Mongol History rewritten and relived

The Rewritten Bible at Qumran

Is evolutionary history repeatedly rewritten in light of new fossil discoveries?

Mass media and popular science journals commonly report that new fossil discoveries have 'rewritten evolutionary history'. Is this merely journalistic hyperbole or is our sampling of systematic diversity so limited that attempts to derive evolutionary history from these datasets are premature? We use two exemplars-catarrhine primates (Old World monkeys and apes) and non-avian dinosaurs-to inves...

Gay Nineties Relived By Dance at Junior League

The beaux and belles o£ the faststepping nineties came to life again last Wednesday when the Architectural Society of Rice Institute staged a Gay Nineties Ball at the Junior League Building. Ray Watkin, daughter of the head of the department ot architecture at the Rice Institute, reigned supreme at the social, function as Queen of the Arch Arts. Girls robed in long, flowing gowns curtsied to th...

The Enthronement of Turkic-Mongol Rulers and Kagan Functions

There are many demonstrations of political interrelation of Turk kaganate and Mongol empire. The article deals with one of the points of Turk-Mongol interrelation as the ceremony of ascending the khan to the throne. It is historically proved that the ascending to the throne ceremony takes origin from Turk kaganate period by comparing the materials, concerning the facts of the history of both st...

Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia.

Although many studies have associated the demise of complex societies with deteriorating climate, few have investigated the connection between an ameliorating environment, surplus resources, energy, and the rise of empires. The 13th-century Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in world history. Although drought has been proposed as one factor that spurred these conquests, no hig...