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Outline or post interesting trivia about a person, event, object, place, etc. from the past
Narmer/Menes (b. between 3100 BC - 3000 BC)
>united Egypt into a single state and became the first pharaoh
>known by two names (Narmer and Menes) because he has been referred to as both names throughout history
>the two names are still thought to be two separate people by some historians (Menes->first pharaoh, Narmer->united Egypt) but most agree that there is enough evidence to conclude that they were the same person
>he is likely the oldest known confirmed-to-exist human, with a name, in recorded history
>to the ancient Egyptians, he was the beginning of their history, so everything before him is recorded down as "legend" which makes it really difficult to figure out Egypt's history before the first pharaoh and his actions
>is credited with founding the city of Memphis and diverting the flow of the Nile in order to build it
>also credited with being the inventor of writing for the Egyptians
>had a very long life (62 year reign)
>was killed not by old age, disease, assassination, or war... but by a hippo while he was out hunting at the age of 90-100 years old
>was buried in his tomb next to another tomb with 10 donkeys for unknown reasons, though possibly similar to other kings who had their court sacrificed and buried with them... except this time it was just a bunch of donkeys
NOTE: Mostly everything we know about the first Pharaoh of Egypt is based on texts written thousands of years after his death. We still can't be 100% certain that Menes and Narmer are the same guy, but it seems likely that the man who united Egypt would go on to rule over it first.
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He was definitely an alien
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>>3043392
Wrong guy
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>>3043392
Akhenaten was the one who has odd depictions
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When René Arnaud's infantry battalion hears that it's about to be sent again to Verdun, 50 or so men crowd around an army doctor citing anything – hernias, rheumatism, murmuring hearts – that will get them off the hook. As Arnaud records, men clung to him "like drowning men clinging to a life-buoy". Meanwhile other troops seek out prostitutes who might give them venereal disease. There is even a trade in gonococcal pus, which soldiers buy and smear into their genitals in the hope of a long stay in hospital; the more desperate also smear it into their eyes and end up permanently blind.
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>>3043386
That one time when genghis khan conquered a whole empire because of a caravan.
Genghis sent a 500-man caravan of Muslims to establish official trade ties with Khwarezmia. However Inalchuq, the governor of the Khwarezmian city of Otrar, had the members of the caravan that came from Mongolia arrested, claiming that the caravan was a conspiracy against Khwarezmia.
Genghis Khan sent a second group of three ambassadors (one Muslim and two Mongols) to meet the shah himself and demand the caravan at Otrar be set free and the governor be handed over for punishment. The shah had both of the Mongols shaved and had the Muslim beheaded before sending them back to Genghis Khan.
This was seen as a grave affront to the Khan himself, who considered ambassadors "as sacred and inviolable."This led Genghis Khan to attack the Khwarezmian Dynasty.
The mongola soon conquered them in less than 2 years.
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>>3043459
>French not wanting to defend their land
nice
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Elagabalus was a 13 year old Roman emperor.
He would also dress up like a prostitute and stalk the palace halls trying to seduce his royal guards.
>tfw the child who could order your execution is trying to hit on you, knowing engaging him will also lead to your execution
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The daughter of Marie Antoinette, aka only member of the immediate French royal family to live through the revolution.
>witnesses the violence of the early revolution
>Imprisoned as a teenager, ended up alone after her father, brother, mother and aunt were taken away, was continually harassed by guards who threatened her life
>Doesn't speak for about a year until the fall of Robespierre relaxed her imprisonment and she was finally given a companion
>Finds out that her entire family is dead
>Is exchanged for prisoners of war to Austria and is put under unofficial house arrest in a palace by her Austrian relatives who want to marry her to one of their own for political reasons
>Pushes until she is finally released to her French relatives
>ends up going from country to country in exile with her remaining relatives, watches more of her family die, stays at the bedside of the priest who attended her father in his last moments
>returns to France after first fall of Napoleon
>is the only member of the royal family to stand her ground when he re-invades and for that was called "the only man in her family" by Napoleon
>returns to France after the second fall of Napoleon and exhibits bizarre PTSD-like behavior which causes her to be disliked
>only member of her family who tries to persuade Charles X not to abdicate in 1830
>exiled again
>doesn't do much for her remaining years but give to charity, make snarky remarks about the fall of Louis-Philippe, and dies of illness after being too weak to go to church on her mother's death anniversary
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The Pirate’s Den, a gay club in 1920s New York
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>>3044123
I'm not even gay and that seems fun as fuck
A club where you go to dress as pirates and get drunk as fuck, plus its the 20s? That's like my dream come true.
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>>3044047
picrelated
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>>3044242
Link me to the rest of this... For research purposes...
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Flexible glass is legendary lost invention from the time of the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. As recounted by Isidore of Seville, the craftsman who invented the technique brought a drinking bowl made of flexible glass before Caesar who tried to break it, whereupon the material dented, rather than shattering. The inventor then repaired the bowl easily with a small hammer. After the inventor swore to the Emperor that he alone knew the technique of manufacture, Tiberius had the man beheaded, fearing such material could undermine the value of gold and silver.
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>>3044047
that's probably just roman historians and later emperors' propaganda aimed at discrediting a weak emperor and his mom who ruled for him tho
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>>3045963
could be cow horn thin enough to be transparent
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Brazen Bull
>Phalaris is a Sicilian king and a tyrant
>very evil and has been accused of even eating human babies
>man builds a torture device to impress the king
>a bronze bull, with the hollowed out stomach, that can trap a man inside and roast him alive via a fire lit underneath
>the screams would sound like a bull's cry due to the construction of pipes within the device
>Phalaris demands that the inventor tests this by climbing inside and screaming
>when he climbs inside, they lock the bull shut and then start a fire underneath
>Phalaris stops the inventor before he is cooked to death but tosses him off a cliff anyway
>The bull is now Phalaris' new favorite method of torture
>when Phalaris is overthrown, he is executed inside the very same bull
It's a well known story, but it's still great.
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>>3043415
I need a quick rundown on this guy.
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>>3045963
>Flexible glass
>Most likely some heat treated membran that can only barely be shaped into a bowl, and a scam
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