Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northern humanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700.
Essential Histories 58: The English Civil Wars 1642-1651
This unique series studies every major war in history looking at all the aspects of war, from how it felt to be a soldier to the lasting impact of the conflict on the world around it.
Tales of Hi and Bye: Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World
Added by: Gurman20 | Karma: 1236.55 | Black Hole | 8 December 2010
0
Tales of Hi and Bye: Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World
We do it over and over again, day after day, and never seem to get enough of it. Albanians do it. Zulus do it. Movie stars and plumbers do it. All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and countless ways: they wave and bow and curtsey and shake hands and rub noses and fist-bump and mwah-mwah and perform a vast array of greeting and farewell rituals, so common and natural that no-one stops to notice Tales of Hi and Bye provides a delightful, witty, and intriguing insight into the sometimes strange and often wonderful customs associated with an ordinary, everyday event.
Munich is the beautiful and pleasant capital of the South German Federal State of Bavaria and the same time the gateway to the Alps. Munich is famous for its annual Oktober Fest celebrations. Dukes, kings and emperors have resided in the city over the years. They have left their distinctive marks all around the city. In this free travel guide you find six tours which will guide you around.
Ten Indians sailed around the world in a yacht, covering 55,000 km in fifteen months and twelve days. The yacht was only 11m long and 3.25 m wide— Trishna. It was the first Indian sailing expedition around the world. All ten, including myself, were army officers from the Corps of Engineers, which is often considered a small navy within the Army. We work in and on water, constructing bridges and ferries and are familiar with crossing lakes, rivers and seas in crafts of different kinds.
