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Suddenly, Terry Gilliam's animations make a lot more sense.
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So he was a Dane is what you're telling me.
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Dec 19, 2015 16:35
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Alhazred posted:It would've been fun to be able to watch the ancient Egyptians' reactions to Tut Ankh Amon's fame. When he lived he was the inbred son of a heretical pharao and he never accomplish much before he died. And now not even Ramses II, who was considered such a big deal that nine other pharaos took his name, is more well known than him. Imagine if the grave of Charles II of Spain was opened in a thousand years by future archaeologists. Plus, Ramses II is more well known for the "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" thing nowadays anyway.
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Dec 20, 2015 16:47
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Hugo Boss, baby.
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Dec 21, 2015 18:07
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You could post content instead of moaning. Like how they've found a coin that says, "Hiskia, king of Judah", that dates back to 600 BC. It's pretty cool to have some archeological evidence for the Old Testament for once.
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Dec 25, 2015 14:50
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goose fleet posted:Truly the weirdest season of Friends Call it An unholy alliance.
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Dec 27, 2015 16:10
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Say what you will about the French, but they have oodles of style.
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Dec 28, 2015 18:43
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I love my dead gay pope.
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Dec 31, 2015 21:37
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I know. The Romans invent distillation, Anacletus becomes the third Pope, and Mithraism starts to spread throughout the Empire.
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Jan 1, 2016 10:19
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The Roman Empire fell about 563 years ago. Edward Gibbon began writing about the fall of the Romans a little over three hundred years after the fact. I'd really like it if The Fall of the Roman Empire was about Fellini. This annoys me: The HRE was, in fact, both holy, Roman, and an Empire. Suck it, Voltaire! Holy: There was some confusion regarding the papal succession during this time, so the HRE had as much legitimacy as the Roman party. Roman: The emperors considered themselves successors to the Roman Christian Emperors of old, with translatio imperii and everything. Empire: They were ruled by an emperor.
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Jan 1, 2016 15:05
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I've been wrong before. It's fine.
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Jan 1, 2016 15:17
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Well yeah. That's what scribes are for, man!
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Jan 3, 2016 09:19
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According to QI [citation needed], he also had an asbestos tablecloth, which he used to throw into the fire as a party trick, so maybe he wasn't all that... Great.
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Jan 3, 2016 09:25
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I'm Charles II's of Spain parachute account. Goo goo gaa gaa.
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Jan 3, 2016 13:15
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... There's a post counter?
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Jan 3, 2016 14:48
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Well, I'm mostly here, so it should be minus 500.
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Jan 3, 2016 15:48
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Surely nothing bad will come of this!
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Jan 4, 2016 19:25
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"No, no, I painted all of these portraits using my enormous wang as a paint brush! Then I had the Queen of Austria, just cause!"
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Jan 8, 2016 18:14
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Suck it, Gilligan!
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Jan 11, 2016 20:29
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Nah, it was the Lorax. He talks for the trees, you see.
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Jan 16, 2016 12:17
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As a Nord who likes to travel, I can report that this habit is still going on to this day. "Simon and Daniel were here, 2nd of July, 2013".
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Jan 23, 2016 17:01
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He was also called "Le Petit Corpral", The Little Corporal, as a sign of affection.
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Jan 27, 2016 08:13
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Yes, but why male models? 
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Feb 2, 2016 19:35
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Apraxin posted:A few US political/presidential things involving people called Johnson: Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington, and George Washington was shot with a raygun.
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Feb 4, 2016 18:35
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ahem: There's a difference between "camp" and "gay".
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Feb 12, 2016 18:29
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Ask your mother.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:41
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I've got Western European in me every Wednesday night.
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Feb 23, 2016 17:57
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What about Crusading?
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Mar 1, 2016 17:21
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Aphrodite posted:Scorpion's wasn't turning into a scorpion. Isn't that weird? He just wanted his opponent to get over there. A chain hook is kind of like a scorpion tail if you think about it.
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Mar 1, 2016 21:52
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Romanus Eunt Martius
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Mar 16, 2016 10:42
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For gently caress's sake, royals. Could you stop screwing your close relatives for five minutes?
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Mar 21, 2016 15:53
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There's also a 20th century painter called Francis Bacon, who is distinct from the gentlemen you mentioned.
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Apr 4, 2016 08:29
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The world being round makes some sense. If you live by the sea, like the Greeks, ships would seem to disappear when they cross the horizon, but later come back. Ancient people weren't stupid, they interpreted the data they had with the leading theories of the day. The sphere is a perfect shape, so why wouldn't the Gods have made the world into such a shape? Eratosthenes even calculated the approximate circumference of the Earth, and got fairly close to boot. Source If you ask me, the dumbest thing Aristotle gave us (and that managed to survive for quite some time) was the idea that flies and other insects only had four legs.
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Apr 5, 2016 20:14
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The Greeks were generally far better at developing theories as to how the world works than testing them. One thing that didn't quite work out is their idea that testicles act as a counterweight to the vocal cords.
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Apr 5, 2016 20:37
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Alhazred posted:Yeah, they even crushed the assassins, a group that even Saladin feared. Fun story about the assassins: Ahmad Sanjar (a Seljuq ruler) tried to drive the assassins from one of their stronghold in Alamut. Hassan-i Sabbah, who was the leader of that group of assassins, sent envoys to negotiate peace but Sanjar rebuffed them. Then one morning when Sanjar woke up there was a dagger stuck in the ground next to his bed. Then a messenger arrived with a message from Sabbah: "Did I not wish the sultan well that the dagger which was struck in the hard ground would have been planted on your soft breast". Sanjar left Alamut alone from that day. No-one saw where the assassin went, but there was a group of monks walking around. He could have gone anywhere.
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Apr 15, 2016 19:20
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FreudianSlippers posted:I think I read somewhere that around the time the first Crusade was happening Christians were still the majority in the Holy Land but they were mostly from sects that were considered heretical by European Christians and/or they were simply indistinguishable from the Muslim to an outsider so they got put to the sword anyway. It's been said in this thread before, but "You are being Christian wrong" has been a super common reason for war in Europe. Makes sense that it'd stretch to the Crusades as well.
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Apr 16, 2016 05:27
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Is that Will Shakes Beard, of Stratford?
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Jun 13, 2016 11:38
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Nah, that's Dov.
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Jun 13, 2016 17:35
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Rip in peace, Joshua I.
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Jun 29, 2016 12:19
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Yet they're called the Dutch. Weird detail, that.
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