Weird Weapons - The Mangual, or two handed chain flail. Used extensively in Spain and Portugal from around 1400 -1650.
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First-ever empirical study of US rabbinate finds ‘shortage’ is more about fit than numbers
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The Florentine Diamond resurfaces after 100 years in hiding. Legendary jewel of the Habsburgs not seen since 1919 and thought lost, has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades. (gifted link)
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Former PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir has said the Icelandic language could be wiped out in as little as a generation due to the sweeping rise of AI and encroaching English language dominance
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The queerness argument against moral realism
7 votes -
The death of punctuation
I've noticed a trend where people, young and old, are just not punctuating their sentences anymore. Is it intentional? Do people not know how to punctuate their sentences? Surely, this is not good.
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Libertarianism is dead
36 votes -
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
9 votes -
Four strange places to see London’s Roman wall
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“The Edmund Fitzgerald - First divers on the Fitz”
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Hermann and Albert Göring: Two very different brothers
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The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
20 votes -
Road map of the Roman Empire
18 votes -
The real truth about the Tudor succession comes to light
17 votes -
Is 67 just brain rot?
48 votes -
World Population Counter
18 votes -
Memorization, trivia, and atomic units for creativity
8 votes -
Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
36 votes -
Can a professional javelin thrower master this ancient weapon (atlatl)?
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Doomsday scoreboard
23 votes -
This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
10 votes -
Global Anglicanism split in two today
23 votes -
How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
24 votes -
The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
18 votes -
The entire history of cat memes
11 votes -
What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
12 votes -
Babies’ brains recognize foreign languages they heard before birth
24 votes -
How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
19 votes -
How Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
9 votes -
Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again: giant blocks resurface after 2,000 years
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Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
11 votes -
Sarah Mullally named the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England
21 votes -
The Stonecutter (1960)
7 votes -
Ancient Historian reviews Monty Python's Life of Brian | Deep Dives
9 votes -
The neo-Victorian neo-nazi lesbian BDSM cult that made video games
33 votes -
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
5 votes -
On thought experiments
7 votes -
For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
16 votes -
The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
28 votes -
100,000,000 crowpower and no horses on the moon
24 votes -
Why we revel in opponents’ adversity
7 votes -
Was this English queen a 'predatory' collector of beautiful things?
10 votes -
Indira Gandhi's emergency: When India's democracy was put on pause
12 votes -
Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it
31 votes -
Denmark's National Museum unveils gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking – figurine depicts man with imperial moustache, braided beard and a neatly-groomed hairstyle
20 votes -
The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
20 votes -
Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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The long-term costs of war - the price of life, economics of casualties and Russia's war
11 votes