However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.

The reappearance of tyranny [in the 4th century BC] had many reasons... one of the main causes was the development of antagonism between rich and poor; tyrants came to power exploiting a social and political imbalance within the state.

It was not two beautiful and well-gowned young women that attracted the attention of all[…]

In your class last year we learned that increase in entropy is why matches burn but never unburn, why cans rust but never unrust, and why engines are never perfectly efficient.