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Andrewid
andrewidy
1/ This is an Alexander issue coin from the Greek city of Salamis, #Cyprus. Alexander may still have been alive when it was minted. King Pnytagoras of Salamis, as well
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☭Nova🐣Shpakova☭
NovaShpakova
The Communist Party of Greece dedicated a monument to communists & other fighters imprisoned in dungeons on Makronisos island awaiting extermination by the bourgeois state. Открытие памятника на территории
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Arthur Chu
arthur_affect
Look I know academics saying embarrassing things about "eros" or "erotics" in public is easy to dunk on and there's a time honored tradition of doing soBut you all know
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Trevor Culley
HistoryofPersia
Well they did a good job of distilling all of the worst takes about that war into one article I guess. Some highlights:"Had this happened, there might have been no...
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Melayna Lamb
MelaynaKay
Public 'health' and Public 'order' have always been linked though. https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1247065436602146817 Via the motif of the body politic that goes back as far as the Greeks, the 'health' of the
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Amit Schandillia
Schandillia
[QUICK THREAD: THE YAVANAS]1/22Long, long ago, a people inhabited the regions around the Aegean Sea — Roughly what's today Greece and western Turkey. They were called the Pelasgians. Classical Greek
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🌞ORPHEUS☸️
DiscoOrpheus
There is an abandoned Greek village on Island of Chios called Potamia.Some say wave of leprosy cursed the village 70 years ago and everyone fled.Others say it was it became
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Alex (Does Hobby Stuff)
Alex_and__A
Been sat on the sidelines about discussion around recruiting/promoting the historicals hobby and I have some throughts that I wanted to put out there...primarily because as a relatively recent arrival
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BlakeCLST6
BClst6
#FirstLookCloser #CLST6 This figure, dating from the late 8th to early 7th century BC, portrays an armorer crafting a Corinthian helmet. The simplicity and size of the figure is emblematic
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Corinne Cox
CorinneCox
It’s been a week since the Greek neo-Nazi party was declared a terrorist organization and had its right to parliamentary representation taken away in the wake of fifty of its
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Nathan Oseroff-Spicer
nathanoseroff
I've got my five-point harness strapped in, it's time to run me through the centrifuge at 20g. Liquify me. Good humanities is claiming Greece invented beauty and Rome invented language.
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Suede Santoro 👣
suede_santoro
"Italians during this period (1876- 1930) were the targets of mass lynchings & subject to slurs like “guinea” (a person of mixed-race ancestry), “dago”(because Italians were paid as a “day goes”
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Amitraghat
Amitraghat2
Reading Rubicon will post snippets in this #Thread After Hannibal defeated Roman armies badly,Taking advice from Sibyl's book of prophecies Romans buried 2 Gauls and 2 Greeks alive in Marketplace!
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Byzantine Ambassador
byzantinepower
The ninth-century Persian historian Al-Baladhuri tells us that when Alexandria fell to the Arabs in AD 642, “some of the Greek inhabitants left to join the Greeks somewhere else.” This “somewhere else” was
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Sunny Pagare
19SunSunny
Man behind #Hydroxychloroquine is "Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray" (1861-1944), known as the father of Modern indian chemistryHe is credited with getting international recognition for not only ancient Indian chemistry, but
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Andrewid
andrewidy
The humble colocasi, a type of taro &known officially as colocasia esculenta, may not be so humble after all. It’s one of oldest cultivated crops perhaps being grown whilst rice
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