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 Discussion on question by mina nageh:…

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Luiz
Apr 25, 2023 00:26
And probably the pieces of the crosses were not fixed together (and most sources tell the titulus was not fixed)- many people think the horiz. bar had a wedge to just be put over the vertical pole and just remain there by gravity. So the cross was indeed a T, and only the titulus was above His head. One reason: a full cross is too heavy to be carried by one man.
Luiz
Apr 25, 2023 00:25
Yep, they found a titulus, as late antiquity witnesses attest a few centuries afterwards. If it is the same one we have today, or if we have a copy, that is another issue - why would it matter? They still would need a miracle to find one cross among various ones.
Luiz
Apr 25, 2023 00:24
there can be no "proof" about such things. Only more or less plausible evidence, with gaps, and it is not dogma or needed to support anybody's faith. But, if it was the cross of Spartacus found with the same level of evidence, nobody would make any fuss, and just accept it as the most plausible candidate from a plausible place/time and be happy with it. So your sources from skeptics tell there was a titulus, but separated from the cross.
Luiz
Apr 23, 2023 22:56
book amazon.com/Quest-Cross-Carsten-Peter-Thiede/dp/0312294247
Luiz
Apr 23, 2023 22:56
en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Titulus_Crucis I have seen it, it is still there. Even IF it is a medieval copy (carbon dating has issues...), it is a copy of an original that was there since Late Antiquity, besides having reasonable clues about being from 1st century and having being put there by St Helen/Constantine.
Luiz
Apr 23, 2023 22:56
reuse may be partial: reuse the vertical pole, and have the condemned carry the horizontal bar (commonly thought to be Jesus's case) as part of his punishment and humiliation. Then it is easy to crucify 3 people on an afternoon, it looks good enough. And, in times of trouble, or when the vertical poles need to be replaced, dumping them close to some tombs nearby, is reasonable. Also, St Helen found the titulus too, the wood plaque with the inscription INRI in 3 languages.
 

 Discussion on answer by Keith Morriso…

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Luiz
Nov 24, 2021 23:18
Olive trees in Portugal are shaken, with a cloth on the ground to collect the olives, this is visible from roads. In the harvest season some students get a free week out of the university to help auntie farmer (at least it is hoped they really work :-) ). So there is work to be done on regular calendars, waiting for the olives to fall would not be efficient, too much waste and inefficiency.
 

 Discussion on question by Pieter Geer…

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Luiz
Feb 2, 2021 15:04
You are all smart boys, but not everyone is so smart.... I remember Brazil's inflationary times when we had to pay thousands at the bakery. Less educated people visibly had to spend more time to simpler tasks such as checking the bakery change because it was in thousands instead of unit values. "How much is $5000,00 - $3700,00" was already harder for them than "$5,00 - $3,70", specially with old notes stamped with new values mixed with new notes and coins. I guess that on the imperial system they would have to trust others to buy stuff, at least for larger values or unusual coins.
 

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Luiz
Nov 27, 2020 09:18
random trivia: the derogatory meaning was used to name a distributed communication problem. microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
 

 Discussion on question by Sergei Akba…

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Luiz
Aug 17, 2020 21:42
The Sá did not had direct obligations, but it ensured their loyalty. Taxing a small distant place would be difficult anyway. When the dutch invaded Angola and directly cut their commerce and custom profits, the Sá raised their own private army to kick the dutch from Luanda. Afterwards, for 150ys, every time they wrote to the court, after the usual compliments to the King, they reminded His Majesty of the services rendered by their forefathers in the Angolan war. After independence (when Rio become Brazil's capital), the new Emperor had to buy back their hereditary rights.
Luiz
Aug 17, 2020 21:42
you ask for personal privileges and exceptions. e.g. in colonial Rio de Janeiro, the Sá family had the hereditary right to collect custom taxes for themselves (not for the state, they pocketed the money). But can we call this a 'fief'? Is this just a modern semantic question or there were documented juridic similarities? This I do not know.
 

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Luiz
May 20, 2020 00:18
The ones in favor of the Jesuit's Chinese rites argued that the rites were not syncretism with Budism, but were mostly civic in nature, or natural reverence to the ancestrals which would be compatible with Christian reverence and prayers for the dead. The contraries would disagree, or at least argue that the Chinese would not know the difference, and it would cause scandal anyway.
Luiz
May 20, 2020 00:18
A missionary told me that in Cameroon, pagans could check a box on the civil marriage certificate to be allowed to wed a 2nd wife afterwards. And the church checks the certificates (usually the couple must marry civilly just before the church wedding) and does not wed them if the groom picked polygamy.
 

 Discussion on question by Argyll: Why…

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Luiz
Jan 14, 2020 11:39
I read somewhere precise numbers about the possible tonnage which could be delivered, that showed that even with no blockade and perfect conditions, Rommel still would not get enough supplies. I do not remember the source (otherwise I would write an answer), it is just a suggestion about what info to research. Remember that amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.
Luiz
Jan 14, 2020 11:39
Look for info about the logistical limits of Libyan ports. How many tons of supplies could be delivered, versus how much supplies Rommel needed, this was Rommel worst constraint. Air transport is even more limited, you need planes, airfields, and control of air space, it is no magic teleportation. Rommel results were already too good. To expect him to conquer Egypt was too much.
 

 Discussion on question by Andriy Ivan…

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Luiz
Dec 27, 2019 18:33
Why would anyone care to change? The usual old word is easier to be understood, and "Russia" is there since medieval Latin. "Brazil" changed in Portuguese to "Brasil". Why would English change? China may force countries to drop "Republic of China' when dealing with Taiwan, or Myanmar may ask the press and governments to drop "Burma", but has Russia made any effort to change its name in Latin or French since that time? What you should look for is the opposite: was there any reason/effort to change? Another example: why china in Russian is still the medieval "Kitai" as we find in Marco Polo?
 

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Luiz
Nov 6, 2019 10:48
"You are hungry because the king spends too much money on his palace and foreign wars and the queen said 'if they have no bread, they may eat cake'. Or just think on all the BS the commies have been feeding the people, non stop, from 1917 to now. Are there more successful and harmful fake news/conspiracy theories than this kind? Just look at the history of nasty revolutions - it is full of conspiracy theories. Books like Pacepa's "Desinformation" tell some details about long term, elaborated, commie lies.
 

 Discussion on question by Mark: Did t…

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Luiz
Aug 6, 2019 19:22
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_color-coded_war_plans Rainbow1 was a defensive plan, IIRC. (BTW, it is not an alternate history question)
 

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Luiz
Jul 16, 2019 16:31
what about this, they are not buildings? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
 

 Discussion on question by StackUpPhys…

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Luiz
Jul 10, 2019 17:55
Kenya was invaded from Tanzania in WWI. Egypt & India were invaded in WWII. Australia and Ceylon were attacked and could have been invaded. HK, Singapure, Burma, were conquered. Why would them request compensation from the Empire that defended them?