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Austro-Hungarian Jewish Soldiers praying at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, 1915 [640x406]
▲ 117 r/HistoryPorn

Austro-Hungarian Jewish Soldiers praying at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, 1915 [640x406]

u/FudgeAtron — 13 days ago
▲ 187 r/ottomans+1 crossposts

Why was the Ottoman Levant so lawless?

Every time I read about the history of the Ottoman Levant, it seems as if the Ottomans barely had control over the region and constantly had to rely on local strongmen to administer the region.

The empire seems to have been unable to actually enforce its laws in the region for most of the period, constantly having to rely on people like Zahir ibn Umar, Aqil Agha, and the Druze Emirs, to both collect taxes and administer the region.

Was this the norm in other regions or was it specific to the Levant?

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u/FudgeAtron — 17 days ago
▲ 150 r/ukpolitics

'Whether people like it or not, there are British citizens alive today because of intelligence that Israel gave us': Kemi Badenoch to Sky News

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u/FudgeAtron — 27 days ago
▲ 17 r/AskHistorians

What are the historical origins of the Golem?

I was reading through the Wikipedia page for Golems and found out that they really only date from 1500 onwards. There's a single incident in the Talmud describing a Golem.

So where do Golems come from and why are they only found in Ashkenazi folklore? Or why does it seem that way?

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u/FudgeAtron — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/help

How to disable for you page?

Is there any way to get rid of the four you page? I might just delete the app and go back to using old Reddit on browser otherwise.

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u/FudgeAtron — 2 months ago
▲ 194 r/TopCharacterTropes

Red-headed women whose fat fathers disapprove of their life choices

X-Files: Dana Scully's dad would have preferred she not join the FBI.

Invincible: Atom Eve's dad would have preferred she not become a superhero.

Cyndi Lauper: her dad in the music video for Girls Just Wanna Have Fun would have preferred she not go out.

Trope includes optionality for whether the dad is bald and/or has facial hair.

u/FudgeAtron — 2 months ago
▲ 255 r/etymology

Ghillie Suit - ghillie from scots gille meaning boy/ servant, originally referencing the Ghillie Dhu, a scottish woodland fairy covered in leaves and moss, who protects the forest

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u/FudgeAtron — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/etymology

The colour "orange" and the word "stain" share a root in Hebrew

Both the words orange (כתום) and stain (כתם) are etymologically related, both coming from the three letter root כ-ת-מ, with the over all origin being something similar to dye.

I think this is interesting because it's quite different to the origin of the colour in European languages.

https://www.pealim.com/he/dict/?num-radicals=3&r1=%D7%9B&r2=%D7%AA&rf=%D7%9E

https://he.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%9D

u/FudgeAtron — 2 months ago
▲ 26 r/Israel_Palestine+1 crossposts

I think the data here is rather interesting. It paints a very different picture to the one activists paint us. First the idea that massive amounts of bodies would be uncovered seems to not be born out. There has not been a significant increase in the number of fatalities since the end of the ceasefire, which means that the supposed 100,000s of bodies under the rubble are not there.

Second, the adult men still make up a disproportionate amount of the dead, they compromise around 25% of the population yet make up just under 50% of the deaths. If we remove 20,000 from the number of adult males fatalities (the amount of combatants the IDF claim to have killed), the number of adult male fatalities drops to around 26% which is still slightly higher than we'd expect but is more easy to account for (through men being more likely to take risks to protect their families).

Thirdly, the number of requests for Humanitarian access has dropped to fewer than 100 for April, with the majority of them being accepted without issue and nearly 75% being accepted after impediment. Fewer than 10% are rejected by Israel, with the biggest issue now being humanitarian orgs withdrawing their requests. Interestingly the total number of requests now is just over half of the number of requests approved by Israel in October.

u/FudgeAtron — 4 months ago