#stab a roman emperor day

[burymeinblack2022]

every lover’s got a little dagger in their hand 🤔 🤔.....fall out boy....did u murder julius caesar 😳 🧐 🤨 ？

[kaliade]

So, hear me out.  MC openly carrying around a knife (instead of hidden like I headcanon they do just to feel a little safer around these magic users)  on the 15th day of the 3rd month of the year.  Night Raven student of your choice comments on it.  MC responds, “Oh, it’s stab a Roman Emperor Day back home.” Cue confusion from the students (and staff probably too once they heard about what you said).  There’s a day for celebrating stabbing an emperor?  What?  Think of how the royal students feel about this.

The confusion makes me smile.

[wolframpant]

...they intercepted him in a narrow passage and killed him. When he had fallen, none of the men present kept hands off him, but all fell to stabbing him savagely, even though he was dead; and some even tasted of his flesh. His wife and daughter were also promptly slain. Thus Gaius, after doing in three years, nine months, and twenty-eight days all that has been related, learned by actual experience that he was not a god. (Cassius Dio: Roman History, Book 59)

On the 24th of January 41 AD, Gaius, known to history as Caligula, was assassinated by the members of his Praetorian guard.

[the-real-dev]

i find it so funny that the ides of march are directly after pi day. lets cut some yummy pie up then immediately the next day stab a roman emperor

[midnights-dragon]

sorry i can’t come i have stabbing later. yeah idk if you’ve noticed but the roman emperor is kind of turning into a dictator. yeah no it’s gonna be all day

[ancientcharm]

Commodus: The end of an Era. "The reign of Commodus marked the end of the Golden Age and the beginning of the Age of Rusty Iron." Cassius Dio

Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born on August 31, 161. Curiously, he was born on the same day and month as 'Caligula', the first assassinated Roman emperor. He was the first who been born being the son of the reigning emperor, Marcus Aurelius.

M. Aurelius and Verus ruled together in perfect cooperation for eight years. Verus fought against the Parthians who had threatening to take Syria and Armenia. Returned to Rome and had his triumphal parade without knowing that he and his legions were carrying a virus that arose in the war zone. The plague spread throughout the empire and was the deadliest in Roman history. In 169 Lucius Verus died due this plague.

The boy Commodus

In 172, at age of 11, he received, in the presence of the army in Germania, the title Germanicus (a victory tittle). He participated alongside his father in several battles.

175. Empress Faustina the Younger died of natural causes in Cappadocia where she accompanied her husband. On the same year Commodus entered the College of Pontiffs, which was the starting point of his public career.

176. Marcus Aurelius granted him the position of Imperator, and the following year the title Augustus.

In January of 177, at the age of 15 , he became the youngest consul in the history of the Empire.

178. At age of 16 married to Bruttia Crispina, a very rich 13 year old girl.

March 17, 180, Marcus Aurelius died of natural causes and Commodus became sole emperor at the age of 18.

His first measure was to sign peace treaties both with Germanic tribes and some rebellious people of Britannia. This was frowned upon by his contemporaries, but modern historians agree that it was the only good action he ever took during his entire reign.

About his sister.

Lucilla had been co-empress and held the title Augusta along with her mother when she married the co-emperor Lucius Verus. Following Verus' death, Marcus Aurelius married her to senator Tiberius Pompeianus, a man of humble origins and without ambitions. In this way she lost the privileged position that she had.

In the winter of 181-182 Lucilla with her cousins Quadratus Annianus and Ummidia Faustina, her husband's nephew, Quintianus, and her own daughter Plautia, agreed to assassinate Commodus in the exit hallway of Flavian amphitheater (Colosseum) .The one chosen to kill was Quintianus. Incredibly, although proven, Pompeianus was completely unaware of the plot of his wife.

According to historical sources, when Quintiano saw Commodus, instead of stabbing him, slowly took out his dagger, showed it to him and said "The Senate send to you this dagger." Commodus shouted for his guard who immediately arrested him. The names of the involved were quickly known; Quintianus and Quadrato were executed. Lucilla, her daughter, and U. Faustina were sent into exile on Capri but and also executed there.

Following this event, he distanced himself from the elite and began to trust only in people of humble origins, among them Marcus Aurelius Cleander, former slave and freedman of Marcus Aurelius. In a short time he held important positions until he became the head of the Praetorian Guard.

In 187 due his wife's failure to become pregnant, banished her to Capri. 26-year-old Commodus, instead of marrying another aristocratic woman, chooses to have a concubine- Marcia, daughter of a freedwoman of co-emperor Lucius Verus.

The emperor treated her as a wife, so she had the same power and influence as an empress. It is very probable that Marcia was a Christian since she convinced Commodus to implement a pro-Christian policy, and had a close relationship with Victor I , Bishop of Rome.

Villa of the Quintilii and the rebellion of the people.

Commodus and Marcia retired to the lavish Villa of the Quintilii, whose ruins are today an archaeological site. On April of 190 the people had revolted in Rome because of famine.

There is a suspicion that the shortage of food may have been caused by the prefect of Annona (the import and free distribution of grain to the people) Papirius Dionysius who blamed Cleander.

During a horse-race in the Circus Maximus, the audience to rioted against Cleander. He escaped and managed to reach the Villa of the Quintilii to ask the emperor for help, but the mob followed him there. Commodus, fearing the fury of the people, ordered Cleander to be beheaded.

By then Commodus was already showing signs of an extreme megalomania and paranoia. The list of people executed, accused without evidence of conspiracy, including his own aunt, consuls, senators and praetorians, is endless. Those conspiracies were only in his mind.

He gave himself the title PIUS, the same of his maternal grandfather emperor Antoninus, and ordered sculptures and busts of himself to be made representing him as Hercules.

Madness and death

In 192 changed the name of Rome to "Comodiana" and announced that a new era was approaching, he called it Saeculum Felix (Happy Century). The months also was renamed with Commodus own names and titles as well of his dynasty. Thus, the year would begin with the month Imperator followed by Caesar, Augustus,Commodus, Germanicus, Pius, Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, etc, not even the mystical month of July was saved.

According to historical sources, he had shaved his beard, which had been in fashion since his grandfather's time, and also changed his thick curly hair for Gladiator curt hair style. Had his own games in which he fought with gladiators, who were forced to consume opium and drink wine excessively to ensure the victory of Commodus.

On December he announced that starting in the new year everything would change in Rome since the Senate wold be dismissed. Senators along with Marcia, who had had enough of Commodus, began to plan his death.

During the feast of December 31 Marcia put poison in his food, but Commodus had drunk too much and vomited immediately, so he ended the party and ordered that his bath be prepared.

Senators made Plan B; They sent a freedman named Narcissus, who "because of his size and strength he did not need to hide daggers or swords, his hands were enough." Narcissus found Commodus in the bathtub, and strangled him. Other sources say he drowned him in the bathtub. Be that as it may, 31 years old Commodus never saw his long-awaited new year.

On January 1, 193, the throne was auctioned to the highest bidder. The final price was stipulated at 25,000 sesterces per soldier. This caused a great scandal in Rome. Pertinax replaced Commodus, but on March he too was killed. Then Didius Julianus ruled for a few days. Finally that year Septimius Severus who was a good ruler- after his death, he was deified by the Senate- became the first emperor originally from the province of Africa; Born in Leptis Magna (modern Libya) was of Berber and Punic origin, and with his wife Julia Domna, born in Syria and Arab origin, they created the Severan Dynasty.

Commodus was not wrong when he said that from that year on everything would change in Rome.

Emperor Septimius Severus ( 193-211 )

[blueiskewl]

Very Rare Roman Gold Coin is Returned to Greece

A Very Rare Gold Coin, Minted by Brutus to Mark Caesar’s Death, Is Returned to Greece

The gold coin, which dates from 42 B.C. and is valued at $4.2 million, is thought to have been looted from a field near where an army loyal to Brutus camped during the struggle for control of Rome.

A rare and ancient gold coin that morbidly celebrates the stabbing death of Julius Caesar was returned this week to Greek officials by investigators in New York who had determined it was looted and fraudulently put up for sale at auction in 2020.

The coin, known as the “Eid Mar” and valued at $4.2 million, features the face of Marcus Junius Brutus, the onetime friend and ally of Caesar who, along with other Roman senators, murdered him on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. According to historians and experts, Brutus had the coins minted in gold and silver to applaud Caesar’s downfall and to pay his soldiers during the civil war that followed the killing.

The return Tuesday came at a ceremony attended by officials of the Manhattan district attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, who cooperated on the case.

The coin, one of 29 artifacts returned to Greek officials, was given up earlier this year by an unidentified American billionaire who, investigators said, had bought it in good faith in 2020. The British dealer who helped to arrange the sale was arrested in January, and the coin itself was recovered in February, officials said.

Experts said the coin, minted two years after Caesar’s death, is about the size of a nickel and weighs about 8 grams, and is one of only three known to be in circulation. A silver version of the coin was also minted and about 100 are known to exist. Those can sell for $200,000 to $400,000.

“The Eid Mar is an undisputed masterpiece of ancient coinage,” Mark Salzberg, the chairman of Numismatic Guaranty Corp., which verified the coin but does not research provenances, said in a statement in 2020.

Experts said they believe the coin was likely discovered more than a decade ago in an area of current-day Greece where Brutus and his civil war ally, Gaius Cassius Longinus, were encamped with their army.

The front, or obverse, of the coin features an engraved side view of Brutus and the Latin letters “BRVT IMP” and “L PLAET CEST.” Experts say the former stands for “Brutus, Imperator,” with imperator referring not to emperor but to commander. The latter stands for Lucius Plaetorius Cestianus, who was a treasurer of sorts for Brutus and oversaw the minting and assaying of his coins.

The reverse features two daggers on either side of a cap known as a pileus. The daggers stand for Brutus and Cassius and reflect the manner of Caesar’s death, experts say, while the cap is a symbol of liberty that was worn by freed slaves. Overall, the image is meant to celebrate the murder as an act by which Rome was liberated from Caesar’s tyranny. Beneath the symbols is the Latin inscription “EID MAR,” designating the Ides of March — March 15, 44 B.C. — the fateful day on which the conspirators left Caesar dead on the floor of the Roman Senate.

Historians see irony in the fact that Brutus, who had admonished Caesar before the murder for the self-aggrandizing act of putting his face on Roman coinage, wound up doing the same with his own coins.

Ultimately, the forces who favored the dead Caesar, led by Mark Antony and others, defeated Brutus and his men in October of 42 B.C. at the Second Battle of Philippi, and Brutus and Cassius committed suicide.

According to investigators, the coin is first thought to have come to market between 2013 and 2014. Richard Beale, 38, director of the London-based auction house Roma Numismatics, put it up for sale on his company’s website and over several years shopped it at coin shows in the United States and Europe before it was sold in October 2020. The $4.2 million was the most ever paid for an ancient coin, according to the Numismatic Guaranty Corp.

Mr. Beale is charged with grand larceny in the first degree and several other felonies and was released on his own recognizance. His lawyer, Henry E. Mazurek, declined to comment on the case.

Among the other Greek antiquities repatriated on Tuesday were figurines of people and animals; marble, silver, bronze and clay vessels; and gold and bronze jewelry. Their total value was put at $20 million.

In remarks at the ceremony, Konstantinos Konstantinou, Greece’s consul general in New York, said his country has been hit hard by the illicit trading of antiquities and is seeking their return “in every possible way.”

He praised investigators for “striking down the illegal international criminal networks whose activity distorts the identity of peoples, as it cuts off archaeological finds from their context and transforms them from evidence of people’s history into mere works of art.”

By Tom Mashberg.

[eucanthos]

Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12 - 41)

Roman emperor from 37 to 41 AD

Caligula marble bust, with Cuirass and Crown of oak leaves "corona civica." Photo: Sergey Sosnovskiy 2008. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen (inv. 1453) [edited img]

On January 24th, AD 41, Caligula, his wife Milonia Caesonia and his 2 y/o daughter, Julia Drusilla, were stabbed to death by officers of the Imperial Guard.

The assassins immediately proclaimed a new emperor: Claudius (the uncle). On the same day, portraits of Caligula were thrown into the Tiber. Three of the ca. 45 known portraits of Caligula were in fact found in that river. This cuirass bust is one of them.

Caligula’s brief reign and life is the fascinating story of a boy-emperor, who, in the early years of the Roman Empire, tried to make Rome an absolute monarchy but failed. A reckless ruler against conservatism, tarnished by his enemies as a madman, tyrant, pervert – one of the worst Roman emperors.

Member of a revered family, Caligula was wildly popular. Unlike his paranoid uncle Tiberius, Emperor Caligula was a charismatic and benevolent young man. Immediately after taking the throne, he ended treason trials, granted amnesty to the exiled, and abolished unfair taxes...

Caligula: 18 Facts on the “Mad” Roman Emperor - The Collector, Aug 16, 2023

https://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=2172

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuirassed_bust_of_Caligula,found_in_Rome,_AD_37-41,_Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptotek,_Copenhagen(13192017765).jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/5037962882

https://www.thecollector.com/caligula/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/5wyght/marble_bust_of_the_roman_emperor_caligula_31/?rdt=44964

[notyour-valentine]

A New Year's Waltz ~ Tommy Shelby x Reader (Fluff)

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Summary: It is considered lucky to dance in the New Year as the clock strikes twelve, but how about a dance a few hours later?

Notes: Happy New Year to you all - I hope you had a wonderful start. This was supposed to come out on the first but I had a hangover so it's a bit late (whoops) Anyway, I mixed in some personal memories and our favourite fictional dance partner - I hope you enjoy

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The darkness was filled with nothing but relief. 

As much as she had enjoyed tonight’s - today’s - celebrations, the air had grown ever thicker, and her feet ever sorer. 

She only realized both in their absence, as her lungs filled themselves with cold, clear air, free from the scent of sweat, perfume and smoke. 

It tasted sweeter on her tongue than any champagne or those delightful little deserts that seemed to melt on the tongue. 

And the lack of flickering light eased the throbbing in her temple. Even though she was still indoors, this corridor was as deserted and as untouched as a flower yet to spread it’s petals. 

Steadying herself on the wall, she lowered herself to sit at the foot of a statue of a long-dead Roman. A Consul, Emperor or General, or all three. 

She had always had trouble telling the pale faces apart, and in the darkness it was close to impossible. 

The only light came from the moon and the stars on one side, silvery and clear, with but a small flicker of orange coming from around the corner, leading her further into the furnace of the celebration. The music sounded distant now, like a dream already slipping away, as others were still dancing and toasting to welcome the New Year and whatever it may bring. 

As much as she enjoyed these events, there was something inexplicably intriguing in watching them from a distance, the way she had done as a child, seeing the glow of light, the glimmer of glass and jewels, the faint hints of music, barely there. 

Just enough to send her imagination running, but run it did. Then again, the imagination had always been more powerful than reality could ever hope of being. 

Funny really, she thought, that despite it all, even in the years of war and hardship, people always seemed to have retained some form of hope, even if it only lasted for little more than this first night, this first day of the New Year. 

Her fingers felt thick as sausages as they battled with the clasps of her shoes, but when she finally released them, they clattered into oblivion. 

It wasn’t a loss she could claim to mourn. 

Instead, she braced herself in the small gap between the statue and wall and coiled and flexed her toes, which greeted their newfound freedom with a sharp stab of pain. 

She had sworn she had broken her new shoes in properly, but wearing them for an hour or so for a few days while walking the halls of Arrow House hadn’t been ample rehearsal for a night of celebration. 

To ease the consequences of her mistake, she pressed her feet onto the stone floor of the hall, separated only by thin stockings.  

Relief had never felt sweeter as the ever-cold marble confronted her bruised and burning limbs. 

Her head leaned against the wall, allowing her temple a similar joy as her feet. 

Here, in this soothing darkness, with the comforting cold, she felt her body grow weary to the point of slumber. 

It wouldn’t be the first time someone would be found sleeping in this particular corridor, but this time it would not be her. 

The sharpness of the footsteps she heard betrayed them as dress shoes and the rhythm in which they met the stone floors told her just who was coming. 

Walk past me, she thought, walk past me, I’m tired. 

Of course, she knew he wouldn’t. 

He wouldn’t stop until he had found her and it would be a mean thing to keep him searching. 

He could act the part to perfection, but in truth he was a fish out of water, a wolf among lions, and as a wolf he yearned for his pack. 

“I’m here.”, she called out, announcing her presence to him and whomever else was listening from frames and pedestals, her companions in the darkness. 

The steps stopped, then quickened, then stopped again and then she knew she was found. 

“You’ve made a friend, I see.”, Tommy said, not without amusement in his voice. 

His hands were buried in his pockets and his bowtie as well as the top buttons of his shirt had been undone. 

He was finished, just like she was, which was a delight to see. 

Slowly arched her head to look up her companion. 

“Him?”, she asked. “We’re not friends. He hasn’t even told me his name.”

Tommy bent down, squinting in the dim light. 

“Nero Claudius Something. Is that the mad one?”, he wanted to know. 

“Could be.”; she murmured. “Or the Nero Claudius that was Germanicus or the Nero Claudius that became Germanicus.”

“What’s the difference?”, Tommy asked with a breathless chuckle. 

She opened her mouth to begin a rather short retelling of history and the difference between father and son, only to shut it again. It was both too late and too early for ancient history. “Why do you care?”, she asked with a faint smile, looking up him. 

He stood in such a way that the moon caught his face, turning his skin to marble in a way that would rival these ancient greats. 

Someone should make a bust of him, she thought, letting her eyes trial over the sharpness of his cheekbone, the shape of his jaw, the straightness of his brows,  of the way his lips were so full and yet never pouty - pale lips if she had ever seen some. 

They would look good in marble, or at least better than any statue here. 

“I feel I should know his name, since there seems to be a tangible risk that my wife will be spending the night with him.”

She pulled a face, then looked up at the statue. 

No, he couldn’t compare to her husband in the least bit, and even without the fact that the Julio Claudians had a rather unattractive habit of familicide in every way possible. 

“I think you overestimate his draw.”, she said and reached out a hand. 

As expected, her husband took it and helped her to her feet. 

They were still painful, but hurt a lot less. 

“Better to overestimate than underestimate.”

He should know, after all Thomas Shelby had spent all his life being underestimated. 

“Let’s call it a night, eh?”, Tommy asked, lacing his fingers with hers even as he bent down to gather up her shoes. 

But when he wanted to walk, she hesitated. 

“Just a moment more.”, she asked, leaning into him. 

The scent of his aftershave was far fainter than it had been when they had both prepared for tonight but it was still there. 

“Love, if you’re going to fall asleep on me- “

“I’m not!”, she argued, reaching up and cupping his face as she offered him a smile. “It’s just…our rooms have wooden floors.”

In the dark his pale eyes shone even brighter, like stars in the dark that surrounded them. 

“And?”, he asked. 

She looked down between their bodies slowly and wiggled her toes, just slightly. 

“The marble feels nice.”, she admitted, even if it made her cheeks flush. 

Tommy let his eyes follow, his brows raised in a mixture of irritation and amusement. 

“You want to stay here because the marble feels nice on your feet?”, he repeated slowly, as if he suspected he had missed some vital part of information along the way. 

“They are sore from prancing around in heels all day.”

Tommy hummed as he glanced down once more.

When his eyes met hers, they had that boyish shine that promised nothing but mischief even if his face remained a mask. 

“Well, we could do more than just stand.”

Her brows furrowed as she looked at him. 

He ciuldn’t mean sitting down again, for that his eyes shone too brightly, but she couldn’t fathom what else he was implying. Usually, if he worded something like that, it implied he wanted to take it to the bedroom, or, if one was being truthful, his office, the back of the car, the broom closet or in one incident, the kitchen table. 

“We,”, Tommy mused as he shifted on his feet to be as close to her as possible as he brought up their laced fingers, “could dance.”

“Dance?”, she asked, blinking rapidly. 

He nodded, the corners of his lips hinting at a smile, as he began to list the advantages of his plan. 

“Your feet would be on the ground for the most part, you’d get some movement too and we would be dancing.”

“And have my already injured toes squashed under your shoes? No thank you.”, she declined with a sharp shake of her head. 

He clicked his tongue as if scolding a child. 

“You should know me better than that, Mrs Shelby.”, he mused as he bent down, his eyes never leaving hers as he undid his shoes one lace at a time. “Besides, it seems you need a reminder of what kind of dancer your husband it.”

She watched him gather them up and place them neatly on the pedestal he had found her own, with her shoes right beside them. 

“Shall we?”, he asked, both his hands stretched out.

What a ridiculous idea for two adults to dance in a deserted corridor with their shoes long discarded and without music to listen to. 

And she would rather not have to explain that to anyone that may walk in on them. 

But Tommy’s eyes were still sparkling and his hand still outstretched. 

With a sigh, she relented and by the time their hands touched, her own smile mirrored his. 

~

Thank you so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed and as always I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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[weirdgerman]

That's why his hairline is receding. It's full of secrets.

So, it's August 20, 2023. :) On August 20, 2022, I walked to the pharmacy by my house and picked up my first 3 bottles of TestoGel, and applied some the minute I got home. It's a joyous occasion, and much has changed about my body since then, but there's one thing in particular I wanted to write about for today. Because, as always, it's funny.

I've always had very thick hair, and it's longer now than it's been in a long time, so I'm not sure if it's thicker now than it was before, but it definitely feels that way. It has not thinned, so far, is what I'm saying. It'd be fine if it did! I'm 31, it happens. If you're bald, hi, you're hot.

So I'm not bald, and I'm not balding per se, but T has made my hairline change. You're familiar with what I'm talking about, those spots around the temples where people tend to bald first, at varying ages. I have those now, which is extremely cool and sexy of me.

You will not be surprised to hear that German has a word for those. A long, silly compound word for a very specific part of some people's bodies. You may now take a few moments to sit and guess what that word might be. Let me know if you come up with anything!

The word is.....

Geheimratsecken!

It is very much one of my favorites. As always, I'll break it up for you:

geheim = secret, as in the adjective. A secret (noun) is das Geheimnis.

Rat = not a rat. That's Ratte. This one means council.

Ecke(n) = corner(s)

A Geheimrat is a privy council, one like the ancient Romans had. That's where this word is believed to have originated. Because, you could only be part of this council if you were of a certain age. Anyone whose temples weren't bald and sexy and naked yet - and you know the Romans were all about being sexy and naked - was too young to be part of a privy council.

So it's a feature of honor! To this day, we call these bald spots at your temples privy council corners, because it shows that you're wise enough to give council to Caesar. And we all know how that worked out for him.

I used to think that it meant more that the corners are for the privy council. Like there's some round-ish shape hollowed out there where you can put like.... a table and some chairs..... to hold council.... But then you sweep the rest of your hair over it so nobody can see and that's why it's a privy council... Anyway. I actually like the true meaning more, because it makes me feel cool.

Be proud of your Geheimratsecken, flaunt them, get nude, show skin, stab the emperor. ♥

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Today in Christian History

Today is Thursday, April 25th, 2024. It is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; Because it is a leap year, 250 days remain until the end of the year.

62: Death of Mark the Gospel writer while imprisoned in Alexandria in the eighth year of Nero, according to Vetus martyrologium romanum (an old Roman collation of martyr accounts).

799: Pope Leo III is attacked, his eyes stabbed, and his tongue torn. He recovers and later crowns Charlemagne as emperor.

1449: The ineffectual Council of Basel ends.

1479: Death of Sylvester of Obnorsk, a Russian Orthodox hermit who had lived off roots and bark. Eventually he had established a monastery.

1564: John Calvin, reformer of Geneva, dictates his last will and testament to notary Peter Chenalat.

1595: Death from a fever in the convent of St. Onofrio of Italian poet Torquato Tasso. Ironically, he was supposed to receive a laurel from the pope on this day in recognition of his epic poems, among which Jerusalem Delivered had been the most acclaimed.

1735: Death at Epworth, England, of Samuel Wesley, curate, author, and father of Methodist revival leaders John and Charles Wesley.

1800: Death at East Dereham, Norfolk, England, of English poet William Cowper (pictured above). Despite lifelong depression, he had produced enduring hymns, including, “Oh For a Closer Walk with God” and “There is a Fountain Filled with Blood.” Dementia had led him to believe he was damned.

1879: Consecration of J. B. Lightfoot as Bishop of Durham. A renowned English New Testament scholar, he had left Cambridge and a life of scholarship to devote the remaining ten years of his life to church administration.

1889: Death at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, of Anzentia Igene Perry Chapman. A member of the Free Methodist Church, she wrote a number of hymns, including, “Thou Shalt Rest at Eve,” and “We’ll Never Say Goodbye.”

1917: Ordination of Paul Sasaki as a priest in the Anglican Church in Japan. He will become bishop of Nippon Sei Ko Kei (an independent church organization within the Anglican Communion), and suffer imprisonment for his refusal to bring Nippon Sei Ko Kei under the authority of a government-ordered church coalition.

[burymeinblack2022]

"It's pretty stabbyyyyyy :p" Gerard Way, where were you on march 15th 🤔🤔

[sillyboigaylus]

You all know what day it is!!!!!! Now go stab a Roman emperor, have some fun you deserve to take time for yourself today

[yorickish]

early roman empire conspiracy guy who thinks caesar didn't actually die when all those senators stabbed him and that he's gonna come back and (restore the republic? take rightful control as emperor?) any day now

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Mais: We have to make war to prove that we are stronger than the Jews.

Student: People love Palestine and they are ready to die for Palestine. I want to fight against them [the Jews] and defeat them in war.

Atif: At school, they teach us that Al-Aqsa, and all of Palestine is ours.

Abed: The Jews lie and say that their temple is under the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It was never there.

Yousef: I hate the Jews.

Nur: They teach us that the Zionists are our enemy, and must fight them.

Samir: They teach us that Jews are terrorists.

Mohammed: At school they teach us about Jews. They teach us that they are bad people. They killed our young.

Arafat: They teach us in school that Jews are fickle, bad people. I am ready to stab a Jew, and drive [a car] over them.

Amin: I will fight. I will ram a car into them [the Jews].

Mohammed: We have to constantly stab them, drive over them and shoot them [the Jews].

Student: Stabbing and running over Jews brings dignity to the Palestinians. I'm going to run them over and stab them with knives.

Mohammed: Right now, I'm prepared to be a suicide bomber.

Nur: With Allah's help, I will fight for ISIS, the Islamic State.

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Not being an Arabic speaker, I've run the audio through Google Translate to verify the translation. Although the sound makes it difficult to get a full translation, the translation engine reproduced many of the key fragments and words indicated in the subtitles.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque

The mosque is located on the southern part of the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif, an enclosure expanded by King Herod the Great beginning in 20 BCE during his reconstruction of the Second Jewish Temple. The mosque resides on an artificial platform that is supported by arches constructed by Herod's engineers to overcome the difficult topographic conditions resulting from the southward expansion of the enclosure into the Tyropoeon and Kidron valleys. During the late Second Temple period, the present site of the mosque was occupied by the Royal Stoa, a basilica running the southern wall of the enclosure. The Royal Stoa was destroyed along with the Temple during the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple

The Temple was on the site of what today is the Dome of the Rock. The gates led out close to Al-Aqsa Mosque (which came much later). Although Jews continued to inhabit the destroyed city, Emperor Hadrian established a new city called Aelia Capitolina. At the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE, many of the Jewish communities were massacred and Jews were banned from living inside Jerusalem. A pagan Roman temple was set up on the former site of Herod's Temple.

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They're living in a terrorist training camp. If this is shocking to you, I really don't know why it should be.

https://quranx.com/5.82

You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, "We are Christians." That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.

https://quranx.com/5.64

And the Jews say, "The hand of Allah is chained." Chained are their hands, and cursed are they for what they say. Rather, both His hands are extended; He spends however He wills. And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in transgression and disbelief. And We have cast among them animosity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection. Every time they kindled the fire of war [against you], Allah extinguished it. And they strive throughout the land [causing] corruption, and Allah does not like corrupters.

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-1/Book-8/Hadith-427/

Narrated `Aisha and `Abdullah bin `Abbas: When the last moment of the life of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came he started putting his 'Khamisa' on his face and when he felt hot and short of breath he took it off his face and said, "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians for they built the places of worship at the graves of their Prophets." The Prophet (ﷺ) was warning (Muslims) of what those had done.

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-4/Book-52/Hadith-177

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

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"Israel is only the first target. The entire planet will be under our law." "The entire planet will be under our law; there will be no more Jews or Christian traitors." -- Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas Commander

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The Ides of March. On March 15,44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated.

We owe Julius Caesar the famous phrase “the die is cast” (Alea iacta est). He said this in January 49 BC when he led his army across the Rubicon River in northern Italy, after his conquest of Gaul. A positive aspect of him is that he did not seek revenge. He spared the lives of his enemies defeated in the civil war with the intention of turning them into friends and together improving what he called "the new Republic." Among his murderers on that Ides of March were those "friends" whose lives he had spared.

In 59 BC he founded Florentia which later changed its name in Italian to Firenze (Florence). The curious, almost prophetic thing is that Florentia in Latin means “flowering” and it was in Florence where emerged the cultural movement known as the Renaissance (a flowering of art of the Ancient Rome).

In 46 BC he modified the Roman calendar, creating the novelty that the year began on January 1 and not March 1 as in the previous calendar in addition to the novelty of the leap year. 

Julius Caesar, one of the most famous men, had a passionate relationship with one of the most famous women, the Ptolemaic Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. They had a son, named Caesarion. After Cleopatra's arrival in Rome in the year 46, Caesar himself officially recognized the child as his son.

He had a daughter named Julia, whom Caesar married to Pompey Magnus, who would later be his greatest rival and whom he defeated during the civil war at the Battle of Pharsalia. Julia and the baby died during childbirth. Caesar adopted his grandnephew, Octavian as his son and sole heir. Years later, Octavian ordered the execution of young Caesarion, days after Cleopatra committed suicide.

Caesar proclaimed himself Dictator for 10 years, something completely unusual. The position of Dictator was an occasion in which a man was elected by the Senate for a period of 6 months to 1 year to make special laws, in times of war or serious crisis. In addition to the calendar,Julius Caesar has also forever changed the meaning of being a Dictator. 

He became a dictator in the modern sense of the word: he was populist, he did things to please the Roman people to the point that they idolized him. Although it must be recognized that he did very favorable things for the people.

Shortly after, he proclaimed himself Dictator for life, this sealed his tragic end. 

Senators agreed to assassinate him.The conspiracy was carried out in the house of Servilia ,mother of Brutus and lover of Julius Caesar for years. 

They stabbed him 23 times, taking him by surprise in the Senate.

After years of civil war caused by this assassination, his grandnephew Octavian,Caesar Augustus, became the first Emperor of Rome. Unlike his uncle and adoptive father, Octavian was very vengeful; Within a few years, all of Caesar's adversaries and assassins were dead.

Historians agree that with exceptions, such as Cato, Cicero, Brutus or Cassius,who sincerely believed that the Republic was in danger, the others did not decide to assassinate him out of fear of a monarchy, as they hypocritically claimed, but out of envy and ambition; They did not want to be republicans, they wanted to be JULIUS CAESAR, the same desire of every authoritarian ruler from then to the present.