Heretics and Pagans

Mid to late 5th century history.

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Our story follows the journeys of a group of agent provocateurs as they attempt to carry out their various missions.

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Pray for the world when VP dies.

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Apocalypse is Greek for revelation

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Notre Dame

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Beware the year 2128

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Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. All roads lead to Rome

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Horse wearing reconstructed 2500-year-old Scythian horse armor unearthed in the Altai Mountains in Siberia. Photo via Ostrov Krym - Scientific - Restoration Laboratory.

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Attributed to Cicero over 2000 years ago but it could have come out of someone’s mouth today.

What would Rome have looked like if Brutus and Cassius had won. How would a Roman Republic have fared?

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“The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officials should be tempered and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed lest we become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of relying on public assistance.”

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St Margaret of Scotland at La Madeleine in Paris

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@historyinmemes There is no grappling or hand wringing here.

[Whores of Yore @WhoresofYore]

The expression “call a spade a spade” comes from the work of Plutarch, who originally wrote “call a fig a fig & a trough a trough.” Figs & troughs were crude slang for the Vulva, so what Plutarch meant was “call a c*nt a c*nt”. When Erasmus (1466-1536) translated Plutarch’s work & changed it to a garden spade to avoid embarrassment.

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John the Evangelist

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@Culture_Crit

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@athanasiusurban Are you a Donatist?

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@athanasiusurban What about the Russian nazis?

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Mansa Musa was unfathomably rich, owing to the productive gold mines of Mali. He was so liberal with his wealth that, during his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, he was said to have crashed the value of the gold dinar in Cairo.

How true is the legend? Thread.

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@historyinmemes This was common throughout history in most cultures. The marriage wasn’t consummated until she was 13-14 she had 7 more children with him and they stayed married 50 odd years.

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@BMX_RAGBRAI @nonregemesse The west had already collapsed by then.

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@KorbinianOpn @FlatCath Not after his Epistle to the Seminoles