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August 29 2023
You go Ro coco
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Cousins or Dating
haha, everyone says we look alike but i dont see it
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The Cardinal Rule of Rome
In languor, potentia.
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Alexander the Great MOC
A Map of Content on the life of Alexander the Great.
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In Actuality, Alexander Only Had Two Sons
Alexander had a complicated love life, ranging from a possible relationship with Hephaestion to a relationship with a Thessalian courtesan to impregnating multiple women.
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A Mistranslation of a Very Popular Quote From Alexander
Alexander's insatiable longing for glory and how an Englishman, John Miner, created something worthy of a book of memorable sayings and coined one of the few classical tags still recognized today.
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Diogenes and Alexander
A funny exchange between Alexander the Great and Diogenes, and how Alexander was tutored by Aristotle and learned about Persian customs and traditions.
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Notes on The History of Menswear
All about the history of menswear, from the Chinese ruling class wearing nail polish to the introduction of modern streetwear.
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If You Could Have Dinner with Anyone
If you could have dinner with anyone from the past, who would it be? Dinner with any person from the past wouldn't work because you would spend all of the dinner explaining technology like your phone ringing in your pocket or vernacular like what the griddy is. In
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Consumerism in a 250 Year Old Country
There’s a quip from the historian Will Durant, that a nation is born stoic and dies epicurean. (Location 538) What hard work is there to be done in 2023? Has rampant consumerism subsumed our desire to struggle to create a more perfect Union? …over time, this dynamic leads to
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Thankful to Cleopatra and Her Plain Looking-ness
Imagine being dragged this hard 2000 years after you were dead—devastating (View Tweet) One of the first blogs I wrote in the style of composition (the Zettelkasten method) was about Cleopatra and three other ugly things. Thanks Cleopatra for teaching me how to Zettel!
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Notes on What Even is Europe?
https://youtu.be/vtymaSR3T48 02:18 the romans failed to unite europe, the han succeeded in china to connect the country 03:19 EU has a different economic myth to Chinese (communism) and USA (capitalism) 04:35 the EU project has a goal to cooperate and avoid the imperialism eras