I've just finished translating Book II of Jan Radwan's Radivilias (the national epic of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania), so my translation is now 54% complete! It may be a Latin poem in hexameters, but it's a text of intense contemporary political relevance 📜⚔️🇱🇹

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Or, we can take "things to be done" as a list of teiku's peppered through the gemara

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But when I applied to graduate school to study early Islam in the context of late antiquity- the legacy of having discovered Peter Brown's works in undergrad while exploring the historical foundations of Islamic theology- I was helped by the still ascendant star of all things Islamic, that drive

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e.g. imagine if Romney had won in 2012, or McCain in 2008. Sanders isn't an apt analogy, he's still too normal politician (also he would have lost the general). But you can imagine some kind of bomb-throwing celebrity coming along in the Dem primaries, the same burn-it-all-down "outsider" impulse.

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Despite this being in international waters, I cannot help but think of Selden's Mare Clausum: “. . .the Seas of Engl. were ever under the Legiance of our Kings.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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