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The original handshake To The Times You report that handshaking can be traced back at least to the Ancient Greeks. In fact, it is of Zoroastrian origin. On Nemrut Dag, in the Taurus mountains in Turkey, there is a rock carving from the time of King Antiochus I, in the first century BC, showing the …
“On Saturday the 7th instant, the inhabitants of this city (Carlisle, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom) witnessed the sale of a wife by her husband, Joseph Thompson, a local farmer who was married in the year 1829, to his present wife. “She is a spruce, lively, buxom damsel, apparently not exceeding 22 years of age, and …
Google made £1.6 billion in revenue in the UK during the past year, but paid only £44 million in corporation tax, while the average Google employee earned £234,000 last year as the company’s share price climbed. Google’s tax fell from the £66 million paid in 2018, after Google UK reported a fall in profits due …
Juvenal described life in an ancient Roman tenement, and in the winding, crowded, brawling, filthy streets below: “Think now about all those other perils Of the night; how high is it to the roof up there From which a tile falls and smashes your brains. How many times broken, leaky jars Fall from windows; how …
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“America is the only country ever founded on an idea. The only country that is not founded on race or even common history. It’s founded on an idea and the idea is liberty. That is probably the rarest phenomena in the political history of the world; this has never happened before. And not only has …
