In both the Iliad and the Odyssey there are many mentions of "inward meats" such as When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats. Are the inward meats the organ meats, meat close to the bones, or something else?

In Bethan Roberts' 2012 novel My Policeman, Marion Taylor begins working as a schoolteacher in 1957. She writes her name on the chalkboard for her students: A moment passed as I gathered myself, then the chalk touched the slate and began to form letters; there was that lovely, echoey sound—so de...

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I first heard the term in a lecture on neo-Nazism. The phrase "Crisis of Modernity" doesn't have a Wikipedia page but del Noce, who wrote a book called The Crisis of Modernity, does.

C. L. Polk's Kingston Cycle has the immortal Amaranthines, powerful magical beings who live in the afterlife. (Specifically, they rule in the Solace, which is where human souls go after death.) They're subjects of myths and legends. Throughout the trilogy they are variously referred to as "Amaran...

I was reading the book "The Code Book" by Simon Singh. An excerpt from the book is as follows The obsession began in 1800, when the French mathematician Jean-Baptiste Fourier, who had been one of Napoleon’s original Pekinese dogs, introduced the ten-year-old Champollion to his collection of Egyp...

Books printed in Europe before 1501 are known as incunables. Many of the works that appeared in print before 1501 were religious (e.g. missals) or academic. The majority of texts were in Latin. According to the French Wikipedia article incunable, Des 30 000 incunables répertoriés, 21 000 sont éc...