danekrae
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- Comment on Imagine if those works survived 1 day ago:
And that, is how The Fast and the Furious franchise started.
- Comment on Imagine if those works survived 1 day ago:
The Odyssey 2 - Odysseer
- Comment on What a time in history... 3 days ago:
A roughly semicircular cloth, between 12 and 20 feet (3.7 and 6.1 m)!
Exomis or tunic for me.
- Comment on What a time in history... 3 days ago:
Makes you think about how they transported it and/or played it.
- Comment on Diagram of a pulley system, demonstrating how pulleys facilitate the lifting of heavy weights (2004) 1 week ago:
- Comment on Phyrrus of Epirus 2 weeks ago:
All the greatest warriors get mommy to help.
- Comment on Phyrrus of Epirus 3 weeks ago:
From Wikipedia:
He was king of the Molossians, He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome, and had been regarded as one of the greatest generals of antiquity. Several of his victorious battles caused him unacceptably heavy losses, from which the phrase “Pyrrhic victory” was coined.
…Pyrrhus was trapped. While he was fighting an Argive soldier, the soldier’s old mother, who was watching from a rooftop, threw a tile which knocked him from his horse and broke part of his spine, paralyzing him. Whether he was alive or not after the blow is unknown, but his death was assured when a Macedonian soldier named Zopyrus, though frightened by the look on the face of the unconscious king, hesitantly and ineptly beheaded his motionless body.