#Medieval

Dr Sarah Irving

DrTermagant

Husband idly asked me a couple of hours ago 'what happened to the Gay Girl in Damascus guy?' Cue a wander round the web and HOLY SHIT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY LET

jonstokes.com

jonst0kes

As a way to think about the stakes in the AI debate:A language model like GPT-3, which trains on a corpus of text & produces new text in response to

Robert Kwolek

RobertKwolek

Pubs are such a fundamental part of British society, and their unique architecture is a defining feature of British cities. I won't be going back immediately, but in honor of

Eztainutlacatl

cbkwgl

So, with Armenia, there is a problem - Orange Revolution. And Russia hates it. In two words, one can summarize it as, Russia lost the leverage on the talks table

Trevor Makal

MakalMakal

I just saw a post about "If a fart can make it through underwear and a pair of jeans, how can a mask made of cloth save you from covid?

Dr William Tullett

WillTullett

Here’s a positive thread about some of the excellent books out there on smell histories. It’s an exciting, growing field. Let’s start with @smellosopher new book Smellosophy - which starts

nic carter

nic__carter

Today many people on crypto twitter learned that some of the more popular crypto data providers don't actually run nodes and pull supply data from the chain Some years ago,

Jordan L. Perkins

jordanlperkins

The important thing to understand about American conservatism is it's always about preferring the liberalism of a generation or two ago to the liberalism of today; there's no real connection

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/The Prophet Muḥammad died in AD 632. The question of his succession, the right to inherit the mantle of leadership, was an epochal moment in early Islam which led to

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

The Pedlar is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, made in around 1500.Although historians long disagreed, these days it's generally accepted the painting shows a pedlar, a man symbolic for sin

❄ Agent Mabeobja ⭕

Agent_Mab

Let's talk about #AssassinsCreedValhalla and Vikings(*Possible spoilers down this thread**I'm no historian, but I will share what little I know for the curious minds) First, my favorite area of

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

There is something in particular that I appreciate about this (overall pretty good) Episcopalian Bishops’ statement about protest and policing: 1/x threadhttps://episcopalchurch.org/posts/publicaffairs/episcopal-church-house-bishops-july-

James West

ejwwest

Let’s examine the “Galileo gambit” in more detail.If you’re a Hunter gatherer community or Neolithic farmer, the world is flat. In fact if you’re a medieval peasant who rarely goes

Sean W. Anthony

shahanSean

After seeing this tweet I looked for an early account of this attempt to destroy the pyramids during the era of the crusades. It turns up in the writings of

Bharadwaj

BharadwajSpeaks

NONSENSE!Delhi existed long BEFORE Muslim religion was born.Even the name Delhi is from Sanskrit (Dhillika).An ancient Sanskrit inscription from Purana Qila confirms Delhi was built by Tomaras!Qutub Minar is literally

Dr Dimitra Fimi

Dr_Dimitra_Fimi

I've been asked several times today to give my view on this so here it goes. First things first, there are links between Middle-earth and the history of Europe but

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