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Let’s ask you, as a potential adventurer preparing to hop to some other world, every difficult question there is. Family, credit card debt, career, fear, the need for comfort — admit, it all makes an escape to the Other World questionable, even if you suddenly find a way to make it happen. Take part in a mental experiment, go through the doubts, the planning, and the decision-making together with our...

“Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction is a short play by Bernard Shaw. It is a comic mock-melodrama, written to raise funds for charity. Late at night, Phyllis, the maid, is combing the hair of her...

The book contains systematic critique of the traditionalist model’s historiographical assumptions concerning the Spartan alliances in the VI and V century BCE. First chapter is devoted to the critique of the sources. In the second chapter we look at three areas where the original impulse for the creation of a coherent, uniform alliance around Sparta has been sought: Sparta’s helot problem, relations...