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Writes historical fantasy books. The extrovert nerd in residence and corporate Trojan horse. Tech, languages, history and other things.

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined March 2015
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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@KhalilBabilli
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So this happened. My book, A Thousand-year Old Hometown, is published in Arabic! #iamwriting I wonder which language is next?
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@depthsofwiki Notable hemorrhoid cases?
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Here is a video of an armadillo taking a bath. You are welcome.
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@NoContextHumans Russell Coight is an explorer, adventurer, a distinguished gentleman and the Australian of the century. National treasure.
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Occupational hazard is real.
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Americans will use any measurement unit but the metric system.
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This kind of human ingenuity is the talent that enabled us to survive through disastrous times. Amazing.
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@Anc_Aesthetics More like a mega shopping mall in Vegas
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During the Council of Nicea (325 AD) St Nicholas (Santa Claus) dashed across the room and slapped Arius for a theological difference.
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Mercedes Blanche
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You have 6 seconds to talk to me ๐Ÿ‘‹ what would you say? ๐Ÿค
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The Italian Sultans or Mare Nova Roma.
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@mszrsmerci During the Council of Nicea (325 AD) St Nicholas (Santa Claus) dashed across the room and slapped Arius for a theological difference.
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Roman vibes.
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Apparently, Pakistan will deport 1.7 million Afghanis very soon.
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@anniierau 19th-century British scientists trying to describe a platypus is also lit :)
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The Hungarian revolt of 1956 started at the foot of the Joseph Bem statue. The protesters probably didnโ€™t know that Bem died as Murad Pasha and the Ottoman governor of Aleppo. He was a great example of a career convert.
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In Japanese lore, when a cat lives to a certain age, it grows another tail and can stand up and speak in a human language. It becomes a Nekomata. #FolkloreThursday
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Tourism industry of France in the 19th century.
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Limit your access to the news for two reasons. 1. Drama sells and regardless of the topic %90 of the news is over-dramatised. 2. We are not evolved to worry about the whole world. This is a huge stress builder and will disturb your way of thinking. Put a cap on the things you
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One reason I am using an English account is that it is more or less Turkish troll proof. Not entirely but to a great extent. If we think of Turkish trolls as computer viruses, they tend to infect PCs (Turkish Twitter) a lot but don't bother for a Mac (English Twitter).
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One of the most critical graphs that actually matter. #futurism #future
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Around 8% of the Spanish vocabulary is of Arabic origin.
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@qikipedia John Sessions, Sean Lock and now Cal Wilson. What is going on QI? :(
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Slav level = master
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The Fourth Crusade in a nutshell.
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@AdamBandt You are a day short Adam and no one buys that now. Hamas is not the leftist Palestinian movement in the 70ties. Check your calendar. Total moral bankruptcy.
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People.
@LIVEpositivity
Power of Positivity
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What is the biggest reasons people are unhappy?
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Amritsar, 1997. I did an overland from Istanbul to Tibet that year. Next to me is the senior percussionist of the Golden Temple. He was very cool. (I am the one on the right)
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Scythian golden comb early 4th century B.C. Zaporizhzhyia, Ukraine. Definitely one of my favourite artefacts.
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This was absolutely one of the best shows ever.
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@qikipedia Her name was Theophano and here is her actual sarcophagus. Also here is a Byzantine fork as an example. (Not the real fork that caused the blasphemous scandal!)
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Legend :)
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Please raise your voice against Olaโ€™s detention. This is absurd in every level. I know Ola and he is one of the good guys fighting your digital rights #olabini
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HICโ€ขMETAโ€ขDOLORIS Here ends the pain.
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What just happened in Italy.
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Words of wisdom.
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Be with your pets when it is time to say goodbye. That is the least you can do.
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"It turns out that pets also have last wills before they die, but only known to vets who put old and sick animals to sleep." Twitter user Jesse Dietrich asked a vet what the hardest part of his job was. The specialist replied without hesitation that the hardest thing for him was
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"Where are you from?" "Brisbane" "I mean originally" "Oh, right. Istanbul" "It is in Europe, isn't it?" Goes into deep thoughts...
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@fakehistoryhunt Dymocks Bookstore. Brisbane, Australia.
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It is not a job application to be a Hellenistic monarch, it is a job application to accompany a trip to Italy over the Alps.
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Itโ€™s not a bizarre question if itโ€™s a job application to be a Hellenistic monarch.
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One of the most magical moments I have experienced in my life was diving to 35 meters at night, sitting on the sandy seabed, turning off all the lights and playing with the luminescence in total darkness.
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Sea of stars. Bioluminescence in the rain.
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Explaining quantum physics to Newton. #GPT4
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@fakehistoryhunt But they for sure roamed! Presumably mostly aimlessly thoughโ€ฆ
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The Rumi Boysโ€™ new album is out! Featuring โ€œyou canโ€™t whirl with usโ€ and โ€œthe republic of funny hatsโ€ singles. #Rumi #whirlingdervishes
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I shall admit that I am struggling with comprehending the generalised stupidity of our times.
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Too soonโ€ฆ
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They are talking about the same song. Show this if anyone asks you about #Balkans #albanian #bosnian #turkish #greek #serbian
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He is also widely known by his reincarnation: Joffrey Baratheon.
@romanhistory1
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Born today 12AD Caligula. (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) His nickname "Caligula" means "little soldier's boot"
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Aah, good old Middle East. Two Assyrian soldiers forcing a Babylonian captive to grind bones of his his family. 6th c. BCE #archeology #Ancient #assyrian
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Professions in the #ottoman state by the number of practitioners 1894/1895. #history #19thcentury
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You canโ€™t whirl with us.
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Only 1.88% of Starbucks is owned by its Jewish founder. Also, the people you are โ€œprankingโ€ are minimum-wage workers trying to get by.
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People are ordering multiple Starbucks drinks at the drive thru and just leaving omg ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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"Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question." -Yuval Harari
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Average argument on Twitter.
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Disclaimer: Nutella baklava is an abomination and when stumbled upon, it needs to be destroyed with extreme prejudice.
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If he were educated and knew that these orthodox Jews oppose Israel just because itโ€™s not founded by the โ€œmessiahโ€โ€ฆ It is not about caring for Palestinians, It is about opposing the founding mechanisms of the State of Israel and the secular nature of Zionism. He should read
@MarioNawfal
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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ A Palestinian man thanking Orthodox-Jews for their calls to end the war We need more people like this on both sides
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I was trying not to be kidnapped by the Baluchi gangs in Pakistan. #backpacking
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My other account ( in Turkish language) has 33k followers and I deactivated it two days ago. It looks like nobody even realized it :)
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Italy: "There aren't hundreds of people in the street, where are they?" Australia: "There are three people in the street, why are they here?"
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We need more classical education in our schools. A person finishing her/his schooling years without learning about Roman and Greek myths wonโ€™t be able to understand visual arts, music, philosophy, Christianity and Western social values.
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The Giger Museum visit in Gruyeres was a blast. even losing my GoPro did not kill the high spirits.
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#Australia as you know...
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This is one of the best dialogues on TV ever, and it summarises up the British foreign policy pretty well. #yesprimeminister #british #english #ForeignPolicy
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Quoting @BillBailey : "Dollar shop Gandalf."
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Latest addition to the library! Great work @foliosociety
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That is valid for at least half of the humans.
@qikipedia
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Jellyfish can learn from experience, even though they donโ€™t have a brain.
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@qikipedia Recipe!! They had to pass down the recipe, not the cake itselfโ€ฆ
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Life changing book.
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Here is the first chapter of my book "A Thousand Year Old Hometown". A Thousand Year Hometown consists of intertwined stories spreading through five centuries. Through the ages, we follow Theo the Weasel get to know various characters. #iamwriting
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My Latin edition of Winnie the Pooh arrived!
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One of the best marketing moves I have ever seen.
@taralazar
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OK, a bee farmer was tired of bears stealing his honey, so he turned them into taste testers. This is a #picturebook !
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You can read my latest short story here: #scifilover #shortstory
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Coffee is overrated. Tea is the real deal. There, I said it.
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Technology advances to fulfil the necessities.
@parismartineau
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the first ever webcam was put online by the university of cambridge in 1993. it was pointed at coffee pot in a room near the computer lab so workers could check how much coffee was left
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Such a terrible cover picture for the title.
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An art installation about smoking or just a pole came out of the ground?
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Why test automation is not real โ€œtestingโ€ but โ€œcheckingโ€.
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The word "lady" comes from Middle English hlafdia, which is a compound word made from hlaf "bread" and -dige "maid". It literally means the one who kneads bread. #etymology
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โ€œColour, as we perceive it, is the psychophysical reaction of the nerve signal generated by the receptors of our eyes, which distinguish electromagnetic waves of different frequencies.โ€ -Carlo Rovelli This is poetic. #physics #science
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Interviews with #cryptochristians in 1901. #Christianity #ottoman The heterodoxy of the average villager would shock a 21st century person.
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Osijek Bridge was built in modern Croatia by the Ottomans in 1566, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. The bridge and the following wooden platform were said to be 8 kilometres long in total and generally accepted as a world wonder whilst it was standing.
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How did the journey of #coffee start? Turkish historian Peรงevi tells the story of the first coffee house in Istanbul. It was opened in 1554. Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet-A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul -Cambridge University Press
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If you think that the English Twittersphere is toxic you should see the Turkish one.
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