After three decades of war, he annihilates the Bulgars and extends the dominion of the Empire from Iberia (eastern shore of the Black Sea)…
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The tragic figure of Michael IV the Paphlagonian
Then the final time arrived. He had himself carried to his own monastery of SS Cosmas and Damian, stripped off his imperial clothes and…
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Michael Psellus | ‘Basileus’ of modesty
"The Nile may water the land of the Egyptians, but it is my golden words that nourish their spirit. Ask the Persians and the…
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Tennis observations: 33% + 33% + 33% + 1%
The game is 33% + 33% + 33% + 1%, yet the average player thinks it only consists of the first 33%, and the…
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Books: Byzantium | The Early Centuries | John Julius Norwich
The terrified boy was clutching the altar with one hand and a fragment of the True Cross with the other. One of the agents,…
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Notes on Lima | skateboarding is not a crime
I found surfboards, bodyboards, diving equipment, empty and abandoned fish tanks, an ancient color TV... but no Ron Allen. It had somehow, sometime, escaped.
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Notes on the strangest, saddest city thou can’st see | first hours
"The strangest, saddest city thou can’st see"I listened and couldn't help but feel that the vessel that I had abandoned 16 years ago had…
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Books: The Odyssey
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights…
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Books: god Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens
We are living in times in which religion is not only prescindible and obsolete, but also harmful. An ethical life can be and is…
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Books: The Gene | Siddhartha Mukherjee
So I read its 495 pages. It has given me the much sought sense of timeline and context and, of course, as with any…