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Ancient Celtic engineers should have known what would happen after the similar failures of the English Channel, the Danube, the Rhine, the Urals and the Bosphorous. The Germanic horde is mindless but unstoppable.
The Great Moon Hoax - 1835
Portfolio: "Discovery of Life on the Moon"
Richard E. Locke, New York Sun
Martian Beavers - Popular Science Monthly, 1930
A better question than "Do beavers rule on Mars?" might be "Has the artist ever seen a beaver?".
'no mountain ranges' made me smile more than the beaver overlords on Mars 
Old Testament retconned: A depiction of Moses and Joshua on Mount Horeb receiving the Ten Commandments from none other than Jesus Christ.
From a 16th century Russian translation of Cosmas Indicopleustes's "Christian Topography".
Его Высокопревосходительство said:
It does though, insofar as the later prophets prophesy a messianic figure who will come and save Israel, with whatever that might entail. The main argument between Jews and Christians is whether Jesus was the messiah or just a random guy who fit the description.
From what I understand, some of the more powerful Jewish sects at the time downplayed the role of the Messiah once the Romans arrived because it was assumed the Messiah would be a new independent anti-roman king of israel. Some of the sects had ties to the Romans and were worried about the Zealot movement using messianism to whip up support. There are even parts in the book of Acts where a council of one of these sects mentions that there were a lot of self-claimed messiahs before Jesus, but they ran off into the desert and died of old age or something, and their followers just went back to their day jobs.
From what I understand, some of the more powerful Jewish sects at the time downplayed the role of the Messiah once the Romans arrived because it was assumed the Messiah would be a new independent anti-roman king of israel. Some of the sects had ties to the Romans and were worried about the Zealot movement using messianism to whip up support. There are even parts in the book of Acts where a council of one of these sects mentions that there were a lot of self-claimed messiahs before Jesus, but they ran off into the desert and died of old age or something, and their followers just went back to their day jobs.
Mayan Zoidberg?!
Bonampak mural. Room 1. Musicians and dancers...[/i]
wabbits, wabbits, wabbits !!!
clumsy Janissaries dropping their hats!
Banquet (Safranpilav) for the Janissaries, given by the Sultan.
If they refused the meal, they signaled their disapproval of the Sultan.
In this case they accept the meal. Ottoman miniature painting,
from the Surname-i Vehbi (1720) at the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissaries#Revolts_and_disbandment
these fit here too...
Bonampak mural. Room 1. Musicians and dancers...[/i]
wabbits, wabbits, wabbits !!!
clumsy Janissaries dropping their hats!
Banquet (Safranpilav) for the Janissaries, given by the Sultan.
If they refused the meal, they signaled their disapproval of the Sultan.
In this case they accept the meal. Ottoman miniature painting,
from the Surname-i Vehbi (1720) at the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissaries#Revolts_and_disbandment these fit here too...Его Высокопревосходительство said:The zoology according to 14th century Russian scribes
Can you spot the difference?
matmohair1 said:Emperor Yongzheng (1678 – 1735)
Album of the Yongzheng Emperor in Costumes...
The Emperor as a Taoist magician
The Emperor as a Tibetan Lama
The Emperor as an enlightened Xian sage
The Emperor robed in Hanfu
The Emperor as a poet
The Emperor as a painter
The Emperor as a 'guzheng zither" player
The Emperor as a fisherman
The Emperor as a Persian
The Emperor as the Monkey King in Turk princely attire
The Emperor as a Mongol
The Emperor in Western Fashion
The Emperor as a Buddhist saint
The Chinese - from Reise nach Batavia,
by Georg Franz Müller 1681...
by Georg Franz Müller 1681...
Some of those Chinese emperor ones are actually pretty nice
Hot damn, this one just killed me
This one reminded me of Jade Empire, where one of the arena combatants it a tough-guy with sideburns and uses clawed gloves for weapons, he was even named the Iron Soldier
Word!
Either that, or just a regular fight in Angelina Jolie's marriage...
Those televangelist preachers have nothing on you...
And of course...
Hot damn, this one just killed me
This one reminded me of Jade Empire, where one of the arena combatants it a tough-guy with sideburns and uses clawed gloves for weapons, he was even named the Iron Soldier
Word!
Either that, or just a regular fight in Angelina Jolie's marriage...
Those televangelist preachers have nothing on you...
And of course...
Jacobhinds said:
I read that some of the so-called messiahs (both before and after Jesus) actually did manage to raise (small?) uprisings with the Jews, but were always quelled by the authorities (the leaders being exposed as fakes), and at some point in the middle ages (apparently they were now rebelling against the catholics?), the Jewish religious authorities have had enough and declared the messianic movement to be dead and done, and all subsequent messiahs - frauds.
Corbul said:This one reminded me of Jade Empire, where one of the arena combatants it a tough-guy with sideburns and uses clawed gloves for weapons, he was even named the Iron Soldier
That's awesome.
