Gospel with silver cover. Armenia, 13th century manuscript, cover made in 1691.

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But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

The average reader will, however, stop reading after just two sentences if it's clear by the second sentence that the only thing they'll like about this book is the opening line.

In general, though, I think we jump to blame short attention spans too often when there is a far more logical explanation. "It takes 0.06 seconds for viewers to scroll past a post." Yes, that is typically how long it takes me to discern whether this post is about something I'm interested in. There's a trillion posts out there, probably a billion books, of course we've gotten fast at sorting through content. That's not an attention span issue. That's just efficiency.

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Or Hell some ppl are surprised by the idea that armour. Like. Works. And is very good at its job. And was made by very very clever people. Who designed it to fit a purpose very well.

General rule of thumb, the head is the first thing you armour, then the chest, then the hands, then the arms, then the lower leg, then the upper leg. BROADLY this is the pattern people followed in history. (The choice of which parts to be armoured being a question of budget and how much you're willing to be encumbered. Anyone who could afford it and was on a horse would wear like. A full set of plate armour. This is why all your heavily-armoued historical units were all noblemen cavalry that's the main niche that a full-body covering would arise in.)

You can shove a vacuum formed plastic breastplate under a surcoat made of upholstery fabric and it'll look better than the average "medieval" outfit in these shows. You can do those things for cheap you just have to be smart about it.

Fort Totten, Washington, D.C.

he was one of the people making contact with the demi-humans and teaching them magic. there's a demi-human queen there and some other sorcerers that appear to be teaching/chilling with them.

what if i got really into making adoptables

artists spent multiple years raging against the concept of NFTs and then unironically continued their cottage industry that is, by all meaningful metrics, identical. i saw someone selling one for 800 dollars the other day