#Ancient

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, is one of Rudyard Kiplings greatest stories and in this thread I will examine the historical characters and places that inspired this swashbuckling adventure
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ATEEZ SEOUL MUSIC AWARD THEORYA THREAD As you know, the era of fever is a new era, a new world. so I think that in the next era Ateez will
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One of the refrains of conservatism is that an institution that is currently bad used to be much better--a perspective I invariably disagree with.Master thread of the NY Times reporting
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[PINNED THREAD]Hello, welcome to Bad Linguistics Takes!This thread will explain several things about this account. Please read if you'd like!Any corrections or additions will be at the end of the
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A brief or perhaps medium-size thread in honor of International Septuagint Day. Our family read this book tonight. Simply told and beautiful illustrated. Most of my familiarity with the Septuagint
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Scientsts: global warming of 3.2C is* hard to survive* hard to prevent* likely by 2090* possible by 2070* plausible by 2050* just one of many existential threats that mean a
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On the occasion of #AndhraPradeshFormationDay sharing some facts on my home state, related to it's history, culture and travel. World's richest temple at Tirumala, dedicated to Shri Venkateswara, also happens
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So here’s a thing, at this time of year it’s perfectly understandable to feel somewhat ‘down’ at the end of Halloween (Especially this year amidst the chaos) But there’s a
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RISHI ASHTAVAKRA(DEVAL)Those who are well versed in our ancient scriptures must definitely have come across the name of Ashtavakra Muni. Who was he and what is the story behind his
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Doing a thread on my teaching tomorrow--a course on Zhuangzi in conversation with contemporary western philosophy. So stoked! Tomorrow my co-teacher Pauline Lee and I will talk about the importance
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Why I Was Right to Spend 3 Years Buying Heavily Discounted 'Old' Projects Like Cardano & VeChain (read only if bored) 1/10 For years, CryptoTwitter (CT) said that these projects
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Himmler conceived the "Lebensborn" to increase Nordic/"Aryan" birthrate & produce a "pure" super-race. If you thought this fantasy was still-born in its Nazi cradle, you haven't heard of Garbhvigyan Anu
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There's something deeply melancholic & tragic about Trump's Farewell Address. Much of it is his typical self-congratulatory boilerplate. But there is also a sincere wish to restore self-government to the
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If a small child scrapes her knee, her parent might "kiss it better". This does nothing, but both parties appreciate the ritual. Hanson finds that empirically, many medical interventions do
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This has been taking some flak from ppl who know that bracken isn't the climax vegetation in the uplands. But responses that talk of "wastelands" are also missing something. That
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What was Vietnam’s ancient writing system? What is Chữ Nôm? A Thread: China was the center of East Asian culture, and the countries bordering China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, all
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