Each of these family based factions had their own sluaghghairm, or ‘battle-cry’, associated to their family line or tribe, usually derived by the followers of great families or chieftains to act as a hue and cry, a rallying call to all able-bodied kinsmen, a cry of war from which its hearers drew an almost supernatural […]
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The rival Iraqi Jewish clans who changed the face of Shanghai
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Panama Papers: Spy agencies widely used Mossack Fonseca to hide activities
Both “secret agents and their informants have used the company’s services,” wrote the newspaper, which earlier this month published online materials based on 11.5 million documents from the Panamanian law firm. It has been called the largest leak on corruption in journalistic history. “Agents have set up shell companies to conceal their activities,” the Munich-based newspaper […]
History Channel’s Vikings Gives Ragnar Lodbrok a New Spicy Exciting Love Interest …Guess Who?
From: popsugar.com Vikings is coming back for season four on Feb. 18, and when the new season returns, Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) will get a new love interest. We can exclusively reveal the first look at new character Yidu, played by Dianne Doan, who “fascinates Ragnar,” according to History, “because she is from […]