log entry #8 dated: 01-7-2019.
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here's for the first entry of the month.
Came across this article on tribune. Tribune articles are more engaging and relevant for me.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2003632...y-iran-affair/
Shortly thereafter, strayed into these sites:
https://www.timemaps.com/history/turkey-1871ad/
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-c...rabia-and-Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E...nflict#History
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All in all, found out about the Ikhwan, Saudi expansion and success among the other tribes, how the Ottomon Empire fared and Kemal Attaturk abolishing the sultanate in 1922 and death in 1938.
And why Iran's 1979 revolution caused discomfiture among Gulf states running Monarchs and having sizeable Shia populations. And how that might figure in today's impending (may God forbid) US-Iran clash.
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New words learnt:
desultory
:marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
:not connected with the main subject
:disappointing in progress, performance, or quality
penury
the state of being very poor; extreme poverty.
"he couldn't face another year of penury"
ostracized
exclude from a society or group.
"she was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers"
puritan
having or displaying censorious moral beliefs, especially about self-indulgence and sex.
adjective: puritan
"as the puritan ethic has weakened, hedonism has replaced it"
hedonism
he pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence.
synonyms: self-indulgence, indulgence, pursuit of pleasure, pleasure-seeking, lotus-eating, epicureanism, epicurism, self-gratification; More
the ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life.
austere
morally strict, (austerity measures
)
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over and out