Showing posts with label Arabia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arabia. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The Arabica variant of coffee is 600,000 years old.

It was the result of through natural crossbreeding of two other coffee species and emerged first in Ethiopia.

They were used for the drink, as far as we can tell, first in the 1400s to 1600s, having been brought to Yemen, which means they were probably brewed for that purpose in reality long before that.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Sunday, January 17, 1915. Messing around in Arabia.

 Ottoman stragglers were rounded up by the Russians at Sarikamish.

The Arab houses of Āl Rashīd and Āl Saʻūd fought the Battle of Jarrab north of Al Majma'ah. Āl Rashīd prevailed.  Pre war civil servant and wartime British military advisor William Shakespear, a close friend of Ibn Saud, was killed, resulting in diminished British influence over the House of Saud.

African American radical Lucy Parsons led an unemployed march of 10,000 workers in Chicago.  The event would result in a program for the unemployed.

Last edition:

Saturday, January 16, 1915. Cape Evans.