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It's more of a living history fun fact (from wow). Worshipping a virtual god on your computer is no less valid than leaving out food for house gnomes, etc. Sorry if it was inappropriate for the thread. 
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I was going to suggest one of the Asian religions. I know both the Japanese and Chinese tales are lousy with minor gods in one form or another
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doverhog posted:It's more of a living history fun fact (from wow). Worshipping a virtual god on your computer is no less valid than leaving out food for house gnomes, etc. Sorry if it was inappropriate for the thread. This is how we get the Adeptus Mechanicus.
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I mean we've already strapped a knife to a Roomba, that is at least half of the way there.
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Josef bugman posted:I mean we've already strapped a knife to a Roomba, that is at least half of the way there. KataJani Damacy Katamari Janicy One of those should work.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think that one was the god of three-way intersections, hence the 'tri', weirdly enough. Tri via, three roads.
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Byzantine posted:Tri via, three roads. whence trivia coming to mean "public space" > "commonplace" > "trivial" a later folk etymology posited that there were public billboards at the 3-road intersections with useful info for passers-by, but that's an invention.
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In Sweden and Finland, elementary school used to be called "trivialskola" (1600s-1905), where you learned the three roads to knowledge: grammar, dialectics, and rhetoric.
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Fish of hemp posted:I've always wondered that what is the god of the most insignificant thing. Like is there a god of buttonholes or god of pocket lint? Cardea was goddess of door hinges.
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Alhazred posted:Cardea was goddess of door hinges. and Cardeb was goddess of damp passages
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Barry Foster posted:and Cardeb was goddess of damp passages well played
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FreudianSlippers posted:There was also a lot more gods than just the big shots in the pantheon. Basically every town had a god as did each specific neighborhood, and every household* and the fields and the roads etc. etc. There's like four of these posts. Dude knows poo poo about Roman gods: https://acoup.blog/2019/11/15/collections-practical-polytheism-part-iv-little-gods-and-big-people/ Carbon dioxide posted:The Discworld novel series always make fun of this. It has a Goddess of Things That Get Stuck In Drawers. Anoia. Barry Foster posted:and Cardeb was goddess of damp passages 
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The Scimitar is actually of Irish origin
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The Trivium was essentially the arts branch of Roman education, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The technical side, the Quadrivium, was arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music because music was an outgrowth of maths. The terms do derive from three/four roads, though. 'Trivial' in modern usage stems from the historical denigration of arts in favour of STEM I guess.
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ArcMage posted:The Trivium was essentially the arts branch of Roman education, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The trivial pursuit of the arts
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Barry Foster posted:and Cardeb was goddess of damp passages Danke.
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Barry Foster posted:and Cardeb was goddess of damp passages 
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doverhog posted:There is the god of trash, Jani. He is still worshipped. The Turks were always wondering why the infidels kept laughing at their elite troops
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Turks were always wondering why the infidels kept laughing at their elite troops It wasn't the giant spoons?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
Here's one 
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canyoneer posted:Here's one Zelda 
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Does anyone know the giant manor built by some british guy who let it fall into disrepair and eventually ruin? It had huge doors and I think he had short people open the doors to make them even more imposing. I think he just lived in the basement or something? I've asked this elsewhere but damned if I know where or even when vv: thank you yes Milo and POTUS has a new favorite as of 17:21 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Does anyone know the giant manor built by some british guy who let it fall into disrepair and eventually ruin? It had huge doors and I think he had short people open the doors to make them even more imposing. I think he just lived in the basement or something? I've asked this elsewhere but damned if I know where or even when Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonthill_Abbey ?
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A Brief History of the Fork in Europe: In 1004 Maria Argyropoulina creates a scandal when she uses a fork. When she died of the plague in 1007 it was generally agreed upon that it was God's just punishment for being too vain to use your fingers when eating. Using a fork when eating is still frowned upon in 1533 when Catherine de' Medici brings her forks to France after marrying Henry Henry II of France. Then the fork slowly becomes more accepted. In 1621 Christian IV of Denmark-Norway proudly writes in his journal that he bought a fork from a frenchman. That's not to say that the fork was completely accepted in France. In 1605 Thomas Artus wrote a book called "L'Isle des Hermaphrodites" which made fun of the court of Henry III of France where one of the unmanly things they did was to eat with a fork. In 1608 a former court jester called Thomas Coryate begins to try and make the use of forks more widespread. Because of this his friends begins to call him "Furcifer". Finally in 1633 the fork lost it's stigma when Charles II of England declared that using a fork was to be considered decent. Alhazred has a new favorite as of 20:03 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Alhazred posted:A Brief History of the Fork in Europe: We had a fork in 1562  Thanks, Katarina Jagellonica; Thatarina Thagellonica.
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Alhazred posted:Finally in 1633 the fork lost it's stigma when Charles II of England declared that using a fork was to be considered decent. One wouldn’t expect that that particular monarch’s decrees would be well‐heeded.
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Platystemon posted:One wouldn’t expect that that particular monarch’s decrees would be well‐heeded. Where do you think the phrase ‘Stick a fork in him, he’s done’ originated then?
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Platystemon posted:One wouldn’t expect that that particular monarch’s decrees would be well‐heeded. Reading his Wikipedia page, he doesn't seem all that bad, and was kind of well-regarded in his time (apart from trying to make peace between Catholics and Protestants); is there something the article does not mention?
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CommissarMega posted:trying to make peace between Catholics and Protestants
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They might be confusing him for his dad Charles 1.0 who got his head cut off for mouthing off to parliament. Then Charles 2 Electric Boogaloo took over for a couple of years before being forced into exile and spending the next few years bumming around Europe with his entourage mooching of his relatives until the monarchy was restored.
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Random thought I just had, I'm kinda surprised that with how long they were in use that no one ever used a catapult as a method of execution
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Nobody wants to be the one to go get them
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drrockso20 posted:Random thought I just had, I'm kinda surprised that with how long they were in use that no one ever used a catapult as a method of execution When you're besieging a castle or town, you don't waste a wind-up on just yeeting Shiddicus Fardicus for using the general's favourite goose to wipe. When you're not besieging a castle or town, you don't have catapults around.
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Who was that one king who refused to accept a town's surrender until he got to try out his new trebuchet? I wanna say he even name it God's Own Sling. I feel like that guy probably had a few people hurled a couple thousand feet
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Oh weird. I grew up (and my parents still live) less than 10 miles from that. Didn't know all that stuff.
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Not really related to anything but execution methods, but I just remembered an account of a Soviet officer I read who was part of the Red Army forces approaching Berlin. Apparently a couple hours to the east of Berlin they suddenly saw a lone German soldier appear on a hilltop in front of them. They were about to open fire, when the officer realised that something was amiss and ordered them to stand down. The German guy just stood there, unarmed, for hours without moving at all, until he drew back at nightfall. The Soviets reckoned that for whatever reason he was supposed to get shot by them on orders of his CO - execution by proxy
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verbal enema posted:Who was that one king who refused to accept a town's surrender until he got to try out his new trebuchet? I wanna say he even name it God's Own Sling. I feel like that guy probably had a few people hurled a couple thousand feet That was King Edward, in the war against William Wallace. The trebuchet, War Wolf, was the largest ever built and he refused to accept the Scottish surrender until he had demolished the wall of their castle.
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Chamale posted:That was King Edward, in the war against William Wallace. The trebuchet, War Wolf, was the largest ever built and he refused to accept the Scottish surrender until he had demolished the wall of their castle. Well, that’s also simultaneously a pragmatic choice. History is littered with examples of grumpy sovereigns pulling down the walls of their subjects’ castles and cities, so that they couldn’t just declare rebellion again 5 minutes after their overlord left.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:When you're besieging a castle or town, you don't waste a wind-up on just yeeting Shiddicus Fardicus for using the general's favourite goose to wipe. When you're not besieging a castle or town, you don't have catapults around. I swear I've read that siege equipment was used to throw death people over the walls to attempt to infect the defenders with disease.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I swear I've read that siege equipment was used to throw death people over the walls to attempt to infect the defenders with disease. You read correctly! Although in the case I found it was actually those committing the siege being devastated by the plague and thus having to abandon their efforts - but not before hurling some diseased corpses into the city on their way out. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article quote:The dying Tartars, stunned and stupefied by the immensity of the disaster brought about by the disease, and realizing that they had no hope of escape, lost interest in the siege. But they ordered corpses to be placed in catapults and lobbed into the city in the hope that the intolerable stench would kill everyone inside. What seemed like mountains of dead were thrown into the city, and the Christians could not hide or flee or escape from them, although they dumped as many of the bodies as they could in the sea. And soon the rotting corpses tainted the air and poisoned the water supply, and the stench was so overwhelming that hardly one in several thousand was in a position to flee the remains of the Tartar army. Moreover one infected man could carry the poison to others, and infect people and places with the disease by look alone. No one knew, or could discover, a means of defense.
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