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Will Hanley

@whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
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Settler. Middle East history #fsu #digitalHumanities #legalHistory #tallahassee #cycling #running #wikidata 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hcommons.social/@whanley, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
I don't understand the physiological demands of #hockey very well. Specifically, I don't understand the short shifts. This helps explain it: montrealgazette.com/opinion/columni…
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Barker: Superior fitness is a hallmark of great hockey players
Exercise physiologists have been studying hockey for decades to better understand what it takes to play at the elite level.
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026
Sorry not sorry. London Solicitor, 1923. Mad that he got unhired.
I need scarcely say that I regret any awkwardness caused to you, put for that I am not responsible. I am, Sir. Yours faithfully,
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oneguynick @oneguynick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
WikiFlix is Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting. Who doesn't love free entertainment? wikiflix.toolforge.org/#
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026
كلنا خالد سعيد
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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026
A small Friday-evening project came to fruition. Analysing data on the dimensions of Arabic periodicals from #Wikidata, a quick and simple plot allows for a number of observations: Firstly, newspapers and magazines are of different sizes and the former […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]
A boxplot of page heights along a temporal axis for Arabic periodicals published before 1930. Each periodical is recorded with its first year of publication and a single measure. In the cases where Wikidata returned multiple measures, these were averaged into a single data point. The plot divides the data set into newspapers (blue) and magazines (red) based on an explicit classification provided by Wikidata.
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026
Excited to see that #Grokipedia has conjured an entry on a certain "Will Hanley" who's a combination of me and a professional basketball player with the same name. What a versatile guy! grokipedia.com/page/will_hanley
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Will Hanley
Will Hanley is a legal and social historian specializing in the Middle East, particularly the history of international law and its development in Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As an associate professor of history at Florida State University, where he has taught for over 15 years, Hanley focuses his scholarship on overlooked regional contributions to global legal frameworks, including projects centered on Cairo's role from the 1890s to the 1930s. His work integrates...
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026
Really pleased that #MESA and #AAUP are zealously defending academic freedom. Assertiveness gets results--assuming this proposal becomes an order. Awful that it is members-only, though. Sorry that #AHA and other societies did not join the action […]
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026
www.fsunews.com/story/news/2026/01/…
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‘This is censorship’: BOG regulations for CoreFSU cause controversy
What are the 2025 CoreFSU regulations set by BOG, and how do they affect FSU students?
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026
Think we should make a #wikipedia category called Kidnappings of Heads of State? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Lebanon%…
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2017 Lebanon–Saudi Arabia dispute - Wikipedia
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025
Silly find of the day: they're no fools in Constantinople.
Scottish Cured Herrings and other Fish
Difficult to increase demand for
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025
Anyone reading this news who has previously read a book about history--any book really--ought to say hmmm... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion…
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025
Signing up for a trail race in England, I see a new version of the ethnicity dropdown menu. Fascinating variants of an arbitrary schema.
Ethnicity Choose one option that best describes your ethnic group or background. IF Other, Please Describe: White English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British White Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller E  Other White Background * Einerdeney Contact Namd White and Black Caribbean White and Black African * Emergency Contact Telephone: White and Asian Medical Conditions: Other Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Background Indian Medication: Pakistani [ Bangladeshi Chinese Other Asian Background Di¢ African . i Caribbean Do youhave any Dietary Requirement=g Other Black/African/Caribbean Background Arab De Other Ethnic Group Prefer not to say THERE IS NO VETTING - this just helps us understana our competitors.
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
News has just reached us, way out here in the provinces, of the Matthew Connelly/Gary Wilder/Columbia boycott controversy. They're counting angels on the head of a pin. Some of us could have benefited from that performative solidarity energy half a decade ago... - […]
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
The Quakers are definitely the problem. As usual. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/n…
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Will Hanley @whanley.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
MJ Lenderman's "Rudolph" video is to America as PJ Harvey's "Let England Shake" video is to England? www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QevZ5z9Cq4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Qlb0qFLFE #pjharvey #mjlenderman
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