![]() ![]() ![]() The Merovingians established the borders of Gaul/France, ensured that France would be a Catholic nation, and paved the way for the later, more powerful Carolingian Dynasty. But the kings of the Merovingian Dynasty did more than rename Gaul they gave it its cultural identity that persisted through the medieval period into modern times. ![]() AD 440s – 751), brought stability and order to Gaul in the wake of the Roman collapse, eventually giving the land its modern name. The Franks, more specifically the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty (c. Most of these Germanic kingdoms were ephemeral, often collapsing just as quickly as they rose, but one people impacted Western Europe more profoundly and over a much longer time period – the Franks. ![]() Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Burgundians were just some of the better known warbands that attempted to carve out kingdoms for themselves from the corpse of the decaying Roman Empire. When the authority of Rome was collapsing in western Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries BC, wave after wave of Germanic tribes – and some non-Germanic tribes – attempted to fill the void. Map Showing the Extent of the Merovingian Dynasty ![]()
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![]() ![]() The film maintains the same overall theme and family dynamics as the book, but there are also a lot of storylines that were switched up from how they appeared in the book. At home with his family, he has to cope with his wife's cheating and his marriage falling apart while also putting up with his siblings. Judd Altman (Bateman) learns at the start of the film that his wife, Quinn Altman (Abigail Spencer), has been cheating on him with his Boss, Wade Beaufort (played by Dax Shepard, who stars in several movies and TV shows), for a year. ![]() The dynamic brings up a lot of unhealed wounds and anger that the siblings have toward each other, especially with the siblings' current family and marriage situations. The story follows a dysfunctional family who returns home after their father's death to fulfill his dying wish for the family to sit Shiva for a week at their childhood home. ![]() The film was released five years after the book hit shelves and starred big names like Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, and Jane Fonda. Like most film adaptions, This Is Where I Leave You drastically changed Jonathan Tropper's original novel. ![]() ![]() See the section below for detailed information on how to avoid unwanted spoilers and help others do the same. Follow the community's general Spoiler Policies As always, please use the 'report' button without hesitation if you see conduct that's against the community rules or Reddiquette. Debate and discussion are good, but must stay respectful and humane. We take keeping this community safe and welcoming seriously, and will remove content that is hateful, spammy, trolling, etc. Please familiarize yourself with the general Reddiquette rules here. Community Rules Practice Good Reddiquette Soon, the three factions will discover their political machinations are the least of their worries when confronted with a conspiracy that could threaten all of humanity. ![]() Set a few hundred years in our future, the fragile relationship between Earth, Mars and the Belt is reaching a tipping point. The Expanse is a space opera, mystery-sci-fi drama television series based on the bestselling novels of the same name by James S. ![]() ![]() How Ginsburg made the law fairer for every woman (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images) Tom Brenner/Getty Images North America/Getty Images Justice Ginsburg spoke to over 300 attendees about the Supreme Court's previous term. ![]() WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 12: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivers remarks at the Georgetown Law Center on September 12, 2019, in Washington, DC. Holder decision also exhibited some blind spots. But the same passionately brilliant legal mind that railed against the Supreme Court’s callous decision to stop protecting the voting rights of all Americans in the 2013 Shelby v. The woman who became the Notorious RBG was a Harvard and Columbia-educated lawyer who, in the parlance of the streets, took no shorts, meaning she suffered no fools gladly. Ginsburg acknowledged that she and Wallace were both born in Brooklyn, but had little else to say about the comparison. Shana Knizhik, an NYU law student, gave Justice Ginsburg the moniker “Notorious RBG,” popularized through a Tumblr account and a subsequent book co-authored with journalist Irin Carmon. Ginsburg and hip hop legend Christopher Wallace – aka the original “Notorious BIG” – shared a Brooklyn-born birthright forged in the crucible of a borough famous for producing icons (Jay-Z anyone?) who started out as underdogs. ![]() Peniel Joseph Kelvin Ma/Tufts University/Kelvin Ma/Tufts University ![]() ![]() ![]() The sales copy on Amazon says, “For years, Elise has been donning corsets, sneaking into castles, and lying through her teeth to enforce the Place in Time Travel Agency’s ten essential rules of time travel.” This immediately makes me ask two things - why is there only one agency that deals with this, and how did you decide on the ten essential rules?Īt the time of my story, time travel is a recent invention, and the inventor has done all he can to limit the number of people who know it’s possible - while still making a tidy profit by sending a select clientele back to “vacations in the past.” If you’re looking for ideas to spend holiday gift certificates on, The Continuum is available for pre-order. I know I haven’t blogged in ages - which is unlikely to change much this close to the end of the year, with major family commitments - but today, I have a special treat for you, a guest post by Wendy Nikel, whose debut The Continuum comes out in late January (just about a month away). ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Maggie Stiefvater:"If Shiver left fans wanting more, Linger will have them begging." -Romantic Times* "Beautiful and moving.The mythology surrounding the wolf pack is clever and so well written that it seems perfectly normal for the creatures to exist in today's world. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future will all collide in one pure moment - a moment of death or life, farewell or forever. ![]() And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be hunted in one final, spectacular would do anything for Grace. ![]() Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their love transformed from curious distance to the intense closeness of shared should have been the end of their story. The thrilling conclusion to #1 bestselling Shiver trilogy from Maggie Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() The farther she traveled, the closer she came to a world as wild as she felt within. Forget charting maps, naming peaks: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. Pedaling mile upon mile in some of the remotest places on earth, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. Looking beyond this planet, she decided to become a scientist and go to Mars. ![]() From what she could tell of the world from small-town Ontario, the likes of Marco Polo and Magellan had mapped the whole earth there was nothing left to be discovered. Pico IyerĪ brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road-an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.Īs a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved-to be an explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician-had gone extinct. Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than 170 poems are included here, among them ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers-’, ‘Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-’ and ‘Because I could not stop for Death-’, as well as lesser-known works. Johnson, who restored the unique form of the originals. This edition follows the 1955 text edited by Thomas H. ![]() What’s more, her radical approach to rhyme, punctuation and capitalisation led her early editors to make substantial alterations to her verse, diluting her poems’ power in the process. The translucent dust jacket superimposes her figure on a wild, rural landscape, reflecting at once her removal from and deep connectedness to the world outside her home.ĭickinson wrote more than 1,800 poems, of which a mere handful were published in her lifetime. Like the binding design, they draw on Dickinson’s love of nature. This Folio edition, introduced by the multi-award-winning poet Lavinia Greenlaw, features integrated wood engravings by Jane Lydbury. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is recommended for ages 10+.Ĭharlie Thorne is on another adventure again! After her first adventure she is hiding in the Galapagos Islands. I think this would be a great gift for any tween or teen who loves action, adventure, mysteries and comedy! This book also taught me and my friends a lot of things and I thought that was really good. This is another book that I have read in the book club with my friends and our book loving secretary and they all rated it a 10/10. I have already reviewed the first one, but do not worry if you haven’t read it because this book is still understandable without the knowledge of the first book. I am back with another amazing book that will knock you off of your feet! Introducing… Charlie Thorne and The Lost City by Stuart Gibbs! This is the second book in a series called Charlie Thorne. On select Saturdays, Sofia shares her favorite books with kids! She is one of the most well-read elementary schoolers that we know, so she is highly qualified for this role! Sofia is a 10-year-old brilliant reader who aspires to be a book reviewer, who started with us when she was 8 years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Western woman who travelled to the Middle East found much more than the new sensations she sought. By the early 1800s the taste for things Oriental had firmly gripped Europe. Montagu's account of her journey, along with sporadic reports by other travellers, mostly male, slowly brought the area now known as the Middle East, into the consciousness of Western women. She coveted this freedom and spent the rest of her life pursuing her own independence. ![]() When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited baths in Turkey in 1717, the first European woman on record to have ever done so, she was so tightly corseted that the women bathing there were convinced that her husband had locked her into some kind of devious machine.Montagu, stiff in her whalebone undergarments, envied not only the free and luxurious nudity of the bathers but was drawn to the apparent liberty of other aspects of their lives. Dreaming of East explores the enduring fascination that the Middle East has exerted on women of the West, both because of its exotic trappings and because of the freedom it seemed to offer. ![]() |