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9 hours ago · Name The Iberian Peninsula and Southern France, satellite photo on a cloudless day in March 2014 Greek name. The word Iberia is a noun adapted from the Latin word "Hiberia" originating in the Ancient Greek word Ἰβηρία (Ibēríā), used by Greek geographers under the rule of the Roman Empire to refer to what is known today in English as the Iberian Peninsula.
9 hours ago · Mari (Cuneiform: 𒈠𒌷𒆠, ma-ri ki, modern Tell Hariri; Arabic: تل حريري) was an ancient city city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell 11 kilometers north-west of Abu Kamal on the Euphrates River western bank, some 120 kilometers southeast of Deir ez-Zor. It flourished as a trade center and hegemonic state between ...
- 60 hectares (150 acres)
- Bronze Age
- c. 2900 BC
Knizia has two games that he designed way back in 1992 that are still quite popular today: Modern Art, the evergreen gateway game, and Zoo Vadis (an updated version of Quo Vadis). Dates for some popular Knizia gateway games: Through the Desert (1998) Ra (1999) Quest for El Dorado (2016) Blue Lagoon (2018) My City (2020)
9 hours ago · Judaism. Based on the number of copies found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Enoch was widely read during the Second Temple period.Today, the Ethiopic Beta Israel community of Haymanot Jews is the only Jewish group that accepts the Book of Enoch as canonical and still preserves it in its liturgical language of Geʽez, where it plays a central role in worship.
9 hours ago · With the advent of modern DNA testing, science can no longer hide that Hawaiians were mating with indigenous Americans hundreds of years before Captain Cook. Kanaka Maoli don’t look like Mayans or Aztecs with their eagle noses and narrow slanting forheads, but the mythos and blood ritual sacrifices, including the barbaric kapu system ...
9 hours ago · “[Dubbing 62 Side A: Babylon + Zion] is the idea of trying to contextualise ‘Babylon’. It’s such an abstract term. [Kerry, Herbie, and I] started looking into the idea of what were the oppressing factors at the time each song was written and then politics ended up being this big thing. Everywhere you turn, it’s just the politics of ...
9 hours ago · In honor of Star Wars Day, I would like to discuss the birth of Yoda and the Jedi order. I mean the original Yoda, not “the Child” (a.k.a. Grogu) whom the Hollywood Reporter called the “Dalai Lama in toddler form.” (As a fifty-year-old baby, “the Child” is chronologically older than the entire Star Wars franchise.) I will instead ...
