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Language games: Catalan chrononomy

📝 Friday quiz! @logological.bsky.social tests your Catalan chrononomy
📖 Find the answers inside the brand new Babel No52...

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The colonial history of gold in the Americas & in settler colonial US history is now on display at the White House. In earlier contact history Columbus sent Taino Indians to Spain as slaves while forcing other Arawak to find gold for him or he’d torture or cut off their hands. Later gold rushes 1/

A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!
…a-vuelapluma!

(~”fly(ing)-quill/feather-ly”)

= said of writing or composing: inspired, fast, effortless.

Unlike many other chapter houses, the ribbed vaulting of Southwell Minster's C13th chapter house doesn't have a central pier.
It hovers over the space like a starburst in dramatic light.

Almost black-and-white image of cobblestone street in Lund.

Ugaritic word of the day:
ʕr (/ʕīru) – "city".

Mysteries of the Green Sahara and the foundations of Africa’s ancient kingdoms (ca. 10,000-3,500BC) Around 5,000 years ago, the Sahara was a lush, humid landscape with a chain of lakes and waterways linking West, East, and North Africa in what is known as the African Humid Period.

Mysteries of the Green Sahara and the foundations of Africa’s ancient kingdoms (ca. 10,000-3,500BC)
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Map of the green Sahara

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Saint Theodora - Vasta, Greece: the church with the trees on the roof There are 17 oak trees growing on the roof and walls, but no roots have penetrated inside this 800 year old church

Saint Theodora - Vasta, Greece: the church with the trees on the roof

There are 17 oak trees growing on the roof and walls, but no roots have penetrated inside this 800 year old church

A Roman mosaic featuring two figures. One person is playing a hydraulis (water organ), while the other stands beside it holding a curved horn. The mosaic is framed by a decorative geometric border with interwoven patterns in red, black, and white.

...amphitheatres and theatres. Depictions can be found on mosaics, e. g. on the gladiator mosaic at Nennig. Parts of a hydraulis were discovered in Aquincum/Budapest. 🧵2/2

📷 Landesmuseum Trier and me

Clay relief showing an ancient hydraulis (water organ) at the center, flanked by two gladiators, each raising an arm as if in a gesture or salute. The figures are dressed in typical gladiatorial attire, and the organ features several upright pipes.

For #ReliefWednesday a depiction of a hydraulis – a water organ with a keyboard and pipes, the supply of air was created by water pressure. The instrument on the terracotta relief found in Trier is flanked by gladiators, a retiarius and a secutor. Water organs were used in... 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

Potser topònims com Novetlè, Rotglà… i paraules semblants? Segur que els castellanoparlants llegeixen les ‘t’ com [ð] o [θ].

Shock! Pleasure to have in class having terrible time, actually A former student described as "outstanding" and "a joy to teach" hated her life during high school, it has been revealed. "Quirky" and "conscientious" teenager Mary Walker, 18, from Broughton, was…

“Quirky” and “conscientious” teenager Mary Walker, 18, from Broughton, was predicted a string of A*s at GCSE. “We rewarded her by sitting her next to the boy who liked to throw glue sticks,” Walker’s class teacher Liz McHodge, 58, explained.

Top three in Mimo Leaderboard: Mohamed Morsy with 6,288 points, me with 2,420, and some other guy

Fun fact. The common Egyptian (and elsewhere?) surname al-Mursī derives from Murcia in present-day Spain. The most famous exemplar is Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Mursī a 13th-century Sufi who migrated to Egypt. It was also the surname of the Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, and this guy whooping me in Mimo.

Illustration depicting the Ethiopian monastery in Rome known as Däbrä Qeddus Estifanos (Santo Stefano degli Abissini), made in the 1750s

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I talked to Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene about his work on Mongol and Chinese history and why many pre-modern states were founded by nomadic pastoralists.

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YouTube video by That's Love Records Céline Dessberg - Сэлэнгэ "Selenge" (Official Music Video)

I can’t stop listening to this song, played with ‘yatga’ (ᠶᠠᠲᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ , Mongolian zither) by Céline Dessberg:

Boy running past greenish-blue tiles of base of Kalta Minor minaret.

Couple wearing traditional Uzbek dress at base of Kalta Minor Minaret.

Blue tiled iwan in Kunya-Ark fortress, with school group in foreground.

Tile and brick Islam Khoja Minaret.

Views of Xiva, Xorazm, O‘zbekiston.
#Uzbekistan #Khiva

Byzantine-era mosaic of a gazelle jumping

English borrowing from Arabic of the day:

"gazelle" comes from the Arabic ghazāl via medieval French.

L'étude des toponymes en KER- en sud #Bretagne nous montre à quel point la langue bretonne était présente en presqu'île de Guérande, avant de décliner à partir du 19ème siècle. Il y avait encore des locuteurs natifs dans les villages paludiers de Batz dans les années 1960.
#44bzh

YouTube video by Tata Trusts Traditional glazed tile making and application

This is a great little video from Tata Trusts about the investigation and production of traditional likes in India for a conservation project. The most surprising bit was that there were no/limited skills in India to make THESE particular tiles.

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A freshly cut log-beam set into a stone wall.

A decayed log-beam

Two hundred years old and like new beneath the sapwood.

If only the roof had been maintained above the other end of the beam.

Indigenous Tharu fable gets new life in Nepal's ‘Budhani‘ Sanjib Chaudhary interviewed Nepali author, artist and activist, Indu Tharu, who translated and adapted Budhani, a novel based on a classic Tharu fable, into the marginalized Tharu language.

Sanjib Chaudhary interviewed Nepali author, artist and activist, Indu Tharu, who translated and adapted Budhani, a novel based on a classic Tharu fable, into the marginalized Tharu language.

Well, he didn’t include neither L’Alguer/Alghero nor the Carxe (Murcia) – I meant that Catalan is also spoken there, but those places have been surveyed later by other linguists.

A couple years later, Francoism entered a new, less lethal phase and Griera was able to finish the rest of the volumes, covering all the territories where Catalan is spoken: Catalonia, Roussillon, Andorra, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Alguer in Italy, Eastern Aragon, and a few villages in Murcia.

The survey had 1,356 questions and most of the places surveyed where in Catalonia proper, with only a bunch in other territories. In the late 50s Griera was able to continue his work in the only Catalan-speaking sovereign country there is, Andorra, and published the results as a standalone volume.

After the Atlas linguistique de la France had been published, including surveys in the Roussillon/Rosselló AKA “French Catalonia”, Antoni Griera applied the same methods to make one of the rest of the Catalan-speaking domain, the Atlas Lingüístic de Catalunya, that was interrupted by the Civil War.

It makes perfect sense if you know the context. Did someone explain it to you when you posted it on Twitter?

It is finished 😭 The second piece in the
Mourning series described below, in indigo-dyed cotton on indigo paper (all dyed by me for this purpose). Just need to complete the small ones, which have a twist, and I can do a proper release. #handmadeart

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use of a tiller to make the earth easier to move into the formwork

#RammedEarth building, quick how to:
1/5 preparation of the earth with -some- clay and coarse aggregates in it. Moist not wet, earth moisture. Cover with tarps during breaks.

A mountain with clouds on its summit

This is Tryfan

In Welsh folklore the burial site of Sir Bedivere, who returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake after Arthur's last battle

The lake that holds Excalibur is Llyn Ogwen, to the left off camera

The lake on the right is Llyn Idwal in Cwm Idwal

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