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Medieval Arabic names had 5 parts, but no surname
There have been many systems for naming people over the centuries, but English-speakers tend to be familiar only with their own system. While it is true that modern Western surnames evolved in medieval Europe, there were other even more complex naming systems in use in other parts of the world prio… Why precolonial Africa didn't have the wheel
"The conventional notion that Africans failed to employ the wheel because of lack of initiative or intelligence is intellectually unsatisfactory, not so much because it is racialist as because it is circular: Africans are supposed to have ignored the wheel because they were unenterprising, and the … The election of George Washington was weirder than you think
The first U.S. presidential election in 1789 had none of the features Americans associate with elections today: no campaigning for the office, no political parties or conventions, no primary elections. Election Day was in January rather than November. The Electoral College was taken seriously rathe…