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.

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.

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