The World Motivation
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
“Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.”
— Louis Leakey · Arranged
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.
I don't mind an arranged marriage. The girl my parents choose could be the girl of my dreams.
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.