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- "It is most unpleasant work to steal bones from a grave, but what is the use, someone has to do it."
  “It is most unpleasant work to steal bones from a grave, but what is the use, someone has to do it.” - Franz Boas, in a 1888 letter to his sister.
- lemonodor: Trails of Martian dust devils.
  lemonodor: Trails of Martian dust devils.
- "Leave your tell for others as you would wish to find it. Too many excavated tells of Asia are, to..."
  “Leave your tell for others as you would wish to find it. Too many excavated tells of Asia are, to adapt Petrie’s phrase, ‘ghastly charnel houses of murdered evidence’.” - Mortimer Wheeler, Archaeology from the Earth
- The last recorded live aurochs, a female, died in 1627 in the...
  The last recorded live aurochs, a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland.
- "Intensely emotive power struggle, rather than warmly supportive bonding, often characterizes..."
  “Intensely emotive power struggle, rather than warmly supportive bonding, often characterizes relations among women in the strongly patriarchal societies of the Middle East. Ethnographers often present striking interactions of discord with little comment, and fail to reflect upon their implications for a presumed harmony among women. This silence may reflect […]
- "Damascus measures time not by days and months and years, but by the Empires she has seen rise and..."
  “Damascus measures time not by days and months and years, but by the Empires she has seen rise and prosper and crumble to ruin. She is a type of immortality…. Damascus has seen all that has ever occurred on earth, and still she lives. She has looked on the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. Although an […]
- "Our language can be seen as an old city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new..."
  “Our language can be seen as an old city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of modern sections with straight regular streets and uniform houses.” - L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
- "Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name originated in the Persian..."
  “Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name originated in the Persian empire. The tulip, or lale (from Persian لاله, lâleh) as it is also called in Turkey, is a flower indigenous to Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia. The word tulip, which earlier in English appeared in such forms as tulipa or t […]
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  (via scribble-scribbles)
- "Those stars that stare their stares at me — Are those the staring stars I see Or only lights..."
  “Those stars that stare their stares at me — Are those the staring stars I see Or only lights … not meant for me?” - Nickles, from MacLeish’s J.B.
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