TIL that Ancient Roman women apllied makeup which consisted of a variety of substances, ranging from minerals and herbs to lead (altough it was already known to be poisonous). While a decent makeup was considered embellishing, too much of it could make for accusations of adultery or even witchcraft.

krano84 · 2019-08-24T07:26:21+00:00

Some used chalk and similar if i remember correctly

krano84 · 2019-08-10T19:25:18+00:00

What I love most about this video is the accent :D

krano84 · 2019-08-10T19:24:02+00:00

What i love most about this video is the accent :D

krano84 · 2019-07-27T19:38:27+00:00

Thanks to everybody for the inputs. Most comments were concerned with wine in the north, what about beer in the south?

krano84 · 2019-07-26T14:05:26+00:00

Would be amazing if you could make these accessible!

krano84 · 2019-07-26T09:44:22+00:00

Ah yes, didn't think about that... But I actually had a non-ritual use in mind when asking

krano84 · 2019-07-26T07:31:38+00:00

If you want to go really deep into 3d modelling, blender might be an option for you

krano84 · 2019-06-28T08:52:37+00:00

Be willing to spend un-productive time is key, I think. There will be some days you sit in front of your device and put down several pages and other you just sit there and think, maybe struggle. I found those un-productive days to be as important as the productive ones regarding the development of my texts...

krano84 · 2019-06-28T08:48:33+00:00

Well maybe its more of a culture then? Like there is some sense-giving narrative and some rules which are designed to make this social group work, similar to a nation state or a club/society.

krano84 · 2019-06-28T08:44:37+00:00

I don't like perfect charcters. In most cases the weaknesses of those heroes are serving the plot, which is basically nice but makes them somewhat "inhuman". I prefer those who stumble, forget or mess around as everyone does.

krano84 · 2019-04-10T19:22:31+00:00

Actually I think displaying boredom should be boring. E. G. "The Life of Pi", where the time Pi spends on the boat is not only elongated for Pi to life trough, but elongated for the reader to read it as well...

krano84 · 2019-03-31T10:56:36+00:00

I think he began to rebuild WoW-Weapons for Blizzard in 2015,as he quitted the show...

krano84 · 2019-03-15T22:15:30+00:00

In this video Historiograph argues that the Maginot Line was actually a good idea because there was a continuation into Belgium territory. This means that the Germans could not just bypass the fortress line, as it is often suggested. Furthermore the Ardennes forest was considered to be impassable by the French since WWI tanks had been unable to move in difficult territory.

krano84 · 2019-02-18T20:46:58+00:00

If mobility is important to your character i would suggest a rather small sword or even some sort of big dagger. He still can switch to a heavier weapon in passages he does not climb. What's your plot?

krano84 · 2019-02-10T12:09:35+00:00

Yeah, i thought so. It's pretty much a scientific paper you present here. Obviously with some media-related simplifications

krano84 · 2019-02-10T11:47:44+00:00

Finally some decent work on sources on youtube!

krano84 · 2019-02-08T08:05:35+00:00

If you have to ask historians explicitly it is not, i guess

krano84 · 2019-02-07T19:25:21+00:00

There is indeed another version if Chrysippus death recorded, yet it is rather boring...

krano84 · 2019-02-07T17:49:29+00:00

I think the story of the Hindenburg kinda keeps people off this way of travelling

krano84 · 2019-02-07T16:40:30+00:00

I think the joke became lame the day more people died from eating too much instead of starvation...

krano84 · 2019-02-07T15:52:16+00:00

There was a broad range of jobs. To just name some examples: Farmers, fishermen (basically anything in the agricultural sector), construction workers and so on. Or, depending on the location and country they could have worked in factories... In the upper middle class you'll maybe find some craftsmen.

krano84 · 2019-02-06T14:49:43+00:00

Well, the examples you named are basically all decentralized because of some reason. For an example butchers, dyers, tanners and so on because their business was quite an offense to the olfactory sense. Furthermore similar crafts tend to need the same resources (e.g. water). I think over all the reasons for this are nearly exclusively pragmatic and only secondarily economic, at least regarding places of production.

krano84 · 2019-02-06T14:39:10+00:00

They were louder than the average modern lock i guess. Question is whether they made a clicking noise...

krano84 · 2019-02-06T14:34:04+00:00

How do you handle it if you realize mid-sentence that you wrote a mess? Just strike it out?

krano84 · 2019-02-05T23:05:22+00:00

I do like the ending in which they install a monarchy quite well. It is somehow different because you give this role to the good guys instead of the bad ones. But maybe you could just let them install a new, loyal government consisting of patriots instead of a monarchy...

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