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    LiorLefineder
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    Oct 30, 2025
    Roman state efficiency, the last of the Goths, the ancient tribes of Israel, Egyptian papyri, the rate of homicide among the medieval nobility, and many more highlighted threads from recent months: Odyssey of the Franks:
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    LiorLefineder
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    Sep 13, 2025
    A Frankish Odyssey. Around 279, Emperor Probus defeated the Germanic people in a series of wars. As part of the peace agreement, Germanic groups were resettled throughout the empire. This included a group of Franks who were resettled in the region of Pontus on the coast of the
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    Sep 20, 2024
    Cloth washing is so labor intensive, that even among the Amish almost all communities allow the use of washing machines.
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    Megan McArdle
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    Sep 19, 2024
    The first thing women do when they get a bit of money is outsource their laundry, either to another person, or a machine. Washing textiles by hand was grueling labor that left women exhausted by the end of wash day, and you should be shaking with gratitude every time you put your
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    LiorLefineder
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    Apr 1, 2025
    "Sure the Mongols were brutal but if you quickly surrendered, you were basically treated well and left unharmed"
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    Feb 28, 2025
    How the Romans saw various groups:
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    LiorLefineder
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    Jul 13, 2025
    Surviving Greco-Roman "Gold-Glass" portraits, made from a gold leaf image, which is fused between two layers of glass. A family from Alexandria, 3rd or 4th century.
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    LiorLefineder
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    Feb 20, 2025
    Alexander the Great being an absolute maniac: "For a while – a few minutes at the most and perhaps less – the king of a vast empire fought alone inside an enemy stronghold."
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    LiorLefineder
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    Jul 15, 2023
    How to beat Napoleon? Get an army nearly twice as large as him and then you've got a decent chance. "Napoleonic France won even though outnumbered on average by 9%, whereas their opposition won only when they outnumbered the French by typically 83%."
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    LiorLefineder
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    Oct 12, 2025
    Celtic words in the Turkish language, ultimately sourced from the Galatians who settled in Anatolia in the 3rd century BC.
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    Sep 1, 2025
    Rates of robbery in Western European countries over the past 250 years. "The figure illustrates that robbery was largely unknown in European cities throughout the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. But since the early 1960s, the
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    May 11, 2024
    You won't believe what happened next.
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    Dec 28, 2024
    Just finished reading "Letters from Mesopotamia", here are some thousands of years old letters preserved in cuneiform. 1. "Mom buy me this" - Iddin-Sin to his mother
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    LiorLefineder
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    May 25, 2024
    Simple diagram of the medieval economy
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    LiorLefineder
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    Aug 5, 2024
    Akkadian legends speak of the "Umman Manda", "the horde from who knows where".🧵
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    LiorLefineder
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    Jun 11, 2025
    This is something that was actually said by a historian of Rome.
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