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Ethnic map of Brazil, 2022

by geoglobal_

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How a word for “banana” from Papua New Guinea spread with ancient trade routes, becoming the scientific name for the banana genus. The Trans-New-Guinea word is also the source of the regular word for banan in languages like Turkish, Somali and Amharic

This is based on “Things your classics master never told you: a borrowing from Trans New Guinea languages into Latin” by Roger Blench. As far as I know, it’s the easternmost word to have made it into European languages in pre-colonial times, having spread from New Guinea (where bananas where domesticated) along old trade routes. Some words have travelled further though, such as the Aymara word for ‘potato’ into Maori.

by LlST-

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Já ouviram falar que "fulano tem um olhar de seca-pimenteira"? Eis aqui uma excelente ilustração do poder místico das plantas!

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This is your daily reminder that there is no value in the opinion of a Zionist.

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The Reconquista (AD 722 - 1492)

by undevicesimus/deviantart

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Source: UNESCO

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The Students for Violent Non-Action (SVNA) installed The Dean of Spooky Sciences as a prank in The Harper Memorial Library Reading Room, aka, The Arley D. Cathey Learning Center, or, to more accurately reflect the true nature of the room as they saw it: NERD HELL, or, The 10th Circle of Hell). The SVNA wanted to warn students that they “should abandon all hope of ever attaining a 4.0 by graduation.”

Today the Dean warns students about the consequences of bringing food, beverages, and ink into Special Collections. Bwa-ha-ha!

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GOYA Gone for good 1797-98 Etching and aquatint, 217 x 152 mm

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GOYA Witches in the Air 1797-98 Oil on canvas, 43,5 x 31,5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid

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"Vincent Price at Edgar Allen Poe's grave. This rare, candid photo of the actor visiting Edgar Allan Poe's grave at the Westminster Burial Grounds was taken by Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House and Museum in Baltimore, when Mr. Price was on tour with his one-man show Diversions and Delights, in 1977."

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"Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called terrorists." (George Carlin)

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Now that @tlatollotl explained, I find it brilliant.

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"Map showing the decline of native Irish speakers over time"

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"Just the facts, mam. Just the facts. I'm a descriptive linguist."

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Norman Z McLeod’s Alice in Wonderland (1933) should be classified as a horror movie

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"Map of male hairiness"

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Não é genocídio se foi Deus quem mandou fazer.