When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting ... (Luke 2:1-5) That baby was born to an outcast teenager and her carpenter husband. He came into this world in ...
On Old Age, the Roman politician, orator, and philosopher Cicero advocates for the dignity and value of growing old. But his ...
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Play, therapy in and of itself, bolsters the pillars of emotional intelligence, yet scant attention is paid to it by psychologists.
There is a popular misconception that Julius Caesar was born this way ... which required that a baby be cut from its mother's womb if she died in childbirth. The term may also come from the ...
January 7 marks an alternate Christmas tradition, namely the Orthodox Christmas, and a very strong one at that ...
I have no particular expectations for the New Year ...
It is tempting to update Julius Caesar and conclude that all modern therapy ... When a mother looks into an infant’s eyes and the baby returns the gaze, similar brain areas light up for each.
Sometimes scary, sometimes silly, often tragic, the "Doctor Who" holiday special is an emotional tradition. But what's the ...
Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.
In 46 B.C., the born-to-be-betrayed Julius Caesar established Jan. 1 as the official ... You’ve got the vision, baby, but you’ll need to make believers before you’ll have builders.