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Eurozine - I was a slave in Puglia - Fabrizio Gatti - http://www.eurozine.com/article...

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"They number at least five thousand people, maybe seven thousand. No one has ever carried out a census. They're all foreigners; all employed as so-called "black workers": that is, subject to illegal, untaxed and underpaid work scams. They are Romanians with or without work permits, Bulgarians, Poles. And Africans: from Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Senegal, Sudan and Eritrea. Some entered the country only a few days ago, illegally on small boats. They came from Libya because they knew that in the summer they could find work here. It makes no sense to patrol the coasts if Italian businessmen decide to ignore the law. Down here, they also ignore the Constitution: the first, second and third Articles. As well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." - maitani - -

"A journey that takes one beyond the limits of human imagination: this is how Fabrizio Gatti describes his experience of a week spent undercover among immigrant labourers in Puglia in order to report on the horrors that these modern slaves endure." - maitani - -

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Earth's Water Is Older Than the Sun - D-brief | DiscoverMagazine.com - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief...

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"A new model of the chemistry of the early solar system finds that up to half the water now on Earth was inherited from an abundant supply of interstellar ice as our sun formed. That means our solar system’s moisture wasn’t the result of local conditions in the proto-planetary disk, but rather a regular feature of planetary formation — raising hopes that life could indeed exist elsewhere in the universe." - maitani - -

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The language of snooker | OxfordWords blog - http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014...

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"Snooker is a nineteenth-century development of the much older game of billiards, which dates back as far as the sixteenth century. Billiards gets its name from the French word billard ‘cue’, a diminutive form of bille ‘stick’. Once adopted into English the word was pluralized, on the model of other games such as draughts and bowls, giving us billiards, or ‘little sticks’. The game of snooker gets its name from a Woolwich slang term for a newly-recruited cadet; it is believed to have been transferred to the game when an army colonel stationed in Jabalpur used it to describe the poor play of a fellow officer. Another related game is a nineteenth-century American development of billiards, in which players pot balls in order to claim the collective stake or pool, from which the game gets its name. This word, most commonly used today in card games, may be related in some obscure way to the French poule ‘hen’." - maitani - -

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Philippe Jaroussky : FAURÉ, Pie Jesu - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Online Resources from ISAW — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - http://isaw.nyu.edu/online-...

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"The creation of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University has its roots in the passion that Shelby White and Leon Levy had for the art and history of the ancient world, which led them to envision an Institute that would offer an unshuttered view of antiquity across vast stretches of time and place." - maitani - -

Ancient World Digital Library Book Viewer - Ancient World Image Bank - Ancient World Online - The Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā - Exhibitions - ISAW Papers - Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) - Papyri.info - Planet Atlantides - Pleiades - Social Media - maitani - -

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Naqsh-i Rustam - Incredible Reliefs of Persian Empires http://www.kuriositas.com/2011...

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"Most people have heard of the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran. Yet just north of the metropolis of antiquity is a sheer cliff, known as Naqsh-i Rustam. Here, in the second millennium BCE, work began on a quite staggering series of rock reliefs which – even today – have the ability to awe in terms of their size and the staggering amount of work which must have been involved in their creation." - maitani - -

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Was There an 'Early Modern' Period in Indian Philosophy? - Justin Erik Halldór Smith - http://www.jehsmith.com/1...

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"If philosophy questions everything, surely it must also question the periodization of its own history. Professional historians themselves tend to agree that the imposition of periods on the past –premodern, Renaissance, early modern, and so on-- is always to some degree arbitrary, even if it is also impossible to imagine how we could describe the past without any periodization at all. The bounding off of temporal regions in this way is made all the more problematic if we wish to consider the past from a global perspective, rather than simply focusing on a single region, since the rationale for periodization in one place might not apply in another." - maitani - -

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The Tironian et (⁊) in Galway, Ireland | Sentence first - http://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014...

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"The Tironian et is a remnant of Tiro’s shorthand system, which was popular for centuries but is now almost entirely discontinued. The mark lives on in just a couple of writing systems, one of which is Irish." - maitani - -

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Someone created this place for everyone to enjoy, or rather for those who are prepared to keep things in order.

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Short term open access to articles in the current Anatolian Studies http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2014...

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Anatolian Studies is the flagship journal of the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA). It publishes peer-reviewed research articles focused on Turkey and the Black Sea littoral region in the fields of history, archaeology and related social sciences. - maitani - -

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Life Is Random: Biologists now realize that “nature vs. nurture” misses the importance of noise http://tm.durusau.net/?p=56319

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"Is our behavior determined by genetics, or are we products of our environments? What matters more for the development of living things—internal factors or external ones? Biologists have been hotly debating these questions since shortly after the publication of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Charles Darwin’s half-cousin Francis Galton was the first to try to understand this interplay between “nature and nurture” (a phrase he coined) by studying the development of twins." - maitani - -

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Aristotle on perceiving objects | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"Imagine a possible world where you are having coffee with … Aristotle! You begin exchanging views on how you like the coffee; you examine its qualities – it is bitter, hot, aromatic, etc. It tastes to you this way or this other way. But how do you make these perceptual judgments? It might seem obvious to say that it is via the senses we are endowed with. Which senses though? How many senses are involved in coffee tasting? And how many senses do we have in all?" - maitani - -

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Eurozine - Passing the buck - Fabrizio Gatti The Lampedusa shipwreck of 11 October 2013 - http://www.eurozine.com/article...

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What made you think of this now? I'm asking because I was just reading a Norwegian article yesterday about how this really needs to be handled by Europe as a whole; share the costs and make sure that we have decent facilities to take care of all these desperate human beings. The Mediterranean countries, especially Italy and Greece, really have been fucked over by the rest of us when it comes to refugees trying to enter Europe. - maitani - -

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Eivind, I often think of this because I find it outrageous how our governments (particularly the German government) refuse to take care of these people, and I try to keep up with what is going on. I am subscribed to Eurozine on feedly, that's how I saw this article. - maitani - -

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The Smart Set: Age of Loneliness - September 10, 2014 - http://www.thesmartset.com/article...

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"It is a heart-wrenching love story. That alone would put it in the category of “good summer read.” It is a short book, clocking in at one hundred and fifty-one pages in my edition. It’s thus an easy book to stick into a beach bag or to carry on the train." - maitani - -

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"Yourcenar found a way. She was, like all great writers, extremely lucky. Someone told her an incredible story. A true story. That is what she claimed, anyway. In her preface to the book (first published in 1939), Yourcenar wrote, “The story itself is authentic, and the three characters who are called Erick, Sophie, and Conrad, respectively, remain much as they were described to me by one of the best friends of the principal person concerned.”" - maitani - -

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Norwegian Ethnological Research | Larsblog - http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog...

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"An interesting tidbit that pops up is that in the northernmost province of Finnmark there was a tradition for brewing kvass. Kvass is a style of beer brewed from rye bread that is generally associated with Russia. I assume people in this region imported the practice of brewing it from Russia, which is just across the border from Finnmark. The respondent (NEG 18905) says it was brewed by a few people up to World War II, from water, rye flour, syrup, and yeast. The fermentation took place in a bottle or jar." - maitani - -

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"The definitive book on Norwegian farmhouse ale is Odd Nordland's "Brewing and beer traditions in Norway," published in 1969. That book is now sadly totally unavailable, except from libraries. In the foreword Nordland writes that the book is based on a questionnaire issued by Norwegian Ethnological Research in 1952 and 1957. After digging a little I discovered that this material is actually still available at the institute. The questionnaire is number 35, running to 103 questions." - maitani - -

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How Tibetans Adapted to Such High Altitudes - Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

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"In Scientific American's special issue on human evolution anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison explains—despite some people's insistence humans are no longer subject to natural selection—that we have in fact evolved dramatically in the last 30,000 years and will continue to do so into the future. One of the most fascinating examples of such recent evolution, which we did not have room to include in the magazine feature, is how Tibetans have adapted to living at very high altitudes. You can learn more about such evolution at these links:" - maitani - -

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Yeast Study Suggests Genetics Are Random but Evolution Is Not | Simons Foundation - http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta...

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"In his fourth-floor lab at Harvard University, Michael Desai has created hundreds of identical worlds in order to watch evolution at work. Each of his meticulously controlled environments is home to a separate strain of baker’s yeast. Every 12 hours, Desai’s robot assistants pluck out the fastest-growing yeast in each world — selecting the fittest to live on — and discard the rest. Desai then monitors the strains as they evolve over the course of 500 generations. His experiment, which other scientists say is unprecedented in scale, seeks to gain insight into a question that has long bedeviled biologists: If we could start the world over again, would life evolve the same way?" - maitani - -

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"Many biologists argue that it would not, that chance mutations early in the evolutionary journey of a species will profoundly influence its fate. “If you replay the tape of life, you might have one initial mutation that takes you in a totally different direction,” Desai said, paraphrasing an idea first put forth by the biologist Stephen Jay Gould in the 1980s." - maitani - -

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TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A walkway in Jerez - http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.de/2014...

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"“Jerez” is the hispanicized version of “Sherish” which was its Moorish name when the town was under Islamic rule. The English speaking world modified the Arabic into “Sherry,” Jerez being the origin of Sherry wines." - maitani - -

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Eivind, did you have any favourite place(s) in Andalusia? :-) - maitani - -

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Edition Open Access | Melammu - The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization - http://www.edition-open-access.de/proceed...

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"Melammu volumes have broadened the horizons of studies of antiquity by encouraging the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries between ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection of papers offer new insights and perspectives into connections between the Mediterranean World, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia and India." - maitani - -

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Archaeobotanical Database | University of Tuebingen Archaeology Data Service - http://www.ademnes.de/project...

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"The research project The archaeobotanical database is part of a research project ( for details follow this ) that investigates the development of prehistoric wild plant floras of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The geographic area (go to map ) represented in the data, includes Greece, Turkey, Western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Northern Egypt. The chronological frame comprises the Chalcolithic period, Bronze and Iron Ages, up to Medieval periods. The project is established at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters der Universität Tübingen) and conducted by Simone Riehl. Financial support has been provided by the Ministry of Arts and Science (Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg) and the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)." - maitani - -

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Iceland Eruption, Largest for a Century, Shows No Signs of Stopping - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief...

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"Since August 31, liquid rock has been streaming from a mile-long fissure in the plains around Bardarbunga, the country’s second highest volcano. Ármann Höskuldsson, a volcanologist from the University of Iceland, says that the fissure has now spewed more lava, by area, than any eruption since the 19th century. The university’s most recent estimate puts the amount of lava at nearly eight square miles — enough to cover a quarter of the island of Manhattan." - maitani - -

"The largest lava eruption for over a century is currently underway in central Iceland." - maitani - -

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A September Afternoon on the Grand River, 1825 | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiar...

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"One of the most powerful contributions of scientific illustration is to give us an informed visual where it is typically impossible to find one. While creating images for for a nature walk along the Grand River Walter Bean Trail near Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, illustrator Emily Damstra incorporated archaeological evidence as well as records about the First Nations people to recreate this late summer scene." - maitani - -

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It's the pits: Ancient peach stones offer clues to fruit's origins -- ScienceDaily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

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"Anyone who enjoys biting into a sweet, fleshy peach can now give thanks to the people who first began domesticating this fruit: Chinese farmers who lived 7,500 years ago. Archeologists have a good understanding of domestication -- conscious breeding for traits preferred by people -- of annual plants such as grains (rice, wheat, etc.), but the role of trees in early farming and how trees were domesticated has not been well documented to date." - maitani - -

"Archeologists have a good understanding of domestication -- conscious breeding for traits preferred by people- of annual plants such as grains (rice, wheat, etc.), but the role of trees in early farming and how trees were domesticated is not well documented. Unlike most trees, the peach matures very quickly, producing fruit within two to three years, so selection for desirable traits could become apparent relatively quickly. The problem that Crawford and his colleagues faced was how to recognize the selection process in the archeological record." - maitani - -

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The “Steppe Belt” of stockbreeding cultures in Eurasia during the Early Metal Age http://tp.revistas.csic.es/index...

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"The stock-breeding cultures of the Eurasian “steppe belt” covered approximately 7-8 million square km2 from the Lower Danube in the West to Manchuria in the East (a distance of more than 8000 km). The initial formation of the “steppe belt’cultures coincided with the flourishing of the Carpatho-Balkan-metallurgical province (V millennium BC). These cultures developed during the span of the Circumpontic metallurgical province (IV-III millennium BC). Their maturation coincided with the activity of the various centers of the giant Eurasian and East-Asian metallurgical provinces (II millennium BC). The influence of these stock-breeding nomadic cultures on the historical processes of Eurasian peoples was extremely strong. The collapse of the “steppe belt” occurred as late as the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries AD." - maitani - -

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Since Nazi Occupation, a Fist Raised in Resistance http://www.nytimes.com/2014...

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"ATHENS — AS protests swirled in Athens during the Greek financial crisis, a silver-haired octogenarian could be seen on the front lines, raising a fist at the riot police as they shot tear gas into his face. Other times, even on the same day, the same man might be standing in front of Parliament, insisting that lawmakers repudiate an austerity package demanded by the country’s creditors, which he said would only throw Greece into greater hardship." - maitani - -

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"Today, he is an iconic figure in Greece, a leftist who transcends ideology and a national symbol of resistance — beginning in 1941, when he and a friend, Apostolos Santas, ripped down the Nazi flag from the Acropolis, risking death as Hitler’s forces conquered Athens." - maitani - -

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