Per his visit to Mexico, I wonder if Donald Trump has established a new precedent.

It's by a muslim and it's about living with the crusaders (franks I think he calls them). Basically the guy tells stories about the strange things the franks do because they don't understand middle eastern culture. Here are two memorable anecdotes that may jog your memory if you've read it:

1. The frankish quack: There was a man with a small wound on his leg. Arabs had great medicine at the time, so a healer puts a clean bandage on, tells him to change it a few times, and that the wound should heal within a few months. There is also an ex crusader doctor in the room, who in a fit of ignorant ethnocentrism, assumes that he is right and the muslim doctor is wrong. So he grabs a blade and chops the guy's leg off; the poor dude dies screaming in agony as he bleeds out.

2. The awkward bath house haircut: Europeans did not place the same emphasis on cleanliness that the muslims did at the time. One thing muslims did as a result of this, especially for the bath house, was to trim... down there. The author tells a story of his friend, who had never thought of that, discovering the authors shaved... you know... in the bath house. The frank was ecstatic and immediately requested this service from his friend. The author complied, and wasn't bothered by it. The REAL issue was that this man then brought his wife into the male bath house... and had the author help her out in this manner too! So, as you can imagine, given muslim sensibilities regarding the separation of men and women, this was NOT COOL. What a hilarious story. I'm pretty sure the author even describes his friends...situation... as a thicket or a forest or something.

Do we have any sources on it? Things like men who keep fighting with their hand cut off, people ripping their opponent's throat out with their teeth, etc...

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I am trying to find out if the story of Vishnu tricking Narada with a dream life is in one of the Vegas or the Bhavagad Gita or other text so that I can buy and read the whole book.

I have family that emmigrated from the Czech republic in what would have been Prussia. Just curious as to what happened to this storied empire.

The Mods and flaired here are excellent, keep up the awesome work :). I'ld thought it would be interesting (and supportive) to read work any of you have done on your related subjects. (Books, blogs, journals, articles, or documentaries). Or maybe a favorite publication on your field or what got you started down the path of becoming an expert.

I completely understand if some of you may want to remain anonymous.

We all know the sentences "Et tu, Brute?" Or the other version "You too, child?". But why did Caesar specifically point it towards Brutus? I've tried to find reasons but all I've found are various explainations with little to no sources.

Labor and materials?

When I think of European explorers hunting for fur in North America I picture men walking out in the woods armed with muskets. Are these guns not as inaccurate as popularly believed or were there huntings methods to get around this? Did they hunt with guns at all?

Edit: Thank you for all the replies. Is been really fun and informative reading each post.

For clarification: in the United States.