mythologyandhistory, to history
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Did you know that "Ludwig the #German" was kinda weird with his #kids?

The #Carolingian #king Ludwig, ruled East Francia for 36 years.

Within that time, he had 3 sons and 4 daughters.

Unlike other kings before & at the same time, he did not give any high positions to his sons.

He would eventually #marry all the #boys into advantageous alliances but forbade all daughters to do so.

The 3 we know of were all made to become nuns, but seemingly, not abbesses.

It's unclear why.

#history

jrefior, to random
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“The third of the Kings’ four children, Dexter King was named for the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father served as a pastor when the Montgomery bus boycott launched him to national prominence in the wake of the 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks.

“Dexter King was just 7 years old when his father was assassinated in April 1968 while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.”
https://apnews.com/article/4ac3c27382771b0ff26cd340918f5a16

#dexterscottking #MLK #King #obit #CivilRights

FrankauLux, to uk French
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djstreethawk, to random

Never a headline " to join with enlarged "

Not good enough for you eh Charlie?

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TheMetalDog, to uk
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SharonCummingsArt, to Christianity
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I was commissioned to create FIVE pieces for #Advent this year!

This is the first one titled Jesus As Sage. It is a painted fabric collage.

His greatest wisdom: Love your neighbor as you do yourself.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/jesus-as-sage-christian-art-sharon-cummings.html

#ArtAdventCalendar #jesus #jesuschrist #christian #christianity #christmas #prophet #priest #king #salvation #bible #biblical #scripture #colorful #art #artwork #artist #artists #portrait #collage #christianart #god #hope #faith #religion #religious

jackLondon, to BBC

's tie resembles Greek flag after Marbles row

This is the best bit of trolling by a monarch since his mum wore that EU hat during

And it's "Parthenon Statues" not "elgin marbles" ,

Or do we use the term "Howard Carter's gold" to decribe the treasures found in the Tomb of Tutankhamun?

Bloody Tories - all they understand is private ownership of our common heritage...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67589075

grickle, to art
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The Green Goblin King print awaits you! A perfect gift for the fantasy fan in your life! Available ONLY at https://gricklemart.com/the-green-goblin-king/

GW, to music

B.B., His Contribution To and Were Enormous

He was playing at a dance hall in the early 1950s when two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove. Mr. King fled the blaze and then remembered his $30 guitar. He ran into the burning building to rescue it. He learned thereafter that the fight had been about a woman named Lucille. For the rest of his life, Mr. King addressed his guitars — big Gibsons, curved like a woman’s hips — as Lucille

https://medium.com/@BluesBeat/the-thrill-will-never-be-gone-b-b-king-his-contribution-to-culture-and-music-was-enormous-b26abef92893

mythologyandhistory, to queen
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Did you know that an did what many doctors suggest?

Æþelðryþe, daughter of Anna, was married twice & twice bargained with her husbands to remain chaste.

She managed to become a & the picture of healthy living. She ate only one meal a day & bathed only cold. She did make exceptions for both on holidays.

When she got a swelling on her neck, she laughed that it was punishment for wearing too many necklaces in her youth.

She died a saint.

JSharp1436, to london
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🇬🇧 The King has made an impassioned plea for religious tolerance and mutual respect, against the background of "international turmoil" in Israel and .

In a speech at Mansion House, in the City of , he spoke of the "heartbreaking loss of life".

The has long supported building bridges between faiths, calling the a "community of communities".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67150358

KissAnne, to Denmark Finnish
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Runestones from praising a hint at her power | Both Jelling runestones also named a royal figure: Queen Thyra, mother of then-reigning Harald Bluetooth. 🤔 claims that Harald Bluetooth was my 31st grandfather. I should check the sources step by step. True of false it's fascinating to study this.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/13/europe/viking-queen-thyra-runestones-denmark-scn/index.html

A path from my mother to Harald Bluetooth 2/2 pages
A profile of Harald Blue Tooth on Geni

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ianRobinson, to apple
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Whatyawannasee, to gay
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Khi Lavene Fucks Marvin


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phoenixz, to memes in Listen here, kulak...

why are so many people starving?

There are loads of reasons for people starving, but in democratic capitalist countries, people typically don’t starve. Don’t agree? Name one. There is poverty in the US for sure and capitalism in the US is an absolute shitshow, nobody would deny that. But people in the US rarely starve to death.

Wanna talk starvation? Lets talk starvation! Warning: All following links are wikipedia but have stomach churning content. Here be dragons, but please do read because you need to learn. Also note: All the following is from within the last century.

1: Russian famine: about five million deaths

en.wikipedia.org/…/Russian_famine_of_1921–1922 (famine caused directly by communism)

Quote from that page: The famine resulted from the combined effects of economic disturbance from the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and the government policy of war communism (especially prodrazvyorstka). It was exacerbated by rail systems that could not distribute food efficiently.

Fun quote: canibalism

Communism is awesome!

2: North Korean famine: estimated between 600,000 and 1 million deaths

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine (Famine caused directly by communist government policies)

Quote: Economic mismanagement and the loss of Soviet support caused food production and imports to decline rapidly. A series of floods and droughts exacerbated the crisis. The North Korean government and its centrally planned system proved too inflexible to effectively curtail the disaster.

Fun quote: uses of words such as ‘famine’ and ‘hunger’ were banned because they implied government failure

Communism is awesome!

3: Chinese famine: 15 to 55 million deaths (yay!)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine (Caused directly by communist government policies)

Quote: The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people’s communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation’s planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production.

Fun quote: Cannibalism, AGAIN

Communism is awesome!

Want to know more?

Communism wouldn’t have an upper class of “bosses”.

… I don’t even know where to begin with this one. What are you? 5?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism a nice side effect of communism.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chekist < I F*$ double dare you to watch that movie about the non existing upper class of bosses

In conclusion?

Communism sucks and causes nothing but suffering. There is not even a fucking silver lining about it and people need to stop hippy-dippying communism. Its fucking evil.

Yes, capitalism as it currently runs is fucked up with problems. But at its core its the driver of success that got you your mobile phone in your hands. Use that mobile phone to fix those problems instead of dreaming of perfect mass murdering societies.

phoenixz, to memes in Listen here, kulak...

… What?

I’ll partially repaste a reply I posted to another post for you. Communism SUCKS at resource management because one centralized corrupt system doesn’t know shit about what its doing whereas capitalist systems allow individual people to get the most efficient solutions possible. IT. WORKS. Yes, there are problems, fix those problems. Read the following. don’t TL;DR; because if you do then you just don’t care about reality, you just want to should slogans

why are so many people starving?

There are loads of reasons for people starving, but in democratic capitalist countries, people typically don’t starve. Don’t agree? Name one. There is poverty in the US for sure and capitalism in the US is an absolute shitshow, nobody would deny that. But people in the US rarely starve to death.

Wanna talk starvation? Lets talk starvation! Warning: All following links are wikipedia but have stomach churning content. Here be dragons, but please do read because you need to learn. Also note: All the following is from within the last century.

1: Russian famine: about five million deaths

en.wikipedia.org/…/Russian_famine_of_1921–1922 (famine caused directly by communism)

Quote from that page: The famine resulted from the combined effects of economic disturbance from the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and the government policy of war communism (especially prodrazvyorstka). It was exacerbated by rail systems that could not distribute food efficiently.

Fun quote: canibalism

Communism is awesome!

2: North Korean famine: estimated between 600,000 and 1 million deaths

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine (Famine caused directly by communist government policies)

Quote: Economic mismanagement and the loss of Soviet support caused food production and imports to decline rapidly. A series of floods and droughts exacerbated the crisis. The North Korean government and its centrally planned system proved too inflexible to effectively curtail the disaster.

Fun quote: uses of words such as ‘famine’ and ‘hunger’ were banned because they implied government failure

Communism is awesome!

3: Chinese famine: 15 to 55 million deaths (yay!)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine (Caused directly by communist government policies)

Quote: The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people’s communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation’s planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production.

Fun quote: Cannibalism, AGAIN

Communism is awesome!

Want to know more?

Communism wouldn’t have an upper class of “bosses”.

… I don’t even know where to begin with this one. What are you? 5?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism a nice side effect of communism.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chekist < I F*$ double dare you to watch that movie about the non existing upper class of bosses

In conclusion?

Communism sucks and causes nothing but suffering. There is not even a fucking silver lining about it and people need to stop hippy-dippying communism. Its fucking evil.

Yes, capitalism as it currently runs is fucked up with problems. But at its core its the driver of success that got you your mobile phone in your hands. Use that mobile phone to fix those problems instead of dreaming of perfect mass murdering societies.

Nonilex, to random
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What Saw In The

In an exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming biography of the senator, :

A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to .

By McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

…January 2, 2021…
It begins with a text message from , the junior senator from Maine: “Could you give me a call when you get a chance? .”


https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/

Nonilex,
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calls, & informs him of a conversation he’s just had w/a high-ranking ofcl. enforcement has been tracking online among who appear to be planning something bad on the day of ’s upcoming “rally” in The president has been telling them the election was stolen; now they’re coming to steal it back. There’s talk of smuggling, of & , of the in who are responsible for this travesty.

Nonilex,
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’s name has been popping up in some frightening corners of the internet, which is why needed to talk to him. He isn’t sure Romney will be safe.

Romney hangs up & immediately begins typing a text to , the majority ldr. has been indulgent of ’s behavior over the past 4yrs, but he’s not crazy. He knows that the wasn’t , that his guy fair & square. He sees the by politicians for what it is.

mythologyandhistory, to history
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Did you know that some countries did not know queens?

A variety of countries had two types of rulers in the : those by marriage & those by their own right (descent). If a ruler ascended the by their own right, they were crowned “” - no matter the .

Examples: Jadwiga, King of Poland (1384-1399), Anna Jagiellon, King of Poland (1575-1587), Anjou Mária, King of Hungary & Croatia (1382-1385 & 1386-1395)

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