According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. Because man had it in his heart to be like God, God stopped this project by confusing their languages so that each spoke a different language. As a result, they could no longer communicate with one another and the work was halted. The builders were then scattered to different parts of Earth. This story is used to explain the existence of many different languages and races.

The first PSA, from 1987, showed a man who holds up an egg and says, “This is your brain,” before picking up a frying pan and adding, “This is drugs.” He then cracks open the egg, fries the contents, and says, “This is your brain on drugs.” Finally he looks up at the camera and asks, “Any questions?”

Constantine is generally considered to be the first Christian emperor. Tradition holds that before a battle at the gates of Rome in 312 against a rival emperor, Constantine saw a flaming cross in the sky with the words “By this sign, conquer” [In Hoc Signo Vinces]. Whatever the actual case may be, there is no question that after 312 Constantine began to shower favors on Christianity, and the religion, which had been persecuted under Diocletian, became a “permitted religion” and steadily increased its power as years passed, apart from a short-lived return to pagan predominance under the emperor Julian. Although the empire was not yet “Byzantine” under Constantine, Christianity would become one of the defining characteristics of the Byzantine Empire, as opposed to the pagan Roman Empire.

A clue to the answer might have been seen in the eyes of Vietnamese villagers. A journalist who had covered the war in Europe recalled the smiles and hugs and joyous offers of wine when GIs came through liberated areas of Italy. In Vietnam, the rural people, when American units passed them on the streets or in the villages, kept their eyes down or looked the other way and offered no greetings. “They just wanted us to go home.” Here was a sign of the vanity of “nation-building.” What nation has ever been built from outside?

WBM: Sorry to be gone for so long, we had a death in the family. My uncle Michael Lujano passed away at the young age of 47, leaving behind his four children and wife. He had an aneurism late last year followed by two heart attacks, the last one being terminal.
RIP uncle mike, you were great and will always be missed

from Wild and Crazy Guy (1978)

“Repeat after me. I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people tell me to repeat!”

WBM: As Professor Terguson said “Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you”. from Back to School (1989)

“Since we stopped worrying that the trolls would come and get us, their existence have become so pointless that they have all emigrated. Some of them got lost and ended up in the Rocky Mountains, and one of them was temporarily seen by professor Pronin in Soviet Pamir. But the mayority of these poor trolls into exile have established themselves in Himalaya, where they only risk being seen by people with a desire to have something to tell.”

Less charitable scientists have argued that many (or most) sightings are simply hoaxes.

No understanding of the protest, no recognition of their own unpopularity or vulnerability, disturbed the six minds (the renaissance papacy). Their view of the interests of the institution they were appointed to govern was so short-sighted as to amount almost to perversity. They possessed no sense of spiritual mission, provided no meaningful religious guidance, performed no moral service for the Christian world.
Their three outstanding attitudes - obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, illusion of invulnverable status - are persistent aspects of folly. While in the case of the Renaissance popes, these were bred in and exaggerated by the surrounding culture, all are independent of time and recurrent in governorship.