#Sicily

Today's #Archaeology31 theme is #decolonise and I want to talk a bit about #Malta again and about the #Mediterranean more broadly. First up, the definition of the Med has consistently
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Hi I'm Italianx and I've been seeing some problematic and xenophobic behaviour going on and I would just like to call it out.First of all: I keep seeing people calling
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This saturday, I have a special spooky Italian thread ready for you. Many think Halloween is an American festivity, but in truth, it was celebrated in Europe way before the
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The instant ridicule of ‘conspiracy theories’ especially from academia is fairly predicable given that ‘scholars’ tend to be narrowly focused & quite incapable of synthesising knowledge from a variety of
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This is what you get when you don’t show up for Pliny’s dinner party in Rome (circa 97 AD):“My Dear Septicius Clarus,Look here, you accepted my invitation to dinner and
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The Albi mappa mundi: the oldest surviving medieval map of the world. Preserved in a ms produced in the 8th c. in Southern France or Spain it is an extraordinary
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1. The 1st chapter of a new book, "Muslims in America: Examining the Facts," tackles the following question: "Did Muslims explore the Americas before Christopher Columbus 'discovered' the 'New World'"?
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Right, now you’re all experts on what the shapes mean, what about the colours..... obviously this is hard to tell from black and whites, but there are some rules to
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Been feeling out of sorts, lately. Frustrated at the lack of decency often seen in the world. The lying. The disingenuous words flying about.Then I recalled an incident that made
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MUSIC: South African gospel song has the world dancing during a pandemic Not only has Master KG’s track “Jerusalema” charted in over 10 countries around the world, the song has
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If you google "82nd Airborne Division Sicily" you may stumble across any one of the following images. They are pretty well known photographs, and have been published in plenty of
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1. I bet you need a distraction today. So do I. So here's my unfolding, in progress campaign in the new PC strategy game "Crusader Kings III". I'm playing as
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Watched GODFATHER CODA and it is a vast improvement on GFIII. I watched the original cut last spring so it’s pretty fresh in my head. The new cut makes it
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A bit of precursory information before my tweets come in. As we know, the Germans launched their offensive in the Ardennes on December 16th, and by the 17th virtually all
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DPCM days 8 and 9.HQ of Nacho Industries Inc. will be in Messina for the next 48h.Smallish terrace but high ceilings @PaulSkallas.1/n When Goethe visited it in 1787, the city
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Audie Leon Murphy, the most decorated U.S soldier of WW2, who received every military combat award for valor available from the Army, was born June 20, 1925, in Texas. 1/
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