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4 days ago · Some Arabic Jabirian works (e.g., the "Book of Mercy", and the "Book of Seventy") were later translated into Latin under the Latinized name "Geber", [32] and in 13th-century Europe an anonymous writer, usually referred to as pseudo-Geber, started to produce alchemical and metallurgical writings under this name. [33]
2 days ago · Police - Law Enforcement, Reforms, History: Understood broadly as a deliberate undertaking to enforce common standards within a community and to protect it from internal predators, policing is much older than the creation of a specialized armed force devoted to such a task. The activity of policing preceded the creation of the police as a distinct body by thousands of years. The derivation of ...
3 days ago · Guinness (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ n ɪ s /) is a stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in the 18th century.It is now owned by the British-based multinational alcoholic beverage maker Diageo.
1 day ago · The Old Irish Penitential is a penitential written in Old Irish from before the end of the 8th century. [67] It specified the same punishment for men who have intercrural or anal sex as for "women or girls who do the same thing among themselves". [ 62 ]
3 days ago · Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbor Portugal. Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophisticated cities.
4 days ago · The thralls were mostly from Western Europe, among them many Franks, Frisians, Anglo-Saxons, and both Irish and Britonnic Celts. Many Irish slaves travelled in expeditions for the colonization of Iceland. [333] The Norse also took German, Baltic, Slavic and Latin slaves.
1 day ago · Europe is the second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of history marked it off as the home of a distinctive civilization.
