。
Venient annis secula seris,
Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum.
Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus
Tethysque novos detegat orbes
Nec sit terris ultima Thule.
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“The times will come in later years when ocean may relax the chain of things, and a vast continent may open; the sea may uncover new worlds, and Thule cease to be the last of lands.”
- Seneca 50 A.D
。These passage in Seneca’s Medea seems to have foretold the discovery of America 1400 years before the event
Conquistadors
Michael Wood
Read by John Telfer
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Michael Wood
Read by John Telfer
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook Audible
Read summary here
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#audiobook
#Book
#History
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Michael Wood/John Telfer
Conquistadors
Written by: Michael Wood
Narrated by: John Telfer
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
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#audiobook
#Book
#History
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@IntegralLife
Written by: Michael Wood
Narrated by: John Telfer
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
———————
#audiobook
#Book
#History
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@IntegralLife
Forwarded from Integral Life +
。
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
― Herman Melville,
Moby Dick or, the Whale
。Forwarded from Integral Life +
A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
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The Economist
A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
That was long before Christopher Columbus set sail
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What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
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Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews
What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
Hedgerows were historically planted as barriers between fields, but in a human-dominated world, they are critical havens, corridors and connectors for wildlife