Monthly Archives: April 2022

Agricultural societies were first established along a popular trade route in Neolithic Greece from around 7000BC to c. 3200 – 3100BC. It was during this time period that farming came to Greece – mixed farming and raising stock both being common, and contributing to the “economy” of the time. Architectural techniques were supposedly being carvedContinue reading “They come in twos.”

Well, the etymology of the word mystery is no mystery at least! The Modern English term mystery derives from the Middle English mysterie, by which Old English ġerȳne displaced the Anglo-Norman misterie, from Old French mistere. Old French derives from Latin, which had mysterium. This, in turn, derives from the Ancient Greek μυστήριον / mustḗrionContinue reading “Greecing the world’s doors open & the old ways of the mysterious Kassites”

Within every linguacultural group there are THE ones, the pinnaculars, the freestylers, and much more – the extent of this trend varies of course depending on how many members a group has. THE ones are the heirs to the original fundaments, often to the purest or the most legitimate iteration of the “Proto-“ language andContinue reading “Calling all Slovicitors”

The Russian Cyrillic alphabet, or Кири́ллица / Kirillitsa, alternatively ру́сский алфави́т / russkiy alfavit, is made up of 33 letters in total. There are 20 consonants, 21 if you include й / y / j which is otherwise classified as a “semi-vowel”; 10 vowels, and two modifying signs ь and ъ – the soft signContinue reading “The comforts of Russian vowels”

The four layers of Spanish / español / castellano, the Language of the Senses/Mastery/“intelligential overflow”: pasión = passion primor = mastery Hispanidad provecho = avail The four layers of French / français, the Language of L<3ve/Adoration/Study/l’encadrement: passion = passion sophistication = sophistication Françaisité dextérité = deftness The four layers of Italian / italiano, the LanguageContinue reading “The Buzz-Concept ❣️Passion❣️”

Da Vinci was far more important an intellectual than Einstein. And Da Vinci was also a master artist. Einstein proposed the theory of relativity; what did Da Vinci do? Well, Da Vinci -unlike Einstein and his devotion to the sole field of physics- was a polymath, who made groundbreaking contributions to numerous fields of expertise.Continue reading “~ The Da Vinci Curse ~”

There are exactly six nations on Earth right now who have it in them to attain a level of hegemony so ubiquitous and extreme that the rest of the universe pales somewhat in comparison. Over the universe, seriously: the stunningly potent human brain is the single most complex known object in the universe, and sinceContinue reading “🌌 The big 6 💫”

Everything is not as it seems. China, a self-proclaimed democracy, actually sits on a régime with rather extreme inclinations. The Chinese constitution accordingly provides that The People’s Republic of China “is a socialist state governed by a people’s democratic dictatorship that is led by the working class and based on an alliance of workers andContinue reading “This one’s for you Tibet”

Okay, so you’ve heard of Mongolia / Монгол Улс / Mongol Uls. You might be able to locate it on a map, landlocked and snuggled between China to the south and Russia to the north. And cite an encyclopaedic geographic fact or two, like name the capital Ulaanbaatar, and the fact that it’s one ofContinue reading “Okay so you’ve heard of Mongolia”