The Life and Work of William Carey Personal Artifact Dictionary

by Derek Armstrong William Carey’s childhood spelling dictionary was written during a time that could be considered a dictionary boom which started in 1596 with Edmund Coote’s The English Schoolmaster. Nathaniel Bailey’s Dictionarium Britannicum was written in 1730, Samuel Johnson’s Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language was written in 1747...

Hagia Sophia

By Brian Freeman Νενίκηκά σε Σολομών "Solomon, I have outdone thee!" Justinian I¨ Located in Istanbul Turkey, Hagia Sophia is a former Byzantine church and former Ottoman mosque and now is a museum. ¨ Hagia Sophia is sometimes called Church of the Holy Wisdom, or Ayasofya in Turkish. ¨ Unfortunately nothing remains of the original...

Sati, the Victims, and the Abolition

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries women were not considered equal among men. Women became dependent on either their husband or their family because of this indifference. Women were in a sense governed by their society. In some religions such as Hinduism, women were required to perform certain rituals that men did not have to perform. Widow burning,...