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I wouldn't call it a grand narrative of history. It is grandious and it is a narrative that holds the episodes together, but it isn't even beginning to narrate
by posterboy 4y ago
I wouldn't call it a grand narrative of history. It is grandious and it is a narrative that holds the episodes together, but it isn't even beginning to narrate history because the narrative is explicitly speculative.
So, a narrative of grand speculative hypotheses bound together by deus ex machina.
In other news, reports of the Azores settled by 2000 BCE.
- everybodyknows 4y ago2000 BCE? Where is that reported? Earliest date mentioned by archaeology.org is 700 AD: https://www.archaeology.org/news/10038-211006-azores-islands-habitation https://www.archaeology.org/news/10038-211006-azores-islands...
- posterboy 4y agoDr. Félix Rodriguez: "The oldest dating we have is from 4200 years ago" in a recent BBC documentary. I never heard of the University of the Azores until today.