All Alaska schools need instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, writes David Leslie in a commentary for the Alaska Beacon:
A commentary author writes that it is unrealistic to expect students to respect LGBT people without educating them with reputable sources.
You won't believe which multimillion-dollar-lawsuit-losing police force is brutalizing peaceful protesters again.
NYC PROTESTS OUTSIDE UN (THREAD) The march reaches Lowes Regency Hotel where Netanyahu is staying. Nerdeen Kiswani tells crowd they will be here all night chanting in protest. Police presence escalates. NYPD has drones flying overhead. Buses for mass arrests are waiting. Brutal arrests 48 min ago:
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So Viking society was full of people with disabilities, people who got permanent wounds in battle or on merchant voyages or while farming. They were cared for and lived to old ages--we know this from finding them in their graves. They were a part of real life--they weren't hidden away.
Odin, in the poem Havamal, puts it this way: The lame can ride horse, the handless drive cattle, the deaf one can fight and prevail, 'tis happier for the blind than for him on the bale-fire, but no man hath care for a corpse. (Havamal 71)
The other woman died aged 80. She had a hunchback, a bad leg, and suffered from Morgagni's syndrome (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgagn...), which would have given her hairy arms and a beard. She was buried with the equipment, including the staff, of a professional prophetess/seer (a "vǫlva").
These enormous free research resources. We thought we were building Rome but it turned out it was Carthage. Please don’t let AI anywhere near Wikipedia. (And contribute some money if you can. I make a very modest monthly contribution. Going to increase it.)
