There is no universal consensus among archaeologists about the Roman dodecahedron, though besides the common theory that it was used for ritual purposes there is the theory that it may have been a pen or stylus holder.

Roman pens were effectively long, sharp pieces of metal designed to “write” by carving into wax tablets. They often had different shapes for different forms too so a Roman scribe/accountant would have several different ones laying around.

They also would later use Reed Pens (Calamus), the most common tool for writing with ink. They were crafted from hollow marsh reeds (like Phragmites australis), with the tip cut and split to hold a small reservoir of ink.

imagine being a samurai that trained your entire life and in the first battle you ever fought your enemy just deleted you with this shit

MAYOR OF MILES CITY MONTANA

AND THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD USE BOMBS ON THE ICE FLOES

Full title: Ever wonder why Election Day in America is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November? Well in 1845 congress wished to make it easier for their fellow citizen to take part in elections and worked around their schedule

Context: https://www.njchs.org/election-day-history/

Ever wonder why the US Elections is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November? The answer is lies with America’s 19th century farmers.

According to the wesbsite History.com, in 1845 Congress passed a federal law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as Election Day. Previously, states were allowed to hold elections any time they pleased within a 34-day period before the first Wednesday in December. This system had several flaws, however, including the potential for early voting results to affect turnout and sway opinion in states that held late elections, and those same last-minute voters could potentially decide the outcome of the entire election. Faced with these issues, Congress created the current Election Day in the hope of streamlining the voting process.

But why a Tuesday in November? In the 1800s, most citizens worked as farmers and lived far from their polling place. Since people often traveled at least a day to vote, lawmakers needed to allow a two-day window for Election Day. Weekends were impractical, since most people spent Sundays in church, and Wednesday was market day for farmers. With this in mind, Tuesday was selected as the first and most convenient day of the week to hold elections. Farm culture also explains why Election Day always falls in November. Spring and early summer elections were thought to interfere with the planting season, and late summer and early fall elections overlapped with the harvest. That left the late fall month of November — after the harvest was complete, but before the arrival of harsh winter weather — as the best choice.

THE BUDDHA SAID WE CAN DROP THE MINOR RULES AFTER HE'S GONE AND YOU ASKED HIM WHICH ONES, RIGHT? YOU ASKED HIM WHICH ONES, RIGHT?

Have you considered using thermonuclear weapons?

Them fellas must’ve been down bad 😪

Late Bronze Age spearhead casting mold discovered in a Czech garden in 2007. ©M. Salaš et al., Archeologicke Rozhledy, 2026 Photo by J. Cága

I can't wait for European times of tension so MY alliance system can deter the aggressor!

Context for this rather obscure event for people outside the British Isles EDIT: The Battle of Culloden itself

"We all survived sir. Oh and this is Kevin. Say hi Kevin"

"...To use such enormous powers against the eunuchs would bring victory as easily as lighting up a furnace to burn a hair. You only need to act promptly: Use your powers and smite at once, and all the empire will be with you. But to summon forces to the capital, to gather many bold warlords into one spot, each with different schemes, is to turn our weapons against our own person, to place ourselves in the power of another. Nothing but failure can come of it, and havoc will ensue."

"The view of a mere book-worm," said He Jin with a smile.

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Full title: Was he full of flaws and shortcomings too, specially regarding the topic of segregation and civil liberties during WW1? Yeah, but he is more nuanced as a President than most people give him credit for; there's a reason historians never rank him below 15 among US Presidents

Christopher Lee is distant relative of Robert E Lee, the confederate general of a separatist faction and he plays Count Dooku who is the leader of a separatist faction called the Confederacy.

Bravo George

Cerberus is both Hades's dog and cousin.

What?

Cerberus is a child of Typhon, who's a child of Gaia, whose the mother of the Titans...

Making Cerberus and Hades cousins.

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

The Bolognina turning point was the epilogue of a political process which, starting from the end of the 1970s, led on 3 February 1991 to the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party and its transformation into the Democratic Party of the Left. It takes its name from the PCI branch in Bolognina, a district of the Navile quarter of Bologna, where on 12 November 1989 the PCI secretary Achille Occhetto made the announcement.