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@Extrachelle
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"For a decade, a beekeeper named Sidoros Ţiminis, living in the region of Kapandriti, near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin & different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees & his yearly honey production...." 🤌🏼
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Zagros Mountains, Lorestan province, Iran
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@Extrachelle
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Minoan art is the crème de la crème of Mediterranean art.
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@Extrachelle
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Two Armenian women pose with their rifles before going to war against the Ottomans, 1895.
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@Extrachelle
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We are being tested this weekend & our mobile phones locations will be tracked by the German government. If we behave, there won't be any curfew, if not they may enforce it. Results will be interesting.
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Localism: took a local taxi from my hometown, got some sandwiches on the way. Invited the taxi driver (whose dad was a classmate of my dad in ancient times)for a sandwich too. Forgot my purse with huge amount of money in the taxi. Driver brings back my bag untouched within 5 min
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@Extrachelle
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So in love with this powerful traditional funeral of the Habsburgs. Otto von Habsburg funeral in the Kapuzinerkirche: Man knocks at the door, lists all Otto's titles, monk replies "we do not know him." Repeats 2 times, gets rejected. (1/2)
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Hannah Arendt about the intellectuals who were much more Nazificated than the "normal" people.
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@Extrachelle
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Who is truly richer? - a wealthy society with poisonous foods & unbalanced diets, or - a poor village with a primitive lifestyle & best food qualities from traditional agriculture
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@Extrachelle
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European places with “Saint” or “Holy” In their names.
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@Extrachelle
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"I don't study to know more, but to ignore less." - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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@Extrachelle
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Victim mentality is destroying countries.
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"We have the oldest olive tree in the world." - every Mediterranean
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Retvrn to 90s Lebanese Arak brand ads 🤌🏼
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Then at the end he says "Otto, a mortal man, a sinner", monks let him in. May he RIP! (2/2)
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1 essential secret of a good cook: Generosity. Stinginess destroys recipes.
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@Extrachelle
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2020: the world is burning Meanwhile:
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@Extrachelle
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Prayers for Armenia 🇦🇲🙏
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@Extrachelle
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Mediterranean vibes 🇱🇧
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@Extrachelle
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... & every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them." 🐝🍯
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Return2med inside Salvador Dalí's House in Catalonia 🤌🏼🌿
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@Extrachelle
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Tea is the drink of the masters. Coffee/alcohol are for slaves. Your boss will offer you free coffee to exploit you. Alcohol to transform you into a more "fun" person. Tea is the only drink that doesn't enslave you. 🥰
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@Extrachelle
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They suspended @TeamTrump for this 🤣
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@Extrachelle
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Tourism was killing the Mediterranean, until the pandemic happened, it's breathing again.
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@Extrachelle
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The simplest & best food ever 🤌🏻
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Got an unforgettable gift today from a 90 y/o.neighbor before leaving his house to a nursery home in Aachen. He started crying like a child & said to me: "My two sisters who lived with me both died & now I've to leave my house." He & his sisters never married & had no children.
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This symmetry is actually boring.
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Aerial view of Barcelona will never cease to amaze me.
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@Extrachelle
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An excellent book deserves a good LaTex bookmark #SITG @nntaleb
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@Extrachelle
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Maronite monks sending their Palm Sunday prayers from the mountains.
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I need a wisdom book written by a farmer. Is there anything like that?
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@Extrachelle
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United States of Anatolia 🤌🏼
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@Extrachelle
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What doesn't impress you, says the most about you. 🤌🏼
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@Extrachelle
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Italian Engineering is underrated.
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@Extrachelle
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Earliest evidence for the evil eye is from 3500-3300 BC in Mesopotamia 🧿
@return2assyria
Return to Assyria⚱️
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Main feature in the design of all Assyrian jewelry found in the Nimrud palace is the evil eye 🧿 (8th c. BC)
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@Extrachelle
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What men think women want: 💰 What every woman actually wants:
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2,600-year-old Phoenician wine 'factory' unearthed in Lebanon
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Traditional Lebanese house, built in 1845. 🤌🏼
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Portugal in the 40s-60s, by Artur Pastor.
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Mathematician has discovered the oldest example of applied geometry ever recorded. The Babylonian tablet illustrates the use of Pythagorean triples in dividing land, 1,100 years before the geometric principle was recorded by Pythagoras.
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Someone did it in my hometown & now the old abandoned silk factory is a silk museum 🤌🏼
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@Extrachelle
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Turkey is bombarding an Assyrian village in north iraq. Pls spread the message to stop the terrorist Erdogan bcz no one is reporting. 28 rockets fell on 3 #Assyrian villages. Inhabitants had to leave their homes. In 2020 at least 30 Assyrian villages were emptied. #freeassyria
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@Extrachelle
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When Marie Antoinette, last Queen of France, departed from Vienna in 1770, she was given several rules written by her mother, Maria Theresa: "When you wake up, you'll immediately upon arising go thru your morning prayers on your knees & read some religious texts,..."
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Which one do you choose?
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Church of the Savior on Blood, Erected on the site where political nihilists fatally wounded Emperor Alexander II in 1881, constructed between 1883 and 1907, funded by the imperial family. 🇷🇺
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"Nowadays we have books about books and descriptions about descriptions." [Lichtenberg]
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"The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king” - Saint Augustine
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Part 2.
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Happy Sunday from a Russian airport chapel ☦️
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Retvrn 🤌🏼
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Prof. Florian Mildenberger, a Medical historian, took the ICE train from München to Berlin & wrote this on his Facebook, I google translated it to share it with my English-speaking twitter.
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Dr. Christoph v. Gamm
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Mein Freund Prof. Florian Mildenberger, Medizinhistoriker, mußte wieder Zug fahren. Danach hat er mich angerufen. Was er dabei erleben mußte, hat auch mir das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lassen. Ich habe ihm empfohlen das aufzuschreiben und es nicht reinzufressen. Zeitdokument.
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Are you proud of me?
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@Extrachelle
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Turkey's small penis syndrome is a real issue.
@MevlutCavusoglu
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
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These racist minds know better than anybody how we crash and kick out to the sea those who dare attack our glorious flag. Europe’s spoiled and racist children should know their place. Europe must put an end to racism and animosity against Islam.
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Histories of nation states represent no real history. More correct history is decentralized & includes the variety of social, cultural, religious, & ethnic groupings within a territory.
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Need to learn popularity from my dad. People recognize him from 50 years ago & he got 5 times more phone contacts stored in his phone than me, his friends are loyal & true brothers. The main philosophy I learned from him is to never gossip. Listen to everyone but never gossip.
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Maria Callas in Hagia Sophia 💒
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Champions food.
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I painted myself in quarantine for future remembrance.
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People who read a lot rarely make big discoveries. Discovering requires extensive meditations about things. Association = observing, not being told things.
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Mediterranean grannies right now
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Damascus 1920.
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Highest mental health issues in world's history.
@PaleoEconomist
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Place where George Floyd died is now where baptism takes place and Floyd is now a proclaimed Saint
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Qadisha Valley, Lebanon 🤌🏼 ("Holy Valley", which has sheltered many Christian monastic communities for centuries)
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Safety in streets (especially for women) is the biggest sign of a free society. Germany 10-15 years ago was a different country. It makes me angry that no one is talking about this serious issue.
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@Extrachelle
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It's my bday & my favorite person forgot it but it's okay 😊
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Whoever veils/ condemns/hides their women‘s beauty, has no right to look / photograph other women’s unveiled beauty.
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Blessing your TL
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Conspiracy theorists overestimate the intelligence of the ruling politicians/regulators.
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FROM NOW ON IM ELIMINATING THE T***WORD FROM MY VOCABULARY. THERES ONLY THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AS A TERRITORY WITH ITS CAPITAL CONSTANTINOPLE. DAMNATO MEMORIAE OF THE T*** WORD & AND ANYTHING RELATED TO IT.
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@Extrachelle
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Waking up at 6 am, means homemade pizza for breakfast & one olive per bite.
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Sth for @wrathofgnon : The Krämerbrücke (Merchants' bridge) in Erfurt, Germany. One of the few remaining bridges in the world that have inhabited buildings. It has been continuously inhabited for over 500 years, longer than any other bridge in Europe.
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You either live in a sunny warm place or in a white snowy place. Places in between have no character. ☀️ ❄️
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Christian veils are #Lindy . In the Catholic Church they were declared not mandatory only in 1976 in the document "Inter Insigniores", approved by Pope Paul VI. Make #Mantillas great again.
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@MiddleEastMnt
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Turkey: 'Any decision on #HagiaSophia is an internal matter'
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Return to the Med.
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Twitter wisdom: One great follower is worth 10,000 mediocre ones.
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Medieval manuscripts are more = a collection of paintings than a book. Every page deserves to be framed on a wall!
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@nntaleb Russian literature with no need of any agenda
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Headlines from newspapers in Chicago during the Spanish flu, oct. 1918.
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Art certainly requires skill, but skill is not art. Hyperrealism requires no imagination or understanding, just technical skill & patience. Art is painted poetry.
@Erytheia63
Juan de Erytheia
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Marco Grassi.
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Missing my hometown in Mount Lebanon so much. Spent 5 weeks with the family in December & realized that a good place & good company make you forget to take any photos or even think about your phone.
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If Christians would be as angry about all those churches that are turning into museums, restaurants, hotels in their own "Christian" countries as about the Hagia Sophia...
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My bro is in Italy again & he just sent me a picture of a man painting outside 🤌🏼♥️
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This is olive tree abuse.
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What men think women want: money What women actually want: a Badass Armenian Urartu cauldron to cook soups & meats....
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Imagine your grandma cooking in this ugly cold kitchen & serving food on this ugly dining table. Loveless atmosphere. Non-Creative Ikea monoculture in 1 picture.
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Visiting Lebanese businesses of the family. I just got a freshly pressed olive oil bottle gift
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Retvrn 🤌🏼
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I'm sorry, I have to block Nassim over this comment (after following him for 5-6 years). I lost respect.
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Assyrian warriors from the Hakkari mountains (before WWI) 🤌🏼
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Alexander the Great & Bucephalus.
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How is no one talking about foggy glasses when wearing masks? We must find a solution for this.
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@Extrachelle
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Enjoying some chicken tikka masala 🇬🇧
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Unfollowed.
@sciam
Scientific American
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Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now. The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you to vote for health, science and Joe Biden for President.
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Must have been a contest for inner beauty
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Info of the day: In 1584 the Genoese governor ordered all farmers & landowners to plant four trees yearly; a chestnut, olive, fig, & mulberry tree.
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Fact check: Med people look younger in the sun ☀️
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