Trophies and all spoils from the enemy shall belong to the troops who take the same
From the defensive alliance between Paul I, Emperor of All Russia, and the King of Prussia, 16 July 1800
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John of God, a former soldier who founded a free hospital in Seville
Saint John of God carrying a sick man. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. 1672. Seville, the church of San Jorge at the Hospital de la Caridad John of God is a real historical figure of the sixteenth century: in his youth he was a soldier, and in maturity he went through a
Invitation to a 1893 betrothal ball and the betrothal rite in nineteenth-century Russia
An invitation to a ball and evening supper on the occasion of a betrothal, 10 January 1893. In nineteenth-century Russia the sgovor, or betrothal, was the rite at which the parents of the bride and groom finally agreed upon the marriage of their children. It followed the matchmaking, that
Maurizio Forte and Jacqueline Ortoleva measure the acoustics of two Etruscan tombs in Tarquinia
The acoustics of Etruscan tombs have become the subject of a study. Etruscan chamber tombs were family vaults, and they were opened afresh for every new burial. Funeral rites with feasting, dancing and games are depicted in many of the paintings. The relatives of the deceased returned to these tombs
The Babylonian Poem “The Dialogue of a Master and His Slave” and Scholars’ Debates on Its Meaning
The Babylonian poem "The Dialogue of a Master with His Slave", which English-language scholarship calls the "Dialogue of Pessimism", has come down to us in copies from Assyria and Babylonia, written in Akkadian. It is assigned to wisdom literature, that is, to instructive texts like