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Jul 16 19:29
I mean ... fun in the way that the Augean stables were fun to clean.
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Jul 14 16:31
One of the WP references there mentioned the same author Al-Jallad, and said "future paper".
T.E.D.
Jul 14 13:59
I can't figure out from its references what kind of writing system Thamudic was. Could be that's because they don't know either.
T.E.D.
Jul 14 13:58
Also went on to say the glyphs were probably taken from a previous Arabian script called Thamudic. They do look similar, to my untrained eye.
T.E.D.
Jul 14 13:46
Yup.
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Jul 14 13:46
> ...Al-Jallad strongly suspected he wasn’t dealing with a long sentence, but rather an abecedary, a listing of the script’s individual letters akin to our ABCs
T.E.D.
Jul 14 13:46
26? That's the number of glyphs in an alphabet/abdjad.
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Jul 14 13:45
> While examining al-Shahri and King’s photos of the inscriptions, Al-Jallad noticed that one particular writing from a cave in Dhofar only had about 26 individual symbols, or glyphs, that never repeated.
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Jul 11 13:48
> When first discovered, they were interpreted as Neanderthal remains. Since then, they have also been suggested as being an early form of H. sapiens that interbred with Neanderthals, or they represented a different late-surviving archaic population in Africa. Recent research disputes these claims, concluding that the Jebel Irhoud hominin remains represent an early form of the H. sapiens clade, present during the Middle Pleistocene.
T.E.D.
Jul 11 13:46
It appears the categorization is still under debate, with a lot of folks thinking its neither Sapiens Sapiens nor Sapiens Neanderthalis, but some other earlier Sapiens subspecies.
T.E.D.
Jul 11 13:44
Jebel Irhoud
Jebel Irhoud or Adrar n Ighoud (Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⵖⵓⴷ, romanized: Adrar n Iɣud; Arabic: جبل إيغود, Moroccan Arabic: žbəl iġud), is an archaeological site located just north of the town of Tlet Ighoud in Youssoufia Province, approximately 50 km (30 mi) south-east of the city of Safi in Morocco. It is noted for the hominin fossils that have been found there since the discovery of the site in 1961. Originally thought to be Neanderthals, the specimens have since been assigned to Homo sapiens and, as reported in 2017, have been dated to roughly 300,000 years ago (286±32 ka for the...
T.E.D.
Jul 11 13:44
I suppose this is new if you're as old as I am, but not that new. Looks like the find everyone is brawling over was made in 1990.
T.E.D.
Jul 2 16:14
@User1865345 I guess we could grow wigs of Lucrezia Borgia hair though. :-)
T.E.D.
Jul 2 14:57
@User1865345 So we could, if we want to, clone Lucrezia Brogia?
T.E.D.
Jun 17 16:31
Only a few small pockets, but there are other related Uralic languages that existed almost in their entirety in the boundaries of the USSR.
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Jun 17 16:29
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Jun 17 16:28
In the interview his son said it sounded "Soviet". That of course isn't a language or an ethnic group, and Finland was more of a soft client state, not a member. However, there were a decent minority of Finnish-speakers living in the Soviet Union.
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Jun 17 16:22
Surprisingly, there was an answer found in an interview. Turns out it was a real name Herbert picked from a phone book. He picked it largely because it looked very Eastern European (Bad Guys of the then ongoing Cold War).
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Jun 17 16:20
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Q: Did Frank Herbert explain why he used the word Harkonnen for his antagonists?

JBHI learned to speak Finnish and, watching the current version of Dune, thought it was interesting that Herbert used the word for his antagonists. You see, Finnish can convert words from verbs to nouns to verbs to nouns over and over (the Finns have competitions to see who can construct the longest...

dune names
T.E.D.
Jun 17 16:20
Interesting history elsewhere in the network (from the HNQ list):
T.E.D.
Jun 2 13:10
Probably a few in Indonesia too, for roughly the same reason.
T.E.D.
Jun 2 13:09
There are probably quite a few more currently lost Mayan cities.
T.E.D.
Jun 2 13:08
It makes a lot more sense for the Maya. Their cities were built in the jungle, which will reclaim any human intrusion quickly without constant maintenance.
T.E.D.
May 31 01:25
This dude even got airtime in the movie Pearl Harbor. They gonna go delete that bit of film too?
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May 31 01:24
@User1865345 OK...that's infuriating.
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May 23 20:38
@SPavel I kind of love that "Temu" has just become the word for "shoddy knockoff".
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May 21 13:23
I think these are actually terms cooked up by Art and Architecture people, not Historians, but otherwise a good point.
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May 21 13:22
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May 21 13:20
@SPavel Oh, that reminds me. There was an XKCD this week I wanted to bring up here.
T.E.D.
May 20 19:30
However, some of the sources in there are indeed quite Medieval.
T.E.D.
May 20 19:30
There was another bit in there where something from even later was called "Medieval", and that's harder to justify.
T.E.D.
May 20 19:27
Suspect that was indeed the logic. The benifit of the doubt take is that they'd actually typed "old English", and some editor "helpfully" fixed it.
T.E.D.
May 20 14:16
However, King Henry VIII actually liked to play. This detail will probably not surprise those who know a fair bit about him already. He also liked to joust, so the man was clearly into sports on the more violent end of the spectrum.
T.E.D.
May 20 14:12
Interesting stuff in there: It was the people's game, so by and large "their betters" disliked it. Several kings tried to ban it (all clearly failing miserably)
T.E.D.
May 20 13:52
The quoted material itself looks (and of course is) quite Elizabethan.
T.E.D.
May 20 13:51
I will warn you that, while it quotes from some great sources, the author's periodization leaves a lot to be desired. In the first paragraph they refer to a 1583 pamphlet being "in Old English".
T.E.D.
May 20 13:49
worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-brutal-origins-of-the-beautiful
T.E.D.
May 20 13:49
I came across this interesting substack article about the history of Soccer.
T.E.D.
May 20 01:55
Wicked!
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May 17 23:40
Whoops, when I said "this story", I meant this one: pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com/2024/10/…
T.E.D.
May 17 13:53
According to this story, the plea did not work and he was convicted of murder, given Life and sent to San Quentin. However, once incarcerated they indeed identified him as insane and transferred him to the state's first Mental Hospital.
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May 17 13:47
cdnc.ucr.edu/…
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May 17 13:47
@User1865345 The story here left out what happened to her killer. I found this article about his first day in court. It appears his lawyers went for an insanity plea, with some character witness support.
T.E.D.
May 15 21:15
However, based on the wording, this was a copy with the original wording. Handwriting analysis seems to show it was penned by the same person who penned the other OG copies too.
T.E.D.
May 15 21:14
There are apparently actually lots of original-ish copies of the MC floating around, because new Kings had a tendency to reissue "modernized" versions of it when they took the throne (I'm guessing this helped politically to keep Parliament off their backs).
T.E.D.
May 15 20:46
Saw that this morning. They said they originally bought it back in the 1950's for like 20 bucks.
T.E.D.
May 9 21:29
Hopefully we'll get some more Fr. GS interviews about it.
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May 9 14:10
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