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-====== Commonplace I ======
+====== Commonplace I - Interesting Things - 2020 ======
+===== Jewish God Yahweh Originated in Canaanite Vulcan, Says New Theory =====
+The cult of YHWH as god of metallurgy originated among semi-nomadic copper smelters between the Bronze and Iron Age, suggests biblical scholar: And he was not worshipped only by Jews.
+Yahweh’s metallurgical attributes were also on display in the pillar of fire and smoke by which he guides the Hebrews in the desert (Exodus 13:21) and the cloud that accompanies his visits to the Tent of Meeting (Exodus 33:9-10), a simpler version of the Tabernacle in which Moses speaks face to face with God.
+===== Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on the Biblical Philistines =====
+The results showed that the four Iron Age infants all had some genetic signatures matching those seen in Iron Age populations from Greece, Spain and Sardinia. “There was some gene flow coming in that was not there before,” Feldman says.
 ===== The Arabian Nights - Penguin Vol. 1 - pp. 180 =====
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 Unlike the unbeliever and the libertine.\\
 Of what use are man's actions and his schemes?\\
-What happens is what fate decrees for them.\\
+What happens is what fate decrees for them.\\((Lyons, M C, U Lyons, and Robert Irwin. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. London: Penguin, 2010. Print.))
 ===== The Arabian Nights - Penguin Vol. 1 - pp. 183 =====
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 I then knocked at the door and out came two young girls with swelling breasts, virgins
 like moons. 'Come in,' they said. 'Our mistress is expecting you, and she did not sleep last night, so pleased was she with you.' I entered a vaulted hall with seven doors, round which were windows overlooking a garden with fruits of all kinds, gushing waters and singing birds. The walls were treated with //sultani// gypsum in which a man could see his own face, while the ceiling was ornamented with gold, showing inscriptions in lapis lazuli, encompassing all the qualities of beauty and dazzling those who looked at it. The floor was laid with variegated marble and strewn with carpets, coloured silks and mattresses, while in the centre was a fountain, at whose corners were birds made of pearls
-and other gems.
+and other gems.((Lyons, M C, U Lyons, and Robert Irwin. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights. London: Penguin, 2010. Print.))
 ===== Vico's Uncanny Humanism - Sandra Rudnick Luft - Preface xiii =====
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 (praxis), making (poiesis), the interpretive mediation of language-were devalued.
-===== The Arabian Nights - Penguin Vol. 1 - pp. 243 =====
+===== The Arabian Nights - Penguin Vol. 1 =====
 They all continued to lead the most pleasant and delightful of lives until they met death, the destroyer of delights and the parter of companions.
+===== The Arabian Nights - Penguin Vol. 1 =====
+'By God, you donkey's tail,' I said, 'you go on and on speechifying and talking more and more, while all I want is for you to cut my hair and leave.'
+===== Imitation of Christ - On the Lack of all Comfort - Thomas á Kempis  =====
+The devil never sleeps, neither is the flesh dead; therefore you must always be prepared to do battle, for you are surrounded by enemies that never rest.
+===== The Arabian Nights - Penguin Vol. 1 =====
+God in His bounty has provided you with a barber who is also an astrologer, a chemist, an expert in grammar, morphology, philology, rhetoric, eloquence, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, religious law, the traditions of the Prophet and the interpretation of the Quran. I have read relevant books and studied them; I have a practical knowledge of relevant committed to heart a perfect knowledge of the sciences; I am theoretical and practical master of technical skill. There is nothing I have not organized and undertaken.