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Medieval Doodles Of A 7-Year Old Boy Hints At The ‘Universality’ Of Daydreaming
Realm Of History ^ | APRIL 30, 2016 | DATTATREYA MANDAL

Posted on 05/02/2016 4:24:27 PM PDT by Sawdring

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1 posted on 05/02/2016 4:24:27 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

That’s Johnny “Many Fingers” Provenzano. He’s a bit of a rake.


2 posted on 05/02/2016 4:28:55 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Crump or Lose 2016)
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To: Sawdring
As a student of ancient linguistics, I think I can deciper those letters. Let's see . . . Yep, got it:

BESURETODRINK
YOUROVALTINE

3 posted on 05/02/2016 4:30:57 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Charles Henrickson

LOL!


4 posted on 05/02/2016 4:34:04 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Sawdring

Ooooh, the drawing of him with a sword and killing someone will get him expelled from school!!!!!


5 posted on 05/02/2016 4:34:04 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Sawdring
There are some things that are just universal:

If they weren't daydreaming, they would have been texting!

6 posted on 05/02/2016 4:34:20 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Sirius Lee

Crack me up!!


7 posted on 05/02/2016 4:35:45 PM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Sawdring

impressive that a 7 year old medieval youngster could write. illiteracy was the norm. although it doesn’t appear that he was writing in cursive.


8 posted on 05/02/2016 4:37:52 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Sawdring

Why did they Photoshop out the Kalashnikovs?


9 posted on 05/02/2016 4:38:22 PM PDT by The Toll
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Those are Aliens!

I KNEW I wasn't the only one to see them!

10 posted on 05/02/2016 4:41:21 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: Sawdring
But as it turns out, this historically significant settlement of northern Russia is also home to around thousand personal ‘tomes’ that are inscribed on bark of birch trees and are almost preserved in perfect condition. In fact, historians hypothesize that there are 20,000 similar specimens still waiting to be salvaged from the conducive anaerobic clay soil layers of the city environs.

What a wonderful treasure trove waiting to be uncovered. It is also unusual to have documents like these scribbling from a young boy. Often, the only thing that survives from the past, perhaps because paper or writing medium in the past was generally precious, are official documents. It would be like having the IRS tax code survive the next 1,000 years, and nothing else. How dreary would that be for a future historian!

11 posted on 05/02/2016 4:44:50 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Sirius Lee

Hhahahahhahahahahahah!


12 posted on 05/02/2016 4:46:16 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Flick Lives

It kind of reminds me of Braveheart when they are pretending to throw rocks at the English.


13 posted on 05/02/2016 4:47:24 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

And by “universality,” they don’t mean the whole universe.


14 posted on 05/02/2016 4:48:12 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Ted Grant

They’re adorable doodles.


15 posted on 05/02/2016 4:49:22 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Sawdring

Cool. Alexander Nevsky fighting the German knights made into a film in 1938 by Eisenstein. Can use it in my Leningrad and Army Group North class in the fall


16 posted on 05/02/2016 4:49:48 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight,)
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To: Sawdring

a 15000 years from now they will be marveling at the crayon drawings found preserved some where.


17 posted on 05/02/2016 4:51:20 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: bravo whiskey

Exactly what I thought of when I read ‘Novgorod’.


18 posted on 05/02/2016 4:52:46 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: sauropod

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19 posted on 05/02/2016 4:56:24 PM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: Sawdring

There is something comforting in knowing 1,000 years ago, children were likely pretty much the same as they are today. Probably 1,000, or 10,000 years from our own time, it will be much the same.


20 posted on 05/02/2016 5:01:17 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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