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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Justinian Rhinotmetos: A Byzantine Rhinoplasty? [PDF]

Cureus
Turner MD, Lawson MJ.
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 377-398, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. [PDF]

Nature
Gretzinger J, Biermann F, Mager H, King B, Zlámalová D, Traverso L, Gnecchi Ruscone GA, Peltola S, Salmela E, Neumann GU, Radzeviciute R, Ingrová P, Liwoch R, Wronka I, Jurić R, Hyrchała A, Niezabitowska-Wiśniewska B, Bartecki B, Borowska B, Dzieńkowski T, Wołoszyn M, Wojenka M, Wilczyński J, Kot M, Müller E, Orschiedt J, Zariņa G, Onkamo P, Daim F, Muhl A, Schwarz R, Majer M, McCormick M, Květina J, Vida T, Geary PJ, Macháček J, Šlaus M, Meller H, Pohl W, Hofmanová Z, Krause J.   +41 more
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Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack <i>et al.</i> [PDF]

Med Hist
Green MH, Fancy N.
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Józef Dietl (1804-1878) and "his" crisis: Eponyms of a political physician and the culture of remembrance in Polish and Austrian urology and medicine. [PDF]

Cent European J Urol
Moll FH, Chlosta P, Shariat SF.
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Letters of recognition: the spatial inscription of literature in the Romanian street nomenclature. [PDF]

Humanit Soc Sci Commun
Rusu MS, Baghiu S.
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Elusive Legitimacy: State and Regime in the Post-Soviet Arena [PDF]

, 2009
Ra'anan, Uri
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Face Value: Beauty, Punishment, and the Moral Politics of Appearance. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Hartung F, Levasseur M, Lomax EJ, Richards G.   +3 more
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Who are leeches? Exploring malleability in human-leech relations through ethnographies from Dagestan and Turkey. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Kaliszewska I, Kołodziejska I.
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