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My blog is about Africa. It is also about the Middle East and life in general, reflecting over 30 years of work and study in Africa and the Middle East – Come and join me!
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- More Adventures of Mungo Park, Who Describes Hunger Crops in the Western Sahel, 1797
- Mungo Park Discovers a Toll Bridge made of Bamboo in the Western Sahel, 1797
- A Grassy Trend in Human Ancestors’ Diets
- Would you have liked to live here, at Kropfenstein medieval cave castle?
- Slogging through Europe in WWii: Rommel’s Widow, Night-Time Charley, Combat & Fire-Storms – and After the War: “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres”
- May Day, Burundi-Style: A Parade, then Food, Drink and Fun
- Ethnobotanical knowledge of indigenous fruits in Northern Namibia
- Agricultural Innovation: The United States in a Changing Global Reality
- Petit Boy-Boy (Kittie) Goes Big-Time on LOL Cats (Maybe…)
- DESCRIPTION BY AHMED IBN-FOZLAN OF THE INCREMATION OF A NORSE CHIEF, 10TH.C.
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- The Diary of a Natural History Trainee Curator
- Ludic Technologies
- PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR
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- Glen Carey
- the anthropo.scene
- The Anthropocene Journal
- Agriculture Information Bank
- Jugraphia Slate
- ontheshelves
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Tag Archives: Illuminated manuscript
Illustrated (and other) Manuscripts before the Digital Revolution
[H/T to hrsilvers, who verified that the above is a depiction of St. Luke, together with his symbol of a winged ox, or bull. More on this interesting feature in another blog.] Digital techniques are revolutionizing access to collections in libraries and … Continue reading

















