Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali [Book Notes] 🌏 📚 📝
These are some notes taken while reading James Oliver's book titled "Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali". There is also the tentative map of the journey described in the book. For the map and other maps you can have a look at this blog post: https://meyavuz.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/mansa-m
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How Many Children Can A Human Have In A Lifetime?
How many kids can you have? Moulay Ismail set the record with at least 1171 children. But it's different for men and women. Having children for women takes about a year, if you count the pregnancy and recovery time. For men, there is less time and resource investment, so they can have many
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Ambassador Marwan Muasher: The Second Arab Awakening and the Battle for Pluralism
Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002 - 2004) and deputy prime minister (2004 - 2005) of Jordan, and his career has spanned
From playlist The MacMillan Center
Sohla Makes Samurai Mochi | Ancient Recipes with Sohla | History
Join Sohla El-Waylly as she takes the food you know and love and traces it back to its origins in Ancient Recipes with Sohla! Watch new episodes every other Saturday and check out more here: http://histv.co/ancientrecipes Follow Adam Richman as he travels the country and tries the most ic
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Journées Hénon - 20/21 - André Brahic
Michel Hénon : un modèle pour nous tous
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Islam - A Religion of Peace, or Violence?
Views from two former Muslims regarding the mandated violence of the Islamic faith. One is a former PLO terrorist, the other was an abused Muslim woman, now an atheist, who escaped an arranged marriage and became a successful member of the Dutch Parliament. Both receive frequent death thre
From playlist Bill Maher
Hank introduces us to the man behind the periodic table - the brilliant Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow Scishow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow References for this episode can be found in the Google document he
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Dictatorship Begins at Home in the Arab World
Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah, one of the most prominent scholars of the Islamic word, speaks about the origins of dictatorship and political hegemony in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Insightful and honest words. Translated by Memritv.org. المرجع الشيعي البارز السيد محمد حسين فضل
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Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let's Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers
The Nobel Prize-winning economist on why America's future prosperity depends on tax reform today. More related features: http://bit.ly/1k7kcfA
From playlist Corruption in the USA
Robustness and Optimization of Scrip Systems
Google Tech Talk November 29, 2012 (more info below) Presented by Joseph Halpern. ABSTRACT Scrip systems, where users pay for service with an artificial currency (scrip) created for the system, are an attractive solution to a variety of problems faced by P2P and distributed systems. Desp
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Joseph Smarr (Google), interviewed at OSCON 2011
Joseph Smarr Google Joseph Smarr is a software engineer at Google, focused on socially enabling the web using open standards. Previously, he was Plaxo's Chief Technology Officer, where he led their initiative to open up the social web, starting with co-authoring the Bill of Rights for Us
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Lecture 7. Israel in Egypt: Moses and the Beginning of Yahwism (Genesis 37- Exodus 4)
Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) (RLST 145) with Christine Hayes The book of Genesis concludes with the story of Joseph and the descent of the 12 tribes into Egypt, setting the stage for the Exodus in which God is seen as redeemer and liberator. Moses is the first in a li
From playlist Introduction to the Old Testament With Christine Hayes
The Proof Is Out There: Miraculous Case of the Levitating Priest (Season 1) | History
Watch all new episodes of The Proof Is Out There, returning soon, and stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at http://history.com/schedule. Levitation specialist, Diane Pasulka, speaks about the remarkable case of Joseph of Cupertino - an Italian priest who sh
From playlist The Proof Is Out There: Official Series Playlist | History
A Ghoul, a Ghost and a Grisly Murder: The Legend of Dr. Joseph McDowell
In Antebellum St Louis, Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell was, to put it mildly, an eccentric, whose legendary reputation included body snatching, artillery, demagoguery, ghosts, a live bear, and murder most foul. He is said to have inspired a character in one of America’s most famous works of fict
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Earliest Depictions of Jesus in Art
Check out our biblical family tree chart: https://usefulcharts.com/products/biblical-family-tree CREDITS: Photograph of Jesus image at Shivta, Israel by Dror Maayab and reconstruction by Dr. Emma Maayan Fanar https://haifa.academia.edu/EmmaMaayan Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin
From playlist Religious Studies
Book of Mormon as Literature | Family Tree & Potential Sources
Timeline of the Pre-Columbian Americas: https://youtu.be/BQnJK6ZJPOU Who Wrote the Bible? https://youtu.be/NY-l0X7yGY0 Who Wrote the Qur'an? https://youtu.be/-SGzYrGzBlA Video Credits: Narration/Charts: Matt Baker https://usefulcharts.com/ Animation: Syawish Rehman https://www.youtube.c
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