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The Japanese borrowed heavily from Middle Chinese during the Tang Dynasty - most of their vocab was built up during this period. The entire Chinese orthography (plus phonetics) was adopted because the Japs did not have a written language at the time.
Hence the similarity between Japanese (and...
Mexican President CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM writes to Trump and Musk on behalf of the rest of the WORLD:
So they voted to build a wall... Well, my dear Americans, even if you don't understand much about geography, since for you America is your country and not a continent, it is important that before...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/mar/04/liu-jiakun-winner-pritzker-prize-chinese
‘I aspire to be like water’: the exquisite buildings of Liu Jiakun, winner of architecture’s top prize
Bamboo and steel pavilions in the sky … Liu Jiakun’s renovation of Tianbao cave in Luzhou.
He...
Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins the 2025 Pritzker Prize
MARCH 4, 20259:00 AM ET
HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Neda Ulaby
Liu Jiakun is the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Above, Liu's West Village commercial complex, built in Chengdu in 2015, fills an entire block with...
America has nowhere the level of education, social security and healthcare that Denmark provides for its citizens, among the best in the world. If absrobed into the US, the Greenlanders will probably be unemployed, homeless, broke, too poor to see a doctor and turning to alcohol and drugs to...
When you see a person totally devoid of humanity and a respect for life (which even animals have), you begin to wonder if there's really a devil in this universe, whose only aim is to cause destruction and mayhem.
Allah is simply the generic Arabic word for God. Long before Islam was founded, the people in Arabia - polytheists, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians - used Allah to refer to God, however it means to them. So Islam has no patent on the word 'Allah'. When I was in Egypt, the Christians there (about...