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  1. "#Anglican #missionary Rev. #WBLewis describing the desperate situation of #Jews living in #Jerusalem under #Ottoman #Turkish rule in 1824.

    #Lewis wrote his letter from #Aintoura, a village in present-day #Lebanon, on February 23, 1824. His account is one of the most detailed non-#Jewish eyewitness reports of what life was really like for Jews in the #HolyLand at that time.

    He describes horrifying #extortion, #beatings, wrongful #imprisonment, #forcedlabor, and stolen property — all suffered by a community with no #European diplomatic protection in Jerusalem. The letter also covers the long Jewish struggle to reclaim the ruined #Hurva #Synagogue, which had been destroyed by #Arab creditors a century earlier.

    This document is historically valuable precisely because Lewis was a non-Jewish outsider with nothing to gain by exaggerating. His testimony confirms what Jewish sources also describe about life under Ottoman rule in Jerusalem."

    vinnews.com/2026/02/17/horrifi

  2. Tail end of an actual exchange with my partner.

    P: Vance lectured the US athletes after he got booed.

    M: Of course.

    P: They didn't boo you, you idiot - they're not stupid. The rest of the world did.

    M: Because you fucking deserved it.

    P: Ya, you deserved it.

    M: And stop wearing eyeliner!

    P: Ecch... Vance is creepy.

    M: I'm only surprised that he hasn't been publicly accused of diddling children yet.

    P: Yet. Vance isn't in the Epstein files, is he?

    M: His couch is.

    #USPol #Vance #JDVance #profanity #creep #creepy #FBomb #EpsteinFiles #couch #CouchFucker #pedophile #Chesterfield #Ottoman #Olypmics

  3. I also wrote a #SPARQL query to see the linguistic composition of the periodical press until 1930 at all locations with titles published in languages of the Eastern Mediterranean: #Arabic, #Ottoman, #Armenian, #Coptic, #Greek, #Farsi, #Ladino, #Azerbaijani

    As a table: query-chest.toolforge.org/redi

    As a map with layers for each language, because sometimes geographic distribution is interesting: query-chest.toolforge.org/redi

    #Wikidata #PeriodicalStudies #ArabPeriodicalStudies #الصحافة_العربية #Multilinguality #multilingualDH