☞ https://simplydifferently.org/Geodesic_Dome_Notes?page=2#Overview of Variants

Malta is in cahoots with France on “a crusade against the Jewish state.”

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a link for antennaPod users ☞ The New Yorker: Fiction: https://publicfeeds.net/f/6232/new-yorker-fiction

Episode webpage: https://the-new-yorker-fiction-4473086b.simplecast.com/episodes/sterling-holywhitemountain-reads-roberto-bolano-dUHPxCNW

thanks for sharing this

I’ve got one question to any other reader/looker about this : Let’s say, for the sake of convenience, that she’s called Carla Devade. She could well be the youngest member of the group. Her hair is short,

I see Carla’s hair as long and wrapped in a bun

this map should be regional and not national.

Flatlands and mountains would give completely different percentages.

no data for UK & Switzerland?

& Albania + exYugoslavia

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draw again

Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which indigenous European Christian boys, chiefly from the Balkans, were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and forced conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army.

on the same page

The Romans used the term barbarus for uncivilised people, opposite to Greek or Roman, and in fact, it became a common term to refer to all foreigners among Romans after Augustus age (as, among the Greeks, after the Persian wars, the Persians), including the Germanic peoples, Persians, Gauls, Phoenicians and Carthaginians.

The Ancient Greek name βάρβαρος (bárbaros) ‘barbarian’ was an antonym for πολίτης (politēs) ‘citizen’, from πόλις (polis) ‘city’. The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀞𐀫, pa-pa-ro, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking people, including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their otherness. According to Greek writers, this was because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish represented by the sounds “bar…bar…;” the alleged root of the word bárbaros, which is an echomimetic or onomatopoeic word.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian

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The CEO of the Metro supermarket chain confirmed plans to continue business in Russia. The National Agency for Prevention of Corruption included Metro AG in the list of international war sponsors.

https://leave-russia.org/metro-ag

French retailer Auchan close to selling its stores in Russia https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/10/25/french-retailer-auchan-close-to-selling-its-stores-in-russia_6730451_19.html

Auchan leaves Russia: local buyer found for subsidiary - 24 October 2024 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/24/7481204/

auchan & metro? still?

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the Ukrainian government appealed to Turkey to exercise its authority under the Montreux Convention to limit the transit of Russian warships from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. At least six Russian warships and a submarine had crossed the Turkish straits in February. After initial reluctance, attributed to the country’s close ties with both Russia and Ukraine, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced on 27 February that his government would legally recognise the Russian invasion as a “war”, which provides grounds for implementing the convention with respect to military vessels. This blockage of naval vessels also applies to NATO powers who cannot now move their vessels from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. However, Çavuşoğlu reiterated that pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Turkey cannot block Russian warships based in the Black Sea from returning to their registered base.

Two Russian Federation ships (the missile cruiser Varyag, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, and Admiral Tributs, a large anti-submarine destroyer) waited in the Mediterranean seeking to enter the Black Sea for nine months. In October 2022, they were refused permission and left the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal.

On 2 January 2024 Turkey refused passage through the strait to two minehunters donated by the British Royal Navy to the Ukrainian Navy pursuant to the Convention.

for more information ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits

Khami (also written as Khame, Kame, or Kami) is a ruined city located 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Bulawayo, in Zimbabwe. It was once the capital of the Kingdom of Butua of the Torwa dynasty. It is now a national monument and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khami

thanks for sharing this.

What a pleasure to read

“beylik” could have been translated as “principality”

with the classification “peoples”, not the language

would you like it to be broken down into Sorani, Kurmanji etc?

me, i don’t care.

many (all?) kurds would disagree with that classification