#Byzantine

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

Daniel Schultz

pastordan

Funny story associated with this...https://twitter.com/pastordan/status/1274400812626849793 Ever wonder why Mary is so venerated in the Catholic and Orthodox faiths? Well, among many other reasons, it's because Byzantine emperors tried

Ana, Hoverbear 🐻

a_hoverbear

It's early Sunday morning... so...Let's read a paper! "The Impact of RDMA on agreement"!https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12143 Here we start with the authors toting a really cool feature of RDMA I didn't know about?

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

On this day, in 527 CE, the Hagia Sophia was consecrated as a site of worship. One thousand, four hundred and eighty three years later, it is still a site

Heshmat Alavi

HeshmatAlavi

THREAD—SCOOP1)Sima Ladjevardian’s family has apparently been smuggling illegal cargo from #Iran pocketing millions of dollars. @SimaforTX is running against Rep. @DanCrenshawTX.Open-source info reveals about Ladjeverdian fiscal history,

Erin

GilmerHealthLaw

Honest q: anyone proposed how they're going to assess who is "high risk" & who isn't in order to get vaccines? Is there going to be a byzantine paperwork requirement

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0xtail1

When I was first redpilled I understood it was a solution to the Byzantine generals problem. I understood it was a decentralized ledger secured by proof of work. You ran

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ChrisKhach

The South Caucasus region of today was once home to three nations: Armenians, Caucasian Albanians, and Kartvelians (Caucasian Iberians and Colchians). I’m the early4 4th century they became among the

Blake Smith

blakesmithphd

A long thread on the French Socialists' 1981 program, which has some amazingly based partsFirst, they insisted we have to overcome the "crisis in science" (which is not a post-2015

Jonathan Dean

Hergrim

Time for a small rant that I call: misinterpreting the Bayeux Tapestry.One of the biggest hinderances to understanding Anglo-Saxon - and Early Medieval warfare in general - is the Bayeux

The Bill and Ted Test

BillAndTedTest

OK, by special request - and purely because it's on telly tonight - we're going to break period for *one night only* and do a #Halloween Special looking in detail

JDog Pitler

ZBcasghamber

[THREAD]What led to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453?It wasn’t the Ottoman muslim turks. The Byzantine Empirewas rotting within for centuries due to its false sense ofsecurity and a series

Edward C. Yong ن

infernoxv

not the Chora church, with the finest surviving Byzantine mosaics and frescoes in Constantinople! oh my heart. https://ahvalnews.com/chora/turkey-re-converts-istanbuls-chora-church-museum-mosque this is even more upsetting for me, as the Ch

Jonathan Parkes Allen

Mar_Musa

a few mostly personal thoughts on the news concerning the Hagia Sophia: my feelings are rather mixed, tbh. Part of me is glad that somebody at least gets to publicly

Museum of London

MuseumofLondon

We're delighted to announce our new Twitter exhibition: The Tweetside Hoard. Open now and free to visit, all you have to do is scroll down this thread. And please, no

Burair/Бурайр/بُرَيْر

Burairss

[42th Thread : Refutation of ignorant claims by a bigot]1.This thread is yet again another refutation of a fake sanghi historian whose plagarized threads I've already refuted 6 times.Truth:- Thread

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