#Rome

I'm feeling nostalgic as I begin my 5th Holy Week & Easter in Rome; this is one of the most beautiful & spectacular liturgical periods in the Church & especially
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[Meredith Logue has entered the chat room] A brilliant, if underrated, performance by Cate Blanchett of a character not seen in the novel. #ripleywatch I was a closeted gay teen
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TOBI’S THREAD ON ANCIENT HELLENISTIC RELIGION AND MYTH: Canon. Did. Not. Matter. It did not matter one bit. When thinking of ancient religion, unlearn the lens of our modern understanding
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David Skribina’s *Jesus Hoax* is a very important, highly readable, but incomplete book, which everyone should be aware of. Skribina builds an excellent framework for thinking about the historicity of
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The new episode of #TheSimpsons is titled 'I, Carumbus', and tells the story of a Roman, Obesius, with various Simpsons panache. Let's take a look, shall we? Lisa has
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Wild guess, you're behind on your school work, everyone is on your case, you feel like you're not good enough, and life sucks, right?Cause if so, same, I know the
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In the middle ages, a nun in a convent began to meow like a cat. All the nuns began meowing and didn't stop until soldiers beat them. In the 15th
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“Rome wasn’t built in a day.”OK. Great.The Patriots Empire? Built in 18 months. 1999: the Pats, led Pete Carroll, stormed out to a 6-2 start. Suddenly, all hell broke loose.
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1n thread to amplify & expand on an important point that @rahulroushan made. Islam is both a political ideology & a religion. It however mandates both of its followers in
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Going to go wholly mask off for a moment and this is going to be entirely too dark for some of you, so I apologize in advance.Bernie Sanders understands better
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Santa Claus has its origins in the ancient Aryan religion of Mithraism. Santa’s hat come from the Phrygian cap worn by Mithra, and his outfit comes from the Scythian riding
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When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses & ilex, pea plants & over 50 types of
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We begin our journey with Deyl Djama (@DeylDjama), a PhD student from the Department of Life Sciences! Deyl is interested in how the brain works in health & disease. He
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Thinking a lot lately about a new project on 18th-century #graffiti, the lives and voices - often hidden in plain sight - that it can reveal from the past, and
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I grew up Catholic in conservative, small-town Missouri and I went to Catholic school, which is to say I know and love a whole lotta people who are celebrating this
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a thread of my scenery photography because i feel like it lapland the midnight sun the midnight sun pt. 2 birds water flow more water snowy trees rome (i hate
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