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RT @erlesen: The Neolithic Southwest Asian Founder Crops http://www.jstor.org/action... einkorn, emmer, barley, lentil, pea, chickpea flax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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3quarksdaily: Gavrilo Princip, Conspiracy Theories and the Fragility of Cause and Effect - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

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"Ashutosh Jogalekar in Scientfic American (Achille Beltrame's illustration of the June 28, 1914 assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip (Image: Wikipedia)):" - maitani - -

"When you read the story of the shots that led to World War 1, what strikes you is how staggering the gulf between cause and effect was, how little it takes for history to change, how utterly subject to accidental and unlikely events the fickle fortunes of men are. Reading the story of Princip and the Archduke, one sometimes gets the feeling of being no more than wood chips being cast adrift on the roaring river of history." - maitani - -

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Mineral fodder - We may think we are the first organisms to remake the planet, but life has been transforming the earth for aeons http://aeon.co/magazin...

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"One could easily be forgiven for thinking that life bears little connection to rocks. From high-school science curricula to Wikipedia, the institutional separation of geology and biology seems as ingrained today as when the 18th-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus first distinguished animals, vegetables, and minerals. After all, what could be more different than a fragrant rose and a cold chunk of granite?" - maitani - -

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"...during the floods papyrus swamps provided a larder of fresh food (birds, fish and game). In the modern world papyrus swamps are key to the development and sustainability of many areas in Africa where the swamps today act as sewage filters." (comment by http://www.salon.com/profile... on the article posted here http://friendfeed.com/history... )

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I have had a papyrus for years, and I keep the pot in standing water. I was really astonished by the fact that water and soil never developed that rotten smell (like other plants when getting too much water), they don't smell at all. - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Antiquity in the Online-Publikationsserver (OPUS) der Universität Würzburg - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2011...

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4,000-Year-Old Burial with Chariots Discovered in South Caucasus - http://www.livescience.com/46513-a...

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"An ancient burial containing chariots, gold artifacts and possible human sacrifices has been discovered by archaeologists in the country of Georgia, in the south Caucasus." - maitani - -

"Archaeologists discoveredthe timber burial chamber within a 39-foot-high (12 meters) mound called a kurgan. When the archaeologists reached the chamber they found an assortment of treasures, including two chariots, each with four wooden wheels." - maitani - -

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The Ancient Egyptian invention that made everything else possible - Salon.com - http://www.salon.com/2014...

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Aye. I've had quite a bit to do with the Hittites lately. Mittani's been around, too. To get back to papyrus: When the Hittites switch from clay tablets to papyrus, we stop hearing from them. Thanks, Egypt :-P - maitani - -

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I am quite interested in Egypt's relations with Mittani and with the Hittites. - maitani - -

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Young Leonard Cohen Reads His Poetry in 1966 (Before His Days as a Musician Began) - | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"Many a singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence in the 1960s has taken the label of “poet,” usually applied by adoring fans, no doubt to the objection of a fair few serious poetry enthusiasts. But who among them could deny Leonard Cohen’s status as a poet? Though best known as a musician, Cohen has also racked up indisputable writerly credentials, having published not just the novels Beautiful Losers and The Favorite Game but many books of poetry including Death of a Lady’s Man, Let Us Compare Mythologies, and Flowers for Hitler. Some of them include not just poems written as poems but song lyrics — or perhaps works that began as songs but became poems. Surely his albums contain songs that began as poems. Those interested in figuring out Cohen’s simultaneous development as a poet and songwriter would do well to listen to his early poetry readings, like that of “Prayer for Messiah” at the top of the post." - maitani - -

You should listen to the 92nd Y poetry readings <3 - maitani - -

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Why Germany Wants to Look Like Its Soccer Team - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society - http://www.psmag.com/navigat...

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"On the evening of June 25, 2008, Germany played one of the most-hyped soccer games in its long, proud history: The semi-finals of the 2008 UEFA European Championship. It wasn’t the country’s most important match—by 2008 Germany had already won both the European Championship and the World Cup three times—but the match carried a new kind of cultural importance. Germany’s opponent was Turkey, a nation from which Germany has received more immigrants than any other. Earlier in 2008, video emerged of two men with immigrant backgrounds (one Turkish and one Greek) brutally attacking an elderly German man in the Munich subway. The attack, which appeared to be ethnically motivated, had piqued anti-immigrant sentiment across Germany. As supporters of each team emerged from their homes to fill Germany’s public-viewing areas, the pre-match news cycle was focused as much on what might happen on the streets that evening as it was on what might happen on the soccer field in Basel." - maitani - -

"In a country where immigrants haven’t always been welcome, politicians champion Die Mannschaft as an integrated model of diversity." - maitani - -

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Leo Tolstoy's Family Recipe for Macaroni and Cheese - | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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It was the best of cheese, it was the worst of cheese. - maitani - -

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"In 1874, Stepan Andreevich Bers published The Cookbook and gave it as a gift to his sister, countess Sophia Andreevna Tolstaya, the wife of the great Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy. The book contained a collection of Tolstoy family recipes, the dishes they served to their family and friends, those fortunate souls who belonged to the aristocratic ruling class of late czarist Russia. Almost 150 years later, this cookbook has been translated and republished by Sergei Beltyukov. Available in an inexpensive Kindle format ($3.99), Leo Tolstoy’s family recipe book features dozens of recipes, everything from Tartar Sauce and Spiced Mushrooms (what’s a Russian kitchen without mushrooms?), to Stuffed Dumplings and Green Beans à la Maître d’Hôtel, to Coffee Cake and Viennese Pie. The text comes with a translation, too, of Russian weights and measures used during the period. One recipe Mr. Beltyukov provided to us (which I didn’t see in the book) is for the Tolstoy’s good ole Mac ‘N’ Cheese dish. It goes something like this:" - maitani - -

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Note to David Brat: Free Markets Are Not Calvinist | Religion Dispatches - http://religiondispatches.org/note-to...

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Nelson "Laissez-faire" Mandela would be a respectable addition :) - maitani - -

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"The confusion may go back even farther than Max Weber’s “Protestant ethic” thesis, all the way to the 16th century, when the Protestant reformer John Calvin waxed poetic in his Institutes of the Christian Religion about the importance of “freedom” in a Christian’s life. A Christian is no longer a slave to the law—neither the Torah nor the laws of the Roman Church. The Christian is free from condemnation, free to obey God joyfully, and free to make individual choices about earthly matters—even including usury (lending money at interest). So thus far it may seem that Calvin put his stamp of approval on the market free-for-all that’s so popular with bankers, business owners, financiers, and Brat voters." - maitani - -

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Does learning a second language lead to a new identity? | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"One group of successful language learners includes those who write in a second language. For example, Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, wrote Heart of Darkness in English, a language he spoke with a very strong accent. He was of Polish origin and considered himself to be of Polish origin his entire life. Despite his heavy accent, he is regarded by many as one of the greatest English writers. Interestingly, English was his third language. Before moving to England, he lived in France and was known to have a very good accent in his second language. Hence, success came to Conrad in a language he spoke less than perfectly." - maitani - -

"But what if we took a different approach. Rather than ask what makes learning a second language so hard, let’s ask what makes it easier." - maitani - -

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BBC News - The day trip that devastated New York's Little Germany - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"On a fine summer's day 110 years ago, more than 1,000 people died in a disaster in New York. It was a massive blow to the city's German community, which never fully recovered." - maitani - -

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This Is Your Brain on Writing by Carl Zimmer - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2014...

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"A novelist scrawling away in a notebook in seclusion may not seem to have much in common with an NBA player doing a reverse layup on a basketball court before a screaming crowd. But if you could peer inside their heads, you might see some striking similarities in how their brains were churning." - maitani - -

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THE HISTORIES OF HERODOTUS, TRANSLATED BY TOM HOLLAND http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-his... essay by Steve Donoghue found via #3quarksdaily

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I read Waterfield's 2008 translation (Oxford World's Classics). This is the first example from his translation: "The men may well be magicians, since the Scythians and the Greeks who live in Scythia say that once a year every Neurian becomes a wolf for a few days and then reverts to his original state. Personally I do not believe this, but they make the claim despite its implausibility, and even swear that they are telling the truth." I do not feel I need to read another translation of this work, but I will probably try to read the foreword to this (slightly) new(er) edition :) - maitani - -

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3quarksdaily: THE HISTORIES OF HERODOTUS, TRANSLATED BY TOM HOLLAND - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

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Steve Donoghue at The Quarterly Conversation: "For centuries, men of letters and plenty of his fellow historians took great pleasure in reducing the prototypical chronicler, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, to the status of a mere wonder-monger, the garrulous and credulous counter-weight to the austere objectivity of his younger contemporary and immediate successor, Thucydides. In fact, it was a thinly veiled slight in Thucydides’s great work on the Peloponnesian War that got the tradition of Herodotus-bashing started; after that, a bitterly moralizing essay by Plutarch kept it going, it flourished in the Renaissance, and it persisted into modern times. Even fifty years ago, the great classicist Peter Green was gently mocking the standard reduction of “The Father of History”:" - maitani - -

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Download 78 Free Online History Courses: From Ancient Greece to The Modern World - | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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Telemachos in Ithaca | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"How do you hear the call of the poet to the Muse that opens every epic poem? The following is extract from Barry B. Powell’s new free verse translation of The Odyssey by Homer. It is accompanied by two recordings: one of the first 105 lines in Ancient Greek, the other of the first 155 lines in the new translation. How does your understanding change in each of the different versions?" - maitani - -

"Sing to me of the resourceful man, O Muse, who wandered far after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. He saw the cities of many men and he learned their minds. He suffered many pains on the sea in his spirit, seeking to save his life and the homecoming of his companions. But even so he could not save his companions, though he wanted to, for they perished of their own folly—the fools! They ate the cattle of Helios Hyperion, who took from them the day of their return. Of these matters, beginning where you want, O daughter of Zeus, tell to us." - maitani - -

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Egyptologist unravels ancient mystery -- ScienceDaily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

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"It is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of all times: the disappearance of a Persian army of 50,000 men in the Egyptian desert around 524 BC. A professor has now unearthed a cover-up affair and solved the riddle." - maitani - -

"Herodotus It must have been a sand storm, writes the Greek historian Herodotus. He tells the story of the Persian King Cambyses, who entered the Egyptian desert near Luxor (then Thebes) with 50,000 men. The troops supposedly never returned; they were swallowed by a sand dune. A fantastic tale that was long the subject of many debates." - maitani - -

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Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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Style Over Substance | Boston Review - http://bostonreview.net/books-i...

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"During the war Proust expanded his novel from a projected three volumes to seven. By 1919 Gide had changed his mind about this work in progress, and Gallimard proudly published its second volume. Within a Budding Grove promptly won France’s most prestigious literary prize, Le Prix Goncourt. National, then international, praise followed—in abundance. A few years later Virginia Woolf would sit down to thank a friend for sending her a slab of nougat from Saint-Tropez, but, put in mind of France by the package, she soon found herself talking only of the novel. “My great adventure is really Proust,” she wrote, “I am in a state of amazement; as if a miracle were being done before my eyes. How, at last, has someone solidified what has always escaped—and made it too into this beautiful and perfectly enduring substance? One has to put the book down and gasp. The pleasure becomes physical—like sun and wine and grapes and perfect serenity and intense vitality combined.”" - maitani - -

"One of the most striking aspects of the reception of Proust’s work is how far and how fast that serenity and vitality stretched. One might think that a novel of more than 3,000 pages in which nothing of historical note happens would have a hard time finding an audience at home, and a still harder time abroad. But it did not. As Erich Auerbach wrote in 1925 in one of his first publications (recently made available in English in Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach):" - maitani - -

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On Beauty and Fragrance http://www.metmuseum.org/visit...

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"A quiet life has many rewards: not least of these Is the joy that comes to him who devotes himself to the art They knew at Paestum, and learns the ancient skill of obscene Priapus—the joy that comes of devoting himself to a garden..." - maitani - -

"Though in the Middle Ages plants were used far more out of necessity than they are today, they were also admired for their beauty and fragrance. The medieval pleasure garden was designed for delight, enjoyment, and refreshment; fruit and vegetable production was not the objective." - maitani - -

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Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare's debt to Montaigne http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...

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"When, near the end of his career, Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, the tragicomic romance that seems at least in retrospect to signal his impending retirement to Stratford, he had in his mind and quite possibly on his desk a book of Montaigne’s Essays. One of those essays, “Of the Cannibals,” has long been recognized as a source upon which Shakespeare was clearly drawing." - maitani - -

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The Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World - http://invasionofamerica.ehistory.org/

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"Between 1776 and 1887, the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America's indigenous people by treaty and executive order. Explore how in this interactive map of every Native American land cession during that period." - maitani - -

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