#William Dalrymple

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William Dalrymple

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You all have no idea how much I'm waiting for this book, and there's a REASON I named the giant road through Tales of Tremaine, The Golden Road, and get into India's influence along the Silk Road - and, you'll be surprised to learn there were many mini branches off/of the Silk Road. The Jade Way/Porcelain Road, you had a full maritime Silk Road (seriously), a Salt Road. So many that specialized on certain things and you could quite literally make an entire life being a specialized bandit along those ways. But, anyways, yeah, I'm so looking forward to this. Idk what I have to do for the publisher to get me an arc cuz...I want this now.

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Wow good thing he didn't actually suffer a nervous breakdown and instead just spent a fortnight in bed screaming about golden potatoes and calling everyone in India a basic bitch until he turned into a skeleton covered in boils.

(From White Mughals by William Dalrymple, pp 226-227)

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Wahhh one of my favorite nonfiction writers signed FIVE books for me and I got to chat with him for a bit I love lit fest so much

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"Inside, beyond the entrance hall, lay the main administrative block: a warren of rooms whose shelves groaned with scrolls, archives, records and registers, and where toiled 300 clerks, notaries, and accountants scribbling figures into vast leather-bound ledgers."

- The Anarchy, William Dalrymple

A description of the East India Company Headquarters circa 1730s.

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Why Timur was worse than his reputation

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Called “cursed” by those whose lives have been plagued by misfortune since acquiring the stones, you would think this would make people averse to owning them, but quite the contrary!

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Just finished this. A super-breezy read that straddles mythology, history, storytelling and a bit of geology. Also, this whole story is super Bollywood- twists, turns, debauched kings (did you know there are eyewitness accounts of Ranjit Singh, yes *that* Ranjit Singh, doing the dirty in public on an elephant? With a lady too, haww) courtesans with hearts of gold, torture - the whole shebang.

Super entertaining. Highly recommended.

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Following the success of Edward Said’s groundbreaking work Orientalism, a school of criticism has attempted to apply Said’s ideas to the whole range of colonial writings and art. Some of these applications have proved more suitable than others, and there sometimes seems to be an assumption at work in academia – especially in the US – that all writings of the colonial period exhibit the same sets of prejudices: a monolithic, modern, academic Occidentalism which seems to match uncannily the monolithic stereotypes perceived in the original Orientalism.

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“…but four centuries before neurochemistry was even thought of, and before any of the touted advances in neurosciences that allegedly gave us a new and better understanding of ourselves, Shakespeare knew something that we are increasingly loath to acknowledge.

There is no technical fix for the problems of humanity.

Those problems, he knew, are ineradicably rooted in our nature; and he atomized that nature with a characteristic genius never since equaled: which is why every time we moderns consult his works, we come away with a deeper insight into the heart of our own mystery.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

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North Dakota Governor DILFs

Fred G. Aandahl, George A. Sinner, Arthur A. Link, Norman Brunsdale, Arthur G. Sorlie, Jack Dalrymple, Ed Schafer, Doug Burgum, Allen I. Olson, John Moses, L. B. Hanna, Lynn Frazier, Ole H. Olson, John Hoeven, Walter Welford, William L. Guy, William Langer

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Experiencing the Splendor of New England Fall Colors at Roger Williams Park in Providence, RI

As autumn arrives, nature paints landscapes with vibrant hues of red, orange, and gold, transforming ordinary scenes into breathtaking panoramas. One such place where fall foliage and colors unfold in all their glory is Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island. This sprawling urban oasis not only boasts picturesque foliage but also features landmarks that add a touch of history and charm…

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Podcasts on the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaratoin

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Today in Christian History

Today is Friday, December 2nd, the 336th day of 2022. There are 29 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

1381: Death of Jan Van Ruysbroek, “the Ecstatic Doctor,” so called because of his mysticism. He had written The Spiritual Espousals (1350), a commentary on Matthew 25:6: “Behold, the bridegroom comes,” which will influence contemporaries such as John Tauler and Gerard Groote, and later writers such as Thomas à Kempis.

1697: Dedication of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren. It replaces a medieval cathedral that had burned in the Great Fire of 1666. The Right Reverend Henry Compton, Bishop of London, preaches the dedication sermon based on Psalm 122: “I was glad when they said unto me: Let us go into the house of the Lord.”

1751: A Consistory of the Dutch Reformed Church writes with frustration from Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), complaining that Roman Catholicism has greatly increased, despite severe penalties meted out by Dutch governors.

1873: After years of struggle, Frances Havergal, Christian singer, sees the importance of complete Christian surrender “as a flash of electric light,” and makes it.

1906: The first of Paulo Mwamribwa’s pupils are baptized in Digoland, Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika). He had founded the first indigenous Protestant mission school in the Gombero area.

1910: Death in Richmond, Virginia, of Bishop Channing Moore Williams, who had served as an Episcopal missionary in the Far East, founding a divinity school in Japan.

1916: The Suwa Maru docks at Kobe carrying missionary Irene “Sensei” Webster-Smith, who will later rescue Geisha children and convert Japanese war criminals.

1947: Death of Alexis Kabaliuk, Apostle of Carpatho-Russia, who had played a major role in reviving the Orthodox Church in Transcarpathia (a region on the western edge of the Ukraine) in the early twentieth century despite persecution by Austrian-Hungarian authorities.

1948: Romania’s Official Gazette #281 publishes a decree transferring Uniate church property to the Romanian State without compensation.

1994: Death of Sir James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, a legal scholar and missionary to Islamic regions.