#Medieval

1) Skydiving Beavers.In 1948, Idaho had a beaver problem. Mainly, there were beavers in the cities (if cities exist in Idaho) and there weren't beavers in the wild places that
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“Mohammedanism arose in the Arabian deserts, starting from Mecca which was in that part of the world which the Greeks called Ethiopia and regarded as part of the African Ethiopia.
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In Islamic cosmology, the jinn inhabit a place between worlds belonging not quite to the human realm and not in the world of angels. Some however straddle both. A thread
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The year is 1351. Ibn Battuta, the furthest-ranging traveller of the medieval world, has turned his path towards Mali. In Sijilmasa, Morocco's gateway to the inland Sahara, he joins a
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My contribution to #lockdownbestiary: R is for...HARE. Yes, I know that hares are not rabbits, but I have more to say about hares, so here we go. @LockdownBestia1 @eparpillee @manymanyplies
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Today I'm going to be writing about eels in figurative language. Examining metaphors, similes, etc. is a useful way of getting a sense for a historical culture.Lots of metaphors =
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1 Please read. Thank you.What are important & effective mitigating factors in COVID?1st, what is "a mitigating factor" in medicine?It's something that has the effect of making something bad less
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there's a whole kind of chinese armor that is EXTENSIVELY documented in sculpture but we STILL have no idea what it really looked like, how it was made, or even
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thread of great ancient BLACK african civilizations (because i'm tired of y'all fighting over ancient egypt and people putting down african history.) the kingdom of aksum (circa 100 CE –
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Today a Protest Thread of #FridayMotivation about single mums & illegitimate kids. 1st my favourite short story writer bar none Lorna Moon who wrote Holywood screenplays in the 1920s &
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NEW: Labour, SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid and DUP are lining up to support @SirGrahamBrady’s amendment to give parliament more say on coronavirus.Number of Conservative rebels is up to 60, meaning
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I love this iconic image of Sasunc‘i Davit‘, one of the main heroes of the Armenian epic Sasna Cṙer. The epic covers 4 generations from the Islamic conquests to the
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It’s #LockdownBestiary #unicorn day! Unicorns (animal w/ a horn) are real & many! Some even have several horns. How many unicorn types were there & did horns have special qualities?
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A thread concerning the spread of Christianity in Scotland. This is such an interesting topic to me because Christianity has been in Scotland for so long, that we don't really
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There is a reason why Chapekar brothers are mentioned. It is not that before this Brits were not assassinated by IndiansBut no one treated Brits with contempt/disgust as this section
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Doing a special thread, which I will include on my website as well. Since one could argue that a nation's name is actually a symbolical representation historically constructed as a
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