Αμφιλύκη

‘everyone speaks latin, right? so let’s put a silent b in debt. like debitum, which is latin for debt. problem solved.’

also the reason why there is a h in ghost is because when the printing press first came to england the only people trained to operate it were flemmish speaking, and they put a h after g because that’s what you do in flemmish. they put shit like ghirl and ghoose, but the only reason why ghost stuck is because people saw ‘the holy ghost’ in the bible and were like ‘well, that MUST be right’.

A late Georgian Era to early Victorian Era “Regard” ring. A “Regard” ring is a ring given to a sweetheart or lover, and sometimes a good friend, and is meant to represent a relationship and to “regard” it dearly. The first letter of each stone represents a letter in the word “regard.”

Watercolour of Homeric Ship, by David Pearce.

David Pearce is the US ambassador to Greece, and has an amazing twitter feed, often posting about the classics, and drawing lovely watercolours of Greece. This watercolour is a combination of the two!

leonardo da vinci was a year younger than christopher columbus.

stalin, freud, tito, trotsky and hitler walk into a bar……no really, it’s possible since they all lived in vienna in 1913.

aristotle tutored alexander the great.

oxford university is older than aztec civilisation.

abraham lincoln was twelve when napoleon bonaparte died.

an unusually well-traveled person in 5th century BC could have conceivably met confucius, lao tze, the buddha and socrates over the course of a seventy year life.

pocahontas and william shakespeare died in the same country less than a year apart from each other. 

the mongols fought the crusaders and the samurais at the same time. genghis khan and king john were contemporaries. khan sacked beijing the year the magna carta was signed.

“aaaaand it looks like…..zeus is the father on this one too”

*screaming from the back of the courtroom*

“mrs. hera if you don’t stop overturning the desks the bailiff will remove you”

*wild animal noises as hera turns half of the audience into peacocks and cows*