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CharlestheHammer posted:They were a gift that was a good way for foreigners to join for a bit and make some cash. Mercenary bodyguards have worked out well for the Popes for a bit over 500 years. The difference being that il Papa can afford to pay them on time, every time. Pretty sure the third time he's late with the payroll, the Catholic Church gets a surprise new pontiff.
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I don't recall exactly when the elections stopped, though. Maybe under Tiberius, along with the rest of the neutering of the assemblies.
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In other news, birds are dinosaurs, and the smart ones are terrifying. Imagine a T. rex doing this at you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4Zmw6l06U I was afraid that lil' fluffball would take a finger off me when I let him stand on my hand, and he tried a few times, to the point we bought a pair of welding gloves specifically for handling the small dinosaur in the living room when he got unruly while out of his cage. Same birb, pen and my soon-to-be-shredded hand for scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFCkwlRNgI Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 06:12 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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Turns out, my home town in Scotland is famous for being the site of the first recorded instance of a political assassination by gun. Yet I don't remember ever hearing about in our local history lessons.
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Peeny Cheez posted:Elections continued during the Principate and consuls--despite very much reduced in authority--continued to be appointed right up to the end. sure but i didnt say consul i said head of state CharlestheHammer posted:You should put elections in quotes as they were more appointments. Though the office did still have its uses. i mean i'll admit the republic seems to have been ill suited to enfranchise new entrants but it was at a few points a functioning governing body we just have had too many sons of tarquinius and too few of cincinatus Former DILF has a new favorite as of 08:09 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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and who was the republican head of state if not the consuls?
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first they were called praetores so theres that
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As I recall one of the reasons the Varangian Guard was loyaler than usual was because they had a special privilege of being able to take as much as they could carry out of the imperial treasury when the emperor died of non-murder causes.
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C.M. Kruger posted:As I recall one of the reasons the Varangian Guard was loyaler than usual was because they had a special privilege of being able to take as much as they could carry out of the imperial treasury when the emperor died of non-murder causes. thats pretty badass Former DILF has a new favorite as of 08:16 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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Kassad posted:Who would have enforced that, though? i think thats the genius of the varangian guard, a cultural other is less likely to be able to blend in after dishonor, they have more to prove and they're incapable of holding a city against the roman seige engineers
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Presumably the new emperor wouldn't complain about his new bodyguards taking a small bonus for successfully doing their jobs. I've also heard speculation that it may have actually just been the officers who did the looting and they were supposed to split the gold up for their men.
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Maybe Ragnvald Ingvarsson was one of them. He was a captain in the Varangian guard & his family relations can be charted somewhat via runestones in Sweden (e: meaning he was rich).
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the real trick is to get a bunch of golden vessels and fill them with coins
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Milo and POTUS posted:the real trick is to get a bunch of golden vessels and fill them with coins actually if you have a golden vessel you dont need any coins, so..
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Portaging a golden canoe out of constantinople
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Milo and POTUS posted:Portaging a golden canoe out of constantinople heck sail home yea
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Picturing a bunch of vikings in a golden canoe rowing across the palace floor and eastern europe
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Somehow I'd always just assumed that the MLK murder was pretty cut-and-dried. I had no idea that the assassin wandered around the world for months after, almost escaped to Africa, and that even the King family says he didn't do it and believe it was a shadowy JFK-esque conspiracy. From a few pages back but the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is located in the Lorraine motel, and after the tour you go across the street to a museum where Ray shot from, and it is very focused on the question of "was there a conspiracy?" The main museum easily takes 4+ hours though (and that's if you start skipping sections) so by the time we got across the street we were too tired to walk or read much else, but it was fascinating that there was so much to the theories, and that the museum was promoting it. I did get to see James Earl Ray's dirty boxers on display at least.
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Alcatraz East in Pigeon Forge has his dirty Adidas running shoes. Apparently he always jogged every day in prison until he died.
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Milo and POTUS posted:...cleaner than yours? And more importantly, which dirty boxers? Did he leave a pair behind like the diaper sniper? Did they get some from his mom's house when they first started looking for him? Or were they the ones he was wearing when they finally caught up to him?
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syscall girl posted:And more importantly, which dirty boxers? Did he leave a pair behind like the diaper sniper? Did they get some from his mom's house when they first started looking for him? Or were they the ones he was wearing when they finally caught up to him? And how do you ask for those to be sent to your museum? Was it something the curator specifically asked for, or did they ask for any James Earl Ray artifacts that weren't at another museum already and they just kinda shrugged and pulled out a pair of dirty underwear from the prison laundry?
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Someone went to school for 8 years on historical social justice and their crowning achievement was procuring a criminals underpants. Ok it was probably an intern working under their direction but there is almost for sure a doctor who signed off on buying someone's underpants.
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syscall girl posted:Did he leave a pair behind like the diaper sniper? As I understand it, yes. They were in a display case with a bunch of other crap he left behind in the room that was used as evidence. A little sign said that they go back and forth between displaying the boxers and a t-shirt in order to preserve them, so I got lucky that day I guess. chitoryu12 posted:Alcatraz East in Pigeon Forge has his dirty Adidas running shoes. Apparently he always jogged every day in prison until he died. And his brief escape led to the founding of a 100-mile, 60-hour marathon! Admission costs $1.60, a license plate, a flannel shirt, and a pack of cigarettes. There's a decent documentary about the weirdo that founded it on Amazon Prime. Edit: link to movie/trailer Friend has a new favorite as of 20:58 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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Friend posted:And his brief escape led to the founding of a 100-mile, 60-hour marathon! Admission costs $1.60, a license plate, a flannel shirt, and a pack of cigarettes. There's a decent documentary about the weirdo that founded it on Amazon Prime. Ultramarathon runners are a special breed of crazy, goddamn. 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Ultramarathon runners are a special breed of crazy, goddamn. You ain't seen nothin' yet
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No, no I hadn't.
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Pharoah Pepi II really hated flies. So in order to keep them away from him he would smear his slaves with honey so they would bother them instead.
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Why not just smear the honey on a stick that you carry around
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Why not just smear the honey on a stick that you carry around First time you'd get some attention.
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Why not just smear the honey on a stick that you carry around
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Why not just smear the honey on a stick that you carry around Because you're the pharaoh.
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Just picture the pharaoh from Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series.
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Why not just smear the honey on a stick that you carry around He probably had more slaves than sticks. Plus he would have just had a slave carry the stick anyways.
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Alhazred posted:Pharoah Pepi II really hated flies. So in order to keep them away from him he would smear his slaves with honey so they would bother them instead. Who do you think had it worst? Being the Honey Slave that has to wash off honey and dead flies at the end of the day, or the Amputated Penis Slave who has to carry sacks of all the detached dicks back home so the pharaoh is shown proof of his generals' military might in battle?
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