The Jews in Islamic Spain: Al Andalus
by S. Alfassa Marks One of the characteristic features of the early history of Spain is the successive waves of different people who spread across the Iberian Peninsula. Phoenicians, Greeks, Vandals, Visigoths, Muslims, Jews, and Christians all occupied Spain at one point or another. History records communities of Jews living on the Iberian Peninsula from as early as the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem (Diaz-Mas 1). But it was during the realm of the Moors in Al-Andalus (land of the vandals) which the Jews thrived the greatest. "It is a common misapprehension that the holy war meant that the Muslims gave their opponents a choice 'between Islam and the sword'. Even in those early days, the Moors knew and practiced the principles of chivalry. Sources Cited Charafi, Abdellatif.
The Fashion Police in 16th-century Italy... - European History
10 Things You May Not Know About William the Conqueror - History Lists
Though he spoke a dialect of French and grew up in Normandy, a fiefdom loyal to the French kingdom, William and other Normans descended from Scandinavian invaders. William’s great-great-great-grandfather, Rollo, pillaged northern France with fellow Viking raiders in the late ninth and early 10th centuries, eventually accepting his own territory (Normandy, named for the Norsemen who controlled it) in exchange for peace. The product of an affair between Robert I, duke of Normandy, and a woman called Herleva, William was likely known to his contemporaries as William the Bastard for much of his life. His critics continued to use this moniker (albeit behind his back) even after he defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings and earned an upgrade to William the Conqueror. When William asked for the hand of Matilda of Flanders, a granddaughter of France’s King Robert II, she demurred, perhaps because of his illegitimacy or her entanglement with another man.
Episode 27: History of the Ottoman Empire, Part 2 | 15 Minute History
Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern StudiesGuest: Barbara Petzen, Director, Middle East Connections In this second of a two part series, we look at life in the Ottoman Empire for an average person, and the factors that led the Empire to the gates of Vienna … and why Vienna remained an elusive goal. Finally, we re-examine the myth of the Empire’s long “decline and fall,” which lasted longer than English settlement in North America. Guest Barbara Petzen returns to walk us through the cobbled lanes of Istanbul, past bath houses and coffee houses, to help us look at the Ottoman Empire as a nuanced, complex, and changing entity that defies the traditional story of “decline and fall.” Audio Player Download audio (right-click to save) Standards Alignment | Transcript | Documents and Further Reading Transcript A follow on question to that is: what was life like for a normal person in the Ottoman Empire? Life varied enormously depending on what you did for a living.
The Struggle to Finally Desegregate American Cities
A sign outside the Sojourner Truth homes, a US federal housing project in Detroit, Michigan. Image via Wikimedia Commons The effects of racism can be invisible, but they're obvious if you drive around Baltimore: The center of the city is over 60 percent black, but as soon as you get into the city's northern suburbs, it's almost completely white. This, of course, is not a fluke or an accident. In 1995, a lawsuit called Thompson v. While housing advocates saw the Thompson case as a way to move beyond Baltimore's segregated history, some are saying the struggles of this pilot program are proof there's still a long way to go before anything significant changes in the city or the country. "People just don't want affordable housing or any of that kind of thing in Baltimore," Antero Pietila, a longtime Baltimore resident who has written a book about the city's housing segregation, told VICE. "It's just economics," one developer told the Baltimore Sun.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[3][4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.[5] Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla received an advanced education in engineering and physics in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, where he would become a naturalized citizen. Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. Early years Rebuilt, Tesla's house (parish hall) in Smiljan, now in Croatia, where he was born, and the rebuilt church, where his father served. Working at Edison
Israël et la « guerre humanitaire » - Eyal Weizman (traduit par Rémy Toulouse)
Cette traduction d’un article d’Eyal Weizman a été publiée dans le numéro 12 de la version papier d’Article11 L’article qui suit a été publié sur le site de la London Review of Books le 24 novembre 2012, trois jours après la fin officielle de l’opération « Pilier de Défense » - attaque de l’armée israélienne sur la bande de Gaza qui a fait environ 160 victimes. Du 14 au 21 novembre 2012, une pluie de missiles s’était abattue sur un territoire déjà dévasté par de précédentes agressions et un blocus draconien. Ruines sur ruines, sang sur sang. Nous avons choisi de traduire et publier ce texte inédit (en français) d’Eyal Weizman parce qu’il dresse un tableau dépassant largement la simple réaction « à chaud ». Eyal Weizman est peu connu en France. Gaza sous les raids aériens de novembre 2012 © Rafael Ben-Ari / Sipa Au cours des huit jours de bombardements aériens sur Gaza par les drones, F-16 et hélicoptères Apache israéliens, plus de 1 350 bâtiments ont été touchés.
Dans les pas de Childéric à Tournai
Tournai n’a pas usurpé son titre de berceau de la France. C’est en effet dans la ville aux cinq clochers que naquit la première dynastie à avoir régné sur ce qui allait devenir l’Hexagone pendant près de trois siècles. Une dynastie communément appelée les Mérovingiens. Infos : www.visittournai.be/ Tournai n’a pas usurpé son titre de berceau de la France. Infos : www.visittournai.be/
