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"Until recently, all that remained of Hipparchus’ work were secondhand mentions and a few symbols carved into statues, like those on the Farnese Atlas, a Roman sculpture that shows the sky etched onto a celestial globe. But actual star positions from his catalog had vanished.
That changed when researchers spotted traces of ancient Greek writing on a palimpsest, a parchment manuscript that had been wiped clean and reused. Led by Victor Gysembergh from Sorbonne University, the team dug deeper."
Understanding the role that etiquette plays in regulating individual interactions and group cohesion can provide new insights into how and why cultures evolve.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has declined to file hate crime charges in the widely publicized Santana Row assault case involving Assyrian-American defendant Bruneil Henry Chamaki and two co-defendants, despite months of media speculation and public pressure.
In the quiet, incense-filled sanctuaries of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, one of the oldest apostolic Christian churches in the world, the altar is not merely a piece of furniture. It is the Madbho: a mystical boundary where the physical world meets the divine.
Sarah Jones
