When did the Western Roman Empire really fall? In 476 AD, right, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus. Wrong. To the Romans, the Empire didn’t fall. It just shifted. And Romulus Augustulus was not a last emperor. A short story of the "Fall of Rome" A thread 🧵

Pales, fesses, and checky patterns in late medieval Galician heraldry. According to E. Pardo de Guevara, these motifs were all inspired by the geometric designs of three older, high-medieval leading houses: the Traba (checky), the Temes (fesses), and the Limia (pales)…

Y ahora estamos pasando por lo mismo

No siento tristeza por la caída del imperio romano porque nunca ha caído.

El actor sir Christopher Lee vivió la vida al 200% — Fue descendiente de Carlo Magno — De niño conoció a Felix Yusupov, quien acabó con la vida de Rasputin. Años más tarde Lee interpretaría al propio Rasputin. — Presenció la última ej*cución con guillotina en Francia por

The idea of Germans being continually guilty for WWII is a huge myth, the modern mentality of Germans only started recently West Germany had a more Japan style don’t talk about it strategy, the country didn’t acknowledge the Holocaust happened or have diplomatic relations with

Nunca dicen "Jesús es el Mesías". Nunca dicen "Jesús es el Señor". Nunca dicen "Jesús es el Rey". Nunca dicen "Jesús es el Hijo de Dios". Lo único a lo que se aferran es a que «Jesús era judío» y, para rematar su blasfemia, «Jesús era sionista». Uno: Jesús no "era", Jesús es. –

How does a former empire recover from its collapse? It doesn't. Look at Spain 🇪🇸. Spain simply sat down on a bench for a quick siesta at 2:30 PM in 1650, drifted into a 3-century coma, & woke up to discover it was now a budget hotel for the British working class. The fall of

Tower of Hercules, La Coruña. Built in the 1st century, it is the oldest Roman lighthouse still in operation in the world.

Women often boast about maturing faster than men. Yes, they may mature to the level of a 15-year-old more quickly, but they never seem to mature beyond that. I heard historically women were classified as minors and were often compared to children. That is why they were

20 great Western rulers you should learn from: 1. Alfred the Great 2. Charlemagne 3. Richard the Lionheart 4. Julius Caesar 5. Gustavus Adolphus 6. Augustus/Octavian 7. Abraham Lincoln 8. Napoleon 9. Henry V 10. George Washington 11. Alexander the Great 12. Hannibal 13. Pericles

Los veinticinco libros esenciales de la historia de la literatura universal, según Google Gemini. Antigüedad Clásica: * La Ilíada/La Odisea (Homero). * Edipo Rey (Sófocles). * La Eneida (Virgilio).

Uniforme de las SS es cuando abrigo largo

España es Viriato, es la cierva blanca de Sertorio. Es Finisterre con su mar rugiendo salvaje, y los campos infinitos de Castilla agostándose al sol, es Pelayo en Covadonga y Fernando el Santo en Sevilla. Es la audacia de Hernán Cortés.

Nobody: Augustus: 1. In my nineteenth year, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army with which I set free the state, which was oppressed by the domination of a faction. For that reason, the senate enrolled me in its order by laudatory resolutions, when

Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator So to start off with, there's an Egyptian story of an evil priest and his 80,000 slave followers who brought ruin to Egypt until a heroic Pharaoh kicked them all out, written about in a now lost work by Egyptian historian Manetho, and city by 1st century AD historian Josephus.

The historian Arrian preserves the incredible response of Alexander the Great to Darius after the Battle of Issus. Reading it, one realizes what a great King he was: While Alexander was still at Marathus, envoys arrived from Darius, bringing a letter from him and personally