(1108) Elevenses, folks. Cunning plan is that I must head off just after 1200, so there’s time for this post, I have to have lunch, shall throw in today’s first film and then catch you later. Had a quick look at MDave, Toods, other droppers … not sure I need re-run those just now. (1120)
10. The Jutes
9. Moo corner
8. Reza Pahlavi
7. Drug pushers
8. “Pahlavi Iran and Zionism: An Intellectual Elite’s Short-Lived Love Affair with the State of Israel”
https://ajammc.com/2013/03/07/pahlavi-iran-and-zionism-an-intellectual-elites-short-lived-love-affair-with-israel/
From their about page:
“ Ajam Media Collective is an online platform devoted to analyzing society and culture across the lands we refer to as Ajamistan. We imagine this landscape as spanning West, Central, and South Asia: from Turkey in the East across Iraq, the Caucasus, and Iran and into Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Indian Subcontinent. These lands are diverse and connected by many different cultural threads; among them is a Persianate culture that was shared to varying extents from the 1300s to the 1800s, with Persian used by the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal courts as a language of culture and poetry, among others like Persian, Turkic, Arabic, Kurdish, Urdu, Telugu, Bengali, and many more…”
(Under the weather, see u later)
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JH: Interesting. I too am under the weather.
10. The Jutes – are Angelcynn..
Englisc was used from earliest times without distinction for all the Germanic invaders – Angles, Saxons, Jutes (Bede’s gens Anglorum) – and applied to their group of related languages by Alfred the Great. “The name English for the language is thus older than the name England for the country” [OED]. After 1066, it specifically meant the native population of England (as distinguished from Norman and French occupiers). The new ethnic identity of the English people was one of the most important developments of the later Anglo-Saxon period, from the ninth to eleventh centuries.