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TIL Gandalfs stand at Minas Tirith in The Lord of The Rings books was based on a real bishop who mounted a hopeless defense against the Magyars until the emperor came to relieve him with an army of heavy knights.

by whatilearned August 11, 2022, 11:48 am

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TIL Maximinus Thrax ignited the Crisis of the Third Century when he assassinated Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and seized the throne. A peasant by birth, his misrule led to his assassination and the near collapse of the empire

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 5:21 pm

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The Father, the Son, and the Emperor of mankind

by CopyPastaArchive July 31, 2022, 11:16 pm

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TIL about Yukio Mishima, author and right wing activist who after joining the the SDF at 45 tried to spark a coup aimed at restoring the emperor and shogunate, barricaded in an office of a high rank officer committed seppuku. His second failed 3x to sever his head, another friend needed to step in.

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 11:20 am

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TIL that Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared himself emperor of Central Africa with a coronation ceremony in 1977 that was almost an exact copy of Napoleon’s coronation costing nearly $20M ($90M today), almost bankrupting the country. He was overthrown less than 2 years later.

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 10:14 pm

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TIL about Abul-Abbas. An elephant sent by the caliph Harun al-rashid ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi to the holy Roman emperor Charlemagne as a gift that symbolized the beginning of Abbasid-Carolingian relations. The elephant died in 810 just as charlemagne crossed the rhine.

by whatilearned July 23, 2022, 6:33 pm

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TIL of Dīn-i Ilāhī, a religion created by the Mughal emperor Akbar to settle religious disputes among his subjects. Only 19 people ever believed in it.

by whatilearned July 22, 2022, 10:25 am

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TIL Emperor Hirohito apologised for Japan’s warcrimes in WW2, which Douglas MacArthur allegedly rejected by refusing to acknowledge Hirohito’s presence. Patrick Lennox Tierney, the source for the story, would call it “the rudest, crudest, most uncalled for thing I have ever witnessed in my life”

by whatilearned July 10, 2022, 2:17 am

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TIL When Emperor Nero got his mistress pregnant, he divorced and banished his wife Octavia. When this led to a public outcry, he instead had her executed.

by whatilearned July 8, 2022, 7:41 pm

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TIL that the world’s oldest continuously operating library is in St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt. Built in the 550s AD by order of Emperor Justinian I, it contains one of the largest collections of early Christian icons, including the earliest known depiction of Jesus as “Christ Pantocrator”

by whatilearned July 6, 2022, 10:05 am

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TIL no Roman Emperor ever ate any pasta. It was first recorded in Italy in the 13th-14th century

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 6:59 pm

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TIL Major-General Charles George Gordon was a British Army officer who made his military reputation in China. He was placed in command of the “Ever Victorious Army” which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion. The Emperor of China promoted Gordon to the rank of tidu.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 1:38 pm

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