Early 1900s American Rosh Hashanah postcard. It shows the kapparot ritual with Tsar Nicholas II’s head on the rooster. A few years later, he and his family would be killed by jewish Bolsheviks.

Sweden to declare war on Norway in just 2 weeks btw

you're going to get drafted, you fjellabino

I'm going to abduct all women from your city so that you will remain a girlfriendless loser

cry about it

Medievalist Steven Runciman described the medieval European view of the Byzantine Empire by saying:

Ever since our rough crusading forefathers first saw Constantinople and met, to their contemptuous disgust, a society where everyone read and wrote, ate food with forks and preferred diplomacy to war, it has been fashionable to pass the Byzantines by with scorn and to use their name as synonymous with decadence.

— Steven Runciman, The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium, 1988[8]