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[quote]No mention of imprisoning and beating up black Africans as suspected Gaddafi mercenaries?[/quote] You suggesting they should put that in their constitution??
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According to Wikipedia (and offline sources; e.g., The Horse, The Wheel, and Language ), the original Aryans were the people who wrote the Rig Veda (it may have indicated a specific tribe in earlier usage)... in Sanskrit. (And Vedic Sanskrit predates Old Persian by about 1000 years; aligns with Proto-Persian)
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A few days after claiming the rebels were al Qaeda, Gaddafi said he'd team up with al Qaeda to fight the "crusaders" (US/Europe/GCC/etc.) if they intervened to help the rebels. If he believed the first statement, the second would have made no sense; therefore he was lying in his first statement. Have you seen the transitional national
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[quote]Where we get the word from is 'Arianus' (Latin). The 'y' is a misleading vowel, and there is also the tendency for English speakers to say 'air-ee-un', which is a terrible mispronunciation.[/quote] According to the OED ... and Wikipedia ... it comes from Sanskrit "arya" -- with a "y", and that's
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Everyone that's repeating it got it from Gadaffi, though...or just made it up. Gadaffi didn't believe it, of course...a bit later on he said he'd join with al qaeda if he was attacked. These revolts are al qaeda's worst nightmare -- why would anything think they were supporting them? Daniel Muffinburg: it's (false) information "aimed
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[quote]Yeah, the first thing I think of when I hear 'aryan' is to prosume it's a mispronunciation of 'Arian', which makes me think of central Asian horsemen, or maybe Farsis or Vedics.[/quote] FWIW, that's the correct pronunciation/spelling of "Aryan". "Arian" refers to a religious belief, based around Christianity;
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This is Gaddafi's propaganda from the first week or so, trying to scare other countries into taking his side. He also blamed the revolts on drug-laden Nescafé...believe that, too?
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[quote]You can kind of think of the role of the papacy in the crusades as analogous to NAFTA of today. While it cost the member monarchs money (at times, a lot of money) and men, it kept the Ottoman empire at bay. Better the devil you know, just look at what happened when the Muslims invaded the Iberian peninsula of Spain way back in the 8th century
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Hmm. Bugger!
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[quote]I know that's not true. There are plenty of English actors who use an 'ew' sound.[/quote] I've never heard 'em; are you sure you're not just hearing accent artifacts (i.e., people whom you hear saying "ew" think they're saying "oh"; so you'd hear "ew" for all their "oh" sounds