I am a development scientist.  I work in a lab wearing a white coat mixing things up, just like people imagine scientists do.  It is actually a fairly skilled job that I have acquired through long hours and much repetition.  I’d be a little miffed if somebody off the street could walk in and do

While the invasion by Alaric threw Italy into a crisis, Germany was in turmoil.  There was increasing pressure from the Huns in the East – Gibbon traces its origin all the way back to China, which is probably fanciful but I suppose isn’t impossible.  From this emerged a new barbarian leader who rapidly became an