KonnMann

What's the reason?

99% of people in history never knew what their religion actually even was. this is only marginally better today. the masses are supposed to be practicing veneration of folk deities, not concerned with doctrines and orthodoxy (they couldnt be even if you wanted them to)

Alfred Hitchcock demonstrating the Kuleshov Effect, one of his most frequently used techniques as seen in ‘Rear Window’, ‘Vertigo’, and ‘Psycho’.

Today I learned that in English: words starting with "gl-" often relate to light: gleam, glint, glance, glare, glaze, glimpse, glitter, gloss, glower, glisten, glaze, glitz, glazed. words starting with "sn-" often relate to nose: sniff, sneeze, snuff, snore, snort, snot.

Here's a map of Mars if, like Earth, it were covered by water on 71% of its surface.

I can stop you right at the first one: This idea that you just HAVE to have completely different cuisines every single meal is in fact a sign that you have a serious problem with dopamine addiction and social media induced psychosis

In the French civil war, shortly after the Battle of Agincourt, many Armagnac and Burgundian troops, seeing that there was no one left to maintain order, turned to brigandage. Here is a description a chronicler gave of the situation in 1416, the year of chaos: "But even the most well-intentioned garrisons could scarcely extend their protection beyond their walls, for in addition to the evils the countryside endured at the hands of troops that could be considered a regular army, it also had to suffer the extortions of bands that waged war on their own behalf under the pretext of serving the Armagnacs and the Burgundians; they were a rabble of poorly paid soldiers, more like thieves, who swarmed everywhere in Île-de-France, even in the forests of Halatte and Senlis, killing all those they captured, and especially those who wore the upright cross; but soon they were attacking everyone. They were called Brigands, Skinners, Latecomers, Cotereaux, Deserters, all of them were either Armagnac dogs or Burgundian traitors; they were the true masters of France, which they called "their Chamber""

in case you're curious, many houses did not have ovens or even cooking braziers (plenty did though). lunch was a short, workday meal, and dinner was ideally a social affair, either at a restaurant or a tavern or simply a friend's place. this is what I gather, anyway