#Ancient

Time for my #Mains thread. Grab a beer. Or maybe a glass of water .... These are Roman water valves in the town of Pompeii. Probably older than 100 BC
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What was the Greek attitude to myths? Thread!https://twitter.com/bodhidave3/status/1277632645170692096 Short answer: there wasn't one. "The Greeks" is not a coherent group. Neither, really, is "myth".Long answer: in
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Sengoku Lord and Post-Booking For LIJ after the event and how it can be tied back to Sengoku and Edo period Japan and their Shogunate based on a reddit post
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Thread: Inlaid ivory panel depicting "lioness devouring a boy"... From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, part of an almost identical pair, originally part of a piece of furniture, perhaps a
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THE DOME OF HAGIA SOPHIAWhy was the Hagia Sophia such an achievement? Not least because it was the world’s largest domed basilica for 1000 years.Domes in turn helped deal with
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The number twelve is a sacred symbol of cosmic order in the human experience, from Jesus' apostles to the Olympian gods, and sons of Odin.Twelve cranial nerves emerge out of
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THREAD – Travelling in tones: a colour journey through the kaleidoscope of the Muslim world BLUEBERRY: Beginning at the western frontiers of Asia, we move through the Balkans and Turkey,
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People say we are in a cold civil war. This is wrong. We LOST a cold civil war, because we had sticks and our enemies had guns. The best plan
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Former Israelí PM Shimon Peres had famously said “ The most important thing in life is to dare” and Israel dared in true sense when it planned one the most
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#MysteriesUnravelled 1. How &When did Humans Originate?1. What happens on 31Dec, dt We All celebrate NewYear?2.Why Scientifically we Call Earth "Mother"3.Who Came First Egg or Chicken4. How Old is the
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Last year, the incomparable writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, went before the House to argue the case for reparations. He held the mirror up to America and showed its many contraditions, while
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Once upon a time, long before the British, we had our own Vedic system of time keeping. We had 30 muhurtas in a day. Life was quicker paced, organized and
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Trump is always 17 steps ahead!Trump played baseball & throws curveballsSo this puts people in place while we re-vote using block-chain? Jan 19? This thread will be INTERESTING like
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A THREAD! Adolf Hitler , Leader of Nazi Party , the initiator of world war ll and one of the cruelest man in History. [1] Adolf Hitler was a German
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Since y'all have reduced India down to 'curry' and 'tunak tunak' and have no basic knowledge about this beautiful country whatsoever, here's a thread of things that India has given
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"Do we want to become like Pakistan?" is a Sanghi trope, a dog whistle against Muslims in general. Pakistan is not perfect, but it is also not a hellhole as
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