Dionin, whose every death is a rebirth into A GOD EVER MIGHTIER! (Ding dong) Shit.
Seriously, especially in 1400s-1500s Spain where Ferdinand and Isabella essentially outlawed it.
Not thrilled about the implication that the poster boy for colonialism had "secret Jewish DNA." Can't imagine how the Internet will react to that information. I hear there might be some slight evidence of his family converting around when they gave their son a name meaning "follower of Christ."
Glad to see The Guardian cover the āDNA says Columbus was Jewishā story with some scepticism. Big questions around whether the remains tested are his, what testing was done, & what assumptions have been made. At the very least, this needs rigorous peer review. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Fifteenth century explorerās true origins revealed after DNA analysis from samples buried in Seville Cathedral
It answers the question of what Scots lads wear underneath their kilt! Hand grenades. Apparently, the answer is hand grenades.
Like every other basic morbid dumbass, I like cemeteries. I think they can be beautiful and poignant and anthropologically fascinating. But allow me to introduce you a hyper-specific subset of graves I enjoy: "showmen's rest" sites.
Extremely telling and self-discrediting that Dan thinks "the most depressing spectacle" of the Trump era isn't, you know, the emergence of Trump himself, but some conservatives' disaffection with the movement after it proved enthusiastically hospitable to capture by a comprehensively unfit fascist.
seems like a big story that the former president's ex-chairman of the joint chief's of staff thinks he's a fascist www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023
