When it comes to the emotions involved in relationships between men and women, there are a lot of grey areas, athough, some are usually clearly defined. One example of the latter, is the way that most people can differentiate the feelings that they have for someone they like, and someone they love. Let’s take the relationship between a… Read More »
The last living survivor of the Titanic, Millvina Dean, has died at the age of 97 in Southampton after catching pneumonia. As a two-month-old baby, Dean was the youngest passenger on board the giant liner when it sank on its maiden voyage with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Her parents had decided to leave England for… Read More »
Siege of Lucknow, (25 May–27 November 1857), sustained assault and eventual relief of the British “Residency” (British governmental headquarters) in India’s northern city of Lucknow, part of 1857–58 Indian Mutiny against British rule. The relief of Lucknow consisted of two attempts by the British to rescue Sir Henry Lawrence and a contingent of British and Indian troops, along with several hundred civilians, from the center of Lucknow… Read More »
Its main line was constructed in 1900–08, ostensibly to facilitate pilgrimages to the Muslims’ holy places in Arabia but in fact also to strengthen Ottoman control over the most distant provinces of the empire. The main line, built by a multiracial labour force mainly under the supervision of a German engineer, traversed 820 miles (1,320 km) of difficult country and was completed in… Read More »
Journal Information Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Comparative Education Review investigates education throughout the world and the social, economic, and political forces that shape it. Founded in 1957 to advance knowledge and teaching in comparative education studies, the Review has since established itself as the most reliable source for the analysis… Read More »
This fantastic quote summarizes something that I’ve been trying to focus on recently in my daily life:In our daily lives, we often rush through tasks, trying to get them done, trying to finish as much as we can each day, speeding along in our cars to our next destination, rushing to do what we need to do there,… Read More »
We’ve been there: You shop long and hard to find the perfect wedding card for the soon-to-be married couple and then you get home and have a pretty rough time figuring out what to write in it. The good news is, there are no hard-and-fast rules about what to write in a wedding card. As long as your wedding congratulations… Read More »
Sometimes, all it takes is a single scene to change moviemaking for good. (“Rosebud . . .” comes to mind.) And while many of the last quarter-century’s films have awed, inspired, and offered up iconic entries into the cultural canon, only some—and particularly, only a few individual moments—have genuinely influenced how future films were made. So, what makes… Read More »
We all have one person… or two… that we want to erase from our memory. If you’re staying up all night thinking about that one person and wondering how to forget someone for good and pretend they never existed, don’t worry, you’ll soon be able to sleep soundly. It may seem like you’re the only one who’s spending… Read More »
Two university students — a couple — have been suspended after the woman “proposed” to the man, in a bent-knee, movie-like fashion. The proposal video, which has gone viral on social media, has caused an uproar in the University of Lahore. The varsity issued a letter on Friday in which it said the disciplinary committee has decided to… Read More »