Creme eggs have been around for 60-odd years. They're crazy sweet and not very high-quality – especially after the Kraft acquisition, as it's not even Cadbury's Dairy Milk any more.
What you get in the US are smaller and made over there by Hershey, so frankly they're probably as bad or worse, but you're not missing out on much.
Hubert Cumberdale! Fancy seeing you here.
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These seem fair ideas? They're not paywalling critical functionality and you can't run a massive social network for free. It's not the same attitude as the wider Fediverse, and I understand why that rubs people the wrong way, but it's hardly outrageous.
This is a little confusing to me. The shields are called Celtic in style, but the raid from which they were captured was on boats constructed on the Baltic coast and occurred on Als, just off the east coast of mainland Denmark.
Does this tell us that what we attribute to Celtic culture was much more widespread, or that the attack force may have been Celts?
A hard "c". The word in Greek (Keltoi) and thus in Latin (Celtae) used a hard "c", and it's only through French (Celte) that we've historically used a soft "c" in English. This is preserved in the name of some sports clubs, but modern English usage has reverted to the hard "c".
Hand-colored
So, uh, not colored other than a few splashes? The photo is interesting and worthwhile, don't get me wrong, but at this point you might as well not bother with the coloration.
Video's worth watching, but the gist of it: a free browser extension promoted by YouTubers and owned by PayPal is advertised as a way to very easily apply the best available coupon code to web stores at checkout. It often fails to find codes, but it also adds a PayPal referral code/cookie to your purchase, so they net a referral fee, even if it found no coupon.
This is nefarious in and of itself, but it also means that the channels they sponsor lose out on referral fees from their viewers, because it replaces their own referral code/cookie. YouTubers would not have known this when accepting the sponsorship and promoting the browser extension.
The sort of person who watched [James Bond] was old, weird, had a hat, smelled, and were Belgian. But nowadays we're about appealing to a different kind of audience...
Unlike his elder brother, Gaius somehow succeeded in being elected tribune twice. But, in murky circumstances, he failed to be elected again for 121 BCE. In that year he resisted the efforts of the consul Lucius Opimius, a diehard who became something of a hero to the conservatives, to cancel much of his legislation. In the process he was killed, or he killed himself to forestall murder, by an armed gang under Opimius’ command.
The violence was not one-sided. It had broken out after one of the consul’s attendants – apparently going to and fro with the innards from some animals that had just been sacrificed, which added a macabre touch to the scene – shouted some casual abuse at Gaius’ supporters (‘Let the decent guys pass, you tossers’) and made an even ruder gesture. They turned on him and stabbed him to death with their writing styluses, a clear sign that they were not already armed, that they were a literate group, but that they were not merely innocent victims.
In response, the senate passed a decree urging the consuls ‘to make sure that the state should come to no harm’, the same emergency powers act as was later passed during Cicero’s clash with Catiline in 63 BCE. Opimius took the cue, gathered together an amateur militia of his supporters and put some 3,000 Gracchans to death, either on the spot or later in an impromptu court. It established a dubious and deadly precedent.
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, by Mary Beard
Some say our attitude should be one of gratitude, like the widows and orphans of old London Town who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.
At left is an Irish warrior in his quilted war coat, conversing with a Scottish gallòglach (or Gallowglass), who is carrying his claidheamh mhòr (great sword) and longbow, followed by another gallòglach wrapped in his feileadh mhòr (great kilt) and followed, finally, by two bare foot Irish kern (peasant warriors) carrying pole axes. The kern would have always accompanied the elite mercenaries to assist them with their weapons and gear.
https://inevitablespark.blogspot.com/2012/07/albrecht-durer-irish-warriors-and.html
They're just long and/or acrylic nails with a geometric pattern painted on: