Naming something gives it a defined identity: from children to countries, a name is the most fundamental thing we can know about someone or a place. It is the first building block from which an identity develops, extending into behaviors and probable futures. A nation’s name reflects the history, aspirations, culture and behaviors of its people and can sometimes suggest the long-term goals of its leaders. But when those goals change, the name can also change, as evidenced by India’s occasional use of the term “Bharat” to describe itself at the recent Group of 20 summit. Even though India may…
Author: Ebrahim
UNESCO just voted to name the ceremonial earthworks at Hopewell, Ohio, a World Heritage Site, and Julie Carr Smyth reports on their history and importance to indigenous people communities across the state to AP News: The massive earthworks include eight ancient sites spread across 150 kilometers (90 miles) of what is now southern Ohio, including one located on the grounds of a private golf course and country club . This designation puts the place in the same category as the wonders of the world, including the Greek Acropolis, Peru’s Machu Picchu and the Great Wall of China. “Pure excitement and…
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — What better way to inspire future generations to start a small business than to invite them to come see what it’s like to operate one. That’s what Riverview Cafe in Plymouth is doing with students from East Carolina University’s Rise29 program. With small towns like Plymouth, ECU hopes this internship program will help students understand the importance of small businesses and how they can make an economic impact in rural areas. Tristyn Daughtry, Rise29 program manager at ECU, said this internship program helps students become familiar with the many assets of the communities they are assigned…
The candy brand launches “Pause Now, Hustle Later” and awards a total of $50,000 in grants to five emerging Black-owned personal care brands. Chicago, Illinois, July 24, 2023 – Now and Later® candies, with their bold flavors, tough to soft chew and long-lasting eating experience, recognize that with the hustle and bustle of everyday life, there is a benefit to taking a well-deserved break to care for yourself. self. In continued support of go-getters and change-makers in the black community, the brand is launching “Take a break now, move later” in partnership with media personality, entrepreneur and candy lover La…
Grant Parkerassociate professor of classics and, by courtesy, of comparative literature, will serve as interim director of the Sakurako and William Fisher family of the Stanford Division of Global Studies (SGS) in 2023-2024 while serving as previous director . Jisha Menon is on sabbatical leave.Parker joined Stanford in 2006 and teaches Latin as well as topics related to the exotic and geographical elements of Roman imperial culture. His recent research lies at the intersection of South Africa, where he grew up, and the Mediterranean. His latest book, South Africa, Greece, Rome: classic confrontations, was published in 2017 and he is…
TEHRAN — This evening, when the Iranian presidential plane landed in Tehran, it purchased 3,506 magnificent clay tablets from the United States, where they had been kept on loan for nine decades.The Achaemenid tablets were repatriated by the plane carrying President Ebrahim Raisi, who addressed the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly during his visit to New York. The recovered collection includes 836 small tablets written in Aramaic and 2,670 large tablets with Elamite cuneiform inscriptions, CHTN reported. The royal tablets were shipped in nine boxes, each weighing 75 kg, according to the report. They are believed to…
Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country’s major ancient sites, threatening its UNESCO-listed monuments with collapse, a recent visitor and renowned archaeologist said . Immediate damage to Cyrene’s monuments, including the 2nd-century AD Temple of Zeus, larger than the Parthenon in Athens, is relatively minor, but water circulating around their foundations threatens future collapses , declared the head of the French archaeological mission in Libya. Vincent Michel, told AFP. Settled on the Greek island of Santorini around 600 BC, Cyrene was one of the main centers of the classical world for…
Zoom, the smart working company that has enabled millions of workers around the world to work from home during the pandemic, has asked its employees to return to the office. The symbolic importance of the news is obvious and, in fact, deep of remote work have been published everywhere. A bit as if the Californian company’s request to return to the office at least twice a week to all those who work within an 80 kilometer radius of the workplace somehow sanctioned the end of remote work. An excessively catastrophic forecast, just like the scenarios, formulated immediately after the pandemic,…
NEW YORK – On Thursday, September 20, 2023, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America warmly received the President of Cyprus, His Excellency Nikos Christodoulides, at the Archdiocesan Headquarters. This is the President’s first official visit to the United States in his capacity as elected leader of Cyprus. Archbishop Elpidophoros welcomed the President of Cyprus, congratulated him on his election and said that the hopes of Hellenism rested on him, wishing him the blessing of the Lord to bring good days to Cyprus. “The pain of Cyprus is the pain of all Hellenism. » In his response, the President of Cyprus…
As Marseille awaits the arrival of Pope Francis for the Mediterranean Meetings, the Cardinal Archbishop of Rabat shares his hopes for the work of the ecumenical gathering which seeks to unite people in peace. By Delphine Allaire – Marseille Seventy Mediterranean bishops arrived in Marseille, southern France, to participate in the Mediterranean Meetings, seeking to discover paths of peace in the region surrounding what the ancient Romans called the Mare Nostrumor “Our sea”. Before Pope Francis arrived in Marseille on Friday, Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, archbishop of Rabat, Morocco, presided over the bishops’ opening mass in Marseille’s Sainte-Marie-Majeure cathedral on…