Mina's incredible (and underrated) detective prowess would be very useful I bet. Put her on the helm Integra, Van Helsing praised her brains as being above everyone's including himself for a reason.
I honestly can't guess what the chemistry between Integra and Mina would be. Integra doesn't really click with me as a classically heroic character, for all that she does focus on saving humanity from the undead via Alucard and her forces, being the Boss Lady etc etc. She's miles away from being as insidious as an Amanda Waller, but...
The hotel. The fucking hotel will never leave me.
Yes, the order went directly against 'soldiers of the enemy,' but those soldiers had been lied to about who and what they were charging into. Which was obvious even without being a fly on the wall to know their higher-ups had fed them some BS to march them into death and win their own power grab from Millennium. She didn't tell Alucard to 'make it quick' or even just to 'neutralize.' She told him to search and destroy. Folding to Alucard's egging and negging to seem like a Worthy War Commander in the grand scheme~ of the plot
She's not heartless, exactly, but she is arctic and surprisingly quick to breeze past the loss of lives that aren't under her direct care/command. While she might respect Mina's abilities and investigative skills--I wouldn't be surprised if Mina could intuit Millennium's endgame well before the climax could happen--Integra inherited none of her ancestor's warm regard, supposing Abraham van Hel(l)sing had any of the original's tenderness in him (50/50 considering this takes place in aggro horror territory). We can't even say if this universe's Mina played any big role in cornering Dracula; she might just have been a targeted damsel.
All that said, I think Integra would see Mina as another time-displaced bleeding heart with a few useful skills, same as Jonathan. Someone to be an ally at best, a liability at worst. So I don't see her handing over any reins or offering to be co-girlbosses any time soon :c
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someone posted a picture of a map and captioned it: The oldest Ptolemy map of Palestine is dated 150 AD. The large red letters in the center say in Greek: Παλαιστινης or Palaistinis.
Map in question:
What's accurate: all of it. This is a Byzantine Greek copy of Ptolemy's 4th Asia map from the Codex Vaticanus Urbinas Graecus 82, Constantinople c. 1300. It was probably assembled by Maximus Planudes.
it seems like this post is some kind of 'gotcha' to prove that Palestine as a name/entity has existed for thousands of years, which it has. This is beyond dispute. The name Palestine is (probably) derived from Peleset, who you might know as the Sea People, who were from the Aegean. after they had fun times (not fun times) with Ramesses III, they relocated to the southern coast of Canaan, intermarried with the Canaanites, and became known as the Philistines. The Assyrians called that regions 'Palas(h)tu' since 800 BC; the term Palestine as "Palestine" first appeared in Herodotus' Histories in the 5th century BC, and this usage continued with other Greek and Roman writers (Aristotle, Ovid, Pliny the Elder, etc.). the term Syria Palaestina (literally Palestinian Syria) was used to refer to the Roman province which was created in the 2nd century AD. this is the name we see in the map above. cool.
What's missing: the Roman province Syria Palaestina was created by incorporating the province of Judaea and surrounding areas after they were defeated by the Romans in the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 AD (the end of the third Roman-Jewish Wars). to put a button on the issue, removing the name Judaea is commonly believed to have been a 'fuck you, we won' - as in, the name change from Judaea to Syria Palestina was done to "sever the connection of the Jews to their historical homeland".
furthermore: Judaea had been a Roman province since 6 AD and the name Judaea was a Latinized version of Judah, a kingdom founded in approximately 930 BC, that bordered the Philistine City States, as in Philistia, mentioned above. They were BOTH there. They were there concurrently with the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria). Look at this map! They are RIGHT next to each other at the SAME period in time, directly south of the kingdom of, guess who, Israel (also founded approximately 930 BC).
like damn. this is the most contentious topic on earth right now. try to provide some context to whatever historical stuff you post on this hellsite before a bunch of people (smart people! people I know and respect!) see it and share it without having a clue about the context because they aren't inclined to do any further digging and it fits with the narrative they most agree with.
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so. tumblr is going to make a dig at twitter for their tweet viewing limit. even as it tries to turn desktop into a twitter clone. and implements more and more changes that the original userbase hates, driving us away. just like twitter (along with the rest of social media) has done with their userbase.
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