the summer solstice. The arrangement of Stonehenge allowed for a way to accurately mark specific dates in the year, which could be used for more efficient agriculture, as well as religious events (Wilson). Furthermore, Hawkins speculates, “Primitive men observed with apprehension the places where the great rulers of the day and night emerged from the dark earth. It would have been natural that the Stonehengers should mark those points by various means” (Roop 94). Celts were known to have divided their
Dahmer became apparent. The next four years he would ultimately kill a total of sixteen men. The sixteen men Jeffrey Dahmer slaughtered were killed with a particular modus operandi. His MO deviated at times, but generally, he invited them over for drinks, money, or sex, and then either cut their throat or strangled them. This then led to further sexual conduct, also known as necrophilia. Seeing as they were all men, he would typically sever their genitals, along with limps, and head. Several hearts
Anis had witnessed the return of so many girls who had been abducted and sold by thanedars or constables only for few rupees. But the story of an old Jat was an exception in this atmosphere of distrust. One day this old Jat found a young Mewati girl weeping behind some rocks. She did not know if any of her relatives were alive. He told her, “Beti, you’re the child of my conscience, my dharambeti. No harm will come to you” (285; ch. 17). Later on, with the consent of the two, he let her married with
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin