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Writing about dead monarchs. Featured in World History Encyclopedia, Medieval World, Epoch History magazine, and many more. brandonmichaelbender.com https://independent.academia.edu/BrandonBender2
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My home state is famously flat, but I traveled to some of the most surprising badlands, rock formations, mesas, and canyons in Kansas.

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The book is out, tell your libraries! The contributors bring a whole range of interesting insights into how the history of pre-Norman England was transmitted by later medieval writers. Also available in a reasonably affordable ebook....

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Leif Eriksson looking down over Brattahlid, the farmstead in Greenland from which he sailed to discover Vinland (part of modern Canada) in around 1000. Leif is credited with the European discovery of continental North America nearly 500 years before Columbus #greenland #leiferiksson #brattahlid

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This is so good

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I'm just a boy, reading something written by people with PhD's, hoping the subject at the beginning of this sentence connects with the object at the end of it despite fifty-two intervening clauses.

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Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Footnote: The CUP Companion to Drinking Vessels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

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@bsky.app Tomorrow is the first annual National Indexing Day! Be sure to hire an indexer the next time you write a book. Your readers will thank you!

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I was very saddened to hear this afternoon about the passing of Björn Weiler: the kindest friends, most generous of mentors, and most brilliant of scholars. He shall be sorely missed, but his legacy lives on. #RIP

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Spread the word - tell your friends!

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