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Seven new national parks in Alaska were established on this day in 1980. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act extended varying degrees of protection to over 157 million acres of public lands, doubling the size of the national park system. From ice-covered peaks to turquoise fjords, countless glaciers, forests, tundra, rivers and wildlife were added to the state’s conservation jewels. A lifetime of exploring and a heart the size of Denali are not enough to fully appreciate the wonders found on these lands and waters. Photo of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve by Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service.

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What was the world’s first empire?

China

Babylon

Persia

Assyria

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Sumer. Who's the incompetent one that left that out? Sumer Akkad Babylon Egypt Is the correct order, although India and their Veddas have a different belief.

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3 September 1658 - Oliver Cromwell dies, and his son, Richard Cromwell, succeeds him as Lord Protector

Seven years to the date after his victory over Charles II and the Royalist forces at the Battle of Worcester, Oliver Cromwell succumbed to malaria. The treatment of quinine was offered, but he turned it down, as it was known as ‘Jesuit’s Bark’ in the 17th century. His son, also known as Tumble Down Dick, became Lord Protector. However, he proved himself to be very incapable of running the government, and soon, the atmosphere was right for the King’s return.

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Karma, in all it's glory

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Wolverines are well known, but rarely seen animals. Famously fearless and incredibly tough, wolverines can travel over almost any terrain and will take on prey many times their size. Because they thrive in remote areas, it’s difficult to get good photos of these amazing animals. Luckily, on a recent boating trip on the Noatak River at Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, National Park Service staff were able to get some pictures of this curious wolverine. Photo by S. Behrns, National Park Service.

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A quirky case over whether DNA evidence can be used to overthrow an accepted line of titular inheritance is an example of the clash between old primogeniture and new science.

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And now, shall the Royal Stewart's replace the usurping house of Hanover? Finally, light at the end of the tunnel!

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How do you think James got so villianized? Do you thinknit's propaganda from the people who overthrew him, or is there something more?

Of course the Dutch Invasion played a big role in James’ villianisation, but it had begun before that. Indeed, James’ character first began to sustain considerable abuse when it was heard that he had converted to Catholicism. Before that, he was well liked; he was the heir presumptive to the throne, a brave warrior, and had rode into London with Charles and Henry upon the Restoration. His participation in helping put out the Great Fire of London brought him great acclaim among the people. Despite the Whigs trying to blacken James’ character and twist his motives, he was still liked in military circles.

James’ legacy has been messed up, due to people taking the reports of Whigs and Williamites as absolute truth for the past three centuries. James is still accused of being bigoted and sadistic to this day, due to the era in Scotland known as the “Killing Time”. However, every action taken by James and the government in that era was reactionary, as the Presbyters were actively committing treason. James was also widely renowned for his fairness to all people and all parties during his tenure in Scotland; a far cry from that sadist that so many people paint him as! Sam Pepys even went so far as to say this:

“[James maintained his authority] with so much absoluteness and yet gentleness, to the rendering it morally impossible for any disquiet to arise.”

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Maligned unfairly like most of the Stewarts. They were all way ahead of their time, and thus, misunderstood by many, and lied about systematically by the illegitimate House of Hanover as well as most Puritans and Presbyterians of the era. These lies have been adopted into many history books even though their origin commonly was a spurious "broadsheet" of the times. Imagine if later chroniclers of our times were using the Enquirer as their source! Or pamphlets from the West-borough Baptist Church! And yet, many accept the lies as true.

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This is a map of Asia. North Americans, you may notice this map is not solely comprised of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand. People in the UK, you may notice India is not a continent. That is, if those of you who generalize entire continents can even pinpoint India on a map. Indians are Asian, gasp! And not all brown skinned people are Indian, also, gasp! There are an alarming amount of people, of all ages, from all backgrounds, who seem to be unable to process this.

I’m ethnically Asian. Since Asia is an extremely large continent, I could be from any number of countries. I am neither from India, China, Korea, Japan or Pakistan, yet not so surprisingly, I am still Asian.

Yes, there are commonalities across regions, through the conflation of cultures, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism and movement of diasporas. Sometimes these are all the same thing. Rickshaws, rice and curry can be found across the continent. But let’s not overgeneralize. You can also find Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims and Hindus across Asia. Cantonese Speaking Chinese Muslims! English Speaking Indian Jews!

No, we are not all the same. Orientalism? (Please look up Edward Said for basic concepts) No thank you.

Geography, people. It’s important.

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This pops up on my dash every so often. I reblog it again, not just because I wrote it, but because nothing has changed since I first posted this.

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What’s cool about Iran is that it falls in 3 different regions of Asia so depending on what part of Iran you’re in, you can kind of get culture shocked a bit. The central and western part of the country is West Asia, the north east is Central Asia, and the southeast is in South Asia.

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To the folks wondering about Russia being included, I want to mention that the cultural debates and angst about that has been going on for CENTURIES. While France has been pretty fetishized all the way back from Peter the Great, there is no question that we are not Europe, even with that influence showing really obviously in historical seats of power like St. Petersburg. Nonetheless, the whole country was under control of the Mongols (The Golden Horde) from roughly 1242 to 1480, and that left an enormous Mongolian and Tatar heritage that remains to this day. The ancient Scythians are huge in the cultural imagination as well. And besides… look at the Russians who are outside the standard “Kievan Rus” phenotype (which most folks assume is how all Russians look.)

Here are three of the 30 distinct ethnic groups in Siberia alone:

Buryat grandfather, photo by Alexander Newby

Evenk children, photo by Evgenia Arbugaeva

Young Yakut couple, photographer unknown

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AS SOMEONE WITH NORTHERN IRANIAN (AZERBAIJANI)/RUSSIAN/ HAZARA-PERSIAN/ UYGHUR-CHINESE ANCESTRY THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL POST

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And that’s why sometimes you’ll see a person with curly black hair, pale skin, and hazel-green eyes (my grand-father’s sister) who turn out to be Chinese. Mad recessive genes game at play, I swear. Mongols, they really got around.

dishevelledduke

My great-grandmother lived amongst the reindeer herds in northern Sweden in a place called Dalarna. Her son, my grandfather, taught me how to fish and hunt and live off the land as much as he could. In my mind I wish we all still lived that way, and so in my heart… I am Sami.

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Watch: Sean cooks up an incredible banquet to bring Native American food back to its people.

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Watch this

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THE SUMERIAN LANGUAGE:

THE Sumerian language was spoken in southern Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE. It is an isolate language meaning we know of no other languages that relate to it ancestrally. Although there are some theories that Sumerian is a member of the Uralic languages like Hungarian and Finnish, or other language families, this is a minority view with insufficient evidence to make a definite claim.

The language was spoken in a region where Semitic languages were also spoken, particularly Akkadian, and it eventually fell out of use in favor of those languages by the turn of the 2nd millennium BCE.

Little is known about when Sumerian-speaking people arrived in southern Mesopotamia, assuming they did not originate there. Either way, from a very early period a multilingual environment existed in southern Mesopotamia, which included languages like Sumerian, an early form of Akkadian, other Semitic languages, and Hurrian.

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Think about this...

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The Sumerian King List (The Weld-Blundell Prism) lists a succession of kings and cities from Sumer, which begins with mythical kings, like Gilgamesh, and then goes on to list historical leaders. It is considered a key document in the decipherment of cuneiform.

ca. 2000-1800 BCE (Old Babylonian)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (AN.1923.444)

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This Sumerian King List goes back over 400,000 years.

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Sumerian Star Map or Plaisphere ca 650 BC

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Scutum Fidei Diagram. The Shield of the Trinity is a symbol depicting the concept of the Holy Trinity. This diagrammatic representation has been found to have been in use as long back as the twelfth century for helping proclaim the fundamental Christian doctrine that the Almighty God is manifest in 3 distinct ways – as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. There are many versions of the Shield of the Trinity. Some of these variations include having the triangle pointing upwards, putting curved bars in place of straight bars, putting triangles in place of circles, or having a star in the middle instead of triangle or circle. The main achievement of the Shield of the Trinity diagram is to transfer a large part of the essential “mystery” or “paradox” of the Trinity from the realm of complex verbal philosophical abstractions and esoteric theological vocabulary to the realm of simple logic, as presented in the relatively easily graspable form of a concrete and conveniently compact visual diagram.

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Peace out New York Fashion Week!

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The Battle of Culloden

The battle of Culloden, April 16th 1746, was the last pitched engagement fought on mainland British soil. A clash between forces loyal to the British government and those supporting the exiled Stuart monarchy (”Jacobites”), it marked an end to over a century of tumultuous civil war and revolution, establishing the primacy of the Constitutional Monarchy Britain has today.

The battle was fought on a moorland south-east of the town of Inverness, and opened with both sides attempting to force the other to attack by launching an artillery barrage. The Jacobite cannons were smaller and fewer in number than those possessed by the Government forces, and their crews were inexperienced. Despite the fact that the British artillery was doing considerably more damage, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, commander of the Jacobite forces, prevaricated and refused to order an attack. When the order did eventually go out it was garbled and confused - some Jacobite clansmen simply charged on their own initiative, while the message never reached one flank - the rider carrying it had his head taken off by a cannon ball.

The “Highland Charge” which followed was furious. The boggy ground channeled most of the Jacobite forces into a single solid mass that struck the left flank of the British line, bringing its full weight against just two regiments. The leftmost, the 4th Foot, stood its ground but was completely overrun.

In previous battles when the Jacobites had reached the redcoat line the morale of the Government forces had always broken, but this time they held firm. Reserves were brought forward, turning the gap punched by the Jacobite charge into a killing zone. Furthermore, highlanders loyal to the British Government assaulted the Jacobite’s exposed right flank. Hundreds of Charles Stuart’s men were cut down in the space of just three minutes, and the rest broke and fled. Victorious British troops, eager for vengeance after a string of bitter defeats, hounded the rebels all the way back to Inverness.

The battle of Culloden was over, and with it the final chapter in Britain’s bloodiest and most formative century.

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And the German House of Hanover has usurped the throne of the Royal Stewart's ever since...

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The Battle of Culloden

The battle of Culloden, April 16th 1746, was the last pitched engagement fought on mainland British soil. A clash between forces loyal to the British government and those supporting the exiled Stuart monarchy (”Jacobites”), it marked an end to over a century of tumultuous civil war and revolution, establishing the primacy of the Constitutional Monarchy Britain has today.

The battle was fought on a moorland south-east of the town of Inverness, and opened with both sides attempting to force the other to attack by launching an artillery barrage. The Jacobite cannons were smaller and fewer in number than those possessed by the Government forces, and their crews were inexperienced. Despite the fact that the British artillery was doing considerably more damage, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, commander of the Jacobite forces, prevaricated and refused to order an attack. When the order did eventually go out it was garbled and confused - some Jacobite clansmen simply charged on their own initiative, while the message never reached one flank - the rider carrying it had his head taken off by a cannon ball.

The “Highland Charge” which followed was furious. The boggy ground channeled most of the Jacobite forces into a single solid mass that struck the left flank of the British line, bringing its full weight against just two regiments. The leftmost, the 4th Foot, stood its ground but was completely overrun.

In previous battles when the Jacobites had reached the redcoat line the morale of the Government forces had always broken, but this time they held firm. Reserves were brought forward, turning the gap punched by the Jacobite charge into a killing zone. Furthermore, highlanders loyal to the British Government assaulted the Jacobite’s exposed right flank. Hundreds of Charles Stuart’s men were cut down in the space of just three minutes, and the rest broke and fled. Victorious British troops, eager for vengeance after a string of bitter defeats, hounded the rebels all the way back to Inverness.

The battle of Culloden was over, and with it the final chapter in Britain’s bloodiest and most formative century.

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