Medieval taxation wasn’t just about coin.

It was control, obligation — survival. 🪙💀

They called it “dues.”

But what they meant was, “Give us everything.”

Read more 👇

🔗 https://brewminate.com/medieval-taxation-dues-for-life-or-death

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"Why was the history teacher always tired?

Because he kept repeating himself every year!

https://punnypeak.com/history-puns/

#HistoryPuns
#HistoricalHumor
#FunnyHistoryJokes
#JokesAboutHistory
#LaughOutLoud
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#PunnyJokes
#HilariousHistories
#ComedyGold
#LOLHistory
#PunnyPeak"

Mary Kay Letourneau's father, John Schmitz, was an ultra-conservative politician who began his political career in ‘64, successfully running as a Republican for the legislature.

He was known for involvement in conservative political causes and was a prominent figure in American politics. In 1982, it was revealed that he had fathered two children out of wedlock with a former student, which deeply affected Mary Kay Letourneau.

#histodons @histodons #HistoryNerds #MayDecember #MaryKayLeTourneau

“Some scholars have suggested that the Shakyas, the clan of the historical Gautama Buddha, were originally Scythians from Central Asia, and that the Indian ethnonym Śākya has the same origin as “Scythian,” called Sakas in India.”

#HistoryNerds @histodons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Scythians

@oliver_schafeld is this…a modest proposal? 🤔

#satire #HistoryNerds

How Trump’s proscriptions be different than Sulla’s: they will be carried out via drones.

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The subtext of this story is the #ProductManagement hacker skills of Saul, which resulted in #Pauline #Christianity, and the disagreement with the more conservative apostles in #Jerusalem.

#HistoryNerds #history #Pagan
@histodons
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/guido-calabresi-vatican-archives-judaism/675824/

The Year of Tenet and the Century of Four Emperors: On the way to a meeting today, I had the equivalent of a shower thought, but in the car, pattern matching the movie Tenet, with the next year, a decade in the 1920, and a century from more than a millennia ago.

Somewhat rambling, but hope it’s “coherent enough” for y’all

https://open.substack.com/pub/paninid/p/year-of-tenet-and-four-emperors?r=4hxgy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#histodons @histodons #HistoryNerds #History