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This question in r/AskHistorians raised my hackles somewhat. It's pretty bad history (in some ways I think the opposite of presentism) to argue that because something isn't totally original, it isn't real. Things evolve out of other things, and it gets my goat a bit to think the prior is somehow more legitimate than the latter- after all, it's highly likely that Saturnalia was derived from other festivals rather than springing forth fully formed and entirely independent of anything that came before it.

So it seems like a 2-1-2 system is pretty attractive these days, especially in low level competitive play. I was just wondering how people felt the farm priority ought to be organised for this kind of a set-up- obviously you have 1 as a safelane carry, but is the mid then always 2 or 3? Which support ends up as 4 and which one as 5, safelane or offlane? I've just joined a (very) low-level team and it's my first experience using a 1-5 system, so I'm interested to learn, but a lot of the literature on Liquid assumes a trilane which I don't think we'll be experimenting with very much.

Hi! I'm a Brit who's decided to get into the NFL this year. I'm a keen fan of rugby and have watched the last couple of superbowls, but I reckon it's now time to really commit to the sport (ie, learn what's going on all the time rather than sixty percent of the time). As such, I've come to you!

What's a good resource to learn about the positions and types of play? Anywhere to view highlights given the problems of time difference? And most importantly, who should I support? I'd be looking for a fairly unsuccessful team (definitely don't want to be the equivalent of a Manchester United fan) with an emphasis on the running game - does this fit anyone? My only connections with areas in the US

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South Africa have won the toss and will bowl first.

South Africa Team: RE Levi, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers(Capt, WK), JP Duminy, F Behardien, JA Morkel, RJ Peterson, J Botha, DW Steyn, M Morkel

Zimbabwe Team H Masakadza, V Sibanda, BRM Taylor(Capt, WK), CR Ervine, S Matsikenyeri, E Chigumbura, AG Cremer, P Utseya, RW Price, KM Jarvis, BV Vitori

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Afghanistan won the toss and have decided to bowl first.

India team:

G Gambhir, V Sehwag, V Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, SK Raina, MS Dhoni(WK, Capt), RG Sharma, IK Pathan, R Ashwin, Z Khan, L Balaji

Afghanistan team

Karim Sadiq, Asghar Stanikzai, Mohammad Shahzad (WK), Nawroz Mangal (Capt), Najibullah Zadran, Shafiqullah, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbodin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadr

As part of my preparation for going off to study History at university this autumn, I've been reading a bit of historiography (What Is History by E. H. Carr, and I'm in the middle of In Defence of History by Richard J. Evans). Evans is quite strident in rejecting much of the postmodernist criticism of history. By this I mean the idea that true "knowledge" of the past is impossible, and that history is just textual analysis with no relation to a "reality". I'm interested in what the panel here has to say. How do you define postmodernism, do you think that it should be embraced, rejected or just ignored, and how has it affected your work, if at all?

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