Tom Flanagan
@TomBFlanagan
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Mostly my uneducated and quickly deleted opinions. Late antiquity & early middle ages - Visigoths, law codes & canon collections.
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Joined January 2012
The reign of Constantine and his sons was probably peak Roman state, in terms of economic, military and administrative might.
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Millennials may have improved restaurants but they’ve ruined Halloween
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A este libro regreso de cuando en cuando. Imprescindible
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Talking about class…. This (leaving your millions to dogs) is more abhorrent to me than seeing people with far better opportunities than I had.
Simon Cowell (66) plans to leave no assets to his son “I don’t believe in passing down from generation to generation.” His $600 million net worth will go to children's or dog's charities “I’m not too interested in money, but I don’t aim to have some pot of gold for my
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I meant this in the most neutral way possible. It’s perfectly natural for parents to hand down their expertise and contacts to their children. People can debate how this can be mitigated. I have never formed a strong opinion on it.
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This is just one of the few traditional class distinctions left. I had no idea what I was doing, and neither did anyone I grew up with.
I don’t understand how everyone else just knew what to do. like before graduating when they were doing a bunch of micro-internships ready for careers in management consultancy and magic circle law firms. how did they even know those were jobs
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I big ‘what if’ i think about is: what if a Roman fleet prevented the Vandals from crossing the strait of Gibraltar.
There’s a list I slowly but surely grow in size of big medieval WHAT IFS: What if Henry V doesn’t die young and takes the throne What if Richard the Lionheart survives What if Vlad the Impaler killed Mehmed What if Conrad of Montferrat wasn’t assassinated What if Richard
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Today is probably the most important *single* day for the curation of knowledge in the history of humankind. Sounds ridiculous, but combining source-led AI text in an encyclopedic format, whatever one makes of the outcome, is a tectonic shift in how information is triaged. @xai
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Just had a doom scroll through Instagram and can only conclude that Gregg James is basically a prophet/ holy man for millennials.
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Use to be a regular guest on ITV and BBC during the early 2020s btw
Then execute White criminals by death penalty first. There are more heinous, horrific and monstrous White criminals than there are foreign criminals ☕️ I'm against the death penalty but for you @RupertLowe10 I'll gladly make the exception.
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Interesting. Spain mined about as much gold in a century of American "colonization" than Peru did alone (officially, real figures likely higher) in a bad year (2024): 100 metric tons.
Little known fact: the entire shipment of gold from all the Spanish provinces in America, from Oregon to Patagonia, to Spain during the ~330 years that their rule lasted was basically the same than what Peru mines in a single year. They also left an incredible wealth of
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It’s over for Spain ❌ Cornwall is our household supplier now ✅
I missed this when published, but Cornwall’s become the first part of the UK to produce olive oil
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Julian the Apostate entered Antioch after becoming emperor, and he complains because the citizens kept shouting ‘Chi’ and ‘Kappa’ at him - for Christ and Constantius (Konstantios)
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Visited my parents this weekend. It's the only time I sit down and watch TV. *Turned it on to the main channels* Strictly - Antiques Roadshow - Top Gear - Who wants to be a Millionaire? Literally unchanged since I was a kid watching in 2004. A medium completely frozen in time.
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Currently blocked in only 3 countries btw
Anna's Archive is the greatest education tool of the 21st century. I love it so much.
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Does anyone have more of this genre of image of old and new cultures colliding
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The Dream of the Rood (Cross), written in Britain between 700-900, has got to be among the most mesmerising poems in existence. To me, it presents the traumatic mental leap of having to go from imagining your ideal as a victorious warrior, to now a murdered slave.
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This is absolutely insane. She is saying the difference between Your Party and the Greens, is the politics of anti-Zionism. Because the Greens believe in diplomatic ties with Israel (I didn't even know that). At some point they will both realise they're *UK* parties..
"The Greens believe that we can have diplomatic relations with Israel, and we think that is not okay." @zarahsultana breaks down the difference between Your Party and Zack Polanski's Greens. Watch the full interview, live now.
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