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martyschoenleber · 1 year
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Half the Internet Would Disappear if Christians Read My Friend's Book
Bearing Our Throat for Execution The endless flow of click bait, gossip, rumor, speculation and, lets be honest, just plain nonsense, that inhabits the internet and infects our newsfeeds is designed to have each of us bare our throats so the “enemy” (who Jesus told us to love) can slit our throats while we slit the throats of others. It is an MMA cage designed to pit various parts of the culture…
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walkswithmyfather · 11 months
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“But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment. And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity. The LORD also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble; And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.” —Psalm 9:7-10
“Your faithfulness continues throughout all generations; You established the earth, and it stands.” —Psalm 119:90
“‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’” —Jeremiah 29:11
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” —Romans 8:28
“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.” —Hebrews 4:15
“Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” —Isaiah 41:10
“God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.” —Psalm 46:1
“God Inspires Our Trust” By In Touch Ministries:
“Our Father in heaven always keeps His promises and never leaves us alone.”
“As far as children can tell, their mom and dad know everything and can do anything. And kids typically don’t question that assumption without reason (for example, if they see a parent mishandle a situation or someone else influences their level of trust). Parents demonstrate reliability by consistently providing shelter, food, and safety—and also by lovingly teaching, comforting, and guiding their sons and daughters. Then the children can sleep in peace, knowing their needs will be met.
Likewise, we know that we can trust our heavenly Father because He has shown Himself trustworthy from the beginning of time. Psalm 119:90 says, “[God’s] faithfulness continues throughout generations.” He has never broken a promise, and His plans for us have always been for our good (Jeremiah 29:11; Romans 8:28). What’s more, God understands our weaknesses and never asks us to do anything that He won’t help us accomplish (Hebrews 4:15; Isaiah 41:10). We can trust that even in the worst situations, He will be with us (Psalm 46:1).
What does trusting God look like in your life this week? Where can you relinquish control to Him?”
[All Bible verses are in the NASB1995 Translation.]
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There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. - Romans 8:1-2
The word "law" in our verses for today does not refer to any set of commandments in general or to the Mosaic Law specifically. It would probably be better translated as "power." Given this, there are two powers at work in the world. There is the power of sin and death, and there is the power of the Spirit of life.
The power of sin and death, on the one hand, is the power of our own sinful spiritual state ? which is itself under "the power of the evil one" (I John 5:19). It is the tyrant and rebel within us that leads us astray from God's will and ways and, as a consequence, leads us to eternal death and separation from God. The power of the Spirit of life, on the other hand, is the power of the Holy Spirit at work within those who believe in Christ Jesus. It is the power that enables the believer to follow God's will and ways and, as a consequence, leads us to eternal life and fellowship with God.
For those who believe in Christ Jesus, the power of the Spirit of life has set us free from the power of sin and death. The believer receives the Holy Spirit when Jesus Christ is accepted as Lord and from that point on the Holy Spirit "dwells' within the believer (I Corinthians 3:16). The indwelling presence of the Spirit is a liberating power that sets us free from the tyranny and rebelliousness of the sinful spiritual state. This does not mean that Christians never sin again or that the sinful spiritual state has been completely abolished (see Galatians 5:17), but it does mean that the primary spiritual motivation and direction of the believer is no longer dictated by that state, but by the Spirit.
For those who believe in Christ Jesus and have been set free by the power of the Spirit, there is no condemnation. No condemnation on Judgement day in the future (see Matthew 25:31-46) and no condemnation in the present ? as our verse for today implies.
If, therefore, Satan is trying to condemn you concerning your past and present failures, then remind him of Romans 8:1. Remind him that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
© 2016 by Bible League International
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touchofgoddotworld · 2 months
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To As Many As Did Receive and Welcome Him (233) - February 17 2024
Play on other Podcast Apps But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name (John 1:12 AMPC). Our hearts do not become sick because our hope is not deferred when our hope is in our faithful Heavenly Father, and Christ Jesus who intercedes for…
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batestimothy · 4 months
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Why just "believing in God" isn't enough.
I’ve mentioned this before in a previous post, but simply put- everyone believes in God. Some don’t, but this article is for those who do. I’m sure Trump does, I’m sure Biden does, I’m sure a lot of people do. And that’s great. I knew someone in prison who believed in God. He was in for arson and a double murder and is serving life without parole plus 25 years, but he believes in God. He also has…
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goldsquadbf · 4 months
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Why just "believing in God" isn't enough.
I’ve mentioned this before in a previous post, but simply put- everyone believes in God. Some don’t, but this article is for those who do. I’m sure Trump does, I’m sure Biden does, I’m sure a lot of people do. And that’s great. I knew someone in prison who believed in God. He was in for arson and a double murder and is serving life without parole plus 25 years, but he believes in God. He also has…
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dwuerch-blog · 1 year
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Take That and.....That!
Take That….and That!Before watching the “Jesus Revolution” movie, we were entertained with the trailers of upcoming movies. After watching the trailer to the “Big George Foreman” true-story movie, I knew I wanted to see it! I bought tickets in advance and saw it on Thursday. The movie gives an up close and personal view of a broken, intimidated, poor, hungry, and lost young boy in a very…
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thewcrdofgod · 2 years
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coreofthebible · 2 years
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The anointing that makes for a holy sacrifice
The anointing that makes for a holy sacrifice
The Biblical pattern of anointing and sacrifice lays down a template for the spiritual life of believers today. In the Bible, holiness, in the sense of something being set apart for God’s use, is a quality that was to have been instituted through a process of anointing. Anointing was the practice of rubbing, smearing, or pouring a substance on a thing or person to designate it as being set apart…
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martyschoenleber · 2 months
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When You Think You are Losing
There are those times in life when we lose. But there are also those times in life when we think we are losing and we aren’t. Sometimes life is kicking us in the shins and when we fall to the ground in pain we get kicked in the head as well. In our family, we have a “family slogan” about this phenomenon. “Somedays you eat the bear,Somedays the bear eats you,Somedays the bear just swallows you…
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graceandpeacejoanne · 2 years
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Revelation 2: Thyatira, Jezebel
Jesus was not concerned that Jezebel was a woman overseer in the church. Jesus was concerned that Jezebel was a bad leader, one who falsely claimed God’s anointing, and led God’s own astray. #Jezebel #Thyatira #Revelation2
Jesus was not concerned that Jezebel was a woman overseer in the church. Jesus was concerned that Jezebel was a bad leader, one who falsely claimed God’s anointing, and led God’s own astray. Bad Leaders Bad Leaders are bad leaders, whether male or female. Self-Proclaimed Prophet Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, and there are varieties of services but the same Lord, and…
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apollosgiftofprophecy · 4 months
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UPDATED 1/29/24
this was inspired by @lubble-underscore's post and I decided to expand on the iceberg and see how much I could throw on it
thanks to the Discord server for filling in on things that didn't cross my mind! :D
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feel free to save and highlight what you know :3 Links to many of these things are below - some are not tho!
Tier 1 - do we even need to SAY anything?
pathetic little meow meow
bisexual
unreliable narrator
Tier 2 - surface level/easy to see
superiority/inferiority complex
bitchsexual (i mean... points to commodus)
raised chiron (see CHB Confidential)
Tier 3 - complete read-through/reread; taking first steps into fandom
breaks cycle of abuse
polldona
great with kids, actually (see Harley, Georgie, ect.)
ordered pizza to chb (see The Hidden Oracle)
domains contradict
best godly parent
still heavily affected by past lovers (see The Whole Series)
Tier 4 - digging a little deeper
love life isn't actually terrible
definitely tried to bang frey at least once (see that One throwaway line in The Hidden Oracle)
malewife malewhore manslaughter
broke up the beatles because paul jilted him (Discord)
sees the faces of primordial gods (see The Hidden Oracle)
copollo could have worked
catboy but cats are competition (See The Tyrant's Tomb; submitted by @trials-of-apollo-my-beloved)
freakishly high pain tolerance (See THE ENTIRE SERIES)
Tier 5 - holy shit we're on to something
that apollo & jesus fic (Discord)
knew hades had kids in TTC
pressured to be the perfect son
fatal flaw is love
not as close to hermes as he used to be
seahorsed kayla
patron of CHB
roman apollo au (Discord: Creator chronictheorizing)
Tier 6 - wait what. OH!
was forced to punish halcyon green
deathsong (Discord: Creator @txny-dragon) (addition)
kids are greek & roman
michael yew is most like him
brings change by being his true self and not the fake one (Submitted by @/txny-dragon)
laomedon is why he hates slavery (Discord: Creator @ukelele-boy)
intentionally made the orientation video to communicate info on the gods
Tier 7 - what the fuck did we get ourselves into
directed travis & conner to tartarus tongs
Apollo x Orion is peek hateship (Discord: Origin in Tsari's server during Eclipse)
unlocked heavenly prophecy powers during trials
dated oscar wilde and inspired the picture of dorian gray (Discord)
half-titan theory
tartarus regenerated him
imperial kids were meant to usurp the olympians
Tier 8 - we're in too deep but will never come out
knows estelle is omen of end of the world
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apod · 2 months
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2024 February 29
Julius Caesar and Leap Days Image Credit & License: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Wikimedia
Explanation: In 46 BC Julius Caesar reformed the calendar system. Based on advice by astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, the Julian calendar included one leap day every four years to account for the fact that an Earth year is slightly more than 365 days long. In modern terms, the time it takes for the planet to orbit the Sun once is 365.24219 mean solar days. So if calendar years contained exactly 365 days they would drift from the Earth's year by about 1 day every 4 years and eventually July (named for Julius Caesar himself) would occur during the northern hemisphere winter. By adopting a leap year with an extra day every four years, the Julian calendar year would drift much less. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII provided the further fine-tuning that leap days should not occur in years ending in 00, unless divisible by 400. This Gregorian Calendar system is the one in wide use today. Of course, tidal friction in the Earth-Moon system slows Earth's rotation and gradually lengthens the day by about 1.4 milliseconds per century. That means that leap days like today will not be necessary, about 4 million years from now. This Roman silver coin, a denarius, depicts Julius Caesar (left) and Venus, Roman goddess of love.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240229.html
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gallifreyanhotfive · 2 months
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Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 29
The Fifth Doctor said he could name every pharaoh Egypt ever had.
Erimem was one of the Fifth Doctor’s companions as well; she was an uncrowned pharaoh born in 1419 BC.
She also brought on board the TARDIS a cat named Antranak, who the Doctor hated.
Fitz Kreiner thought of himself as "James Bond in space."
While attending a funeral, Polly was approached by a being claiming to be God who wanted to be her fairy godmother and thus sent her on a trip to find the perfect dress. As she is sent about the timeline, she keeps on accidentally changing history.
Before things were put back the way they should be, she had interfered with the short stories Bide-a-Wee, The Immortals, The Thief of Sherwood, Of the Mermaid and Jupiter, and Graham Dilley Saves the World as well as the Big Finish audios Colditz, The Fires of Vulcan, and Bloodtide. (I don't think I'm missing any of them but correct me if I'm wrong.)
The Master has referred to Tegan, Nyssa, and Adric as "the Doctor's whelps" before.
While monologuing, the Master once considered keeping the Seventh Doctor's shrunken corpse as a memento.
Harry Houdini is so familiar with the Doctor that he not only knows about regeneration but also that he attended the Academy with the Master.
There were several companions in between the Ponds and Clara.
The Fifth Doctor once took on an Ancient Roman named Marcipor ("Marc") as a companion. He was eventually partially cyberconverted.
The Doctor was so distraught over this that he ran away, leaving Marc, Tegan, and Nyssa alone on an alien world. He had many trips by himself (brooding) but eventually went back to them after meeting the Eleventh Doctor. The Fifth had decided he didn't want to be like the Eleventh, who at the time was companionless and quite depressed.
The Protyon Unit is a component of TARDISes that allow some of them to have independent thought.
The Hermit still occasionally calls the Doctor Theta even long after running away from Gallifrey.
The Eighth Doctor eventually possessed a sonic screwdriver that his future self had lost in Leadworth. He stashed it in a drawer in the TARDIS in the meanwhile, noted that it is currently calculating something, but did not stop the calculation it was currently completing (the calculation which would have allowed the War, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors to break out of the Tower of London if the door had been locked).
A very young First Doctor had kept a diary. In it, he not only wrote about riding skimmers with friends but also drew pictures of Torvic.
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Changing the way I do the links because. Holy Hell. (All will still be linked in Part 1)
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devilmen-collector · 2 months
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Solomon/MC - the Pope of Hell
C/W: religious theme, spoilers of the main story up to chapter 5 of the main story.
Note: calling Solomon "Pope of Hell" doesn't mean his dynamic and relationship with the devils are exactly the same with the relationship between the Pope and other Catholics. The same applies in the case of MC, who is Solomon's successor.
To begin, after reading the main story, I started to notice some interesting similarities between the Pope and Solomon, enough to make me write this post from the sentiment of my religious heart.
I. The Keys
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Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter, fresco, Pietro Perugino, 1481-82.
Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. Matthew 16:18-19 DRB
So we have Christ giving Peter the keys to the kingdom of Heaven. From this very Scripture verses comes the well-known symbol of the Papacy, two crossed keys, one gold and another silver, under the triple tiara. The silver key symbolizes the power "to bind and loose" on earth, while the golden key symbolizes the power "to bind and loose" on Heaven.
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Now returning to the lore we are given in the game. It's mentioned that Solomon had 2 "Keys". One Lesser Key he left in Hell, and one Greater Key crafted by God.
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Chapter 4, Stage 29 - the Holy Grail of God that Betrayed God
So I began to make a connection between the two images. The Lesser Key with St. Peter's silver key, which symbolizes papal power and authority on earth, which is lesser than Heaven; and the Greater Key with the golden key, which symbolizes papal power and authority on Heaven, which is the greater of the two.
Yes, the devils did mention a "third Key". However, they were only making a hypothesis on Solomon's disappearance. And given the likely reality that Solomon is physical deceased after his disappearance, the third Key probably doesn't exist and there are only two Keys. The fact that there are two key currencies in-game solidifies this theory, at least for now.
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Story 4-29
II. The Power to Crown the Emperor
In the game, we know that at the end, MC has to choose one devil among the Seven Deadly Sins and 72 nobles and makes him the "Emperor of Hell", "the king of kings", "the Final Temptation" who will rule all of Hell.
"With your own hands" make me thing MC has to literally put a crown on the head of the devil whom they chose. But that's just my personal theory.
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Chapter 1, Story 45 - the Contract is Broken
Now return to history, in the Medieval Age, kings were crowned by a bishop/archbishop of a prominent see in his country on their Coronation Day. However, there's one monarch who has to be crowned by the Pope. That's the Holy Roman Emperor.
Before being crowned by the Pope, the Emperor could not style himself as "Emperor", but only a "king", the exact title being "King of the Romans". Only after the Pope put the imperial crown on their head did the Emperor call himself "Holy Roman Emperor". This remained the case until 1508 when Pope Julius II permitted Maximilian I to use the title "Emperor Elect" with coronation by the hands of the Pope. Before that, like his predecessors before coronation, Maximilian I was only styled "King of the Romans". Even Napoleon knew that and had to get the Pope to officiate his coronation as the Emperor of the French, even though he raised the crown on his head himself.
The difference lies in the fact that unlike the Emperor of Hell, who will rule all the 7 nations of Hell, the Holy Roman Emperor in real life didn't have the power to rule other independent kingdoms in Europe, like France or England. However, being the Emperor, he was the most prominent Catholic monarch across Europe. Still, I believe I have proved the similarity here: Pope crowned an Emperor, MC will also crown one.
III. Tongue
The third similarity I see lies in the traditional way of how Catholics received Holy Communion (or the Eucharist), which is receiving on the tongue. And to do that in a correct way, Catholics need to kneel down and stick the tongue out a little bit.
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Maybe it's just me but when I saw the CGs where MC break the contracts with the devils. I immediately thought of this image because I saw some similarities.
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To have their contracts broken, the devils also kneel down and stick their tongues out. And if they stick their tongues out to break the contracts, could it be possible that when they first made contracts with Solomon, they also knelt down and stuck their tongues out to receive the pattern, just similar to how Catholics receive the Eucharist in the traditional way?
IV. Relationships with two powerful sides
In the fourth century, the Roman Empire converted to Christianity and gradually abandoning paganism. The Byzantine Empire was the successor of this great empire. The Byzantine Empire was Christian throughout its history. However, on more than one occasions, this empire showed disrespect and even violence to the Pope, the Head of the Christian Church, whom they were supposed to protect and honor. One Pope, St. Silverius was even murdered by the Byzantine conspiracy. Slowly, the Pope knew he couldn't trust or rely on the Byzantine anymore, so he sought help from the Frankish, whose king was Charlemagne, and Charlemagne's successor was the Holy Roman Emperor.
In a similar way, we have the powerful angels hating Solomon for gaining God's favor. They even tried to kill all of his descendants, including MC. As God's messengers and servants, they should have been the ones to protect Solomon and his descendants, but they did the contrary. Now to survive, MC has to rely on the other powerful faction, the devils.
So,
Solomon and MC mirror St. Peter/the Pope/Papacy
Angels mirrors the unfaithful Byzantine Empire
Devils mirror the Frankish/Holy Roman Empire and other Western European kingdoms, by allusion
Another point is that just like the historical relationship between the Pope with the Holy Roman Empire and other Western kingdoms, the relationship between MC and the devils is not always smooth and well. Mammon once thought he was MC's owner at first, just like how kings and Emperors of the West thought they could keep the Papacy under their control, or Leviathan and his Hades nobles kidnapping and trying to kill MC, just like how the Pope was a prisoner and had his life endangered by a particular Western kingdom for a long time and on more than one occasions.
Well, that's all to my ramble (possibly being delulu like Sitri) but thank you for reading it all to the end :3
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wht-am-i-doin · 14 days
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Driver's Ranked by Year
Ok, this is going to be a long one because I don't want to spam, so everybody buckle up
Disclaimer: This is not my personal ranking of the ships, this is purely based on how I view the historical event that takes place in the year that the numbers make up. I will happily further explain any of the events, my analysis of the events with the ship, and why I ranked them that way if anybody is interested. I tried to get a variety, but I am better with western history so there is more of skew towards western history. I have used both CE and BCE years to create more variety. As with everything with RPF, I do not believe any of these drivers are together and this is all in good fun, if you don't want to view it as ships view them as teammates! All images are pulled from google.
okie dokie here we go, Hope you enjoy!!
*means that it is in the area of that time period and do not have exact date or may occur over multiple years
1. Maxiel - 31 BCE
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Jesus was crucified in 31 BCE
2. Simi - 75 BCE
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Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates and demanded a higher ransom in order to be saved
3. Lestappen - 1633 CE
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Galileo was convicted of Heresy for saying the earth goes around the sun
4. Brocedes - 644 CE
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Zenkoji temple is built by Empress Kogyoku
5. Zhou + Mick - *4724 BCE
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Earliest form of photo-writing in history
6. Yukierre - ~2210 BCE
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Hale Bopp comet is seen and won't be seen again until 1997 CE, about 4,000 years later
7. Landoscar - ~814 BCE
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Homer was born
8. Fernando + Esteban - 1431 CE
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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake
9. Zhou + Valtteri - ~7724 BCE
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Tollmann's hypothetical bolide which led to global cataclysm, i.e. the great flood
10. Loscar - ~812 BCE
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Olmecs began to build their pyramids, earliest pyramids from mesoamerica
11. Lewis + Charles - 1644 CE
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one of eight years to contain each roman numeral once- MDCLXIV
12. Oscar + Zhou - ~2481 BCE
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Construction of Stonehenge
13. Esteban + Pierre - ~3110 BCE
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Narmer reigns and unifies Egypt for the first time
14. Carlos + Max - 551 BCE
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Confucius was born
15. Sewis - 544 BCE
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Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, was born
16. Esteban + Lance - 1831 CE
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Victor Hugo publishes the Hunchback of Notre Dame in Paris
17. George + Lewis - ~6344 BCE
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Great Britain and Ireland separated from the main land and became Islands
18. Oscar + Max - 181 CE
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Lake Taupo Volcano erupts in New Zealand and is seen in both China and Rome
19. Max + Lewis - 441 BCE
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Sophocles writes Antigone, one of the first greek tragedies
20. Lewis + Valtteri - ~7744 BCE
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Agriculture starts to develop in the Americas
21. Fernando + Lance - 1814 CE
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The Great Stock exchange fraud is exposed in London
22. Logan + Alex - 232 BCE
Gaius Flaminius distributes land to Plebians after the Punic Wars in the North
23. Lando + Daniel - 43 CE
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Roman conquest of Britain
24. Lando + Max - 41 BCE
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Mark Antony meets Cleopatra VII
25. Charles + Pierre - 1610 CE
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Tragedy of Macbeth's first performance
26. Nico + Kevin - ~2027 BCE
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is written
27. Galex - ~2363 BCE
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Hekla 4 eruption with a VEI 5, explosive eruptions, but nobody was hurt
28. Charles + Lando - 164 BCE
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Halley's Comet makes its appearance, occurs once every 75 years
29. Checo + Max - 111 BCE
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Spartacus was born
30. George + Lando - 634 CE
The Siege of Damascus
31. Carlando - 455 CE
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King Generic sacks Rome
32. Charles + Carlos - 1655 CE
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered
33. Charles + Sebastian - 165 CE
Antonine plague decimated the Roman Empire and China
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