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- I was born in 1983.
- In the summer of 2005 I graduated from the University of Bristol.
- My attempt to be elected treasurer of the University of Bristol Union failed dismally.
- I currently work as an IT technician for a large company who shall remain nameless.
- I am a Pantheist Quaker.
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Al-Wakwak is an island, or possibly more than one island, in medieval Arabic geographical and imaginative literature. Sources variously identify al-Wakwak as representing Japan, Madagascar, Sumatra or Java, with others describing it as an island in the China Sea ruled by a queen with an entirely female population. This painting in watercolor and gold on paper was created in Mughal India in the early 1600s, and depicts a plant that brings forth animal life in multiple forms, derived from a conflation of medieval Persian and Quranic sources, including descriptions of al-Wakwak as inhabited by half-plant and half-animal creatures. The work is now in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio.Painting credit: unknown