Never stop learning. Keep on reading; knowledge is the gateway to the world.

Links to events and people – I read so much!

• Timur’s armies were […] feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe, sizable parts of which his campaigns laid to waste. […] his military campaigns caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population at the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur?wprov=sfti1 – Amir Timur, Tamerlane, “Timur the Lame”, founder of Samarkand.
• List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. Alas my books Two Journeys and Fields of Fire are still missing – feel free to add them to the list! (As the author I won’t do it myself). Wikipedia:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction?wprov=sfti1
• A burqa is an outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions to cover themselves in public, which covers the body and the face. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa?wprov=sfti1

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