“Those Beautiful Naked Women” — The Sirens Never Had to Try Hard
In Homer’s Odyssey, the Sirens were creatures whose enchanting songs lured sailors to crash their ships into the rocky shores of their island. Odysseus, ever...
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Uncategorised“65 Million Years Later” — The Fighting Dinosaurs Never Stopped
In 1971, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Gobi Desert — a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked together in combat, buried alive by a...
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Uncategorised“65 Million Years Later” — The Fighting Dinosaurs Never Stopped
In 1971, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Gobi Desert — a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked together in combat, buried alive by a...
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“65 Million Years Later” — The Fighting Dinosaurs Never Stopped
In 1971, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Gobi Desert — a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked together in combat, buried alive by a...
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UncategorisedFranz Ferdinand assassination — damn, goodbye my 5 stars for this ride
Gorgocutie says: On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand — heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne — was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old...
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UncategorisedBeni praying to every deity in The Mummy (1999) is cinema perfection
Gorgocutie says: The Mummy (1999) is a perfect movie — and this scene with Beni Gabor frantically cycling through every religious symbol he can grab...
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Veni, vidi, vici — word order changes everything (especially with Cleopatra)
Gorgocutie says: Julius Caesar’s most famous soundbite — “Veni, vidi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered) — was written in 47 BC after his...
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Separate the art from the artist — the British Museum took that literally
Gorgocutie says: This is the duality of “separate the art from the artist” — a moral philosophy that asks us to judge creative work independently...
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UncategorisedThe Angles gave us English — but it could have been Saxon
Gorgocutie says: The Angles were a Germanic tribe from the Anglia peninsula who, along with the Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians, crossed the North Sea to...
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Samurai hairstyle in animes vs real samurai back then
Anime gave us flowing locks and dramatic winds. History gave us the chonmage and a very specific bald spot. Sengoku-era samurai were not walking around...
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The male brain amazes me — why is my fiancé reading about the history of the Spanish monarchy right now
It’s 2am and your fiancé is deep in the Habsburg jaw pipeline. Let him cook. The male brain is a beautiful, terrifying thing. One minute...
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ur first time summoning Poseidon
When you nail the incantation on the first try but weren’t ready for the scale of the response. The painterly texture and epic scale sell...