Happy birthday, Roma! FOLLOWING HADRIAN April 21, 753 BC, is the traditional date given for the founding of Rome. According to Roman mythology, the founders were Romulus and Remus, twin brothers and sons of the gods Mars and Rhea Silvia.…

Happy birthday, Roma! 🐺
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#NatalediRoma

Today is better punning through history day and this is how I found out!

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18.

Ask yourself why they won’t”
Josh H.

If men have to be tricked/coerced/massaged by manly messaging into careers that help, nurture and care for others,then they aren't the right people for those jobs. I'm tired of downgrading positive qualities to make room for toxic ones.

Just a reminder.

The government should be well aware that I am a citizen. I should not have to prove it to vote. If the government thinks I am not a citizen, the onus should be on them to prove it. Not on me.

#VoterSuppression #RightToVote

Zoo Day | Meet the Burmese python YouTube video by CBS 8 San Diego

It was brought to my attention by a friend that that there is a Burmese python 🐍 at the San Diego Zoo named Julius Squeezer and this is delightful. youtu.be/eiDfdc_MlzI?...

The so-called 'Green Caesar' portrait. There are no surviving portrait statues of Julius Caesar created during his lifetime (100-44 BC), although coins bearing his likeness provide reliable evidence for his appearance. All extant sculptures are posthumous, dating from the time of the Julio-Claudian emperors who honored him as the founder of the dynasty. This extraordinary. over-life-size example is carved from graywacke, a hard sandstone that was quarried at Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert of Egypt and was long used for Egyptian sculptures. Romano-Egyptian, probably made in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 30 BCE - 25 CE. Graywacke. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, SK 342

The Ides of March denarius, issued by Marcus Junius Brutus, is one of the most famous and historic coins ever minted. It commemorates the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BCE, an event that later inspired many works of art, literature, opera, and film. Caesar had declared himself "perpetual dictator" at the beginning of that year, thereby directly prompting the assassination plot by Brutus and a group of other senators who feared for the survival of the Republic under his tyrannical rule. The reverse of the coin shown here not only bears the inscription naming the day of the murder but also depicts two daggers representing the weapons used to stab Caesar to death, as well as a cap usually worn by slaves who had earned their freedom, symbolizing here the liberation of Rome. Inscription: BRVT IMP L PLAET CEST (Brutus, Imperator, Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus), head of Brutus, EID MAR (Ides of March), pileus (felt cap symbolizing liberty), and two pugio-style daggers, which were associated with the Roman military. Rome, 43-42 BCE. Met Museum (L.2012.74, (ANS 1001.1.24742 Private collection, on loan to the American Numismatic Society)

Happy (?) Ides of March to all those who celebrate. It was on this date in 44 BCE that several members of the Roman senate objected to Julius Caesar having declared himself Dictator perpetuo (‘Dictator in perpetuity’) in the strongest possible terms (*stab, stab*). 🔪 🏺 1/ #IdesofMarch

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Greenish metal articulated skeleton figure.

greenish metal articulated skeleton figure

#IdesofMarch A bronze Roman larva convivialis 199 BCE-500CE--a type of memento mori displayed at a banquet or feast to remind the revelers of their own mortality.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Sic semper tyrannis.

Happy Pi Day

Quick note for evangelicals: war in the Middle East doesn't trigger the second coming.

Jesus isn’t Beetlejuice.

If Democrats act out then that becomes the story not Trump's actions. It allows them to deflect. Yes, it isn't fair because the other side has done it too, but as we've learned the media isn't fair and balanced just lazy and only interested in clicks. Why give them what they want?

Because it can’t be said enough, I promise that I will both Like and Repost the following EVERY time I see it here in BlueSky:

“It shouldn’t be harder for a woman to register to vote than a man…”

Roman military diploma from Slavonski Brod,ancient Roman town Marsunnia.Issued on February 9th, 71AD. [1080x723]

February 9, 71 CE: A Roman military diploma notes: Liccaius, veteran of the Classis Misenensis (“Fleet of Misenum“) received citizenship, along w/ land, right to marriage, & citizenship for his children & wife.

5% of American troops are foreign born. They’re not guaranteed citizenship (RMD IV 204)

I've just realised that the Smurfs all wear Phrygian caps – is the Smurf village intended to be an idealised Revolutionary France, with Gargamel representing the reactionary forces of the ancien régime?

Well, his letters are Pliny style- because it's his own voice. I love his letters. It gives a real sense of what Romans really talked about. I teach his "heus, tu...", where he scolds someone for missing his dinner party, every year

They think the American people are stupid.

It's been 2 days since the killing of Alex Pretti & this Admin continues to lie about what we all saw on video.

Americans are horrified & don't want their tax dollars funding this brutality.

Not another dime to this lawless operation.

The killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti show Trump's DHS culture is rotten to its core.

Trump, Vance, Noem, & Miller have made these agents feel immune from the consequences of their actions.

That must change. Everyone involved in these operations must be held accountable.

Because extortion is the mafia's modus operandi...

In other words, Jesus doesn't like liars but he's OK with bribery.

Or is this an alternate universe where it's Saturnalia every day? Io optime dierum!

The lid looks like a cribbage board- so I concur- dice box

Pretty amazing that they want us to believe they care about fraud when it has basically been Trump’s entire business model for 5 decades.

Scrūta is a Latin word that means 'old discarded stuff' or simply 'trash'.

From scrūta emerged the verb scrūtārī, meaning 'to search/examine thoroughly', I guess derived from the notion of searching even through rubbish.

This verb is consequently behind English's words 'scrutinise' and 'scrutiny'.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto

As someone who needs students to reach the shade on my door for me, I concur. "though (it) be little, yet (it) is fierce" AMND

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Throughout the Middle Ages, Iberia (now Spain and Portugal) had a distinctive system of counting years, with a start date of 38 BC.

The period after 38 BC was known the Aera Hispanica, apparently named after bronze counters – aera in Latin.

It's from this system that we seem to get the word 'era'.

AI amplifies natural stupidity so both worry me.