I wish we had more insight into what people actually looked like during the Medieval era. I love the medieval films of Roger Cormac as much as anybody ( The Masque of the Red Death was my favorite Halloween 2023 watch), but unfortunately, 1960s movies probably do not represent the Dark Ages uber accurately. We don't have as much of a record of what people in the Middle Ages dressed in or valued in appearances when compared with the Renaissance or other later eras. The art is less realistic, so…

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Sending an angry letter to my 3rd grade teacher

*Swirls wine glass*

This ain't no Trojan horse

There were worse times in history

Plus, the politics of online snitching.

Julius Caesar is still THAT girl

Damn, you lived like this?

It's all just a little bit of history repeating

While the things that lead up to trends and historical events seem obvious in retrospect, predicting things that haven't happened yet is much more challenging than it might seem. People shouldn't be so arrogant when they make overconfident and often pessimistic forecasts about the future, because no one can foretell the exact course of events. When you are correct, you may appear to be a big shot, but tweet something that ages like milk and you may end up on a list just like this. We've gathere…

Reformation type beat

Dancin' by the Nile, ladies like his style, he ate a crocodile

I am a sucker for Medieval Times . I know that it is lowkey a scam that is not worth the nearly $100 price tag, but I do not care. Every time I drive by a Medival Times restaurant, my heart sings with happiness. My parents live like 5 minutes away from one of those giant castles on the side of the freeway, and if I were them, I would be going to that bad boy constantly. I don't think Medieval Times has a season pass like Disneyland or Six Flags does, but it darn well should. Even though eating…

LOLs in human

History lesson time! Today we're going to discuss the origin of memes. Yes, internet memes. Why am I differentiating the two? Well, it's because the term “meme” was first used by Richard Dawkins in 1976 - and wasn't about the internet. A meme, by Dawkins' definition (via the Oxford Dictionary) is “An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.” It's all about the transmission of ideas. Some great historical examples…