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12:04 AM

Q: Where can I find the actual historical accounts of events in history, especially battles and so forth?

I'm watching something about the fall of Constantinople and it was mentioned that there was a defenders' chronicle. I would pay money to read that! I really want to find these actual scribe-written accounts of what happened, instead of only watching or reading things written like 600 years later...

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KorvinStarmast

2:19 AM

Well that's great. I engage with JerryQHUerta, trying to get him to answer the question while understanding the limits of our format, and get a link to christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1809/24204, so instead of answering the question more fully, he just deletes the answer.

That is disappointing; looks like someone with a passion for study and scripture ... sigh

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TRiG

2:52 PM

in V'dibarta Bam, 23 hours ago, by Meta-Man

Q: In sadness, it is time for me to go

Chaveirim, I write this post with tears literally in my eyes. Though it pains me deeply to leave my communities, especially Mi Yodeya which I cherish and have helped build for close to nine years, I have decided I must leave the Stack Exchange network. I became an SE user when Mi Yodeya launch...

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KorvinStarmast

3:20 PM

well, that's not a happy post, but it is well written and given what she's been through as a volunteer, a predictable conclusion to the drama.

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Ask Elisha

9:25 PM

Q: Is it true that Christian English monks adopted Norse hairstyles before the start of the Viking age?

I remember a documentary suggesting that Vikings traded a lot with English monks, before the Viking Age started, and that the monks ended up adopting their hairstyles. They mentioned a senior monk or bishop complained against them doing this. This supposedly happened before the raid at Lindisfarn...