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I wanted to know how this had happened, what the owner-writers who had fought in support of the card had said as their arguments. I had trouble imagining this room of 10 white people arguing over using the n-word as a joke in a multi-million dollar card game.
How to Know You’re Not Insane
Nicolas Carter
»Weil narzisstische Eltern so leicht kränkbar sind, müssen die Kinder sie mit Samthandschuhen anfassen und trauen sich nicht zu erzählen, was sie quält«,
Spektrum Psychologie 05.2021
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After Baghdad, satellite outbreaks of “epidemics” (and what is now specifically called “plague”: ṭāʿūn) are reported by other chroniclers, writing in Arabic and Syriac, in Syria, Anatolia, and even Egypt.64 It is significant that as wabāʾ and ṭāʿūn were breaking out in Syria, Hülegü, by then ill himself, retreated into Azerbaijan (northern Iran) after the siege of Baghdad in March 1258.
The Four Black Deaths
Monica H. Green
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