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anaspiringengineer t1_izqh8qi wrote

I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers. I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just – I just couldn’t prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He’ll never change. He’ll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn’t keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn’t be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And HE gets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke! I should’ve stopped him when I had the chance! …And you, you have to stop him! You

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phillipgoodrich t1_izqgr4a wrote

Body piercing is as old as civilization, and was practiced in almost all cultures, including the Vikings (which would of course include the Normans) as well as the Anglo-Saxons. It was a straightforward means of carrying personal wealth on one's person, and quickly came to signify status (like walking around with a wad of $100 bills thumbtacked on one's forehead). In the case of human chattel slaves, a noble, monarch, or other person of means could use enslaved persons to carry their enslaver's wealth for convenience.

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Unlimitles t1_izqfzgi wrote

are you saying she wasn't indigenous to the land? if that is what you're saying you'd be correct, her family was from Greece, but her family colonized egypt, and she was born in Egypt.

She's nationally an Egyptian, but ethnically Greek.

in the same way an African person born in America Is Ethnically African, and Nationally American.

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phillipgoodrich t1_izqfv1p wrote

Along the lines of financial value of the American colonies to the British Empire, the simple fact that Great Britain enjoyed a monopoly on colonial goods was huge. At the outbreak of the Revolution, the fear was that the colonies if independent would seek favored nation status with British rivals like the Bourbons (France and Spain) along with the United Provinces. In reality, the Revolution changed very little in terms of dealing with the Brits. The French Revolution soured relations with the U.S. remarkably rapidly.

But the reasons for the American Revolution had almost nothing to do with taxes. As pointed out previously, the taxes assessed to American colonists were chump change compared with what the British citizens were paying (and most Brits were also subject to "taxation without representation" as only about 3% of them had suffrage rights (had to be a land-owner in Great Britain in order to vote)). The true reasons for the American Revolution were two-fold: 1) the ongoing quartering of British soldiers in the northern colonies, with the ongoing threat of violence in the streets (along the lines of the Boston massacre), and 2) the threat of abolition of human chattel slavery in the wake of Sommersett v. Steuart at the Court of King's Bench in 1772, which potential absolutely enraged the southern American colonies, and led in turn to the Dunmore Declaration and subsequent escalation of hostilities in the American south.

It was only in the wake of the successful Revolution that leaders like the Adams cousins, Franklin, and Jefferson realized that the story of the Revolution would not sit well with subsequent generations of Americans, and concocted the "taxation without representation" chestnut that filled the history books of the next 50 years. In the last years of Adams and Jefferson, when they had more or less "reconciled," Adams begged Jefferson to come clean and tell the truth of why the southern colonies had joined Massachusetts in revolt. Jefferson politely but firmly refused, as he had spent the last 20 years of his life building a false legacy that endured until the last 25 years or so.

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StationFrosty OP t1_izqeu54 wrote

Cleopatra was not Greek. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which was a Greek royal family that ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great. However, Cleopatra herself was not Greek. She was born in Egypt and was the first member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to learn the Egyptian language, which she spoke fluently. She also embraced many aspects of Egyptian culture and identified herself as the reincarnation of the goddess Isis.

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grambell789 t1_izqe6uc wrote

I've wondered about the Popes postition on MC. The royalty of Europe and the church had a really good racket going on, Pope gave out franchises to royalty to justify their absolute power. in exchange church got regular monthly checks. things like MC messed with their business plan.

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