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Gen Z Catholics outnumber anglicans in England
Wild
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/263239/catholics-now-outnumber-anglicans-among-gen-z-in-the-uk-study-suggests
Wild
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/263239/catholics-now-outnumber-anglicans-among-gen-z-in-the-uk-study-suggests
“Restrictions on travel were almost unknown, and merchants and traders could journey from the Euphrates in the Fertile Crescent to the Thames in Britain without crossing a border or being asked to show a passport.”
“Henry Kaiser began construction of the Richmond shipyard in late December 1940 (according to some reports, work started just 10 hours after signing the contract), and 78 days later it was laying down its first keel.”
It’s always interesting to see reasonable people who emerge to be wildly prophetic.
Whenever I see such cases, I wonder if their other predictions were equally accurate or equally wild.
But above all, I’m interested in the principles that Heine used to arrive at his conclusions. How would you make predictions about this next century? Heine’s approach is to look at centuries of the past.
Whenever I see such cases, I wonder if their other predictions were equally accurate or equally wild.
But above all, I’m interested in the principles that Heine used to arrive at his conclusions. How would you make predictions about this next century? Heine’s approach is to look at centuries of the past.
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“Nobody in Rome would characterize themselves as ‘modernizers.’ You introduce radical reforms by saying that you’re going back to the past” - Tom Holland on Diocletian
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BgAVitUSbPpRRXtec01eo?si=CwE9boJ-RxyV148ZD1DTbA
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BgAVitUSbPpRRXtec01eo?si=CwE9boJ-RxyV148ZD1DTbA
Cleopatra’s tomb is still out there.
@androidsixteen.eth we gotta go mount an expedition.
https://youtu.be/5d8SlwGDXXE?si=s9qsve9Kye9DndAO
@androidsixteen.eth we gotta go mount an expedition.
https://youtu.be/5d8SlwGDXXE?si=s9qsve9Kye9DndAO
Afghanistan has a close place to my heart, their contribution to fashion and fashion history is something that often gets overlooked.. glad to see young Afghans take to social media to advocate not only for their history but other cultures who’ve experienced similar erasure/ attempt erasure in history.
“On this day in 1916, the Easter Rising began in Dublin, with the aim of ending British rule and creating the Irish Republic. It came to be known as the Poets' Rebellion because many of its leaders were poets, teachers, or men of letters. It was quashed after a week, and its leaders hastily executed for treason.”
Been practicing my hieroglyph reading. The cartouche of Akhenaten is probably my favorite.
Heretic pharaoh who predicted monotheism would be a hot narrative.
Heretic pharaoh who predicted monotheism would be a hot narrative.
President Zachary Taylor witnessed the birth of a nation when El Salvador left the Central American Federation.
Funny to look at even a young country like the USA and see 50 year periods where you have very little opinion on any president let alone any other leader
The very strong opinions you may feel in the zeitgeist right now are unlikely to matter in history
The very strong opinions you may feel in the zeitgeist right now are unlikely to matter in history
It’s interesting that we tend to take philosophical advances as corrections instead of building on a shared foundation, which we do in science.
People struggle with a Christian-Nietszchean fusion because they’re too metaphysical about it.
“Bronze Age” (master) morality and Christian (slave) morality are not competing philosophies, they’re social technologies that build on each other.
People struggle with a Christian-Nietszchean fusion because they’re too metaphysical about it.
“Bronze Age” (master) morality and Christian (slave) morality are not competing philosophies, they’re social technologies that build on each other.
People talk a lot about secularization of Christianity that then influences everything around us without us realizing.
But apocalypse isn’t one of them. These Christian end of world panics happened all the time, a big one every 100-200 years.
I think we still retain that mentality without the religious aspect of it
But apocalypse isn’t one of them. These Christian end of world panics happened all the time, a big one every 100-200 years.
I think we still retain that mentality without the religious aspect of it
I know this might be controversial…
but I really admire the titans of industry from 19th and 20th century.
The sheer will to change industries, dominate sectors and build business empires.
I know about their monopolistic practices and exploitation of workers, but I also believe that their efforts helped the population at large to become more prosperous and raised the general standard of living.
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-knowledge-project-with-shane-parrish/id990149481?i=1000702683685
but I really admire the titans of industry from 19th and 20th century.
The sheer will to change industries, dominate sectors and build business empires.
I know about their monopolistic practices and exploitation of workers, but I also believe that their efforts helped the population at large to become more prosperous and raised the general standard of living.
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-knowledge-project-with-shane-parrish/id990149481?i=1000702683685
If you grew up in the US northeast, ask anybody who grew up south of Mason-Dixon about this thing called “reconstruction”
It is absolutely insane how much they discuss it vs how little we discuss it
It is absolutely insane how much they discuss it vs how little we discuss it
In 1946, the US military conducted two nonstop distance flights that changed world history by showing its prowess to its adversaries:
Perth, Australia to Columbus, Ohio
Oahu, Hawaii to Cairo, Egypt (via north pole).
Fascinating book about the two flights!
Perth, Australia to Columbus, Ohio
Oahu, Hawaii to Cairo, Egypt (via north pole).
Fascinating book about the two flights!
Historic crowdfund that boosted morale by funding fighter planes during WWII
Brilliant counter propaganda effort by Lord Beaverbrook who was up against Joseph Goebbels
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35697546
Brilliant counter propaganda effort by Lord Beaverbrook who was up against Joseph Goebbels
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35697546
Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie -- great chemists who got the Nobel Prize jointly in 1935.
They were also active with the French Communist Party!
They were also active with the French Communist Party!
Any recommendations for a biography of Xi Jinping?
“Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary.” (Stella Maris, 2023)
