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Byzantine Emporia

byzantinemporia

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

Dr. Sarah Bond

SarahEBond

Today in @PleiadesProject places, we are traveling to ancient Mediterranean libraries other than the well known library of Alexandria: https://pleiades.stoa.org/@@search?SearchableText=library Why not explore some of the great libraries and

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread (Cont’d) John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was not only the greatest society portraitist of his time but also one of the finest watercolour painters. Roses (c1901), Tommies (1918) & Self-portrait

🛸💎TooTallRN💎🛸⭐️⭐️⭐️

VeteransAlways_

Reincarnation was removed from Christian doctrine during the 5th Ecumenical Council in the yr. 553 (aka The 2nd Council of Constantinople). The council was evoked by the Emperor Justinian &

Musashi Nair

Musashi_Nair

The world loves to attribute greatness to a long line of European mathematicians beginning with the Greeks/Romans without realizing that much of this 'history' was conjured up from thin air

Marco Malvagio - poorly explained history stuff

MalvagioMarco

I know that jumping around mediterranean history, there are roman emperors everywhere. Sometimes multiple ones at a time. I mean, the last guy with a half-decent claim to the title

The Armenian Truth 🇦🇲

armenian_truth

Here is a 106 tweet-long megathread to mark the 106 years of the #Armenian #Genocide of 1915-1923, which was committed by the #Ottoman Empire against its #Armenian constituents living all

Anand J

anandj_

Ready for a Weekend long-read about Humming bird effect? Warning - This is really a very long thread that you might actually call it a yarn. (1/35) A thread about

Netanel Zellis-Paley

wordpaley

Many Orthodox men, especially here, have become inured to this phenomenon, and simply scroll past. Some mock the “angry women” who post about it. A thread on why that’s dangerous

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Zealuu

Okay, meandering and probably very long thread on how the Vikings of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla stack up against the history and literature of the era. Spoilers for everything in ACV,

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

There are two major Western schools or systems of law: there is the Civil Law system (also known as Roman Law) and the Common Law system (which is English law).

Cynical 🇪🇺

Prodactiv_

How ISIS, Marxist Leninists Kurds, the fight for Kobane a video in YouTube led me to discover a silent Armenian Minority in TurkeyThe Hemşin peoplesArmenian: Համշենցիներ, HamshentsinerTurkish: HemşinlilerA thread full

Tradical

NoTrueScotist

People who ought to be canonized—a thread. Don Christopher da Gama (son of Vasco da Gama) led an expeditionary force of 400 Portuguese musketeers into Ethiopia, saving her from conquest

ConsummateRiddler

ConsummateRidd1

Ritual torture and murder has been an accusation following around the chosen folks for quite some time. In light of its re-appearance in our modern day, with all of the

J Picadillo

JdogPitler

[Thread]Jewish Ritual Killings have been occurring for thousands of years; & it continues till this day but in different forms, mainly through abortions. This thread will cover the origins, the

✝️ TheBadDadder 🇺🇸

TheBadDadder

BOOK OF ENOCHQuite possible that this book survived the great flood since a man as dedicated to God as Noah was would almost certainly have wanted to take along his

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