Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
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Melvyn Bragg & guests discuss the Germanic tribes' destruction of 3 legions of the Roman general Varus in 9 AD, so limiting the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Rhine
https://t.co/EqsgWBGDcZ
When I studied Latin and Ancient Greek, I was taught that they each had three genders.
So I was fascinated to read these ten quotes about how the Romans and the Greeks didn’t necessarily think so themselves. https://t.co/OWBq6Ifdcq
Dwindling measure words in Mandarin: Tweet from the University of Westminster Contemporary China Centre Blog CCCblogUoW: who did dis — The Contemporary China Centre Blog (CCCblogUoW) February 10, 2020 We all know this… https://t.co/WHfbO7RnbV
My newsletter for January 2020: a robo-generated episode of Lingthusiasm, Lingthusiasm Discord server, LingComm Grant, and xkcd hovertext https://t.co/am2kGuzHWs
Sino-Manchu seals of the Xicom Emperor: Tweet by Sulaiman Gu: Emperor #XiJinping Winnie the Pooh's Jade Seals 习近平大帝玉玺恭刻完毕 — Sulaiman Gu (slmngy001) February 10, 2020 The Chinese of the seal on the left says: Wéiní… https://t.co/bTt3TeeU5o
Modern reconstructions of the #Roman circumvallation & contravallation built by the army of Julius #Caesar around the oppidum of Alésia in 52 BC; the reconstruction is at Alise-Sainte-Reine (France), now widely accepted as the site of the battle.
#HillfortsWednesday
World’s largest linguistics database is getting too expensive for some researchers
An article in Science Magazine about Ethnologue https://t.co/WGisWwjWBI
Today 55AD Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.