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Imogen Foxell
imogenfoxell
My merchant of Venice cards arrived already! Published by @FlipsCoCards with words from @mssfax. This was a great text to illustrate: Venice, renaissance outfits, Jewish history, complex and ambiguous characters,
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Scott Oliver
reverse_sweeper
Sun-dappled tasting tour of Tuscan vineyards, then a private jet to Milan for guest-list access to VIP room in haute couturier’s club. Slovakian model busts out the coke. ‘Why not’,
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c / אוֹרֶן 🌿
whatabirdy
Anyways, thread on Scottish languages, both modern and ancient (Gaelic, Scots, English, Pictish, and Norn) for anyone who's interested! Firstly, let's divide the most common by language family. Gaelic and
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🦋 Love can ignite the stars. ✨
reybeniloveyou
REYLO TROPES AND PARALLELS, a thread.Here are a few interesting things about this very complex ship, which goes beyond a "hero meets villain" or "boy meets girl" couple of Star
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Alex West ~ Medieval Indonesia
siwaratrikalpa
I was reading a popular account of the history of the Venetian Republic recently and I noticed that the author appeared to have mixed up Melaka and Maluku. They're really
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Joumana Medlej
joumajnouna
While I'm stuck at home again, I started a couple of experiments for the book. I plan to have a chapter on dyeing paper, and have already noticed that mordanted
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Whores of Yore
WhoresofYore
The story of the Queen of Sheba appears in Christian, Jewish, & Muslim tradition, as well as in Turkish & Persian paintings, Kabbalistic treatises, & in medieval Christian works. She
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Jay Hulme
JayHulmePoet
People often compare great churches, to boats. It's an ancient idea, in fact, it's what gives the big part of the church where people sit its name. The Nave. It
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\CARDINALS |Fistlosopher| MODE//
fistlosopher
Man Final Fantasy X really was a special gameCame out before linear, story-driven "cinematic experiences" had prescribed types to them, so it got to go nuts with the concept, unimpeded
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Unfriendly Black²foot Óṫ’’k̇oaṗi•siak̇īī
Pandabbadon
Here go some #Exvangeical shit:It’s interesting talking about the levels to the spiritual abuse w my girlfriend. She’s Jewish ethnically and culturally—she studied medieval religion in college but her understanding
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Marina Rustow
mrustow
Multihanded documents for your #fragmentfriday! I like these, despite their illegibility: they suggest that bureaucracy was not a modern invention. By bureaucracy, I don't mean annoying paperwork, though there was
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John Cowie..'Facts are chiels that winna ding'
joco2014
Hill House, Helensburgh. On the anniversary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh who died on the 10th December in 1928 aged 60.Incidentally, CRM had a very productive period in & around Glasgow
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Dr. Stephennie Mulder
stephenniem
@DreamWorksSheRa is the absolute apex of wholesome kids' television content and my 8-yr-old daughter and I order you to watch it. We just finished the final episode last night, in
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Ali A Olomi
aaolomi
While the famed image of a centaur is the most recognizable depiction of Sagittarius, for medieval Muslim astrologers this zodiac had hidden depths. A thread on Sagittarius in astrology from
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ꯃꯥꯀꯨ
porbotialora
Thread on Arab superiority in the Muslim world (particularly the Sunnis)There are 4 madhabs (schools) of Sunni Islam-Hanafi-Hanbali-Shafi'i-MalikiNote: Indian Muslims are largely Hanafi except Kerala where most are Shafi'i Although
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Matt C
chinmj
OK, by popular demand (5 likes and counting) I'll return in a couple of weeks with a "top 10 Consistory Court cases of the Decade" thread. But here's a little
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