Couldn't have the roman empire today. Because of wokeness. They'd have to have a teenage transgender syrian as emperor . . . wait . . . I am hearing reports . . . they did in fact have a teenage transgender syrian as emperor

The lesson from the Holocaust is not to center Jewish fear at all times, it is the moral mandate to intervene against injustice & persecution even when the dominating narrative & power structure deems an entire community not human enough to deserve life & dignity

19th c historians: the new movie got bayonets fixed wrong and forgot the Italy campaign, which makes it a bad portrayal of military history Prehistorians: Ancient Aliens robs Indigenous people of credit for their monuments and leads some people to conspiracy theories

“When Enki rises, the fish rise with him as waves…he can be as awe-inspiring as the sea, he can raise fear like a mighty river.” We end both our watery week and our month-long weekly exploration of Babylonian gods with Enki, the Babylonian god of water, wisdom, and crafts.

If someone takes a photo of Santa reading my book, especially the chapter about him, I'm going to freak out. Please make it happen, even if it results in me ending up on the naughty list ;)

To those who say I bring "shame" to Arabs and Muslims, It's not the psychopaths who rape women in Sweden who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims. It's not the terrorists who murder journalists in France who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims. It's not the maniacs who praise

“It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,” Marc Garlasco...a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, he said, we may “have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.”

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Die abenteuerlichste Recherche des Jahres - endlich ist das Feature da! br.de/mediathek/podc… #Archäologie #zeitgeschichte #History #Geschichte #historicalarchaeology #archaeology #Paraguay

Reporting and publishing information — no matter where it comes from — is the right of a free press. The charges and gag order against Atmore News reporter Don Fletcher and publisher Sherry Digmon are past due to be dropped. s2.washingtonpost.com/3bec075/6564ce…

All my Egyptian friends are tweeting about #Gaza. None are tweeting about the #Egypt election. Telling.

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Billions of people around the globe celebrate the birthday of a Palestinian man, born in Bethlehem 2000+ years ago, but don't think Palestinians lived there before 1948.

While I pray for their safe return, the chances are far higher of them being killed by Israeli airstrikes than them getting raped by Hamas. This is based on testimonials of released hostages who said they were treated humanely and even protected by their captors

screw a fast and effective train. let's reinvent transportation instead screw saving our planet from predictable, preventable, manmade climate change. let's send a spaceship to Mars instead pie-in-the-sky ideas for an imaginary future prevent us from solving today's problems

The looting of Cambodia's #CulturalHeritage has been one of the greatest art heists in the world. Over the past year, @60minutes worked to uncover the story. Learn more: cbsn.ws/3RyjgEB

A stunning photograph from 2014 by Murdo MacLeod for the The Guardian. The image is of our own Frazer Capie with the The Govan Stones 🛡👑 Viking-Age hogbacks from the lost early-medieval Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde.

Zum ersten mal soll ein israelischer Abgeordneter dauerhaft aus dem Knesset geworfen werden! Es geht nicht um einen der Abgeordneten, die die Vertreibung aller Palästinenser fordern oder die meinen Kinder in Gaza verdienten den Tod, sondern um den Friedenspolitiker Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف!