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reading the X-Wing books again

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Najran Jews, Saudi Arabia, ca. late 19th century

The Jews of Najran trace their origin to the Ten Lost Tribes. A community made up of merchants, craftsmen and farmers existed in Najran long before the spread of Islam in the region. On the strength of the laws of the desert and tribal protection, they were not subjected to persecution; the Sunni Bedouins of Saudi Arabia even ate meat slaughtered under their laws of shehitah. The Jews mostly lived in clay houses and were renowned for their hard work, courage and strength. The strict barrier between men and women, which was customary in social life throughout the region, was nonexistent among them.

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Scott Wade paints on dusty cars and he did a stunning job with painting Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse.

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TALES OF THE JEDI

This multi-episode series follows the events known as the Great Sith War, a conflict instigated by Sith forces in a mission for galactic domination. Episodes focus on former Jedi Knight-turned Sith Lord Ulic Qel-Droma, Jedi Grandmaster Nomi Sunrider, and a cast of supporting characters including Ulic’s brother Cay Qel-Droma as well fallen Jedi Exar Kun on his quest to become a Dark Lord of the Sith and wage war against the Republic and the Jedi. The first two episodes cover the Sith Lord Naga Sadow and his attempts to invade Republic spaces through his schemes involving manipulation of the Daragon siblings, Gav and Jori. 

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Warwick Reynolds (British, 1880-1926) - Prosperity

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The final stage of every OC's creation is having to go through websites like this to name it:

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Occasionally as an Australian you'll be talking to someone from overseas, and you'll discover a common phrase you took for granted is, in fact, not universally known outside of our country.

Turns out casually dropping "fuck me dead" into conversation will give unsuspecting Americans an aneurism.

The more you know.

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Gave up on this

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jesse

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now 2 beanie baby dragons are crossing your dash together :3

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I told my students they're allowed to be creative and don't have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like "what if I don't have roommates or what if I don't have hobbies" and I'm like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won't fact check you!

So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud

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"spam liking will get you blocked" spam liking will get you a kiss on the mouth

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Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

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DEXTER REWATCH — 4.12 THE GETAWAY Born in blood, both of us. Harry was right. I thought I could change what I am, keep my family safe. But it doesn't matter what I do, what I choose. I'm what's wrong. This is fate.

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cat instinct Ahsoka dropping small prey in front of her favourite crechemaster as a youngling, and accidentally doing the same with Skyguy when they are on a super long campaign and she’s very tired and can’t remember why a human might not love waking up with a small dead animal in their bed. to be fair, Anakin takes it in stride and roasts the creature, because it’s way better than ration packs anyway.