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Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Arťāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (forth. 2024) columbia.academia.edu/JohnMa
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I think it's good that the Allies defeated the Nazis, rather than the other way around. The Nazis winning would've been worse. Sorry to get so partisan and speak out against one of Republicans' chosen standard bearers in Minnesota like this, but that's how I feel.

Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’
Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’

As the control of the Senate hangs in the balance, GOP candidates across the country are facing a similar problem: Troubling and bizarre past statements, both in-person and on social media, are coming...

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No one has to agree with Liz Cheney on anything but Constitutional democracy, and Cheney doesn’t have to agree with anyone on anything else. Constitutional democracy is how we address all other issues without violence. Let’s fend off the threat together, so then we can have all the other arguments.

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Hope you find it interesting

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Interested in "égyptien de tradition" so perhaps will read Åke Engsheden's work if I can find time. It looks really interesting www.academia.edu/6544728/On_t...

On the verge of Ptolemaic Egyptian
On the verge of Ptolemaic Egyptian

On the verge of Ptolemaic Egyptian

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Trump has publicly lashed out Project 2025 – not because they differ on substance, but first of all, as a way or (re-) asserting dominance: a mob boss reminding everyone to say in line; and secondly, because Project 2025 had become an incredibly toxic brand.

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The end had me shaking with emotion. I see there's a PBS film based on the book. I wonder if LTU wrote about the experience of seeing her Martha come to life on the screen after bringing her voice forth on the page

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But I was told that the Supreme Court had ushered in a glorious new era in which The People in The States would get to have a voice on abortion

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Just finished reading Lauren Thatcher Ulrich, A midwife's tale. An amazing, graceful, moving piece of historical writing which had me engrossed for months.

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Reading an excellent Roman-era bilingual inscription from Megalepolis-- a building inscription, in which a bigwig dedicates a bridge, but with a twist. Euergetism or bargaining ? You be the judge. inscriptions.packhum.org/text/32604?&...

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John Ma
@nakhthor.bsky.social
Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Arťāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (forth. 2024) columbia.academia.edu/JohnMa
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