I wanted for a while to make a separate page with links to Wikipedia articles I end up reading. Realizing that this just won’t happen, I decided to start posting those links just as blog entries, a few at a time. So, here is today’s portion, showing some of the best from the last month.

• Aotearoa – a bit about the increasingly popular alternative name for New Zealand (also see Azania).
• Yezidi – an ancient religious group in Iraq worshiping a peacock angel.
• Rhodesia – history of Rhodesia.
• Shuadit – an extinct Jewish dialect of Provencal (also see Provencal and Occitan). And check out the article on Mountain Jews – a small Jewish population that has lived in the Caucasus for ages.