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Shark Attacks in Human History

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 May 2026

This entry was posted in History and tagged Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins, Age of Discovery, American Indians, Ancient Greece, Antony Van Corlaer, Arab pirates, Aristotle, armed pilgrimage, Athens, Aubrey Stewart, Aztecs, Barbary pirates, Barbary States, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Black Death, Brevísima Relación de la Destrucción de las Indias, Britain, Brook Watson, bull shark, canicular, canis marinus, Carcharias, Carcharias taurus, Carib Indians, cartilaginous fish, Ceylon, Charles Dickens, Charles V, Chesapeake Bay, Chimalpahin, Chondrichthyes, Christendom, Colonial Americas, crocodiles, Cruciata, Crusade, Crusader States, Cuba, Darius I, De itinere Terrae Sanctae, Devil, Diedrich Knickerbocker, dogfish, Elasmobranchii, Father Thomas Copley, Francisco López de Gómara, galeophobia, galeos, genus, Germany, Havana, Hernán Cortés, Herodotus, Historia Animalium, Historia General de las Indias, Historiai, Holy Land, Holy Roman Empire, India, Ionian Revolt, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesuits, John Singleton Copley, Kalinago, karcharias, King Philip II, Land of Israel, Latin States, Linnaean taxonomy, Lord Byron, Ludolf von Sudheim, Ludolph von Suchem’s Description of the Holy Land and of the Way Thither: Written in the Year AD 1350, mackerel sharks, Marco Polo, Mardonius, Medieval, Mediterranean Sea, Mexico, Middle Ages, Moctezuma, Montezuma, Native Americans, Natural History, Naturalis Historia, New Laws, Palestine, peregrinatio armata, Persians, Pliny the Elder, Plymouth, Rip Van Winkle, Roman Catholic, Roman Empire, sand tiger sharks, sea dogs, Seilan, selache, selachians, Selachii, shark attacks, sharks, slaves, Society of Jesus, Spain, species, squalus, Sri Lanka, The Histories, The Inquiries, The Researches, tiburón, tiger shark, Washington Irving, Watson and the Shark, World Emperor Charles V on May 17, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Assessing the Historicity of Abu Bakr, Islam’s First Caliph

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 July 2025

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This entry was posted in History of Islam and tagged Abd al-Malik, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Abd al-Razzaq al-San’ani, Abraham, Abu Bakr, Arab conquests, Battle of Ajnadayn, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Christianity, Christians, Doctrina Jacobi, Doctrina Jacobi Nuper Baptizati, Early Islam, exegesis, Hadith, Holy Land, Imam Ali, Ioudaismos, Ishmaelites, Islam, Islamic Tradition, Israel, Jews, John of Damascus, Ka'ba, Kaaba, Levant, Millat Ibrahim, Moses, Muawiya, Musa, Musannaf, Palaestina, Palestine, Persian Empire, Promised Land, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an, Rashidun Caliph, Roman Empire, Roman Syria, Sebeos, Syria, Syriac, Teaching of Jacob, The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, theology, Thomas the Presbyter, ulema, Umar I, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Umar II, Uthman, Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, Zayd ibn Thabit on July 1, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Review: “The Sacred City” (2016)

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Aaronic Benediction, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, archaeology, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Battle of Perire, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Canaan, Chaim Weizmann, Children of Israel, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Dead Sea Scrolls, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First Temple period, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Hebrew Bible, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, House of David, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Ketef Hinnom Scrolls, King David, King Hazael of Aram-Damascus, Kingdom of Judah, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Merneptah, Merneptah Stele, Mesha Stele, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moabite Stone, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Period of Judges, Pharoah, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Priestly Blessing, Protestantism, Raj, Rameses II, Rameses the Great, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Sea Peoples, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Tanakh, Tel Dan Stele, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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