Stilicho
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Jacob Urowsky Professor of Strategic Studies at Hustlers University. Former CIA station chief for the Heard and MacDonald Islands.
A thread with excerpts from The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell:
Anglicanism was practiced by mere quarter of population as early as 1850s, although more than 80% of population formally adhered to it. Collapse post-1980 has more to do with identity, with left & liberal people adopting secularism in response to an explicitly Christian right.
Thatcher came to power and the British immediately started to lose faith in God
The cartoon is basically the one on the right lol. I don't think there's a single woman with a speaking role in the trailer and the pro Aztec angle is due to Mexican nationalism not any sort of "wokeness".
A new legend rises. AZTEC BATMAN: CLASH OF THE EMPIRES is coming to Digital 9/19.
'Dometia set up this monument in memory of her son, Paullus'. But Paullus is also missed by his beloved dog 'Mulion', who is shown on the gravestone sitting obediently, waiting for his master's return. Found reused in the defensive walls of Dion, Greece, 2nd century AD.
Almost 1 500 years ago, when Celtic languages were still widely spoken in western Europe (even in Galicia probably)... #Keltia #Celtic #languages
Odysseus relays a false biography of his life as a late bronze age raider in a section of the Odyssey, giving what seems to be a first-person account of the Sea-People. "A bought woman, a concubine, was my mother." His Cretan father left him little, so he decided to obtain…
The protests in Kyiv right now prove that Ukraine is a democracy. Thousands will protest for political reforms in Ukraine in the middle for the very independence of the country. Meanwhile not a single Russian can protest outside the Kremlin.
Important to remember right now that Ukrainian protests are happening because of internal politics - Ukrainians who demand accountability within their own government. Last time this happened was Maidan and that was because Ukrainians wanted rid of russian meddling bullshit.…
the US was the richest country in the world by the end of the *19th* century. american prosperity has never depended on american hegemony, and historically it has generally been the former which made the latter possible, not vice versa
Much of America will be an infinitely depressing place if it ever loses its "empire" and thus the ability to fund mass affluence. Unlike Europe, our structures aren't cut out to tastefully weather a century of malaise. Cracked vinyl siding blowing in the wind . . .
La matanza de los inocentes. Mosaico del del arco triunfal de la basílica de Santa Maria Maggiore en Roma (siglo V)
Yes.
Was the American Revolution such a good idea? nyer.cm/RafU1FD
I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.
Just remember: Not a single European, much less any Italian, had eaten a tomato until the 16th century.
The city guilds had to provide a certain number of men for the urban militia. For example I have the data for the city of Rostock in Germany from 1450 where there was a fixed number of men each guild had to provide arranged in the following manner: De dregher (porters) 150 De…
14th century Flemish militiamen from the now lost Leugemeete Chapel frescos in Ghent. Flemish militia units were generally organized by guild -- these images represent the fishmongers, bakers, butchers, textile cutters, and the Brotherhood of St Sebastian.
14th century Flemish militiamen from the now lost Leugemeete Chapel frescos in Ghent. Flemish militia units were generally organized by guild -- these images represent the fishmongers, bakers, butchers, textile cutters, and the Brotherhood of St Sebastian.
7th-13th century mail and lamellar, from Transoxania and the Tarim Basin
What's your ABSOLUTE FAVORITE armor in all of history?
Medieval French infantry were widely seen as worthless. Many French writers saw this as positive, as they believed that "if the common people were armed they would rebel against the nobles and rulers" and it was destabilizing for the peasants to be "generally experienced in arms"