Why are there Anglican crosses in Roman Catholic churches? Went to a funeral mass in a Roman Catholic church today. I noticed plaques running along the top of the walls with Anglican crosses and was curious.

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>Although the number of people who lived at Calakmul during the height of the Snake King’s rule was not a complete surprise because of previous mapping and archaeological investigations by the Autonomous University of Campeche and INAH [Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia], the team was astonished at the scale and degree of urban construction.

>Immense apartment-style residential compounds have been identified throughout the surveyed area, some with as many as 60 individual structures, the seats of large households composed of extended families and affiliated members. These large residential units were clustered around numerous temples, shrines, and possible marketplaces, making Calakmul one of the largest cities in the Americas at 700 AD.

>But that’s not all the team was able to see.

>“We were also able to see that the magnitude of landscape modification equaled the scale of the urban population,” explains [UCalgary’s] Reese-Taylor. “All available land was covered with water canals, terraces, walls, and dams, no doubt to provide maximum food and water security for the city dwellers.”

Well there wouldn't be so many sailors going on long voyages and getting scurvy if that pesky Cristóbal Colón hadn't gotten Europe hooked on colonizing the New World!

If you need training wheels that's ok, just don't embarrass your friends by saying it's better that way.

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For example nubians were captives. And enemy. Even tuthankamon had a walking stick with a captive nubian figurine on it 💁🏼‍♀️

Aww he does sound super sweet! I hope he gets compensated

Very good point, the comparison isn’t 1:1. As I understand it (not at all a mobster myself just a voracious consumer of mob content), today A would say to B “I’m with Z’s family/crew” if they were from the same area, and might specify the location if they weren’t from the same area. But generally they wouldn’t talk Cosa Nostra stuff if they were strangers, even if they were both in the mob. There would need to be an intro made between them.

In 1875, B would likely have introduced themselves to C using the same ritual above, but perhaps with A hinting to C to kick it off by… complaining about a toothache to B lmao.

In your first example, A did not know B, but in your second, A knows B. The first is clearly a series of passwords to test an unknown claimant.

How would the introduction go today if A didn't know B?

In 1875, how would B have been introduced to C if A knew B?

Fun fact- Sauerkraut was actually the primary food to prevent scurvy. Cheaper, easier to transport, and lasted much longer.

Yeah, I’d take this with a grain of salt…..then tequila

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(Kind of)

I don't really understand what you mean:

1.Lee was also going to be put on trial in the immediate aftermath of the war, so I'm not sure how Lee was supposed to defend him, exactly.

2. Lee wrote that he was ill in 1868, and Lee died in 1870, which was the point in time where most of the criticism of Longstreet came to be.

Alright you got it more specific. Now can you make it more vague for me?

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>You can probably extrapolate this more generally, that organized criminal groups form around certain industries that the state cannot or will not protect

This exactly. Happens with any industry lacking proper regulation. People love to hate in "big government" and the central authorities without thinking about who/what would step in to take their place if they ceased to exist.

That was pretty cool. Although I am skeeved out by such tight passageway and knowing that a bajillionty million pounds of rock could fall on you...

Early mafia history is so weird and surprising relative to what we understand of the modern mafia.

For example, here's how mobsters in Sicily in 1875 introduced themselves to each other as "made" men (aka formally inducted to the mafia):

A: God's blood! My tooth hurts! (pointing to one of the upper canines)

B: Mine too

A: When did yours hurt?

B: On the day of our Lady of the Annunciation.

A: Where were you?

B: Passo di Ragano

A: And who was there?

B: Nice people.

A: Who were they?

B: Antonino Giammona, number 1. Alfonso Spatola, number 2, etc.

A: How did they do the bad deed?

B: They drew lots and Alfonso Spatola won. He took a saint, colored it with my blood, put in the palm of my hand, and burned it. He threw the ashes in the air.

A: Who did they tell you to adore.

B: The sun and the moon.

A: And who is your god?

B: An 'Air'.

A: What kingdom do you belong to?

B: The index finger.

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Compare that to mafiosos in the US today:

A: "[B] is a friend of ours"

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Edit: Source: John Dickie, Cosa Nostra, p. 46-47

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It belongs in a museum! Along with all the other world's treasures we've decided also belong in the museum! Admission for non members is 29.95!

Huh? Italian mafia is 300 years old, Sicilian mafia is younger. Corsican mafia is 400 years old.

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I poured him a Limoncello he couldn’t refuse. (Because otherwise all his old scars would reopen and he’d bleed out and die.)

Fun fact for the thread about Abdul Hamid, is that he got so paranoid about assassination that he was almost constantly armed.