“Not long ago, there was nothing I couldn’t have. Now, I don’t even have the choice of whom to marry.”
― Dangerous Engagement
― Dangerous Engagement
“The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become.”
― The Book of Self Mastery: Timeless Quotes About Knowing, Changing, and Mastering Yourself
― The Book of Self Mastery: Timeless Quotes About Knowing, Changing, and Mastering Yourself
“He felt his phone vibrate in his own pocket, but didn’t bother to take it out. “Thank you,”
― Securing Sidney
― Securing Sidney
“claiming the entire Guedinna as his territory and domain.
The issue between Il and Entemena, however, was not decided by war. Instead, a compromise seems to have been forced upon them by a third party, probably once again the northern non-Sumerian ruler who claimed lordship over Sumer as a whole. By and large, the decision seems to have favored Lagash, since the old Mesilim-Eannatum line was retained as the fixed boundary between Umma and Lagash. On the other hand, nothing was said about compensation by the Ummaites for the revenue they had withheld; nor do they seem to have been held responsible any longer for ensuring the water supply of the Guedinna-this task was now left to the Lagashites themselves.15
Entemena was the last of the great ensi's of the Ur-Nanshe dynasty; his son Enannatum II reigned only briefly and achieved but little, to judge from the fact that only one of his inscriptions has been recovered to date-a door socket dedicated to the restoration of Ningirsu's”
― The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
The issue between Il and Entemena, however, was not decided by war. Instead, a compromise seems to have been forced upon them by a third party, probably once again the northern non-Sumerian ruler who claimed lordship over Sumer as a whole. By and large, the decision seems to have favored Lagash, since the old Mesilim-Eannatum line was retained as the fixed boundary between Umma and Lagash. On the other hand, nothing was said about compensation by the Ummaites for the revenue they had withheld; nor do they seem to have been held responsible any longer for ensuring the water supply of the Guedinna-this task was now left to the Lagashites themselves.15
Entemena was the last of the great ensi's of the Ur-Nanshe dynasty; his son Enannatum II reigned only briefly and achieved but little, to judge from the fact that only one of his inscriptions has been recovered to date-a door socket dedicated to the restoration of Ningirsu's”
― The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
“classical”
― English Fairy Tales
― English Fairy Tales
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