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Five Flood Stories You Didn’t Know About | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches - http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive...

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“There’s a map for that!” Visualizing the Medieval World | medievalfragments - http://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014...

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"While we tend to use maps to show distance, medieval maps are more focused on relationships. Probably the most common type of medieval mappa mundi, or world map, was the O-T map (so called because it looks like an O with a T in it) which clearly depicted the continents as the settling places of Noah’s sons Shem (Asia), Japeth (Europe) and Cham (Africa). It was based on Isidore of Seville’s seventh-century description of the physical world." - maitani - -

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Cross Stitch Just Got Cool ~ Kuriositas - http://www.kuriositas.com/2014...

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"Cross stitch is one of the oldest forms of embroidery in the world. So, it’s little surprise that its reputation is of something rather fusty that your grandmother might enjoy. However, cross stitch has a new fan base and, led by types of Ambra. A 30 year old Italian crafter, stitcher, pattern-designer and nerd she has helped rehabilitate the ancient art and it is now - officially - cool again. If that seems a little tongue in cheek then perhaps it is – one look at Ambra’s amazing designs, however, and you know that there is much truth in what we say. She has created hundreds of patterns all of which can be seen and downloaded on her website, cloudsfactory.net." - maitani - -

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Der Frühling hält Einzug auf meiner Dachterrasse!

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:-) This is my favourite season of the year. I can't wait to replant the pots with flowers. It is still a bit too early though, there may be frost in the nights. From May to September, I spend most evenings in my roof garden. - maitani - -

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Literary Review - Jonathan Keates on citrus fruits in Italy - http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/keates_...

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"Goethe's 'The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister', a neglected masterpiece if ever there was, is known nowadays for a single line from a ballad sung by Mignon, the daughter of a wandering musician. 'Know'st thou the land where the lemon trees bloom?' begins her mysterious song, describing an imagined world of blue skies, marble statues and thunderous waterfalls, not without a lurking menace beneath its beauty. When Wilhelm asks her where she heard it, Mignon answers, 'Italy! If thou go to Italy, take me along with thee; for I am too cold here.'" - maitani - -

"The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit By Helena Attlee (Particular Books 248pp £20)" - maitani - -

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BBC News - Cambodia: Ancient Angkor temples added to Street View - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"Cambodia's most famous ancient temple, Angkor Wat, can now be visited virtually on Google Street View, it appears." - maitani - -

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Where pastoralist met farmer and East met West (Spengler et al. 2014) - http://dienekes.blogspot.de/2014...

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"Mobile pastoralists living in (southern) Central Asian alluvial fans and along the mountainous spine of Central Eurasia also integrated farming into their own domestic strategies (at least) by the mid second millenniumBC. Their pastoral mobility and the formation of extensive networks throughout the IAMC helped spread particular grain morphotypes and a mixed plant cohort of wheat, barley, millet and green peas through the mountains between Xinjiang, China and southwest Asia in the second millennium BC. The seasonal campsites of Begash, Tasbas, Ojakly and Site 1211/1219 are the earliest sites thus far reported to break down the strict polarization between nomads and farmers in prehistoric Central Eurasia. They also transform our comprehension of the vast arena of interaction that defines this region in ancient times." - maitani - -

"Archaeobotanical data from Central Eurasian pastoralist campsites have major implications for our understanding of late prehistoric agriculture across Asia. Sites like Tasbas and Begash illustrate the earliest acquisition of domesticated crops by mobile pastoralists and illustrate their capacity to participate in exchanges that bridged East Asian and Central Asian farming cultures by the early third millennium BC." - maitani - -

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Lists of the Best Sentences — Opening, Closing, and Otherwise — in English-Language Novels - Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"At The Atlantic, Joe Fassler has separately collected 22 writers’ own favorite novel-opening lines, a list that includes the one from Nabokov’s highly quotable novel and another from later in Joyce’s oeuvre:" - maitani - -

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The only first line that came to mind when I tried to think of my favorites was: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." :) - maitani - -

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Does the unconscious know when you’re being lied to? « Mind Hacks - http://mindhacks.com/2014...

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"The headlines BBC: Truth or lie – trust your instinct, says research British Psychological Society: Our subconscious mind may detect liars Daily Mail: Why you SHOULD go with your gut: Instinct is better at detecting lies than our conscious mind The Story Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that we have the ability to unconsciously detect lies, even when we’re not able to explicitly say who is lying and who is telling the truth." - maitani - -

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International Dunhuang Project: Photographs of Samye Monastery in 1935–36 - http://idpuk.blogspot.de/2014...

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"We have just digitized a series of photographs of Samye monastery taken in 1935–36. These prints are from the papers of F.W. Thomas, Tibetologist and librarian at the India Office Library. They were sent to him by Hugh Richardson, another Tibetologist who was stationed in Tibet as the British Trade Agent for several years. There are two different sets of photos. Richardson posted the first set of thirteen to Thomas in August 1938, explaining that they were taken at a consecration ceremony held at Samye after recent restoration works. Here is the text of Richardson's letter:" - maitani - -

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How to Search the Invisible Web - OnlineUniversities.com - http://www.onlineuniversities.com/article...

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"What we access every day through popular search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing is referred to as the Surface Web. These familiar search engines crawl through tens of trillions of pages of available content (Google alone is said to have indexed more than 30 trillion web pages) and bring that content to us on demand. As big as this trove of information is, however, this represents only the tip of the iceberg. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, was asked to estimate the size of the World Wide Web. He estimated that of roughly 5 million terabytes of data, Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes, or only .004% of the total internet." - maitani - -

"Open access journal databases (OAJD) are compilations of free scholarly journals maintained in a manner that facilitates access by researchers and others who are seeking specific information or knowledge. Because these databases are comprised of unlinked content, they are located in the invisible web. The vast majority of these journals are of the highest quality, with peer reviews and extensive vetting of the content before publication. However, there has been a trend of journals that are accepting scholarship without adequate quality controls, and with arrangements designed to make money for the publishers rather than furtherance of scholarship. It is important to be careful and review the standards of the database and journals chosen. “This helpful guide” explains what to look for. Below is a sample list of well-regarded and reputable databases." - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for April 2014 - Medieval manuscripts blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"Happy April everybody! And what better way to start the month than with some more sensational pages from the stupendous Huth Hours? If you have already been following our blog – and who hasn’t? – you’ll know that our calendar of the year is taken from this beautiful 15th-century manuscript (for more information, please see our post A Calendar Page for January 2014)." - maitani - -

"So what delights does April bring us? The promise of early spring often yields images of very pleasant labours indeed for this month, and these calendar pages from the Huth Hours are no exception. Our first folio gives us a roundel miniature of a well-dressed couple courting while walking along a garden path. The themes of fertility, birth, and rebirth are emphasised by the flowering branch being carried by the ardent young man, and by the small child following the couple (whether he is acting as chaperone or as a sign of things to come remains a bit of a mystery). The saints' days and feasts for April are continued on the following folio, along with a small painting of a bull for the zodiac sign Taurus. In the roundel below is a charming scene of a shepherd surrounded by his flock, playing a recorder for his appreciative dog. A similar musical shepherd can be found on the calendar page for April of 2013; we'll let you know if we encounter any other examples! " - maitani - -

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“In the Ukraine”? “In Ukraine”? “On Ukraine”?—Clarifying the Issue | GeoCurrents - http://www.geocurrents.info/cultura...

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"A recent article in The Washington Post by Katie Zezima asked whether the country should be referred to as “the Ukraine” or simply “Ukraine”, without the definite article. Recent usage of the article with the country’s name by several American politicians apparently raised some ire on the part of certain Ukrainian pundits. Former US ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. explains: “I don’t want to say it’s derogatory, but it’s putting it in a subordinate position. When you talk about ‘the Ukraine’, that suggests that you really don’t think that Ukraine is a sovereign independent country.”" - maitani - -

"It is time for GeoCurrents to dispel some myths about this issue. First, note that some differences in toponym usage or pronunciation correlate with one’s political views. Take, for example, the pronunciation of the second vowel in the country name Iraq: it can be pronounced either as in father or as in fat. As discovered by Stanford linguistics graduate students Lauren Hall-Lew, Rebecca L. Starr, and Elizabeth Coppock (see Sources listed at the bottom of this post): liberals tend to use the [a] as in father, while conservatives more often use the [æ] as in fat. The use of the Ukraine, however, seems to be equally common among Democrats and Republicans. US President Barack Obama is quoted in The Washington Post as saying (italics mine): “It is important that Congress stand with us. I don’t doubt the bipartisan concern that’s been expressed about the situation in the Ukraine”. Republican Mitt Romney also used “the Ukraine” while criticizing Obama on CBS’s “Face the Nation”: “And unfortunately, not having anticipated Russia’s intentions, the president wasn’t able to shape the kinds of events that may have been able to prevent the kinds of circumstances that you’re seeing in the Ukraine”." - maitani - -

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BBC News - The six key moments of the Cold War relived - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"The US, UK and France were allied with the communist Soviet Union during World War Two, but as it became clear victory in the war was approaching new battle lines started to be drawn. What followed was 45 years of tension, marked by espionage and proxy wars involving client states, all undertaken with the knowledge of the nuclear catastrophe that actual war would bring. People who experienced the key events of the conflict describe how it affected them - and Cold War expert Scott Lucas, of Birmingham University and EA WorldView, explains how they fitted into the bigger picture." - maitani - -

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"A peaceful sun gilded her evening" | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"On 31 March 1855 – Easter Sunday – Charlotte Brontë died at Haworth Parsonage. She was 38 years old, and the last surviving Brontë child. In this deeply moving letter to her literary advisor W. S. Williams, written on 4 June 1849, she reflects on the deaths of her sisters Anne and Emily." - maitani - -

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Working Memory and The Movies Streaming In Our Heads | Talking back, Scientific American Blog Network - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking...

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"Peter Carruthers began his career studying philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Leeds, an outpost for Wittgenstein scholarship. Carruthers waded through the Austrian-British philosopher’s thinking for the early part of his career, getting a doctorate from Oxford and publishing books on Wittgenstein along the way." - maitani - -

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How We Retrieve Memories - Brain Basics #1 - Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/video...

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I hope I'll manage to watch at least part of the video. - maitani - -

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I've also read as you get older this occurs not because of dementia, because you just know too much stuff. It becomes hard to retrieve everything efficiently. - maitani - -

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IN DEFENCE OF DIVERSITY | Pandaemonium - http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2013...

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That's a really good essay. - maitani - -

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Wattle and daub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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"The wattle and daub technique was used already in the Neolithic period. It was common for houses of a Linear pottery and Rössen cultures of Central Europe, but is also found in Western Asia (Çatalhöyük, Shillourokambos) as well as in North America (Mississippian Culture) and South America (Brazil). In Africa it is common in the architecture of traditional houses such as those of the Ashanti people. Its usage dates back at least 6000 years. There are suggestions that construction techniques such as lath and plaster and even cob may have evolved from wattle and daub. Fragments from prehistoric wattle and daub buildings have been found in Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica and North America.[2] A review of English architecture especially reveals that the sophistication of this craft is dependent on the various styles of timber frame housing." - maitani - -

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"Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6000 years and is still an important construction material in many parts of the world. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction, and the technique is becoming popular again in more developed areas as a low-impact sustainable building technique." - maitani - -

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Oriental Institute | IRAN - Persepolis - http://oi.uchicago.edu/gallery...

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"IRAN: Persepolis - Apadana of Darius (ca. 520 B.C.) - Detail of the middle register of the left side of the eastern stairway, showing foreigners bringing tribute." - maitani - -

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Deep Habits: Should You Track Hours or Milestones? - Study Hacks - Cal Newport - http://calnewport.com/blog...

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"Some of you have been requesting to hear more about my own struggles to live deeply in a distracted world. In this spirit, I want discuss strategies for completing important but non-urgent projects. In my experience, there are two useful things to track with respect to this type of work:" - maitani - -

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"The advantage of tracking milestones, for example, is that the urge to achieve a clear outcome can inspire you to hustle; i.e., drop everything for a couple days and just hammer on the project until it gets where you need it to be. Sometimes my projects fall into a state of stasis where hustle of this type is needed to get unstuck." - maitani - -

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A Concise History of Geological Maps: From Outcrop to the first Map | History of Geology, Scientific American Blog Network - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history...

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"March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is also credited with creating the first useful geological map, however like many other great accomplishments also Smith’s idea of depicting the distribution of rocks on a topographic map didn’t materialize out of nowhere." - maitani - -

"The German mining engineer Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) dedicated in his “De re metallica” (1556) - an early textbook on mining technologies – an entire chapter to the distribution of valuable rocks in earth’s crust. The written description is correlated with various figures, showing in a sort of combined landscape – section the distribution, thickness and direction inside the mountain of the mineralized veins." - maitani - -

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The Holozene Lattice - by Razib Khan http://www.unz.com/gnxp...

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"Joe Pickrell and David Reich have put up a preprint at BioRxiv, Towards a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA. Since it’s a preprint at BioRxiv you can 1) read it for free 2) comment on it. It is a magesterial review of “where we are,” though close readers of this weblog may not find much that is new in their survey of the empirical results which are coming out of human population genomics and ancient DNA analysis. In regards to this let me highlight two sentences. First, it is now clear that long-range migration, admixture and population replacement have been the rule rather than the exception in human history. Second, the serial founder effect model is no longer a reasonable null hypothesis for modeling the ancient spread of anatomically modern humans around the globe. For the second I’m thinking in particular of Sohini Ramanchandran’s 2005 paper, Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa, though the model is older than that obviously, as is made clear in the acknowledgments." - maitani - -

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The Normans and Empire - by David Bates http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"The expansion of the peoples calling themselves the Normans throughout northern and southern Europe and the Middle East has long been one of the most popular and written about topics in medieval history. Hence, although devoted mainly to the history of the cross-Channel empire created by William the Conqueror’s conquest of the English kingdom in 1066 and the so-called loss of Normandy in 1204, I wanted to contribute to these discussions and to the ongoing debates about the impact of this expansion on the histories of the nations and cultures of Europe. That peoples from a region of northern France should become conquerors is one of the apparently inexplicable paradoxes of the subject. The other one is how the conquering Normans apparently faded away, absorbed into the societies they had conquered or within the kingdom of France." - maitani - -

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Happy Nowruz!

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Happy Nowruz, dear Maitani <3 - maitani - -

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Mina!!! I wish you happiness, prosperity and good luck! <3 - maitani - -

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JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait | Books | theguardian.com - http://www.theguardian.com/books...

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"Telling of how the Geatish prince Beowulf comes to the aid of Danish king Hroðgar, slaying the monster Grendel and his mother before - spoiler alert - being mortally wounded by a dragon years later, Beowulf is is the longest epic poem in Old English, and is dated to the early 11th century. It survives in a single manuscript, housed at the British Library, and has inspired countless retellings of the myth - recently and famously by the late Seamus Heaney, whose translation won him the Whitbread book of year award in 1999." - maitani - -

"Hwæt! Almost 90 years after JRR Tolkien translated the 11th-century poem Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings author's version of the epic story is to be published for the first time in an edition which his son Christopher Tolkien says sees his father "enter[ing] into the imagined past" of the heroes." - maitani - -

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