Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran

No. There should not be! No religious holidays!

“Is Eid al-Fitr and national holiday in the Netherlands?”… how come they aren’t asking about Dia de los Mueetos? I wander what answer they will get about the Black Friday?

On the writing exam, I basically wrote German sentences with Dutch spelling. If I pass this, my theory that Dutch is German with a friesian accent will be proven.

@maartenkossmann.bsky.social

Doing my Dutch language and citizenship exams. Whoever designed these things had cute ideas about immigrants.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The US Govt — which bombed the Houthis for seizing ships that were enabling the Gaza genocide — has now seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

The 2001 "war on terror" was a war for oil.

The 2025 "war on narco terror" is a war for oil.

This your "America First" POTUS. Are we great yet?🤔

US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions with Caracas in a move that also raised oil prices.

“It’s not about oil…”

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Amazing. I was going to ask for a review of the night shenanigans. Great to know.

Thank you! I’m an enthusiastic hiker though! But I get what you mean. It looks huge.

Does anyone have any practical advice for visiting Petra?

Three days of rains in Tehran. Finally people can breathe. But this is not going to work. Temporary reliefs are not a solution.

Sorry. I am not a paleographer or a Europeanist. So it might be a very dumb reading on my part.

Doesn’t it read “a Burdeaux(? ce?) a la…”?

A section of very scrappily written medieval French, with a particularly obscure word circled in yellow.

Where are my palaeographers at? Anyone? #MedievalSky
[This is from TNA, SC 1/30/121. The context is asking for updates from a co-envoy regarding Anglo-French negotiations.]

I’m sorry. I don’t know you or what you do. You asked me a simple question & I answered a simple one. You seem to have been fishing for an argument. I am working on the subject for scholarly reasons. I can’t present my arguments on social media. I look forward to your review of my work. Best wishes.

How is an opinion that is against the accepted dogma (that DaQin is the Roman Empire: there are literally hundreds of books and articles on it!) dogmatic? Who keeps this dogma?!

Have you read or seen my arguments?! How do you know what argument is?! I am presenting on this in 5 minutes!

If you want to see why I, for example, am skeptical, go and have a look for why Anxi is taken to be the Arsacid Empire. Look at the evidence brought for it.

You demonstrated the uncritical positivism with which classical Chinese texts are read and interpreted. You took for certain the terms for Parthia and India and then concluded that all’s that left is Rome. Simple, linear, uncomplicated.

Thanks for providing me with the perfect example for my talk.

The Later Han Records

Ok.

Xin Tang Shu. They are coming from Fu-lin

That is exactly what I am talking against! The evidence and reasoning for it is exactly what I meant in the original post.

Giving the last of my University of Lille lectures on this today. A good conclusion I hope.

Not 100%. But I think Fu-lin for the Eastern Roman Empire is pretty easy to accept.

There is only one Sulla who planned to eliminate all his enemies in one sweep.

Or that Anxi means the entirety of the Arsacids empire from the Oxus to Euphrates as understood by Romans!

It’s so infuriating & frustrating to read modern scholarship on ancient and medieval Chinese descriptions of “the west” because you constantly come across statements such as “well, X must be referring to the Roman Empire because the text says it was the most prosperous state in the west”!

Like everything the Orangeutan does, it’s a farce of an original.