#Muscovite

Muscovite's name derives from its use in "Muscovy glass" in 17th century Russia. It easily breaks into very thin, translucent sheets that were cheaper than glass. This property means it

It's 2020, the year where anything can happen.The #MinCup2020 bracket is sticking to the rules with all official minerals. Voting starts September 1st.Who will join legends #Olivine (2017), #Garnet (2018),

A hypothesis I've been mulling over for some time in thread form;The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Reichs - all of them... Archduke, Kaiser and Fuhrer - has

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Crowns are expensive, unwieldy, usually gaudy and justify hereditary authoritarian power structures - in other words really cool, and Europe has loads, all with interesting histories and confusing origins, so

President-Elect CivilDrivel

https://digital.nls.uk/encyclopaedia-britannica/archive/144133900The 1771 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is an odd book. For example, it shows Muscovite Tartaria as the biggest, most populace nation on Earth. Bet you never learned t

On April 21 the official channel of Belarus border control complained that Poland & Lithuania hamper the truck flows from the EU to Belarus. The question is - why would

Why Russia will lose this war?Much of the "realist" discourse is about accepting Putin's victory, cuz it's *guaranteed*. But how do we know it is?I'll argue that analysts 1) overrate