An Ocean of Earth

A Mostly True and Probable Historical Sketch of the Russian Empire

“The earth has bubbles as the water has.”
—Banquo, Macbeth

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Just three centuries after his Prophet’s message began to radiate out of Arabia, ’Aḥmad ‘ibn-’al-ʿAbbās ’ibn Rāšid ’ibn Ḥammād ’ibn Faḍlān a…