#SundayReads 13.02.22
Read #1.
How the Chinese language got modernized. (long and very interesting read!)
Read #2.
Eloquence is overrated!
Read #3.
The history of the mortar and pestle.
Read #4.
Building a cathedral.
“Cathedrals are unfinished. It is just the nature of the beast,” explains my tour guide. It is January, and we are walking down the soaring nave of St. John the Divine, in Morningside Heights, New York City. The cathedral may be the fifth-largest church in the world, but, 127 years after it first broke ground, it is not yet complete.”
Read #5.
When Baghdad was the center of the scientific world.