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At Mammen in Denmark, one of the richest chamber graves of the whole Viking Age was made c. 970 for a man whose clothing has enabled us to reconstruct the dress of society’s highest echelons. The chamber itself resembled a hall and even had a pitched roof, all concealed under a great mound. The man was interred with a magnificent axe decorated in a
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Thikkana was also a minister for the Kakatiya kings who tried to bridge Shaivism and Vaishnavism.
Mukesh Manjunath • The Age Of Heroes: The Incredible World of Telugu Cinema
Genesis about the Tower of Babel.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Shivaji received, at his spectacular mountain fastness of Raigad, a Vedic consecration and coronation by the Varanasi pandit Gagabhatta, which was the ritual highlight of his career. This took place on 6 June 1674 and awarded him the status of the Lord of the Umbrella, Chhatrapati, and legitimate Hindu Emperor, or Samrajyapada. A second Tantric cor
... See moreWilliam Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
By the end of the fourth century the temple at Uley Hill had partially collapsed and been demolished. It was now rebuilt on a more modest scale, as an L-shaped structure.o Within another generation or two, at some time during the fifth century, it was replaced by a timber building that looks for all the world like a basilica, with accompanying bapt
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Atisha’s approach, derived from his training in India, is important because it established another of the major ways in which the Vajrayana was understood and practiced in Tibet.