According to Festus, he writes "Niger lapis in Comitio locum funestum significat, ut ali, Romuli morti destinatum...".
Or: “Niger, a place for an intolerable injury to a stone in the Comitium, signifies, that they may be fed, that marked out to death of Romulus”
So he’s buried under the stone and if we dig there that’s where we could find his tomb, am I missing something?
Wikipedia says “It is there too that a part of the tradition locates the place of his death”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)
Look under Vulcan and the foundation of Rome.
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During the time of the Empire, did Spanish soldiers ever fight in Germany?
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There are several music genres in the US which find its roots in the African-American community such as Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Rap and Hip-hop. Why is that?
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I learned that Japan has a weird history of not having an official flag until 1999, the current flag has a history going back 1000+ years but my understanding is that the rising sun with rays was invented in 1870. I can't seem to find much info on its creation and was curious.
I've seen the ray designs used in art pre-Meiji restoration so I guess its a dual question of who designed the 16 ray flag as well as where does the general "ray" design come from.
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I hope that I have explained this well enough in the title as I'm aware this is a potentially unclear question! I'm currently studying Dante's Inferno as part of a wider module on Italian politics at university, and the descriptions used in the book arguably put most fantasy writers to shame. This led me to wondering, did Dante make up the contents of the Divine Comedy (albeit with the help of other sources such as the Bible) or should it be read as the recounting of an experience that he believes actually happened to him?
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GDP - Opium Import correlation - https://imgur.com/a/L3QjYXb
The dates connecting the opioid wars (opioid epedemic in China, subsequent drop in GDP), tremendous GDP growth in the West and the end of slavery are tied to so many of the same economic forces and date ranges. It begs the question...
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What was America's foreign policy posture towards China during the 1800-1900s (during Opium Wars especially)?
Did this massive GDP influx to the USA from China collapsing play a role in the Civil War?
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Is it word of mouth? A poster nailed to a church with all the KIAs? A runner?
Edit: Related questions, about how long would it take to reach me?
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I was driving around local roads (off the major highway) yesterday in my first trip to Slovenia and was surprised to see, roughly every 500m, a chapel-shrine.
Wikipedia is pretty light on details, but it suggests the phenomenon is fairly characteristic to Slovenia. Did it originate in Slovenia? Do we know where/when the practice started? Was it the Catholic Church's doing? Were there any similar altars being made before the Church came to Slovenia?
Thanks!
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In early Roman Republic days, what percent of city states like Athens, Corinth, Syracuse, etc would go to war? Did enough men go away to fight that economic activity dipped, or was it small enough not to affect farming and commerce?
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I've heard that Russian soldiers in the Great War often had no rifle (due to the government only being able to support half the army). Is there any truth to that? Another thing I've heard is that two soldiers shared one rifle.
The reason for my asking is that I'm making a book, where a young soldier tries to survive on the battlefield without a gun. He has to use stones, tree branches his fists, etc. until he picks up a gun from a dead soldier. I want to illustrate the extreme conditions Russian soldiers were under in WWI, though, I need to know if they were actually in the conditions advertised.
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I am well aware that the historical mainstream record says he died in Germany; but I've heard some amazing things on youtube, how possibly true is any of that?
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A recent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic mentioned "lanted ale", or ale flavoured with aged urine:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/frequency
Early modern writers seem to be fond of it, or at least consider it a strong drink.
In The Tincker of Turvey (1630), Trotter the Tinker extols the singular quality of the best ale he has ever tasted, contrasting it with lanted ale and double-lanted (!) ale.
…I have thrust into my guts Dagger-Ale, Steeletto-Ale, Pistoll-Ale, proofe-Ale, Pimblico Ale, Mother-Bunches Ale, Labour in vaine Ale, Darby Ale, Ale of Gottam (which make the men there fools), I have drunke double-lanted Ale and single-lanted but never gulp'd downe such Hypocrenean liquor in all my life.
Wikipedia mentions lant was also used to freshen breath and glaze pastries, but does not provide any sources.
So, was this a thing? Did people really consume aged urine?
"Lant" is a decidedly English word; most of my search results indicate people drank it in England. But I'm also curious about how widespread this delightful beverage was.
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From what I can tell slavs are just as white as germans. Why did Hitler hate them?
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Just watched a video from EmperorTigerstar on this topic and i was really surprised how the Turks managed to hold on to most of their territory in the Balkans and Crimea seeing that they fought against the Holy Roman Empire,Russia,the Commonwealth,Croatia,Hungary(be it very fractured but still),Venice and the Spanish Empire all while having all the Balkan peoples join the invaders as they saw them as liberators. The Turks even pushed into Vienna and almost took it wasn't it for the Poles and Lithuanians coming to the aid of the Habsburgs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhwV6w_D_Q Here is the link so you can watch the video yourselves
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