I started classes today! Yoy! (sorta ( Read more... )

"Ever since our rough crusading forefathers first saw Constantinople and met, to their contemptuous disgust, a society where everyone read and wrote, ate food with forks and preferred diplomacy to war, it has been fashionable to pass the Byzantines by with scorn and to use their name as synonymous with decadence."

--Steven Runciman

"If Musà bn. Nusayr had been able to conquer Europe, he would have made it Muslim and would have saved it from the darkness of the Middle Ages which, thanks to the Arabs, Spain did not know."

--Gustave Lebon

Travelling across the country, one finds Arabic place-names everywhere: Albacete is derived from the Arabic (al-basit - the plain); Albufera (al-buhayrah - the small lake); Alcalá (a1-qa1cah - the fort); Alcantara (al-qantarah - the bridge); Almería (al-mirayah - the mirror); Alpujarras (a1-bashurah - the bastion or the news); Benicasim (Bani ( Read more... )

Do any of you know the name of that littl green fruit that is like the size of a cherry, accept the skin is not edible and it's mostly pit? I've been trying to figure this out for an hour now and can find nothing. Somebody told me an answer but when I looked it up it wasn't that.

According to this test thingy, here is the candidates I agree most with, in list from greatest to last ( Read more... )

I'm putting two... because things like always cooking with rice don't pertain to me... and because Argentinians are peculiarly more European then others Latino cultures... the second one is overall more like my family, but a lot of what is in the first one is too ( Read more... )

In a Past Life...
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a Liberal Christian
You scored 30 out of 45 on proximity to orthodoxy! You are theologically orthodox but more socially liberal, at least in ( Read more... )

I lived in Greece, and I have to say this is all true accept the part about homeless people... they are definently there. As I remember they are over-dramitic about their homelessness.> "BECAUSE WE'RE GREEK ( Read more... )