Lars just wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition. Find out how a soap dish changed history!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574412984059644024.html
"A hugely entertaining and often moving portrait of a civilization to which the modern West owes an immense but neglected debt. Read it, and you will never use the word 'Byzantine' as a term of abuse again."--Thomas Holland, author of Millennium, Persian Fire and Rubicon
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Lars just wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition. Find out how a soap dish changed history!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574412984059644024.html
Nearly 1600 years ago there was a prosperous and powerful Kingdom in North Africa, ruled by Scandinavian adventurers called the Vandals. Today, in the year 533 it came to an abrupt- and completely unexpected- end.
Just how the Vandals ended up in Africa is a curious story. Originating somewhere in Norway or Sweden (no one really [...]