Genghis Khan died in 1227. A hundred and fifty years later, his name still decided who was allowed to rule Asia — and the most powerful man alive was not on the list. In 1393, in the city of Baghdad, a mint struck a silver coin for Timur. It carried three things. A date, a mint, and a name. The name was not his. He would go on to take Delhi, sack Damascus, and capture an Ottoman sultan on the field at Ankara, and the silver leaving his mints would still carry another man’s name. Timurid court chronicles do trace his father’s line back to Tumbinai. No written evidence from Timur’s own lifetime, or from any time before it, makes that link directly. That is the most contested thing in this story, and the coin is the one document in it that no court historian could edit.

Every factual claim in this video is sourced. Where the sources disagree, the video says so instead of picking the tidier version. Where something is a reconstruction rather than a record, it is named as one.

Archive photographs, manuscript pages and coin images via Wikimedia Commons, the Royal Collection Trust and Numista, under their respective terms; the full per-image licence list and the numbered source table are kept with the production files.

Thumbnail images: silver dinar of Timur, Baghdad mint AH 795, photograph by Classical Numismatic Group, CC BY-SA 2.5. Forensic reconstruction of Timur by M. M. Gerasimov, 1941; photograph by Wikimedia user shakko, coloured by Wikimedia user पाटलिपुत्र, CC BY-SA 3.0. Both via Wikimedia Commons. This thumbnail is a derivative work and is itself licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

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The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
by Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936)

These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion.. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little success, to convert the natives of the new world. (Summary by Esther)

Total running time: 3:09:21

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The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness by Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936) These little books were …

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Vintage in Pills CHANEL Fall 1996 Paris – Fashion Channel

Chanel Autumn/Winter 1996 by Karl Lagerfeld explored military uniforms through the house’s tailoring and couture techniques. Sharply cut suits featured structured jackets with gold accents, paired with either knee-length skirts or tailored trousers. Beige tweed was combined with shiny gold lamé, adding contrast to the heavier military-inspired pieces. Black velvet dresses appeared throughout the collection in different silhouettes for both day and evening.

Gold details extended to the accessories, including Chanel clips, metallic waist belts and brooches positioned at the décolleté. The collection also featured buttoned jackets, tailored coats and military-inspired detailing throughout. Naomi Campbell, Carla Bruni, Claudia Schiffer, Marpessa Hennink and Karen Mulder were among the models walking the runway, with hair styled smoothly and pinned up and makeup defined by dark eyes and deep red lipstick.

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Red-Headed League” (1891), unabridged— every word as he wrote it — performed as a full-cast radio …

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