History tangents

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Thomas Jefferson was a strict constructionist who hates Hamilton and loose construction he passed loose construction policy all the time he just felt bad about it.

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George iv delayed his coronation for a year because he was trying to divorce his wife it didn't work so during the coronation he had her bared from it while she kept trying to break in.

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Salt, pepper, and something else. It is funny how many historical mysteries we have for how random everyday items were used because no oral, written, or visual demonstration on how to use it survived like we have found countless three shacker collections in old European houses we still don't know what the third one was for. Theories go from mustard seed, paprika, kitchen pepper, and nutmeg it could be literally anything.

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It is fact that Julius Caesar slept with Brutus's mom Servia for years but what makes that funnier is according to Plutarch in Cato the Younger in the Senate they were arguing about Caesars involvement in the Catiline conspiracy Caesar got a letter and to his credit really tried to not have it read aloud Cato pushed for and Caesar handed the letter to him the it was basically the letter of sexting and it was from Servia by the way Cato was Servia's half brother so he threw the letter back and the Senate laughed except for Brutus who was also there.

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How did collapsed civilizations get more advanced so quickly going from bronze to iron simple they viewed it has a downgrade. The iron age began around 1200 bce in the Mediterranean and Middle East after the collapse of several prominent bronze age civilizations basically everyone but Egypt, Assyria, Phoenician city states, and Elam all temporarily weakene they stopped being able to make bronze so they had to use iron.

Bronze is made from tin and copper and is quite beautiful compared to iron which is just a metal you could use that existed. While we don't know where they got tin from because it is not common in the Mediterranean or Middle East it had to have been imported so when the massive interconnected society collapsed so did the bronze age forcing people to downgrade to what was there iron.