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💀It was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, & detestable. It was the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, & desolation; the putrid, dripping eidolon of unwholesome revelation; God knows it was not of this world🎨Jedrzej Chelminski💀#HPLovecraft

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2022-08-30

Greek-speaking areas during the Hellenistic period.

During antiquity, Greek was by far the most widely spoken lingua franca in the Mediterranean world.

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2022-07-08

Family Planning in Greco-Roman Antiquity - World History Encyclopedia

https://t.co/bzGZRmlkjn

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2022-07-07

Dutch copy of a Roman Legionary (c. 1616-18)!

Maurice of Nassau was fascinated by antiquity and thought he could counter Spanish pikemen by emulating Roman legionaries, giving his men big shields!

But once he put them in mock fights they did not prove successful against pikes.

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2022-07-03

Steam Summer Sale is on! We have some sizzling strategy discounts to share:

Old World 20% https://t.co/CAyrxewtEc

Off World Trading Company 60%: https://t.co/LsfNNdkEMA

Whether you prefer ruling a nation in antiquity or beating rival corporations on Mars we have you covered.

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2022-06-25

GM! I'm not convinced we are in a digital renaissance at the moment.

It feels weird to me that the moment we are handed an open digital art field to play in, the first instinct is to reference antiquity in order to define this space.

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2022-06-08

FF was never pure fantasy, it was always a clash of technology and antiquity. Magitek, Gods, crystals, prophecy all make a final fantasy, for games that take place in something close to our world tend to reimagine the ordinary to something familiar yet different.

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2022-06-04

Two immediate observations on themes:

1: Food continues to be a big motif - we now have an olive and a truffle hog joining the roster.

2: There's definitely a dichotomy between the legends, whether that's antiquity vs futurism or perhaps land vs air.

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2022-06-01

This was a remix of a mini comic I’d rendered digitally for this scene a long while ago, and as a result, it’s a bit rougher—which I kinda like because I think it gives it that feeling of Grecian antiquity. Anyhoo, here are some process shots showing how it came together 🥰

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2022-06-01

The rebuke homily "fits into a larger trend of the Christianization and scripturalization of public life and discourse in late antiquity," says David Gyllenhaal, junior fellow in studies & PhD candidate in at : https://t.co/qAZU9dUiql

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2022-05-16

The Highwayman And The Heretic https://t.co/SKxKCM4ljQ
'Fred was born in the month of Maying and something of a May Day air lingered about his psyche. The public imagination was as equally fired by pastoral antiquity...'
and

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2022-05-02

How many different animals have been drafted for warfare since antiquity?
From bees, scorpions & assassin bugs
to
vipers, dogs, elephants, pigs & NOW dolphins
https://t.co/WZCLpUxXh0
Read all about it in ch 6 "Animal Allies"
pre-order for July!

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2022-04-29