman got rich not from panning for gold in the American River but from washing. In this apocryphal story, John John (a name white men commonly and indiscriminately called … Read more
Example moves the world more than doctrine. Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, … Read more
Courtesy: The Vintage News Feb 26, 2018 Boban Docevski At the end of the 19th century, women had fewer rights than men. The suffragettes slowly worked to change the position of women in society, but they were still considered as less capable than men. Most women were destined to stay home for their whole lives and … Read more
