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That's it! Wonderful series of lectures.

It looks completely modern! I could imagine a toddler bumbling around in that today.

I can correctly pronounce English, Spanish, Russian, and some French. I can understand English and Spanish at the conversational level, and have limited facility with Russian. I unfortunately only speak English with fluency, but at one point I was nearly fluent in Spanish and I still have a good...

"...the madness, incompetence, cultic focus, or ignorance of rulers." The intersection of climate change, financial crisis, and political cowardice and avarice sounds like a blow-by-blow description of the current environment in the United States. Very scary.

Did you hear about the Swedish girl who found an Iron Age sword in a lake while on holiday just this year? It's amazing how these things are able to stay intact and undisturbed so long.

I can't post links, but the Yale University series on the early Middle Ages is fantastic and available on YouTube for free. It's a whole semester's worth of material.

"...many other things which I cannot now specify." That is golden. It's actually really refreshing to imagine that 1. There were devoted communities of learning in an era so often characterized as one that lacked scholarly pursuit; and 2. That even 800 years ago, college kids were hitting their...

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