![]() ![]() That’s patently false: People knew the planet was a sphere as far back as ancient Greece (12th to 9th centuries B.C.), and had relatively complex astronomical and planetary knowledge by the time Christopher Columbus made his voyage to the Americas in 1492. Myth: Medieval people believed the world was flatĪ myth persists that during the Middle Ages, the unenlightened believed Earth was flat and worried that ships might even fall off the planet’s edge. Modern historians believe that handwashing only faded during the supposedly more enlightened 16th century, when the fork began replacing diners’ washed fingers at Renaissance tables. If dining with the king, they would wait for the monarch to publicly bathe his hands before sitting-proof of his powerful status. ![]() ![]() While peasants washed their hands, too, members of the aristocracy used lavish lavatories where they washed their hands as minstrels serenaded them. They even had elaborate rituals around handwashing before meals, especially in aristocratic circles. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars-and what they revealed to her was terrifying. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father that day could happen to her. Spensa is sure that there's more to the story. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. The rumors of her father's cowardice are true-he deserted his Flight during battle against the Krell. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned there were crushing. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the second book in an epic series about a girl with a secret in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future.Īll her life, Spensa's dreamed of becoming a pilot and proving herself a hero like her father. ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning to his castle, Macbeth allows himself to be persuaded and directed by his ambitious wife, who realizes that regicide - the murder of the king - is the quickest way to achieve the destiny that her husband has been promised. Although initially prepared to wait for Fate to take its course, Macbeth is stung by ambition and confusion when King Duncan nominates his son Malcolm as his heir. As part of the same prophecy, the Witches predict that future Scottish kings will be descended not from Macbeth but from his fellow army captain, Banquo. Already a successful soldier in the army of King Duncan, Macbeth is informed by Three Witches that he is to become king. Set in medieval Scotland and partly based on a true historical account, Macbeth charts the bloody rise to power and tragic downfall of the warrior Macbeth. ![]() |