#Ancient

Here’s a story about a turning point. When I was 19, I was a college dropout living in Maine. I had no idea who I was. So I did the
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#Jayadeva_series*Know the evidence of great Past~The birthplace of the great twelfth-century Sanskrit cum Odia poet Jayadeva has been quite unknown to public,(I am not talking about researcher)Even this had led to a
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According to a declassified FBI document, Tesla was brought to Earth from Venus.In 1899, Tesla himself thought he contacted aliens.Tesla, who invented AC/DC current, helped invent radar and much military
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thread of figures through history who were LGBTQ+ that you may or may not know about k, first and foremost, to make things clear:-spanish is my mother tongue so
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A Thread about money and slaves. Abridged version of @Breedlove22's Medium article.In ancient western Africa, aggry beads or ‘trade beads’ were small, decorative glass beads.Used as money for centuries. A
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The Babylonian "Dialogue of Pessimism" holds a special place in my heart - it's actually the piece that inspired me to become an Assyriologist to begin with! Today I'm going
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alright.... here's a history lesson about Egypt. I'm not gonna say or do too much, because i'm tired & frankly i'm doing this for free. before we start: yes, Egypt
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We have a special announcement this #NationalMilsWeekendWe’ve been working on another Old House Project to repair Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill in Leicestershirehttps://www.spab.org.uk/news/new-repair-project-kibworth-harcourt-mill-leicestershire @Terr
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So, the UK paperback of IRREPLACEABLE is out today, with Mark Hearld's beautiful artwork on the cover.As public events and browsing bookshops are postponed for the time being, I'll put
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All "national cuisines" are in a constant state of flux, most "traditional" foods were invented or came into their current forms much more recently than you think, and the whole
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Alright folks, about to share some of my dodgy pics that got me all excited yesterday, about finding my 3rd galaxy ...Some folks asked me so just to clarify, not
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Since "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit (once defeated, Greece conquered its savage captor, Horace)" #theaters were an essential features in both Greek & Roman towns. Let's use today's #MuseumsUnlocked for
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Why can Scrooge see Marley that night, when Marley had "sat invisible beside (him) many and many a day"?A THREAD First of all. Marley was dead. Dickens makes that
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Silica, amorphous May 1994 - Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health Concentrations (IDLH) Therefore, for all such particulate substances it has been arbitrarily determined that only the “most protective” respirators
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Lore ramble: I was reading the in-game item descriptions and I realized that Kaeya deadass might have been abandoned at Dawn Winery just because it was the first large/well-off looking
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The #globalization of #capitalism alongside the technological revolution has caused the erosion of the concept of sovereignty, the #economic and #cultural entanglement succeeded in marginalizing the concept of the #nation
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