In Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion Against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century Gerald James Holton writes: Here Spengler introduces his most startling idea, one that has become familiar in new garb also. He warns that it is characteristic of the winter phase of civil...

In Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the main characters fell a giant cedar tree and turn it into a door. Enkidu then proposes bringing the door to Nippur. In the translation by Sophus Helle, the relevant passage reads: Enkidu worked his words, saying to Gilgamesh: "My friend, we have felled a ...

This page here says the nursery rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep" is an example of accentual verse and has two stresses per line. I don't claim to understand prosody well at all, but isn't that wrong?! Maybe it was the way our preschool teacher taught us to recite it, but I would've thought the first l...