February 2012
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire (via rumagin)
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There is currently an ethnic cleansing of black...
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Will black people be wiped out for the second time on African soil by Arabs while the international community - that armed and supported the rebels - says NOTHING??
The Tawerghas, a tribe of black Libyans in the South of the country, are being systematically targeted and killed by the new regime of Tripoli!!
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BEAT NATION :: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture →
edgyrazor:
Beat Nation reflects a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity in entirely innovative and unexpected ways. Using hip hop and other forms of popular culture, artists create surprising new cultural hybrids—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the changing demographics of Aboriginal people today. In Vancouver,...
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“The situation for archaeology in countries where native peoples have been...”
– Bruce G. Trigger. “Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist,” 1984.
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PHOTO link: Cambodian diaspora photographs by Pete... →
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Magic Sounds of Peru's Ancient Chavín de Huántar →
zomganthro:
archaeologicalnews:
New findings of a recent archaeoacoustic study suggests that the ancients of the 3,000-year-old Andean ceremonial center at Chavín de Huántar, in the central highlands of Peru, practiced a fine art and science of manipulating sound with architecture to produce desired sensory effects….
This isn’t really NEW news, is it?
Ugh, had to sit through a million...
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New programme brings SE Asia's young... →
Participants spent two weeks in Cambodia’s existing and potential excavation sites this month, and are finishing up a two-week stint here, attending workshops and studying artefacts.
Dr John Miksic, who heads the Archaeology Unit, said the programme aims to provide a platform for emerging historians and archaeologists to network and gain exposure. ‘Young people are now more keen on...
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical...
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans.
In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by...
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Archaeologist defends Hang Tuah's existence →
archaeologicalnews:
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 (Bernama) — An archaeologist today defended the existence of Hang Tuah, pointing out that although no specific studies had been done on the matter, he was convinced that the legendary warrior was not a mythical figure.
Malaysian Archaeologists Association president Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Nik Hassan Shuhaimi Nik Abdul Rahman said studies concerning the...
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theladygoogle replied to your post: Liveblogging Middle English poetry
hahah what is even going on in that text
That is precisely the reaction I like to have when reading. If I’m not constantly wtf-ing—not worth my time.
jangojips replied to your post: Liveblogging Middle English poetry
Have you ever considered that you just drink out of tiny doll cups? Who doesn’t start...
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Liveblogging Middle English poetry
Ugh, the hyperbole in medieval romance is the best, I can’t stop laughing.
Reading Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle right now and omfg, this guy. Of course there’s the usual ridiculousness of him having the proportions of a giant, thighs like tree-posts, etc. But what kills me is the part where the servant is bringing in wine, and the Carl of Carlisle is all, “What schall þis...
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De Amore
Ab antiquo quatuor sunt gradus in amore constituti distincti.
Primus in spei datione consistit,
secundus in osculi exhibitione,
tertius in amplexus fruitione,
quartus in totius personae concessione finitur.
[Throughout the ages, there have only been four distinct stages of love. First, in arousing hope; second, in offering kisses; third, in the enjoyment of embraces; fourth, in...
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Parliamentum avium in die Sancti Valentini tentum...
For this was on seynt Valentynes day, Whan every foul cometh ther to chese his make, Of every kinde, that men thenke may; And that so huge a noyse gan they make, That erthe and see, and tree, and every lake So ful was, that unnethe was ther space For me to stonde, so ful was al the place.
The first notable mention of St. Valentine having a day for lovers comes from this verse in...
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White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They... →
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