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Saturday 3 April 2021
With a landscape that has inspired childhood classics and served as the backdrop for fantasy blockbusters, Northern Ireland has natural wonders and a fascinating historical and cultural blend within its diminutive borders. See the sights with these road trip ideas.
Causeway Coastal Route
Causeway Coastal Route
Northern Ireland’s headlining drive threads its way along a varied, 130-mile route that hugs the Antrim coast between Belfast and Londonderry. Must-see stops along the way include the remarkable UNESCO World Heritage-listed rock formations of the Giant’s Causeway and the haunting outline of Dunluce Castle on a rocky Atlantic Ocean outcrop. Leave the car behind for the leg-wobbling walk across the rope bridge and book ahead for the restored Edwardian Gobbins Cliff Path: an unforgettable meander along the coast via tunnels and trails with vertiginous views of the ocean swirling below. Work up an appetite on the National Trust-owned Portstewart Stra
January 8, 2021 42 Minutes
This is the fourth part of a four part (I, II, III) look at the Dothraki from George R. R. Martin’s
A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s
Game of Thrones. We’re looking at, in particular, if Martin’s claim that the Dothraki are “an amalgam of a number of steppe and plains cultures” can be sustained in the face of even basic knowledge about historical Steppe and Great Plains nomadic peoples.
Last week, we concluded that the vast majority of Dothraki culture, social organization, economic practices and family structure are effectively completely untethered from the historical realities of effectively any of the literally dozens of historical Great Plains Native Americans or Steppe nomads. This week, we’re going to close out our look by discussing Dothraki warfare. We’ll start with the visual – weapons and armor – and then move to the conceptual – strategy, operations and tactics.