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The Gif that summed up an election.

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There's something v. worrying about a society that's willing to chop down 300yo Hunningham Oak for a "service road" to facilitate a railway that will shorten the trip from Birmingham to LDN by 20 mins.

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The worst part of the afternoon...

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Hagia Sophia, Constantinople.

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Mt Ararat: symbol of Armenia. A thousand feet higher than Mont Blanc & legendary resting place of Noah's Ark (therefore centre from which mankind set out once again to populate the earth).

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"The Greeks and Romans were forced out [of Constantinople] by the indigenous Ottoman Turks in about 1299." WTAF

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The floor of St John's Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. Each marble section is a burial spot for a knight of Malta.

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Why I only fly @airserbia

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If you must eat Oreos (tasteless sugar snacks for the bovine), plz carve the likeness of Roman Emperors into them like this young Roman.

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Día 12 de la cuarentena rescatando el arte de tallar cameos de emperadores en galletas oreos, simulando que es mármol. Comenzamos con @LucioVeroHD

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To celebrate Godfrey Elfwick on the day of his second "permanent" expulsion from Twitter, I've plucked one of my fave tweets...

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In the West's imagined geography, the Hellenic world is deemed western in antiquity & eastern in the medieval period.

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Winter in Constantinople ☃️❄️🌨️

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-- Whoever wrote this googled the foundation of Ottoman Empire: 1299, and assumed it was when Constantinople fell. -- They then decided Mongolia extended to Thrace and labelled the Turks "indigenous." Lunacy.

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Your Byz ☦️ starter pack 📚

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Thread 🧵 on the Pontic Greeks/Romans

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I'd like to see an article discussing how we built a society so awful that people felt the need to microdose drugs on daily basis.

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Is microdosing LSD a solution to the 'crisis of meaning' in modern life?

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OK, one last tweet. One of my fave fb friends has nailed it...

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Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment. #Byzantium

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Happy 1691th birthday to the New Rome, the New Jerusalem, the City of the Caesars, the heartbeat of the Kingdom (to) Come. Garlanded by waters as we are by Grace, may we come to its aid as the Lord comes to ours. Amen #Byzantium

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Emphatic, bold & iconic. Brings to life demotic aspects of the "ppl of the cross" -- one among many faiths -- a paean to social democrats & other heirs of this vibrant & diverse continent.

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Rimini's oldest monument is the Arco d'Augusto, now stranded in the middle of a sq jst inside the city walls. Erected in 27 BC, it's the oldest surviving ancient Roman arch.

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Ark (Fortress) of Bukhara, which once contained the city's famous Library (which held 45,000 manuscripts).

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Sad news is I've permanently damaged nerves in my hand (very sad as a piano-player). Surgery won't help it, so have to pray that physiotherapy might bring some back.

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You build stronger bonds in meeting one person for five mins than in meeting five people once. - @nntaleb ✍️ Scala Politica

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Maxime the 64-year-old monk who lives on top of Katshki Pillar, George. He's lived there for 25 years after a stint in prison.

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Best graffiti is Byz graffiti #Byzantium #Roma 🇮🇹

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Caucasian Christianity still bears strong marks of the world tht preceded it. Stone crosses (khachkars) incorporate a fiery Zoroastrian sun-circle beneath the cross.

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@markgranza u can tell 10 secs in that nuclear amounts of bs are about to be dropped

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These will not save you. We are coming.

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Istanbul’s ancient city walls being restored

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Monumental columns of Rome vs Constantinople

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Venice is the perfect postmodern city: it sells no product other than itself.

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First time a Russian Ambassador has been killed since 1829, Persia.

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Egypt has eleven weeks of wheat supplies.

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Coffee empowers you to read forever. Alcohol enslaves others to your infinite charm. Tea is the watery graveyard of leaves, where fun goes to die.

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Tea is the drink of the masters. Coffee/alcohol are for slaves. Your boss will offer you free coffee to exploit you. Alcohol to transform you into a more "fun" person. Tea is the only drink that doesn't enslave you. 🥰

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Forces of The New Rome unite 😂 #Byzantium CC: @nntaleb

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RIP Scruton. I met him several times. Always a gentleman, never a bore. He knew more about wine/music/aesthetics than I could ever hope to grasp. Yet wore his learning lightly while banishing every liberal piety & hypocrisy that tarnished our grubby, fallen world.

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Very sad news. Professor Sir Roger Scruton, the greatest conservative of our age, has died. The country has lost a towering intellect. I have lost a wonderful friend.

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OK fixed it: Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, #Byzantium .

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Per capita income in the provinces of the Roman Empire in AD 14.

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My son started crying in the bakery coz the baker is a girl and the baker said "ain't no male bakers in this bakery" and my son looked at me & said "wtaf, y we entered this den of harridans" coz he seksist. Gimme X1000 RT.

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if u dont fight on the bosporus, youll have to fight on the rhine.

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Nobody: Drunk Me: ur rite we need to retake Constantinople

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En route to the Holy Loch #Scotland to be baptised into #Orthodoxy . Has been 10 years in the coming. Finally happening with the monk who welcomed me to the faith this afternoon #Byzantium

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During C1st, a burial tradition developed in Egypt in which the face of deceased was covered with a wooden panel bearing his/her portrait. Known as the Fayum portraits (as most were found in that district), their style influenced the Byzantine icon. #Byzantium

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Only an Orthodox Christian is capable of fully understanding Byzantium.

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The ghost town of Kayaköy (Livisi) in SW Anatolia. The Greek village was abandoned during the 1923 population exchange.

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Defeat in 460 BC at Eurymedon dealt a blow to the Persians – or at least boosted Greek morale to the point the latter felt able to depict themselves advancing (erection in hand) on the presented rear of a prostrate Persian.

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Much of what we call "arab" scholarship was in reality Syriac, Persian & Coptic i.e. not necessarily Islamic.

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Genuinely hope the Queen doesnt die of a broken heart. Imagine being in love for that long & then one day theyre gone forever. Makes me want to cry.

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We don't blame wolves for eating sheep. We blame shepherds for sleeping.

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The Year the Turks Massacred the last remaining Romans in Constantinople: 1955 #Septemvriana

1955: the Second Fall of Constantinople

Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque this year was part of a pattern in which the Turkish state views its legitimacy as threatened by the symbols and peoples of its Roman predecessor. Instead of...

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1,692 years ago CONSTANTINE showed us that Romanitas could glue together the Res publica christiana, & founded Constantinople as the jewel in the Roman diadem. This year us make our villages, towns & cities into microcosms of Κωνστᾰντῑνούπολῐς. #BYZANTIUM

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CHORA was just converted into a mosque. Following in footsteps a) Hagia Sophia of Constantinople b) Hagia Sophia of Nicaea (Iznik) c) Hagia Sophia of Trebizond #Byzantium

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"Turkish Roman"

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In the third century, a Turkish Roman soldier joined a growing cult and was executed for it, inspiring other martyrs. When the cult later became the official religion of the Roman Empire, the soldier inspired a popular cult of his own in Palestine...

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Apse of San Clemente, Rome #Byzantium

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AI KHANUM: A magnificent Hellenistic city in Afghanistan. Its ancient name is unknown but it was probably founded as a fortress by Alexander the Great.

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Few things are better than a good walk.

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"Without myth every civilisation loses its healthy and creative natural force: only a horizon drawn by myths can hold together a process of civilisation in a single unit." – Nietzsche

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It doesn't have to be a tale of woe. Notre Dame can rise again. I don't care if it's a dirty hut, as long as it's full of Christ. Wash, rinse, repeat: we have not lost a "cultural monument". We have lost a faith.

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Im often abroad. Not coz im cultured or curious. I just find it relaxing to be in places where i understand very little or nothing that's going on around me.

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Roman bricks at St Martin's Church, Canterbury. Oldest church in the English-speaking world.

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Byzantines are returning to their natural habitats. We are the virus. #Byzantium

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Map shows Chinese stereotypes of #Europeans based on internet search results. #China #Europe Source:

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Every. F***ing. Day. http://t.co/ie6KEa7JDa

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You will be civilised on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing… without feeling the slightest amount of guilt NN Taleb

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Baptistery, San Marco, Venice.

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Good morning fr Rome 👋

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Χριστός ἀνέστη! Christ has Risen! But He is not some comic-book hero breaking open Hell. He is the ☦️ One who showed us Adam's Edenic vocation, the New Life, The Kingdom we were to both build & inherit. Find Theosis, or Christ is merely a "hero" in the pagan mould. #Easter2021

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Toad in the hole, Eccles cakes, lamb shank & beef & ale suet. #ingerland

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What’s your four favourite foods from your culture? (English)

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One of Seven ancient wonders, Lighthouse of Alexandria was built by Greek architect Sostratus c. 280 BC. This is C13th mosaic at Venice's Basilica San Marco.

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It is not an arbitrary date. It falls nine months (gestation) after Annunciation & the difference in dates is due to Gregorian vs Julian reckonings. Why are so many "intellects" culturally moronic?

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Christmas is an arbitrary date. Greek and Russian Orthodox Christmas' are on different dates. How about @BorisJohnson asking @JustinWelby to change the date, moving it say, to February 2021. HMG can change the bank-holidays. The vaccine should be kicking in by then. #winwin

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Just gave my name at Starbucks as Βουλγαροκτόνος. As the barista repeatedly shouted out my "name" the entire cafe raised Chi-Ro banners & promised to reconquer the New Rome. Result. Try it. #Byzantium

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Dear Men, what has stopped you from looking like this?

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Skulls of "Martyrs of Otranto" on display in Otranto cathedral, Italy. They refused to convert to Islam after city fell to Ottoman admiral, Gedik Ahmed Pasha.

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Back in the homeland, the Roman land ☦️ #Byzantium

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o f*** off

Lives in Türkiye

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Turkish citizens from different religions and ethnic origins live unity in diversity and proud of internalizing tolerance, peace and freedom of worship since thousands of years in this lands. Centuries old well-established culture of coexistence is telling the story of itself.

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** Most overrated Euro city: — Paris ** Most underrated Euro city: — Belgrade ** Most misunderstood Euro city: — #Constantinople

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The gorgeous faculty of architecture at Sapienza, University of #Roma 🇮🇹

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I love England... The true England of nature. The trees, hedges, grass and lie of the land... But also the transitory England with its railways, towns & lighted streets. And above all, the lit pavements shimmering with rain. - Clement Attlee

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In Constantinople we realised there were a lot of problematic (pagan) statues too. But we didn't tear them down. We're not barbarians.

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If you've heard a lot about the fabled "Byz Babe" but still not sure what one looks like, the prototype is Tonia Sotiropoulou. #Byzantium

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How can a man whose entire life was virtually spent north of the River Tweed be considered racist? It's almost certain he neither encountered nor even conceived of a black/brown person's existence. Robert's crime was to have been born in 1274, not 2005.

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WHY DAFUQ WOULD I WATCH A SHOW ABOUT HOW CONSTANTINOPLE FELL TO THE TURKS. WHY?

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You lost Notre Dame long ago. It just had to burn down for you to see it.

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Let's do some... B D S M

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Trabzon, Antalya (ad infinitum) are lost cities of #Byzantium & the people of these cities still miss the golden days of rule of the #Byzantines . This is the time for #Byzantium to reclaim all lost lands. #OperationLabarum

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EU: For what will you sell your sovereignty? Britain: c.€350

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My son just accidentally run up £400 mobile data bill whilst in France. Because of EU regulation it was capped at €50. Thank you to the EU commission. Next year the regulation won’t apply, thanks to #brexit - damaging to U.K. citizens in hundreds of day-to-day ways. #PeoplesVote

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You come at the Queen u best not miss

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"Europe" is what the Germanics invented coz nobody accepted them as Romans. Get woke, remember your Byz heritage.

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To commemorate foundation of #Constantinople (AD 324), I pointedly refuse to post some grandiose walls or cathedrals – empty tokens of power – but a pic of the little heartbeat u can hear around the Med; a spiritual pulse that lies beneath every superimposed culture: #BYZANTIUM