Several thousand cuneiform texts have been found in Ugarit, a Late Bronze Age coastal city that had a population of around 4,000–8,000 people.
Here is the distribution of the languages they were written in:
thinking about how Brigham Young invented an alphabet with a letter called "Gay" that looks like an amongus. truly a man ahead of his time. a prophet if you will.
You can't actually just go out and get a job. Want to try out a field? You can't. You must commit to it blind by pursuing an educational pathway first. Don't like the field? Too bad, fuck you. This new state of affairs is fairly unbelievable & key divide between olds & young.
Growing up in Texas, we never walked through wet grass anywhere east of Dallas without spreading sulfur on our shoes and ankles. It it just what one did. I asked my mother about this and she said she learned it from her Aunt. It works like magic. Ticks and chiggers hate the smell and stay away. To my amazement, people in New England don't seem to know about this strategy or dismiss it as a "folk" remedy not based on science. Do we have here another case of lost knowledge?
Lenin's English tutor was Irish. When James Connolly's son met him, he was shocked to hear him speaking in an Irish accent. This detail has been confirmed by Soviet historians.
Engels did study Irish. He had planned to do a massive work on the origins of the Hiberno-Celtic race and had collected many notes and source material, but died before completing it. His legal wife was Lydia Burns, who lived in Manchester but was of Irish origins.
Spicily, Engels only legally married her right before she died. He was living in a polygamous relationship with Lydia and her older sister Mary. This was less uncommon in the period than many might now think.
Today, we remember a legend.
On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.
He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸
May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.
If you are still lurking out of excessive perfectionism or timidity I guarantee whatever you would like to post will be a lot more interesting than the daily For You trough.