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@RenaissRewind Amazing haul!

I finally have The Story of Civilization series by Will and Ariel Durant! I grabbed it and lots of other cool history books from an estate sale over the weekend!

@BobhynemanUSA okay thanks

@MemoryMedieval When ya don't know . . . right click and select "Search with Google Lens" In my experience----- over 80% accurate 😎

Seeing some cool (what looks like) digital paintings.. no clue who has done them or where they are from.

@WhittersRichard Oh very cool

@MemoryMedieval It’s from the Game of Thrones Ascent video game, but I can’t find the specific artist.

@TodayinHistory Yes, we do.

The Medici family spent a fortune in patronage to the arts and making Florence beautiful. Lorenzo de’ Medici regretted none of it! “After 37 years I find that from 1434 till now we have spent large sums of money…but I do not regret this…I consider that it gave great honour to our State, and I think the money was well expended, and am well pleased.” We need billionaires today like Lorenzo de’ Medici!

@TimothyEveland Warrior elites.

What's one thing about the Middle Ages that you wish you could bring back to modern times?

@romanhelmetguy @ChivalryGuild

Ryan Holiday isn’t some Stoic guru btw. He’s been doing this for a dozen years and never even bothered to learn Latin or Greek. He made $10 million reading the Stoics in translation then repeating what they say at a 5th grade reading level to sell self-help books at the airport.

The Gravensteen castle is so epic looking

I've got a fun little revenge story for you. In 1349, French knight Geoffroi de Charny paid a mercenary named Aimery of Pavia a fortune in gold to hand over a gate of English-held Calais. Aimery took the money, then sold Charny out to King Edward III, leaving him ambushed and rotting in an English prison. When Charny finally got free, he tracked Aimery down, hauled him to Saint-Omer, and had his head removed, quartered, and displayed on the town gates. To make clear this was personal justice and not a violation of the ongoing truce, he took only the man. Not his castle. Some men are just built different.

@__gibbons__ @TodayinHistory Awesome

@MemoryMedieval @TodayinHistory We visited it in March. Belgium is a beautiful country. Highly recommend!

@begynnynge Very cool

🔊Sketch Reading #6👂 👑“King Rædwald”👑 ~by Helen Gray Cone~

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫'𝐝 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝. Today in 1471 King Edward IV and his brother Richard of Gloucester smashed the Lancastrian host at the Battle of Tewkesbury and killed Prince Edward, the son of a the deposed Henry VI. With an army of around six thousand men the king set upon the Lancastrians, whose cause was recently invigorated by the defection of the treacherous Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick, recently killed at Barnet, who facilitated the invasion of Prince Edward from France. The vanguard of the Yorkist host was led by King Edward and 18 year old his brother, the future Richard III. Their movements were disrupted by uneven ground and woods, but their archers darkened the skies with many arrows. The Duke of Somerset, commander of a division of Lancastrian soldiers, led his men through an ‘evil lane’ to attack King Edward’s flank but was undone when a reserve force of 200 men the king kept back in the woods sprung forth and outflanked the flankers just as Richard also rushed into the fray to the aid of his brother! The fighting was bloody and the Lancastrians eventually broke and fled. Prince Edward, one of two surviving royal Lancastrians and the only one not in captivity, was slain as he fled. The Duke of Somerset and some other nobles sought sanctuary in a nearby Abbey but were dragged out after for trial and execution. King Edward’s throne was secure once more and Henry VI died in capacity soon after.

@PalmerLuckey @chrisman ha good one

@chrisman Ask them what the consequences should be for homeschooling parents who fail to educate children. Then ask what the consequences should be for public schools that do the same. The difference in answers is the game.

These anti-homeschool arguments always compare homeschooling to to a perfectly functioning public school system that only exists in their imagination. Meanwhile in the real world, 54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.

@CultureExploreX Sending you pictures of Speyer Cathedral in Germany, world’s largest Romanesque church (founded in 1030 by Emperor Conrad II).

@doctorwhy1991 No

@MemoryMedieval Is Richard the Lionheart overrated?

-Richard the Lionheart -The Chevalier Bayard -William Iron Arm -Duke Godfrey -Tancred

@JeremyRyanSlate Epic! Congrats!

Early in the morning yesterday, we welcome our fourth daughter Aventine into the world!

@CultureExploreX Incredible spot

Oh wow! They built this chapel in the so-called Dark Ages. What were they thinking? Pilgrims climbed 268 steps towards Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe's in search of salvation. A reminder of what a civilization can build when faith still reaches for the sky.

If you never imagined yourself as a knight in shining armor I feel sorry for you