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From below article I see a few wars in which the UK was involved in the period 1919-1923: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom Can we somehow range them in terms of their contribution to the final bill paid by the UK? Was it mostly impacted by the intervention in Russia?

Hello there, As Britain has just stepped into the area where its national public debt exceeds its GDP, I thought it might be interesting to discuss. I've been contemplating the attached picture that shows the British national debt since the beginning of 18th century. But my curiosity mainly relates to the time between 1919 and 1923, which is the time after WW1 was over and before the Genoa Conference of 1922 was held (the conference set the amount of German reparations). The attached picture denotes the points of the time scale by 2 and 3. I feel more comfortable in explaining the hikes and slopes that follow point 3 by recalling the events of the world Great depression and of Lausanne Conference of 1932. However when it comes to trying to explain what could have triggered the British national debt to rise by 50% between 1919 and 1923, I feel like I stumble and the below wiki article provides very vague coverage of this period too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_national_debt Is anybody around here knowledgeable enough to enlighten me on that? Thanks in advance.

Well, even if we reject the notion of kinship between the mentioned women (Peregrina means "foreigner", which may hint at adoption, but not kinship anyway), do you find it unlikely that the political rationale behind the investigation against Pilate could have encouraged Pilate to start seeking contacts among Roman senators in order to get their support, which undoubtedly would have been generously rewarded from whatever had been actually stolen from the temple? Btw Being a senator's son, Aulus must have completed his "cursus honorum" and as centurion could have crossed his path with Pilate's over the years of his military service (if I recall correctly, being a senator's son did not automatically promote to senators ranks, but could make Aulus equestrian, which was the common rank for military officers, including Pilate)

Those who read the Bible carefully can even find certain evidence that Christians were well aware of reincarnation. Take for instance Matthew 11:11-14 or Matthew 17:10-13, John 9:2 🙂

Btw the Pudens family came into the spotlight of the official Roman political arena at least a few times, despite the fact cognomen Pudens translates from Latin as moderate / shy. Perhaps the most noticeable member of that family was another senator of the 2nd half of 2nd century AD called Quintus Servilius Pudens, who was married to emperor Hadrian's granddaughter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Servilius_Pudens A few members from a few different generations of Pudens family were canonized as Saints by the official Roman Catholic church, which testifies that the family took a rather special place in the whole history of Christianity.

Hi there all, Here is the relevant article in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_gens My question is about 2 biblical characters: Pontius Pilate and Saint Pudens Pontius Pilate is said to be married to Claudia Procula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate's_wife While Saint Pudens (or, alternatively, Aulus Pudens) is said to be married to Claudia Peregrina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulus_Pudens Does this mean that both were married to women from the same Claudia house? The thing is that Pontius Pilate is known to have used the temple treasury (korbanos) to pay for a new aqueduct to Jerusalem. Because that was considered illegal Pilate's case was brought up to the attention of the Roman Senate and Pilate even stood trial for the accusations of corruption. But someone from the Senate apparently was pulling the strings for Pilate, so he was acquitted, though lost his job in Judea shortly. Saint Pudens' father was Roman senator Quintus Cornelius Pudens. Could it be him who helped Pilate to get acquitted of all accusations? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Cornelius_Pudens The other interesting thing is that Pilate was replaced by Marcellus as new prefect of Judea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_(prefect_of_Judea) Marcellus was just another branch of the same Claudia house... So effectively, Pilate was acquitted because of his family ties and replaced by another relative .. This may help to explain why Jewish High Priest Caiaphas actually served till 37 AD, so effectively Caiaphas served for 18 years under both Valerius Gratus, Pilate and Marcellus (Marcellus left prefect office in 37) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiaphas They were all from the same vicious circle of widespread corruption. Just to remind you Saint Pudens was the first person to establish a Christian church in Rome. All early Roman Popes lived and served in Pudens family' property till 4th century AD, when Christianity became official:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Pudenziana So effectively the early Christian church was financed from Sadducee gold stolen from the Jerusalem temple under the pretext of building an aqueduct..

Well, I suppose Mr. Stalin would rather cleave his opponent's skull somewhere in the dark at the night time than allow all that "democratic influence" to spread. You see, sometimes a person may seem like intelligent and nice, but God only knows what's hidden inside. In the above post I referred specifically to what was written in the Russian constitution. You may laugh, but over the course of the 20th century we had a few Constitutions in Russia, 5 to be precise. So initially the first constitution ordained by the Bolsheviks in 1918 introduced some voting restrictions for the old ruling class of Tsar's nobility (there were still some remaining in Russia after self-expulsion and mass purge). Before Bolsheviks took over Russia, we actually had had the February revolution of 1917 which brought about the universal suffrage, so women got their voting rights (before the same thing was legalized in the UK actually). One of the later Soviet constitutions abolished the voting restrictions for the old Russian nobility who were in minority anyway. But it was only in 1978 when Russians found out that they had been actually allowed to have more than one ruling party, because the new Constitution of 1978 abolished that 😂

http://www.rmki.kfki.hu/~lukacs/ROMLAS.htm

A Spanish podcast that I am listening to ridiculed a Spanish official who proposed to bring more international tourists to the island in order to watch the rare event forgetting that the vapor from volcano is extremely toxic 😁

The very noticeable appearance of the actor is very well known even beyond Britain 🙂 Having lived in the UK for nearly 4 years of the period of my studies I must have been more familiar with the series, but unfortunately I never watched it.

According to Andrew Movchan, the inflation was rather stable around 3%, but it all started to change by the end of 2nd century AD when the prices of metropolitan center had risen by 5 times in just 10-15 years. It all came to the point when official Roman currency devaluated so the colonies even started to use other currencies instead. I may add a couple book sources later.

Yeah, the British empire was apparently the largest by square miles. As for Russia, it was at its largest territorial expansion by the time of the sale of Alaska. It is true that USSR under Stalin was formally a multi-party state, it was abolished later under Brezhnev when USSR turned into a one-party state with the adoption of the new Constitution. Also USSR actually abolished the voting restrictions about 30 years before the US did the same in 1965 for black folks. That's how ironic the history could be 🙂

Oh, God, I think we are about to find out new things about ancient Jews' diet and diseases. Can't wait the moment the details are disclosed 🤪

That's likely to be a Jewish thing initially. Babylonian Hammurabi code is known to envisage rather advanced property rights for women, so Jewish Abraham must have been well aware of that too. Salo Baron also mentions the fact that during the exile time there used to be a certain shortage of women among the exiled Jews, which also contributed to the rising role of women (or widespread sodomy, I suppose 😉). But Constantine's new laws on family and children were crucial for Romans too, concubinage was criminalised as well as the selling of children. This must have been influenced by Christians to some degree.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3064248/ I have watched today this short movie for the first time of my life (available through Youtube) and have been shocked by the scale of religious propaganda. Not only the director made the pre-selection of participants by interviewing mostly the international students who struggled to respond timely and adequately because of the language issues. The director built his pro-creationism message purely on the silence exhibited by the participants to his questions. An obvious example of the evolution of species would be whales, who have developed lungs for breathing, the purpose of which would be highly dubious if they didn't divert in their evolution from the other species of fish. Parrots and other birds still remind us of their common lizard-like ancestors hopscotching the ancient jungles. Some fossilized evidence of the transitional forms can be found at any world zoo museum. How about night bats? Ain't they another evidence of the evolution? If human beings were the product of the All-mighty supreme intelligence, then how come their eyes are designed the wrong way out with photosensitive retina turned towards sclera and neuro fibers towards the light?

Thanks. Yes, I read this too, but in modern Norwegian language red ain't russ, but rød. By 1905 Russia hadn't turned into a commie land yet, so reddish Soviet attributes (like red flags etc) had not become widespread and recognised by the world yet. The thing is that undergraduates of the economic schools in Norway wear blue caps and are called Russ too. So the word apparently has more to do with the status of adult when a young person has reached the full legal age of 18 y.o. But why would Norwegians choose the word Russ to denote such thing? So presumably in the past the word Russ could have some different connotations for Norwegians. That's why I asked.

Hi, I am just curious about the history of Russefeiring festival and the etymology of word Russ. Where does the word come from, and what did it mean, lets say, 500 or 1000 years ago? 🙂 Thanks

There is the whole bunch of writers like Erich von Däniken or Graham Hancock whose books about aliens visiting the Earth have become bestsellers 🙂 In Russia we have lots of folks who go nuts about Altai megaliths with imaginary traces of "unknown civilizations". Some say we should start looking for the portal to Hell somewhere in the mid of Urals and Siberia, because according to ancient Greeks the hell used to be called Tartar and most of medieval maps show Russia as Tartaria. That's incurable, in my view, but still interesting to follow. Almost like cancer.

Egypt once was considered as the main supplier of wheat grain for the whole Roman empire, now Egypt is the top buyer of wheat from Russia (Turkey is the second in the row). That's how times re-shape the countries 🙂

I once read the translation of some excerpts attributed to Herodotus. To me it all sounded as naive nonsense from someone very gullible and barely critical. He must have been very young at the time of writing .. 🙂

I think, from language perspective (at least in Russian), meteor is an object that trails across the sky, leaving plasma clouds behind as it enters the atmosphere (before entering atmosphere it's called the meteoroid). If it hits the earth, then it's called the meteorite 🙂 But never mind.. Was it the same object that destroyed 2 cities simultaneously? or should we attribute the destruction of Gomorrah to another event?

The first time I read about how deeply Russia had been affected by the plague of the 14th century was actually when I came across a book by American historian Janet Martin. Attached is the page from her book that gives some estimate. Russia is currently among the top-10 countries worst affected by COVID.

Another conspiracy theory from Turkish travel agent waiting for more idiot tourists from Europe: https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/st-pauls-bible-0015746

The painting is said to show the Third Battle of Panipat, in which Indians lost a part of Punjab to Afghani Durrani army PS Btw the guy with golden watch seems more wealthy and educated than the rest ..

Hi there, Does anybody know what event of Afghani history is shown on the painting behind the armed guys? Thanks. PS. Btw I quite like seeing folks posing with their guns :) This tells a lot about the values. European kids spend their first money on upgrading their smartphones or playstations. Afghani teenagers would spend their first earned money to buy a Kalashnikov.