NK seems powerful enough to gather an army of the dead and employ them to storm the giant gates and break open them to pass through it, he didn’t need a Dragon to first tear down the Wall. However that did make it easy for his army to pass the…
Such citizens could not vote or be elected in Roman elections. Freedmen were former slaves who had gained their freedom. They were not automatically given citizenship and lacked some privileges such as running for executive magistracies. Voting for most offices was open to all full Roman citizens, a group that…
The dream of El Dorado, a lost city of gold, led many a conquistador on a fruitless trek into the rainforests and mountains of South America. But it was all wishful thinking. The “golden one” was actually not a place but a person – as recent archaeological research confirms. People…
The US Shuttle program is shut down and can not be restarted without a-never-gonna-happen expediture of funds. The Orbiters are in museums, the tooling to build External Tanks is gone or repurposed, the work force is dispersed. The Soviet-era Buran program is, if possible, even deader. While reentering Earth’s atmosphere,…
In fact, given the sheer scale of the universe — how big it is, how long the universe will exist for before it dies, land the number of habitable planets — it’s fairly likely that Time Lords actually already exist. Or will exist in the future. In Doctor Who, time…
No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. No, people (humans like you and me) did not exist during the time of the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs existed during the late Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods (250-65 million years ago). Assuming dinosaurs did make…
Being near godlike to humans, Cthulhu is immortal and has great strength and can endure great amounts of damage and can only be killed by a near-omnipotent power. He is a Great Old One. He is the great-grandson of the greatest evil in all of the Universe, though he himself…
Ecological pyramids can also be called trophic pyramids or energy pyramids. Pyramids of numbers can be either upright or inverted, depending on the ecosystem. A typical grassland during the summer has an upright shape since it has a base of many plants, with the numbers of organisms decreasing at each…
In America, as in England before the Marriage Act of 1753, a man and a woman could enter into marriage by mutual consent and open cohabitation.” He notes that Puritans would also attempt to have the two parties to reconcile before granting divorce, but if their efforts failed a court…
The answer, paradoxically, is yes. In the period up to roughly the thirteenth century, male bondingmale bondingIn ethology and social science, male bonding or male friendship is the formation of close personal relationships, and patterns of friendship or cooperation between males. In the context of human relationships, male bonding is…