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Baklava appears to have its origins in the ancient Assyrian Empire. The layering of flat breads evolved into how it is known today, requiring great skill to work with delicate layers of dough. It became a dessert reserved for special occasions, due to the time and difficulty it took to prepare. Its association with special days turned it into a dish of importance, making its popularity wide spread. This is why it is associated with so many cultures and religions today.

Our users deserve fast response times when they report something. I made someone a mod and they disappeared. This is an easy gig. Occasionally, a post breaks a rule. Very rarely, a comment breaks the code of conduct. Even more rarely, a user reports something. If you are an active user on lemmy.world, enjoy history, understand The Code of Conduct and the rules of this community, I'd love to have you help me out with moderation to enforce the community rules and The Code of Conduct. Like I said, it's an easy gig. I'm constantly checking the community most of the day. When I'm not, it would be nice to have another moderator around.

The main idea of the article is that Jack the Ripper's victims were more interesting to people when they were dead. No one cared about them when they were alive. Mainly, this is because of the way the press sensationalized the murders, a practice that continues into the present day, stoking public enthusiasm. In a way, as an expert interviewed for the article stated, true crime is treated like a game. This gamification of true crime, according to the author, can perhaps indicate similarities between the values of the 19th and 21st centuries. *edit: some people are getting a paywall. Here is the archive version.

The scuttlebutt was originally a barrel filled with water located in the middle of the ship. It was a sort of "water cooler" where sailors would grab their water rations and gossip. So, the meaning of "scuttlebutt" as "gossip" was born. When a sailor became ill, he'd have to stay below deck, so he was "under the weather." Other idioms and their seafaring origins are explained, such as "three sheets to the wind" and "turn a blind eye."

The evidence comes from a deep-sea sediment core taken off the coast of Portugal. This newly discovered cold snap happened about 1.15 million years ago, causing early humans to leave or die off. It perhaps extended throughout the Mediterranean to as far as southwestern Asia.

WGBH (a public news service based in Boston) collaborated with journalism students from Boston University to produce the interactive map, which provides additional information about slavery that is not present for visitors when they tour the Freedom Trail. At the end of the article a link to the interactive map is provided. Or, you can just skip the article and visit it now.

I've always wondered. Now I know!

A fascinating article about burial practices 400 years ago in Eastern Europe.

Happy days are here again, just as long as you're listening to this song and put it on repeat.

So, something I found in British Columbia: Two truck rescue tasks. In Duncan Bay, there's a Ford CLT to rescue. It's stuck in a swamp. In North Peak National Park, there's an International Trans Star stuck in a swamp. The story with the Trans Star ends with the sentence, "I wish I was as good a driver as you!" Yeah, sure. It's either a joke or the devs want players to try driving these "highway trucks" in British Columbia so they get stuck.