The two worst defeats that the Byzantines suffered in the Comneni period were both inflicted on them by the Saljuqs in Asia Minor.

I didn't know diddly-squat about development; I also didn't know that someone could be an “officer” of major gifts. “Do they wear badges?” my friends had wanted to know, because my friends, like myself, had been completely ignorant of the field of development.

West Nile virus surfaced in New York in 1999 and within four years had covered the whole of America.

They pitched at the waters of Merom. These waters of Merom are generally thought to be nothing but the lake of Semechon,[…]