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...account. "Of course we tak' account of Christmas" said a Perth man, "gi'e us th' chance, we tak' anything; but,mon, ye should be we' us for Hogmanay!" Children of Arras Even the poor survivors of the devastating districts will have their Christmas dinner. I know of one underground refuge in Arras where some happy children will be assembled and fed. There is a pathetic...

...accounts of the same event. As a result, by reading through his account and having to judge the veracity of the statements from different witnesses, we too engage in ‘enquiry’ and become historians. Even in the 5th century BC, history was as much about what was most likely, based on one's powers of reasoning and knowledge of the world and the way it works, as about...

...accounts, most souls end up in the Asphodel Meadows. They pass a gloomy eternity here, mingling with each other and reflecting on their former lives. A select few were permitted into the Elysian Fields where they enjoyed eternal rewards and comfort among the blessed, while the worst wrongdoers were sent to Tartarus for never-ending punishment. As time went on, the concept...

...account of Dahl’s life with support from his first wife Patricia Neal in 1994. Treglown rummaged in Dahl’s personal life and revealed several shocking details including his extensive sexual affairs with many women while working as a spy in the US, and his fraudulent company set up to avoid paying tax. He also reaffirmed Dahl’s negative personality quirks such as his...

...accounts are not identical, the Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) agree that God tested Abraham’s faith by demanding that he sacrifice one of his sons (Muslims usually understand this son to have been Ismail, not Isaac as in the account in Genesis). According to Muslim tradition Satan tried three times to persuade Abraham not to obey God’s...

...account that might help us to make sense of the Cambridge Group’s recent figures. Their findings might even re-ignite an old debate, about the economic consequences of the Reformation. The reign of Elizabeth was not long after England’s monasteries were dissolved; and, after the swift changes under Henry, Edward and Mary, it could be seen as the start of a lasting...