In fevered times, the ancients felt the gods had to be propitiated with human sacrifices.
The ancient Greeks - and other ancients - knew well of the benefits of physical activities.
The popular image of these late years may be of crusty and decrepit ancients.
As Eco-Republic makes clear, a surprisingly good place to start is with the wisdom of the ancients.
Whether athletics, democracy or war are the topics of discussion, Mr. Kagan can offer examples from the ancients.
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The voyage showed only that contacts had been possible among the ancients across vast stretches of ocean, not that they had happened.
Even the ancients mixed baser metals into their coins over time.
Was the wisdom of ancients like Plato lost with the rise of ideas like free markets and the belief that the pursuit of self interest by itself creates a better world?
Helmets and goggles--which the ancients did not use--are disallowed.
The next time someone tells you about a miraculous diet that mimics the way people ate in ancient times, here is a nice counterargument: studies of mummies say the ancients got heart disease too.
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But here we are months into the iPhone 5's existence and my 4 is still trudging along crankily as software updates conspire to remind me that it's an aging calculator bestowed upon me by the ancients.
On a recent branding mission to China, we learned that every child in Chinese elementary school is taught the three Chinese innovations that changed the world: gunpowder, the compass, and movable type (Chinese ancients also invented paper currency).
Ireland is littered with at least 40, 000 neolithic monuments and the most famous is Newgrange, a massive burial cairn and World Heritage Site that breathes with the visions of the ancients and happens to be 5000 years old.
The winger recounts how his older team-mate led the joshing upon hearing of his latest extravagantly named musical discovery - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - only to unwittingly give Nevin a glowing review of the band's later incarnation - the KLF - several years later.
First exercised by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to designate Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, the authority of the Antiquities Act has been used by 16 presidents since 1906 to protect unique natural and historic features in America, such as the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients.
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