TIL: Today I Learned
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Chukchi Husky
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One successful recent domestication was that of the fox.
http://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/red_fox.html#domestication
http://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/red_fox.html#domestication
^I have heard that foxes have a particular odour. Is it strong and very bad?
Maybe relatively intelligent animals like crows and octopodes could allow for some domestication. Crows seem to be able to even co-ordinate an attack on a human (going by Tesla's memoirs), and have somewhat high skill in extracting stuff requiring a largish progression of moves.
Maybe relatively intelligent animals like crows and octopodes could allow for some domestication. Crows seem to be able to even co-ordinate an attack on a human (going by Tesla's memoirs), and have somewhat high skill in extracting stuff requiring a largish progression of moves.
Two words: Peter. Capaldi.
You pay for your OS, don't you?Valka D'Ur said:
If you are posting about Norway, you need to cross out more of your letters.
Capaldi is worth paying for. Clara and the abominably stupid stories weren't.
"Pay for my OS"???
Other than "operating system" what does "OS" stand for?
TIL: There is some real debate on whether or not the Greek poet Homer even existed as a real person. I always knew there was debate about whether or not he was the real author of the Iliad and Odyssey, but I had no idea there was any serious doubt that he was even a real person.
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Well, someone real was telling some epic poem.
One theory is that it was various people reciting the two epics. Afaik there is no way to establish this as more likely than there just being one person, called Homer or not.
Maybe he was the male version of the narrator in 1001 nights, being a "captive" (homeros) and having to make up really good stories to be kept alive or something
Btw, iirc according to one famous tradition (mentioned many times by ancient philosophers) Homer committed suicide out of anguish that he could not solve a riddle that some children told him. Riddle was something about fishing webs i think.
Even if Homer wasn't real, somebody composed the Iliad and the Odyssey, and it was enough of a guide that millennia later, Heinrich Schliemann was able to find some sort of settlement where Troy was supposed to be, although it's doubtful that he found the Troy of the Trojan War.One theory is that it was various people reciting the two epics. Afaik there is no way to establish this as more likely than there just being one person, called Homer or not.
Maybe he was the male version of the narrator in 1001 nights, being a "captive" (homeros) and having to make up really good stories to be kept alive or something
Of course it would have helped if he hadn't looted the site instead of applying proper archaeological procedures to document everything in situ before it was removed.
Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
One possible meaning behind the name Boris is "wolf".
Zkribbler
Deity
Way back in college, I was taught it was most likely a collection of poets.
Snerk
Smeghead
Francis Bacon wrote it.
Homer apparently was less universally admired in the greek world than Hesiod. At least if one goes by Heraklitos and his quote that "Homer deserves to be beaten up with a stick". I suppose he didn't mean the sticks used by Dionysus' drinking festivities guests either, cause those were deliberately made of less rigid wood (exactly so as to avoid serious harm if they used them on others, while the stick still had some ability to hold them while walking) 
In general, the ancient philosophers didn't approve of the theology in Homer. Eg another one had said that Homer not only gives gods the traits of mortals, but moreover gives to them the worst traits as well.
In general, the ancient philosophers didn't approve of the theology in Homer. Eg another one had said that Homer not only gives gods the traits of mortals, but moreover gives to them the worst traits as well.
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TIL - I have a Russian- Estonian dictionary at home. Time to learn some Estonian I guess. 
You what.
If you want to read more of my views on Clara and the ridiculously childish stories, I got into a bit of an argument about it with Plotinus in the Doctor Who thread in A&E (a friend of his wrote the stinker about the Moon really being a bird's egg).
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