After the Parthians of Persia defeated an underachieving Roman army led by General Crassus, legend has it that a small band of POWs wandered through the desert and were eventually rounded up by the Han military.
First century Chinese historian Ban Gu wrote an account of a confrontation with a...
Europe is becomming a desert
July 6, 2009
The Sahara is becoming closer to Europe. The desert is now cross the Mediterranean Sea, and threatens some 6.5 million people on the coast. This is evident from an analysis of the Italian environmental group Legambiente.
"If we do not take...
The ready perfumes of summer's middle days,
Creosote, creosote after rain, rain
Bringing up the last of the orange-blossom smell,
The droplets of water rousing the fallen leaves
Enough to make a moment come back to life in them,
A second once more of something, a moment from when
They were...
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