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History bites #3: Search the Book of Armaments

13 September, 2009 (20:13) | books, history, humor, islam, linguistics, montypython, movies, orthodox-christian, religion | By: jrittenhouse

Online search references for the Quran and the Bible;  the Quran part has both the Arabic and three English translations, and the Bible one has a BUNCH of different translations, most NOT English (which has around 20 different versions). Note that the authoritative version of the Quran is the Arabic one, of course.  And this [...]

Rearranging Europe:

21 July, 2009 (06:47) | AH, UK, austria-hungary, dutch, europe, exclave_enclaves, france, french, geography, germany, history, indonesia, iran, iraq, islam, israel, language, lebanon, linguistics, malaysia, maps, middle_east, montenegro, netherlands, orthodox-christian, pakistan, philippines, religion, russia, scotland, serbia, singapore, spain, spanish, thailand, turkey | By: jrittenhouse

From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates.  Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]

Things to look for:

9 April, 2009 (10:04) | africa, art, china, coptic-christian, ethiopia, family, fandom, fanzines, finance, holidays, home, magic, meredith, movies, orthodox-christian, photography, sisterfar, susan, taxes, twins | By: jrittenhouse

LJ: cedarseed is in Ethiopia; I’ve always been intrigued by the classical end of Ethiopian civilization (I need to pick up a Budge book on Ethiopian magic one of these days) and love looking at classic Ethiopian art.    Some good photos; check it out and her LJ in general. Jay Lake and his family (especially [...]