Jacob

See, this is nice but all of these need to be checked and sourced and it glosses over the fact that many of the meanings of individual words are debated or overlap, especially with specific species differentiations like donkeys and onagers.

I recognize many of these as broadly correct.

Woo! Always good to make more dinosaur kids!

Bonus points if the person claims to use Marxist historiography even though this is like expressly the opposite of that through its erasure of tensions in societies below a national level.

And so it came to pass that the prophet Lizziel spoke to the Israelites, declaring that thus it shall be. Yet the people continued in their practices and the wrath of God came upon the land. And lo, she was right all along and had told them so.

Hello, I hope your next day is nicer than this one because you deserve it.

We live in such a beautiful universe.

O, excellent, thanks. I figure with Koine Greek, it might be worth having some declension tables on hand for the animal names if I wanna text-search a database.

Concavenator as illustrated by Raúl Martín. It is a two-legged theropod dinosaur with a fairly typical allosauroid features except for a few differences, the most notable being a vertebral hump jutting upwards above its hips.

I’m aware it is named after the Province of Cuenca in Spain but I don’t like that Concavenator is aggressively convex rather than concave.

(Concavenator was a mid-sized carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period.)

My plush elephant reading my laptop open to an article titled “‘When elephants battle, the grass suffers.’ Power, ivory and the Syrian elephant.”

Thought it was important to acknowledge the elephant in the room and get the little one acquainted with some difficult family history.

This is some deeply powerful magic.

I appreciate that there are three living species of elephant (African bush elephant, Asian elephant, and African forest elephant) and they just each together hold the top three spots on largest terrestrial animals alive today. Little team win streak.

As I prepare a project on animal history in the Near East, I’m interested in producing a multilingual list of what these animals have been called.

I’ll take historical dictionary recs for:
-Ancient Egyptian.
-Akkadian.
-Hebrew.
-Aramaic.
-Greek.
-Latin.
-Arabic.
-Persian.
-Ottoman Turkish.

Jacob on the couch with a sunny window in the background.

Sunny productive time.

It’s hard to beat beautiful Persianate tiling from Central Asia and it makes sense that the Mughals also worked with it well considering their origins and prestige use of Persian at court.

Actually, I’m somewhat curious. Out of the major early modern Islamic gunpowder empires, which one has your favorite aesthetics?

Examples shown here are part of the harem at the Ottoman Topkapi Palace, the Safavid Fatima Masumeh Shrine, and the Mughal Taj Mahal.

Painted canvas of a chained dog surrounded by imitation mosaic tessae and the words “CAVE CANEM.”

A friend of mine painted her own rendition of a different Roman mosaic of the same motif for me and I treasure it very much.

I think one of the most appreciated things about the Mughals is deservedly their architecture.

I really like the Delhi Gate, the secondary gate of the Red Fort of Delhi, built by Emperor Shah Jahan in the 1640s.

The brickwork is beautiful and the moat and towers quite imposing.

A friend of mine passed away three years ago around this time. We used to talk Islamic history and given that his family was from Pakistan, the Mughals were a favorite of his. I said one day I’d educate people with a project on the Mughals in honor of him and I still need to do that someday.

“I know trivia for every US president” mofos never have anything to say when you ask them about one of the Hyksos presidents of the First Intermediate Party System known from a single regional inscription in the Lower Mississippi.

Not the one I’m talking about in this case but a classic nonetheless!

Fair! Ultimately I prefer accuracy to the alternative but I mostly prefer understandably inaccurate science media to no science media.

I prefer critique to just dragging it like I often see from paleo people with every one of these honestly.

We have no music from ancient Egypt left and don’t know the vowels in their language. If I can record sound, the Sed festival of Ramesses II in 1249 BC.

But for the paleo intentions implied, probably the Morrison because honestly the dinosaur variety will answer so many questions.

Incredible!

Also as someone who’s worked in schools quite a bit, these conversations are happening anyway between kids, because these kids have queer people in their life they talk about.

If you refuse to engage it as a parent, you’re leaving it up to whoever else. You can’t hide it.

Haven’t watched The Dinosaurs yet because no Netflix and trying not to watch shows right now.

But I notice the split between paleontology people who hate it and everyone else posting that they love it.

And honestly, if it has some inaccuracies but gets people interested in the field, positive.

Ideal animal.

The Venn diagram of the people who post about them on my timeline is nearly a circle.

“What you gonna do, cry about it? Get it? Cry? Never mind, I’m eating you.”

I agree.

What a precious creature.