Some Andalusis risked their lives throughout the 16th century to save slaves from the Maghreb held in Spain.
Such as "Jeronimo de Rojas" who was burned at the stake in part because he saved a Maghrebi woman by freeing her through ransom
@sharghzadeh a wise British convert, Eldon Rutter compared the demolition to an earthquake: "All over the cemetery nothing was to be seen but little indefinite mounds of earth and stones, pieces of timber, iron bars, blocks of stone, and a broken rubble of cement and bricks, strewn about."
@sharghzadeh you should also care to research and read about what atrocity the Ikhwan Saudi bedouin terrorists had inflicted upon the great al-Baqi cemetery and the surroundings from tombs to simple gravestones as well and it was of one of the oldest Islamic sites in Medina plundered by them
@Arab_ian1 والله، يمكن بس إحنا اليمنيين اللي بالنص، وعندنا أكثر الصفات الزنجية في اللون والوجه مقارنةً بالليبي والحجازي. ما أحد اختلط بالزنوج والأحباش أكثر منّا. 💔
@nnweew@deltastorm2@HothaAli@sharghzadeh makes you think whether if skyscrapers are apparently now the ideal architecture of "1st world countries" then perhaps the whole mediterranean Europe would look uncivilized. Skyscrapers become clearly souless to look at once it spreads literally everywhere.
امس تناقشت مع كازاخي شفته يتعنصر على الوان واشكال العرب والهنود والافارقه
لما دخلت ارشيفه لقيته يجاهد في تاكيد كازاخيه هذي المراه
لما قلت له انتم مغول استشاط وحاول يقنعني بعلم الجينات انهم نصف بيض بينت له اشكالكم مغول قام يهاجمني
مو ناقص الا هذول يتعنصرون !
There's many shows/docs/resources to look through if you're interested in Otaku history, but I'd say my favorites so far are:
Akihara Geeks (2005), it shows multiple perspectives from anime and game otaku (like motohara-san), game devs like ryukishi07, and PC otaku, highly rec
@yetoshi24 The feeling when you find some absolutely unhinged, truly inexplicably esoteric article that scratches a hyper specific intellectual itch you had… I truly do not know if God created a more satisfying experience for us while we walk this earth
انمي اذربيجاني انتج عام 1980 حول حكايه عربيه او شرقيه
وانمى ارمني انتج عام 1972
دول صغيره مساحه وسكان حينها مع ذلك لديها صناعه سينما ورسوم متحركه ومسرح عرائس ثري منذ عشرينات القرن الماضي بما يفوق دول اكبر سكان ومساحه منها بكثير بمنطقتنا
كله بفضل الاتحاد السوفيتي
Niccolò Machiavelli :
"To ally with great powers to defeat your neighbor is a strategic trap; if you win, you become the slave of the greater power; if the allied power is defeated, you remain alone and defenseless against the angry neighbor, and you are destroyed."
[The Prince]
The historical uncleanliness of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians🧵
Mansfield Parkyns, an Englishman with ties to the British aristocracy, travelled to Ethiopia between 1843-1846.
Parkyns noted that cleanliness was suspect and only annual showers were the norm in Abyssinia.