Professor Ron

Madame Chiang [Kai-shek] and Eleanor Roosevelt were best friends. Eleanor got her [Madame Chiang] a penthouse in New York City until she could go back and conquer Taiwan.

You see apology comes from the Greek word 'apologia' which simply means an explanation without any element of guilt. So if you're ever in a fight with your significant other, you can say you apologize in the Greek sense of the word.

Humanists such as we should really be looking into this stuff vis a vis the culture of these places

The Koreas can absolutely unify. What needs to happen is they need to form a kind of detente, a peaceful coexistence in which neither side feels threatened by the other.

Is that a hidden genocide?

Menial means 'work that little men can do'

Emerson was more of a religionist, especially towards the end of his life

Trebuchets were used to throw soldiers over the city walls so they could fight on the other side

A trebuchet is a catapult

She made these statues nudes to reflect the nature of the Lenni Lenape tribe because the women didn't wear clothes

We're using ourselves as tertiary sources

University comes from 'universitas', which means 'corporation' which comes from 'corpus' which means body. So the idea is you bring enough bodies together and within our bodies are our minds...so this is where the synergy comes from.

And because wealth at this time was in the form of land, that meant that they had the choicest farmland! That's why they were hated!

People couldn't figure out whether they were hallucinating from fasting and depriving themselves of the pleasures of the flesh

Pope Francis was an order priest. He didn't go through the politics of rising up through the ranks. He didn't have to become bishop or cardinal or anything.

You see here the conflicts between church and state which led to the fall of the Roman empire

This is all leading up to the French Revolution