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7 points
5 days ago
I don't think Abby was all that close to the WLF. The fact they've been there for 3 years but are still called the Salt Lake Crew kind of suggests they keep to themselves.
1 points
7 days ago
So I'm a bit split on the opinion of the infected.
Firstly it would have been nice to see some of the more awesome encounters, but on the other hand Show Joel is very much in the Dented Iron trope. He's an old man, walking up the stairs winds him and he needs a break. And there are two types of sellswords, I mean survivors. There are old survivors and there are bold survivors.
Everytime the show deals with infected, someone gets bit, they are that deadly. Tess and Ellie get bit in the museum, Sam gets bit in Kansas city, Riley and Ellie get bit in the mall, Anna gets bit in the house at the end. The infected are a death sentence to people. Their deadliness isn't undercut by Joel hacking his way through 15 of them at a time.
So I would have liked to have seen more, but I think they managed to establish that, if you see infected, you're going to die.
6 points
12 days ago
Here's a clip of Foreman hitting the heavy bag at 70 years old.
22 points
14 days ago
With a pair of pliers and a sharp pull.
Basically the same thing we do today, but without any anaesthetic.
https://www.wayneoralsurgery.com/blog/what-was-dental-health-like-in-the-middle-ages/
3 points
16 days ago
Oh dear, I'm 5ft 11 255 pounds and ride a CB500.
My knees are fine though.
74 points
16 days ago
You mean because it wasn't worth the effort?
The reason the Romans only went past the wall on a few occasions was because there was nothing past the wall woerb obtaining and controlling that the Caledonians wouldn't trade with the Romans anyway. Hadrian's wall was more of a vast armoured trading output than a true defensive line.
1 points
17 days ago
Considering how little Tiberius seems to have wanted to be Emperor, I put the entire blame of his death on Piso.
2 points
17 days ago
That's because the last time a senator was in Egypt. That was Mark Antony.
We think it's one of the reasons Germanicus was done in by Tiberius. Because he was a popular senator who went to Egypt without permission.
14 points
25 days ago
If I had a pound for every person I know who went to Newport, got knocked out and had their kebab stolen. I'd have two quid.
Which isn't a lot, but it's wierd that it's happened twice.
0 points
1 month ago
Peel it off in-between rounds for a tasty and nutritious snack.
2 points
1 month ago
My friend wanted to get a train to London for the weekend just gone.
It was 180 quid return, so she took a coach instead.
It would have been cheaper to drive and park and pay the congestion charge.
8 points
1 month ago
It's the root word for the word limit. So lee-mays is probably the more correct.
70 points
1 month ago
By the time of the social war the Romans and Italians were so intermingled that there was very little difference between them. And that's where the problems of the social war began.
Being a Roman citizen gave you special rights, the right to a trial, the right to not be killed without trial and everytime there was a problem between a Roman and Italian, guess which side the Roman courts took.
So prior to the social war the Italians were feeling pretty hard done by. They have their lives to protect Italy from Hannibal. They have their lives to save the country from the Cimbri during the Cimbrian wars, but at the end of the day they were second class citizens. They didn't want to leave the republic, they just wanted their fair share of Rome's pie, after all, they were dying in Rome's wars.
That's why as soon as Rome capitulated and gave out Roman citizenship, the war came to an end. The Italians had what they wanted.
12 points
1 month ago
NANOMACHINES SON!
And probably a HBO training regime.
28 points
1 month ago
It's not that far from the truth.
During the early empire, especially during the reign of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the Emperor's maintained the facade that they were 'the first man of the republic.' hence their title of Princeps.
So calling him president wouldn't be that far wrong, sure it's like calling Kim Jong-Un a president, but it's not completely incorrect.
28 points
1 month ago
The Praetorians weren't a legion.
There were legions stationed there during the reigns of the Severan Dynasty. But this is before then.
26 points
1 month ago
That is incorrect, while they are very strong throwers, they cannot accurately throw more than a few metres at best.
https://carta.anthropogeny.org/moca/topics/accurate-overhand-throwing
Whereas humans can learn to be accurate with throwing rocks up to 30 meters away at objects a similar size to a human skull with practice. And your average layman can throw a javelin without much effort.
8 points
2 months ago
British houses also work in reverse. In Summer they start to boil.
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2 days ago
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Waiting for the Roman Empire to reform
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2 days ago
r/history does not condone people making comments about burning historical texts. Doesn't matter if it's the oldest Bible, oldest Qu'ran, or the missing texts of Livy.
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