Byzantine Ambassador
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Byzantine Ambassador
@byzantinepower
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- There's something v. worrying about a society that's willing to chop down 300yo Hunningham Oak for a "service road" to facilitate a railway that will shorten the trip from Birmingham to LDN by 20 mins.
- Mt Ararat: symbol of Armenia. A thousand feet higher than Mont Blanc & legendary resting place of Noah's Ark (therefore centre from which mankind set out once again to populate the earth).
- "The Greeks and Romans were forced out [of Constantinople] by the indigenous Ottoman Turks in about 1299." WTAF nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar28/…
- The floor of St John's Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. Each marble section is a burial spot for a knight of Malta.
- If you must eat Oreos (tasteless sugar snacks for the bovine), plz carve the likeness of Roman Emperors into them like this young Roman.Día 12 de la cuarentena rescatando el arte de tallar cameos de emperadores en galletas oreos, simulando que es mármol. Comenzamos con @LucioVeroHD
- To celebrate Godfrey Elfwick on the day of his second "permanent" expulsion from Twitter, I've plucked one of my fave tweets...
- In the West's imagined geography, the Hellenic world is deemed western in antiquity & eastern in the medieval period.
- Replying to @byzantinepower-- Whoever wrote this googled the foundation of Ottoman Empire: 1299, and assumed it was when Constantinople fell. -- They then decided Mongolia extended to Thrace and labelled the Turks "indigenous." Lunacy.
