The story of how this was discovered is crazy: >Be an Egyptian farmer named Muhammad Ali >Dig for nitrate-rich fertilizer along the Nile >Strike something hard with your shovel >It turns out to be a skeleton. Whatevs >Wait a minute! Next to the skeleton is a large

Speaking at the WEF, German politician Olaf Scholz denounces Elon Musk: "We have freedom of speech in Europe... Everyone can say what he wants, even if he is a billionaire." "What we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme right positions." 🤡

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40,000 Scottish and English people came to Ireland during the Ulster Plantation - a demographic shift we will likely forever suffer consequences of. Over 50,000 Indians arrived in Ireland in the last two years. We're running at about 500 arrivals a week.

Just before the Greek Revolution of 1821, the Greeks had begun naming their children with ancient Greek names. There was a surge in names like Odysseus, Leonidas, Achilles, Alexander. When the Albanian Muslim Ali Pasha noticed this, he said: "The Greeks are preparing something."

“No one is, in fact, so uninterested in the Muses that he does not wish his own deeds glorified and immortalized in verse.” — Cicero

70 BC: The Roman Republic grants the Latins amnesty, lets them vote. 27 BC: The Roman Republic falls, votes don’t matter. 1986 AD: The USA grants the Latinos amnesty, lets them vote. 2029 AD: …

Can we get citizenship verification on this site already? Do we really need to be subjected to the opinions of people who want America gone, Americans dead?

> ICE is a large body of armed men aligned with MAGA, whose livelihoods depend on MAGA staying in power. > Democrats are threatening to throw ICE agents in prison if they ever regain power. I see the Rubicon in the distance. Can you hear it yet? It’s only a small stream.

It's funny how leftists will describe the Roman Empire as either fascist or a multicultural utopia depending on which supports their immediate rhetorical goal.

The Romans only extended citizenship to their fellow Italians 700 years after Rome was founded. They expanded citizenship to everyone else 300 years later, when voting no longer mattered because it was an Empire. For 1000 years, you needed two Roman parents to be born a Roman.

Roman Helmet Guy A good history of Roman economics had an intro saying, "During the Cold War, US and Russian scholars each tried to argue that Rome was capitalist/communist depending on the side and whether they wanted to praise or criticize something."

Every day there’s some crazy headline like: “🚨BREAKING: Doctors no longer allowed to kill you, even if you’re ‘worth more dead than alive.’”

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods."

It would’ve worked. You think the Mongols were able to conquer China but the combined Spanish and Portuguese Empires couldn’t have? China was only ‘saved’ by the defeat of the Spanish Armada at the hands of the English in 1588.

Every modern commentary on Nietzsche starts off with some disclaimer like “First of all, no, Nietzsche didn’t really mean that [something Nietzsche absolutely did mean].”

AI companies are literally being kept afloat by cheating students

Thankfully there’s no chance Alexander the Great would’ve ever wanted to be this guy.

Oil is not a “fossil fuel”, it’s the black venom of Python poured into the ground by the thousand wounds of Apollo’s arrows, the ethylene vapors of which wafted up at Delphi (where the serpent was slain) to inspire the prophecies of priestesses until the Olympians fled from the