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Today's featured article Map of the area ruled by the Turabays The Turabay dynasty was a family of Bedouin emirs who governed the district of Lajjun in northern Palestine during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The family's forebears had served as chiefs of Jezreel Valley during Mamluk rule in the late 15th century. During the Ottoman conquest of the region in 1516–1517, the family aided Ottoman sultan Selim I. The Ottomans kept them as guardians of the strategic Via Maris and Damascus–Jerusalem highways and rewarded them with tax farms. Although in the 17th century several of their emirs lived in towns, the Turabays largely remained nomads, camping with their tribesmen near Caesarea in the winters and the plain of Acre in the summers. The eastward migration of their tribesmen to the Jordan Valley, Ottoman centralization, and falling tax revenues brought about their political decline and they were permanently stripped of office in 1677. Descendants of the family continue to live in the area. (Full article...) Recently featured: Outer Wilds Battle of Winwick Kes (Star Trek) Did you know... Aftermath of the Dollar Mountain Fire ... that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire (aftermath pictured), 65 firefighters survived overnight being surrounded by fire by sheltering under a ledge? ... that in revenge for the torture of Polish prisoners, the terminally-ill Jan Kryst walked into the Café Adria and shot members of the Gestapo? ... that the Advanced Tactical Fighter program resulted in the F-22 Raptor? ... that Panamanian earth scientist Erika Podest uses remote sensing to see how climate change has affected global soil moisture? ... that the Linda Lindas have recorded a cover of the song they were named after? ... that a South Korean church excommunicated a pastor, Lee Dong-hwan, after he performed a blessing at a queer festival? ... that more than 90 world leaders have made a pledge to achieve nature-positive goals? ... that Anna DeShawn started E3 Radio to help educate others about Black women that she did not learn about in grade school? ... that a Vancouver TV station was intended to stop the "$1,500 cup of coffee"?

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