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re: ethanol in general you can run into people today who should know better saying things like "I can't drink rum because I get angry drunk on rum" so when you've only got two or three alcoholic options it's not hard to imagine people thinking wine drunk and beer drunk were totally different when people still do that today
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Bar Ran Dun posted:I know there are some fermented beverages that are chewed and spit prior out to fermentation for the enzymes.
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That's a French 75 with some substitutions (gin -> vodka, lemon -> lime). Not sure how that relates either.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The Ottomans used siege artillery to break through the walls of Constantinople. The French 75 is a cocktail named after a famous artillery gun type. That's the connection.
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The North Tower posted:I don’t remember if it was this thread, but I seem to remember a theory that the animal Anubis is based off of is possibly an extinct species of caninae. Does anyone know more about this?
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Context was how the Predators (of Predator [1987] fame) use a segmented LCD numeral/alphabet system where each digit/letter is a vertical pair of asterisks:flavor.flv posted:That makes me realize that if cuneiform had survived to the present era, it would have been really easy to make led text displays FFT posted:Maybe with deliberate and major adaptation, but acute triangles where directionality matters would have been way more difficult to adapt than our line-based system FFT posted:Yeah, here we go, phonemes. (Copied out of this article that references actual authorities on cuneiform)
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That was the specific video I had in mind about the dififculties of segmented displays actually lol
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Shibawanko posted:if it was just an everyday utility object it doesn't really make sense that some of them were made of gold and were decorated. if i had to venture a guess id say they were used to display something Clearly they were dual-purpose: displaying rings and measuring ring sizes
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Fond memories of that one Dwarf Fortress story about selling tons of cinnabar cups to the elves
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Tomn posted:I vaguely recall that in Europe at least the modern template for restaurants was developed in France in the 18th century, but details are fuzzy and there ARE eateries of various kinds elsewhere throughout history. Don't recall offhand what exactly distinguished that French tradition of restaurants from older things like inns.
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galagazombie posted:What’s the latest we know of an Italic language still existing that wasn’t a Romance language?
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Grand Fromage posted:Seriously. Set aside 17 hours for a variety show from Japan or Korea and see how many of the jokes land (I am presuming you are not Japanese or Korean here) and how much of it is just people laughing at stuff that makes zero sense to you. It's a good example of how culturally linked humor is.
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Telsa Cola posted:Maybe? If the joke is someone said shut the door, but the words for door and mouth are very close and the humor is that it sounded like they told someone to shut up how are you going to translate that through without either a kludgey explanation or substituting another similar, but still different joke in.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm reminded of how in Babylon 5, apparently Earth's most popular cultural export is The Three Stooges.
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Deteriorata posted:Göbekli Tepe directly contradicts that claim. It was a huge storehouse and ritual gathering site built by hunter/gatherers. There are numerous sites like it in Turkey and elsewhere.
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SlothfulCobra posted:And also studying native americans as a more documented form of hunter gatherer gets weird because most of them were a whole lot more sedentary before the Columbian plagues game.
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My guess is "it could be any number of things, pickled in red vinegar" Or "the paint colors as seen aren't identical to how they started because the different pigments used faded at different rates." Or part of a floral/other design that was painted onto the plate itself. stringless fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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It's entirely possible that a mozzarella precursor was available in Pompeii by 79 CE.
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Admiral Bosch posted:I've been rewatching hbo's Rome in the background at work recently and I have what is probably a really minor question. It frequently shows the generals/caesars/etc using a soldier who has gotten on their hands and knees as a stepstool to mount their horse. I know that Rome didn't have stirrups/saddle horns and the like, but is there any historicity to that little detail specifically? Or is that something they made up since it seems sufficiently imperious? One would think with all the rest of poo poo in the baggage train they'd have a stepstool for the important people to get on their horse instead of vaulting onto it. That can gently caress up knees and legs, whereas backs are somewhat armored or at least have the support of all four limbs. So, again, still speaking entirely out of my rear end, it does make a sort of sense as both a power move and not injuring soldiers.
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I do: cheese is delicious.
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Deptfordx posted:Neat. Took longer to make this post than it took to find it with satellite view lol /e: oh the park is still called Mount Egmont, that was what Captain Cook named it. It was changed back to the original Maori name in 1986 stringless fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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Sealed jars at Abydos? What out for symbiotes.
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skasion posted:Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a taxonomy? 
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I'm partial to the idea that the Sahara is really just the first Dust Bowl even though there isn't much support for it.
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zoux posted:Current one is sublime
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It's also difficult to put a finger on which side of the rear end in a top hat vs. power/money is causative. Thatcher's Britain basically gave property to a whole bunch of fairly normal people and "having something to lose" seemed to make them assholes as planned, for instance. Could be a direct correlation on average, tbh.
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