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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.

Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 5-HTTLPR, academia, active measures, activism, Adolf Hitler, Allies, Alzheimer’s disease, ANCA, Andonian Documents, Ani Kalayjian, Antisemitism, antizionism, ARA, Aram Andonian, archives, ARF, Armenian Church, Armenian Massacres, Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Armenians, Arnold Toynbee, ASALA, Beirut, Bernard Lewis, Bosnia, Bosporus, Britain, Cambodia, Caucasus Campaign, clairvoyance, Cold War, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, counter-insurgency, CUP, Dardanelles, Dashnaks, deportation, diaspora, Donald Bloxham, E. K. Sarkissian, East Timor, Entente, Esat Uras, Fascifists, fedayeen, First Armenian Republic, First World War, genetics, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Green, George Orwell, Gerard Libaridian, Germany, Guatemala, Guenter Lewy, guerrillas, Harry Elmer Barnes, Henry Morgenthau, Herero and Namaqua, historians, historiography, History, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust deniers, Holodomor, IAGS, ideological capture, ideology, Indonesia, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Islamic Revolution, Israel Charny, JCAG, Jerusalem, Jews, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Korean War, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, lobby organisations, medicine, Michael M. Gunter, missionaries, Moscow Centre, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Naim Bey, Naim-Andonian Documents, Narodniks, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, negationism, nerkaght, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, Ottoman Empire, pacifism, pacifists, Palestine Liberation Organisation, parapsychology, Paul Rassinier, Peter Balakian, PKK, PLO, political warfare, precognition, propaganda, psi, psychiatry, psychokinesis, psychology, R. G. Sahakian, Raphael Lemkin, relocation, replication crisis, Richard G. Hovannisian, Richard Hovannisian, Robert Melson, Roger W. Smith, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Science, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, secularism, Shoah, Simon Vratsian, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stanford J. Shaw, Stanford Shaw, Sublime Porte, Talat Pasha, Taner Akçam, telepathy, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Blue Book, The Great Repatriation, The Memoirs of Naim Bey, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, theology, transgenderism, Turkey, Turkish Straits, Ukraine, United States, Vahakn Dadrian, Vahakn N. Dadrian, Young Turks, Yves Ternon, Zionism, Zoryan Institute on April 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

A Microcosm of Why There’s No Israeli-Palestinian Peace

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged Abu Iyad, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Morris, Bill Clinton, Camp David, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Farouk Kaddoumi, Faruq al-Qaddumi, Gaza, ideology, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish State, Jews, KGB, Oslo Peace Process, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian National Charter, Palestinian National Council, Palestinian National Covenant, Palestinian State, Phased Program, PLO, PLO Charter, PNC, rejectionism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, suicide bombing, Temple Mount, Ten Point Program, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on November 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Roman Eastern Foederati and Arab Monotheism Before Islam

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 July 2025

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This entry was posted in History of Islam and tagged Alexander Severus, amici populi Romani, Arabia Petraea, Arabs, ascetics, Aurelian, Balkans, Battle of Adrianople, Bosra, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Chalcedonian, Christianisation, Christianity, Christians, cives, Constantine, Constantine the Great, Council of Chalcedon, Diocletian, Dumat al-Jandal, Eastern Roman Empire, Elagabalus, Emessa, Ethiopia, Fertile Crescent, foederati, Germanic peoples, Germans, Germany, Ghassanids, God, Gothic War, Goths, Great War, Hegra, heresy, Hijaz, Himyar, holy man, Homs, Ioudaismos, Irfan Shahid, Islam, Jerusalem, Jews, Judaism, Kindites, Lakhmid Kingdom, Lakhmids, Late Antiquity, Levant, Limes Orientalis, limitrophe provinces, loca sancta, Marcus Julius Philippus, Mavia, Mawiyya, Mesopotamia, monastics, monks, Monophysites, Monophysitism, Moses, Nabatean Kingdom, Nabateans, Najran, Negev, Nicene Creed, Oriens, orthodoxy, paganism, pagans, Palaestina, Palestine, Palmyra, Palmyrene Empire, Palmyrenes, Persia, Persian Empire, Philip the Arab, plague, Qaryat al-Faw, Queen of the Tanukh, Qur’an, Rhine, Romaioi, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Romanisation, Romanitas, Romans, Saint Simeon, Salihids, Sasanians, Semitic people, Severus Alexander, Sinai, Syria, Tanukhids, Theodosius I, Valens, Western Roman Empire, Yemen on July 5, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Review: “The Sacred City” (2016)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 June 2025

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History of Islam and tagged Abbasid Revolution, Abbasids, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abd al-Malik, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Abu al-Faraj, Adur Gushnasp, Aeneid, al-Bayt al-Haram, al-Masjid al-Haram, Al-Muwahhidun, Al-Qifti, Al-Tabari, Almohads, Amr ibn al-As, Arab Empire, Bakka, Banu Qurayza, Battle of Yamama, Becca, Bible, Christianity, Christians, Constantine the Great, Dan Gibson, Emperor Constantine, Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimids, Gethsemane, Golgotha, Gregory Bar Hebraeus, Hadith, Hebrew Bible, Hijaz, Holy Land, Iberia, Ioudaismos, Ishmaelites, ISIS, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamic history, Islamic State, Islamic Tradition, Ismailis, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, Kaaba, ka’ba, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Kufa, Library of Alexandria, Livy, Mecca, Medina, Millat Ibrahim, Minha, Mongols, monotheism, myth, Ottoman Empire, pagan temples, paganism, pagans, Petra, Prophet Muhammad, Qibla, Qur’an, Rashidun Caliph, Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, Ridda Wars, Romulus and Remus, Sacred House, Sacred Place of Prostration, Saint Paul, Saladin, Saudi Arabia, Second Fitna, Spain, Syriac Orthodox Church, Tanakh, Tarikh al-Hukama, The Sacred City, Umar I, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyads, Virgil, Wahhabis, Wahhabism, Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrians on June 26, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Has Alternative Suggestions for the Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah. It’s Jihad.

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 June 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abraham, al-Bayt al-Ateeq, al-Bayt al-Atiq, al-Bayt al-Haram, Al-Bukhari, al-Masjid al-Aqsa, al-Masjid al-Haram, al-Naba, Arab Empire, Bakka, Bayt al-Maqdis, caliphate, Dhul Hijjah, Eid al-Adha, hajj, House of God, Inviolable House, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jerusalem, jihad, jihadism, John Wansbrough, Kaaba, ka’ba, Mecca, Millay Ibrahim, mujahideen, Muslims, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, Sacred House, Saudi Arabia, shari’a, Sunna, Sunnah, Syria, taqwa, tawaf, Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah, terrorism, Yawm al-Arafah on June 16, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Jewish Influence At the Origins of Islam

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History, History of Islam and tagged Abbasid Revolution, Abbasids, Abd al-Malik, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Abraham, al-Hajar al-Aswad, al-Masjid al-Haram, Arab Empire, Arabs, Babylonian Talmud, Bayt al-Haram, Bible, Black Stone, Christianity, Christians, Commander of the Believers, Commander of the Faithful, Constantine the Great, Constitution of Medina, Doctrina Jacobi, Eusebius, Fred Donner, G.J. Reinink, Gethsemane, Golgotha, Hadith, Hagar, Hagarenes, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, hajj, Haramayn, Ibn al-Zubayr, India, Ioudaismos, Ishmael, Ishmaelites, Islamic Tradition, isra, Israel, jahiliya, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jewish, Jewish Temple, Jews, John of Sedreh, John Wansbrough, Justinian, Kaaba, ka’ba, Land of Israel, Letter of John of Sedreh, Libya, Mecca, Medina, Mesopotamia, Mhaggraye, mi’raj, Michael Cook, Michael Penn, monotheism, Moses, Muawiya, mushrikun, Muslims, Noah, paganism, pagans, Patricia Crone, Pentateuch, Persian Empire, Persians, plague, Promised Land, Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Muhammad, Qibla, Qurayshi, Qur’an, Roman Empire, Romans, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sassanids, Sebeos, sectarian milieu, Simon ben Yohai, Sunna, Syria, Syria Palaestina, Tachkastan, Tanakh, Teaching of Jacob, Temple Mount, The Letter of John of Sedreh, The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, Torah, True Cross, Umar I, Umar ibn Khattab, Umayr ibn Sa’d al-Ansari, Virgin Mary, Yathrib on November 28, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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.

Islamic State Spokesman Marks Ten Years of the Caliphate

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2024

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Antisemitism, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Burkina Faso, Burma, caliphate, Chad, China, Christianity, Christians, Crocus City Hall attack, Crusaders, deen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, din, Donald Trump, Fallujah, Gaza War, George W. Bush, guerrilla warfare, HAMAS, Hazimis, Hazimiyya, Hindus, holy war, idolatry, India, insurgency, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, ISCAP, ISEAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State East Asia Province, Islamic State in Somalia, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State West Africa Provinces, Islamism, Israel, ISS, ISSP, ISWAP, jahiliyya, Jerusalem, jihadism, Joe Biden, Kerman attack, kufr, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Libya, lone wolf, love wolves, Mali, Mozambique, nationalism, Niger, Nigeria, Nusayris, Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, pagans, Pakistan, PKK, polytheism, prison breaks, Ramadan, religion, Russia, Sahel, SDF, sectarianism, shirk, Sikhs, Sinai, Somalia, Speicher, spies, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, Uganda, Yemen on April 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Spokesman Counters “Accusations” Against the Group and Explains its Purpose in Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Abu Muhammad al-Adnani Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abu Ghraib prison break, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Al-Andalus, al-Furqan Media, al-Qaeda, Al-Salul, Alawis, assassination, Bashar al-Assad, bay'a, bida, BREAKING THE WALLS, Breaking the Walls campaign, caliphate, Christians, Dajjal, dawa, disinformation, dunya, fasad, Fursan al-Balagh Media, Hamid al-Zawi, Hamid Dawud Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, Harvest of the Soldiers campaign, Heaven, Hell, idolaters, iman, insurgency, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamism, Issa, Jahannam, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, jihad, Jinnah, monotheism, Moses, mujahideen, Musa, mushrikeen, Muslims, muwahideen, nationalism, Nusayris, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, pagans, polytheists, Qatar, Rome, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, secularism, Soldiers' Harvest campaign, Sunnis, Syria, Taha Subhi Falaha, terrorism, They Shall By No Means Harm You But With a Slight Evil, They Will Not Harm You Except for Some Annoyance on September 3, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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