Most Read This Week In 14th Century
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1301, to December 31, 1400. In Europe, Asia, and North Africa, the Black Death claimed between 75 to 200 million lives. England and France fought in the protracted Hundred Years' War. Political and natural disaster ravaged the Mongolian Empire, which lost much of its power in Asia and Eastern Europe.
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I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound.
For the piercing cold of grief had caught
Me in the doleful dread and bound
My heart, though reason solace sought.
I longed for my pearl, locked in the ground,
While fierce contentions in me fought.
In Christ, though comfort could be found.
My wretched will was still distraught.
I fell upon that flowery plot.
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I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated the whole state belief system into a debased form of Confucianism, in which traditional ancestor worship and respect for order become blended with extreme nationalism and xenophobia. Near the southernmost city of Kaesong, captured by the North in 1951, I was taken to see the beautifully preserved to
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― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
