December 2010
Byzantium was a pretty ballin' place.
fuckyeahancienthistory:
Byzantium goes way back. And I mean waaaaaay back: it was founded by some Greeks from Megara in 667BCE. When you consider the fact that Byzantium didn’t fall until 1453AD, that’s a goddamn incredible history. And the site’s story isn’t over: now it’s known as Istanbul, and history continues.
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Responses to sneezing →
bestofwikipedia:
Various alleged but conflicting superstitions relating the sneeze to evil spirits. This includes beliefs that a sneeze could release one’s soul, thus leading to its possible capture by lurking evil spirits or that the evil spirits could enter the body through the open mouth of a sneezing individual, or that the individual is sneezing out sins or evil spirits which had taken...
In that large book that overhangs the earth
And people call the heavens, it...
– The Man of Law, on his way to Canterbury
Your types really make me puke! You toffee-nosed malodorous pervert!
– The Argument Sketch from Monty Python
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Reblog if you're from Aus, I want to follow you.
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Your mother copulates with reindeer!
– traditional Finnish insult
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