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Royal_Bumblebee_ t1_iycti75 wrote

Reply to Ancient Ukrainian “megasites” may have been the world’s first cities, challenging long-held views on the beginnings of urbanism by marketrent

notice that this article was written in 2020.

In for example London when buildings were destroyed during the WW2 blitz... many new archeological discoveries were made amongst the rubble. in particular there is a famous ancient roman temple to the god Mithras.

I wonder what if anything might be found from the recent bombing in ukraine. Very sad, but also imagine if they found further evidence of very ancient cities in Ukraine... would hurt Putin's stated aim of rendering all ukrainian history and culture as a subset of Russia's, and it would be done due to discoveries made from the destruction wrought by his bombs.

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Royal_Bumblebee_ t1_iycstni wrote

Reply to Scientists Reconstruct Face of 19th-Century Man Accused of Being a Vampire by That-Situation-4262

so they dug his bones up and placed the thigh bones over his chest to prevent him from walking around should he come back to life as a vampire-zombie and start killing everyone!?

interesting that he died of tuberculosis. he would have coughed up blood toward the end. I wonder if that played into the idea that he was a vampire... i.e. often have blood around and in his mouth.

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Royal_Bumblebee_ t1_iycqcsp wrote

Reply to Why Isn’t the New Testament in Latin? by ItaloSvevo111

Greek was the language most educated people spoke and was often used as the language of choice amongst educated people within the roman empire. Certainly by the time of the early church, the Eastern roman empire was the more powerful and culturally significant, and Greek was the more popular language there

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the_grinning_cat t1_iychmng wrote

Reply to comment by Vessarionovich in The trials of the Cuban revolution. Interesting facts about them as well as the roles of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Che Guevara and the historical forces that drove these events. by Anglicanpolitics123

Cuba barely trades to survive, not to thrive or grow. At one point is beneficalto the US that Cuba is able to get the bare minimum to subsist. Otherwise the people would just fucking die and the US would be too explicit in their genocidical intentions against cubans. You cant be too explicit when commiting a genocide, right? And the cuban embargo is that, a genocide.

And regarding the CPUSA, in every complex phenomenon there are multiple causes. Communism parties represent the interests of the proletariat, and were historically responsible for the few concessions thst the capitalist class gave to workers (8 hour work day, vacations, child labor, etc.). So naturally they should have the support of all proletariats. But there are two facts:

  1. Communists were suppressed (either by assasination, imprisonment, blackmail, deportation, violence, etc.) from public life. Currently the violence is subtler, but when it truly mattered (50s, 60s and 70s) they were savagely repressed. If you care about history you should know that.

  2. American workers have suffered from decades of Cold War "red-scare". Massive anti communist propaganda that pits the workers against their interests.

And regarding the freedom, you can do those things in Cuba! You can engage in constructive discussion, just don't try to overthrow the government. The government is not totalitarian. It listens to its own people.

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