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1965-1975 Another Vietnam http://mashable.com/2016/...

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"For much of the world, the visual history of the Vietnam War has been defined by a handful of iconic photographs: Eddie Adams’ image of a Viet Cong fighter being executed, Nick Ut’s picture of nine-year-old Kim Phúc fleeing a napalm strike, Malcolm Browne’s photo of Thích Quang Duc self-immolating in a Saigon intersection. Many famous images of the war were taken by Western photographers and news agencies, working alongside American or South Vietnamese troops." - maitani - -

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Thank you, Haldo, for pointing to this equally interesting source. :-) - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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Ancient Babylonian Astronomers Were Way Ahead of Their Time http://blogs.discovermaga... http://blogs.discovermaga...

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"According to a newly translated cuneiform tablet, ancient Babylonian astronomers were the first to use surprisingly modern methods to track the path of Jupiter. The purpose of four ancient Babylonian tablets at the British Museum has long been a historical mystery, but now it turns out that they describe a method that uses figures on a graph to calculate the motion of Jupiter. It’s a technique that historians previously thought no one came up with until medieval Europe, and it’s a staple of modern astronomy, physics and math." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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Revisiting Kharakhoto http://idpuk.blogspot.de/... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"The ancient Tangut city of Kharakhoto lies north-east of Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert, just inside the present-day Chinese border with Mongolia. For Colonel Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (1863-1935), leader of the 1907–1909 Russian Expedition to Mongolia and Sichuan, it was the city of his dreams: 'ever since reading about the ruins in the explorer Potanin's book Kharakhoto has been constantly on my mind'. His discovery of the site in March 1908 was undoubtedly the triumph of Russian activity in Central Asia and heralded the start of Tangut studies." - maitani - -

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The Melisende Psalter (London, British Library, Egerton MS 1139) is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende. It is a notable example of Crusader art, which resulted from a merging of the artistic styles of Roman Catholic Europe, the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine Empire and the art of the Armenian illuminated manuscript. https://en.m.wikipedia.or...

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Watching documentary about the crusades! Brutul times! - Halil from Android - -

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Off topic but just had a thought, I often discuss royal/nobility stuff with my neighbour one question we've pondered on is what dukedom Prince Harry will be offered; York is the obvious choice but it's already taken, can't have Clarence too tainted, can't have Albany too controversial, was looking stuff up tonight and up pops Cumberland in my reading and it struck me, Duke of Cumberland is a pretty good bet, even though the Hanoverian one was bloody. Thoughts...? If anyone even cares? - Halil from Android - -

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crusignatus - apparently this is the root word for crusade and crusaders, but I can't find any info/links to verify this. http://www.etymonline.com...

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Do I have the correct spelling? - Halil from Android - -

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maybe you mean crucisignatus? http://medieval_terms.ena... - astridula - [ 1 ] -

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A note on the early expansions of the Indo-Europeans https://manasataramgini.w...

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The reference to this has been added to the original article by Razib Khan: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/t... - maitani - -

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never saw the term Leukosphere actually being used, before this one. - Haukr - -

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The Dravidian Migration Theory Vindicated! http://www.unz.com/gnxp/t... http://www.unzcloud.com/w...

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"In this post I will hazard a prediction of results which are going to come out of remains from Indus valley sites in South Asia, which will confirm that there were two major demographic pulses which entered the subcontinent from the Northwest over the past 10,000 year." - maitani - -

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yups, this is just predictions (which may or may not prove true), the hard facts (which are yet to come, as well) are from The Guardian :) - Haukr - [ 1 ] -

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Rakhigarhi: Indian town could unlock mystery of Indus civilisation http://www.theguardian.co... https://i.guim.co.uk/img/...

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"Archaeologists hope DNA from four skeletons will shed light on bronze age settlement as locals see chance to develop more than just site’s ancient heritage." - maitani - -

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and of course, while I do love the Rig Veda, you cannot reasonably pretend it's "reliable as an historical record" - Haukr - -

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Irish DNA and Indo-European origins http://languagelog.ldc.up... http://languagelog.ldc.up...

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"Thus, it is clear that the great wave of genomic change which swept from above the Black Sea into Europe around 3000 BC washed all of the way to the northeast shore of its most westerly island. At present, the Beaker culture is the most probable archaeological vector of this Steppe ancestry into Ireland from the continent, although further sampling from Beaker burials across western Europe will be necessary to confirm this. The extent of this change, which we estimate at roughly a third of Irish Bronze Age ancestry, opens the possibility of accompanying language change, perhaps the first introduction of Indo-European language ancestral to Irish. This assertion gains some support by the relative lack of affinity of non-Indo-European speakers, Basques, to the ancient Bronze Age genomes." - maitani - -

Scientists sequence first ancient Irish human genomes http://www.eurekalert.org... - maitani - -

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This Is The Earliest Known Reference To The 'Demon Star' Ancient Egyptians appear to have tracked the bright-to-dim cycles of the distant star system with the naked eye. http://m.huffpost.com/us/...

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The researchers analyzed the text of the ancient Cairo Calendar found on a papyrus (above) that dates to sometime between 1244 and 1163 B.C. - Halil from Android - [ 1 ] -

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Bibliographia Iranica http://www.biblioiranica.... https://0.academia-photos...

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"Bibliographia Iranica is a collective effort, continuing the work that Arash Zeini started at his blog over at www.arashzeini.com. This new website and connected social media share and distribute information on recent publications and events in Iranian Studies, understanding the field in its broadest sense from antiquity through to late antiquity and the early Islamic era with occasional excursions into neighbouring disciplines, geographies and eras." - maitani - -

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The Cathedral Fig Tree in Famagusta - In front of the main entrance to the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque (St Nicholas Cathedral) is a very old tree of huge size as seen in the picture. It throws magnificent shade over the courtyard, very necessary in those hot days of summer when visitors are streaming into the cathedral. According to the botanists, the tree was planted here when the cathedral was built in 1220 A.D. making it 700 years old. http://www.cypnet.co.uk/n...

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Discovering Visigothic Manuscripts at the British Library http://britishlibrary.typ... http://britishlibrary.typ...

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"It was the year 1878 when the then British Museum acquired a collection of fourteen manuscripts and incunabula from the Spanish Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos. The addition of these manuscripts to the already well-populated treasuries of the Museum completed an extraordinary interesting corpus of medieval codices written in the Iberian Peninsula’s most characteristic script, Visigothic." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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Who were the first people ever recorded in writing? https://cranberryletters.... https://static1.squarespa...

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"Who were the first people ever recorded in writing? /u/MissingPuzzle actually dug deep and found the answer: A Sumerian slave owner and his two slaves. Digging a little further, I found that the tablet is dated to ~3100 BCE." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

"Reading the tablet starting at the top and going down by column, it reads 2 KUR.SAL GAL SAL EN PAP X SUKKAL GIR3gunû or in English "Two slaves held by Gal Sal: En-pap X and Sukkalgir."" - maitani - -

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‘Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World,’ by Tim Whitmarsh http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i...

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"The major thesis of Tim Whitmarsh’s excellent “Battling the Gods” is that atheism — in all its nuanced varieties, even Morgenbesserian — isn’t a product of the modern age but rather reaches back to early Western intellectual tradition in the ancient Greek world." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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A Normally Weird Language http://langevo.blogspot.d... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"Every week, the digital magazine Aeon publishes several ambitious essays, by competent writers, on culture, philosophy, science, technology and other interesting subjects. One of last week’s authors is John McWhorter, professor of linguistics and American studies at Columbia University; the topic is the English language. The essay is entitled “English is not normal”. Professor McWhorter argues not only that English is genuinely “weird” (anyone who has followed his publications already knows it) but makes a stronger claim that it “really is weirder than pretty much every other language”. Now that is a really weird thing to say, so let’s see how it is argued." - maitani - -

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CyArk http://www.cyark.org/abou...

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"CyArk was founded in 2003 to ensure heritage sites are available to future generations, while making them uniquely accessible today. CyArk operates internationally as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of using new technologies to create a free, 3D online library of the world's cultural heritage sites before they are lost to natural disasters, destroyed by human aggression or ravaged by the passage of time." - maitani - -

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Welcome to TCA http://classicalanthology... http://classicalanthology...

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"The Classical Anthology is a collection of beautiful, inspiring and memorable passages from Greek and Latin literature, each with a translation so that anyone can enjoy them and share them. It includes anything written in Greek or Latin, from earliest times to the present day." - maitani - -

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via AWOL http://ancientworldonline... - maitani - -

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Announcement: Crowdsourcing Cappelli's Lexicon abbreviaturarum http://ancientworldonline... http://www.adfontes.uzh.c...

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"The Ad fontes project (www.adfontes.uzh.ch) is going to hack Cappelli! We want to digitally hack the Lexicon abbreviaturarum of Adriano Cappelli into pieces in order to digitize and make each and every abbreviation systematically searchable. The „Cappelli“, printed in 1899, is a benchmark book for abbreviations in Latin and Italian, containing about 15'000 abbreviations." - maitani - -

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"By crowdsourcing Cappelli, the abbreviations are going to be searchable beyond alphabetical traits. Browsing through the pages of Cappelli will be a thing of the past. You will be able to filter the abbreviations by identified letters or the position of abbreviation or contraction signs." - maitani - -

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THE WATERS OF ROME http://www3.iath.virginia... http://www3.iath.virginia...

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A refereed, on-line journal of occasional papers concerned with water studies and the city of Rome - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for October 2015 http://britishlibrary.typ... http://a3.typepad.com/6a0...

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"A slightly grisly bas-de-page scene greets us this month: an ox is about to meet its end, while two men barter over the sale of another on the other side of the wall. Other peasants are carrying baskets of grapes to a shed in the distance, where we can see them being pressed to make wine. The roundels contain depictions relating to the major religious festivals of October: the feast day of Saints Bavo and Remigius, St Dionysius/Denis (shown holding his own head), St Donatian, St Luke (with a bull, his Evangelist symbol, in the background) and Saints Simon and Jude. As we noted last month, the artist has mistakenly reversed the order of September and October’s Zodiac symbols: Libra (in the form of scales) being shown here at the top of the page instead of Scorpio." - maitani - -

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Why do all cities have neighborhoods?http://wideurbanworld.blo... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"It is interesting to note that neighborhoods can form in two very different ways. The most common path throughout history was the bottom-up approach. People living in an area interact with those around them (their neighbors), and eventually clusters or people, or communities, develop on their own out of the day-to-day actions of people. But in some cases, city or government authorities create neighborhoods. They organize cities from the top down, and people move into ready-made neighborhoods." - maitani - -

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Where Do Languages Go to Die? http://www.theatlantic.co... http://cdn.theatlantic.co...

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"If a Middle Eastern man from 2,500 years ago found himself on his home territory in 2015, he would be shocked by the modern innovations, and not just electricity, airplanes, and iPhones. Arabic as an official language in over two dozen countries would also seem as counterintuitive to him as if people had suddenly started keeping aardvarks as pets." - maitani - -

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Providing them with termites and ants might be a bit tricky, I suppose. I didn't even know aardvarks exist before I read this article! - maitani - -

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Shakespeare’s encounter with Michel de Montaigne http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://blogoup.electricst...

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"Of all the books that Shakespeare encountered – whether he owned them, borrowed them, or flipped through their pages in a bookstall near St. Paul’s – the most original and engrossing may well have been the Essays of Michel de Montaigne as translated by the scholar John Florio. Published in 1603, this work was probably known to Shakespeare even before it appeared in print. Florio, after all, had obtained the patronage of the Earl of Southampton in the early 1590s – the same Earl to whom Shakespeare had dedicated Venus and Adonis in 1593 and The Rape of Lucrece a year later. So there’s every likelihood that the two writers met and talked shop within the Southampton circle. Florio also mentions that half a dozen other scholars had attempted to translate Montaigne, but that none were sufficiently adept in French to succeed at the task. Montaigne, in other words, was something of a sensation in late sixteenth-century London. And Shakespeare, a voracious and opportunistic reader, would have been curious to know whether this was a writer from whom he might learn, take pleasure, or steal." - maitani - -

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190 years ago the first railway service began at Stockton and Darlington in 1825

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