Cleopatra lived closer to us in time than the pyramids

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cleopatra was very pale skinned. She was of an inbred Macedonian line dating back to Alexander the Great’s conquest.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i mean she did also live in egypt which tends to make people less pale regardless of genetics

    you should see what some swedes look like by the time autumn rolls in, like a packet of fucking beef jerky

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• pmk@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but naming your daughter “Glory of her father Goddess Fatherlover” is a bit weird to me.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Considering that her dad married his niece, and that her dad’s great-great-grandparents were all the same two people, her name is one of the last weird things about her family.

    Fair play to Cleo VII; she introduced more fresh genes into her family bloodline than anyone had in generations. Four kids by two dads, you go girl.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i’m my own grandpaaaaaaaa

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    • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Her grandparent’s are the official story. Historians doubt it, but figuring the truth is hard.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The man credited with inventing the mortgage was 15th century Englishman Nicholas Barbon. Sometimes his last name is rendered Barebon or Barebone; because Benjamin Franklin hadn’t invented spelling yet. Nicholas Barbon’s middle name was apparently “If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hasdst-been-damned”.

    His dad’s name was Praise-God Barbon.

    Look, if you ever want to know why American theology is as fucked as it is, it’s because we were colonized by people like THAT.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s weirdos, and there’s religious weirdos. They’re really in a league of their own.

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    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Heck, you don’t have to look farther than any given Tim. That name derives from Greek “timotheos”, which means “he who honors God”. Any atheist named Tim is at risk of spontaneously triggering an Alanis Morissette song.

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    • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets from Discworld wasn’t as far from reality as I thought he would be.

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