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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • egrets@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneyou pesky kids rule
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    1 month ago

    Life is full of mysteries, yeah
    But there are answers out there
    And they won’t be found
    By people sitting around
    Looking serious
    And saying ‘Isn’t life mysterious?’
    Let’s sit here and hope
    Let’s call up the fucking Pope
    Let’s go watch Oprah
    Interview Deepak Chopra

    If you wanna watch telly, you should watch Scooby Doo
    That show was so cool
    Because every time there was a church with a ghoul
    Or a ghost in a school
    They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
    The fucking janitor or the dude who ran the waterslide
    Because throughout history
    Every mystery
    Ever solved
    Has turned out to be
    Not magic

    - Tim Minchin, Storm







  • Copying my comment from a couple of days ago.

    In fairness, July and August weren’t inserted, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis, literally the fifth and sixth months of the Roman calendar.

    Much earlier, Pompilius (history about whom is largely legendary, and actions attributed to him should be taken with a grain of salt) introduced January and February and set the numbering out of line. These months were previously just lumped in as monthless winter days.

    All Julius Caesar did was rebalance the calendar without changing the months. The rename of Quintilis wasn’t even until after he was stabbed.

    Gregory XIII then further tweaked it to give us the modern calendar.








  • egrets@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    5 months ago

    Took me a while to find the origin of the art, so I thought I’d share it. It’s a copy of an 11th Century mural in the Palace of Westminster, in a room full of biblical illustrations, kind of like an earlier Sistine Chapel. It was whitewashed over, restored, damaged by fire, and later the whole thing was demolished. Nice.

    The image is of the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II looting Jerusalem (under the reign of Zedekiah, the “last king of Judah”), circa 586 BCE. Note the guys on the left carrying a chest and candlesticks, and the guys on the right with their hands tied and huddled together.


  • egrets@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    5 months ago

    Yus - the traditional cake in Latin America and the Balkans is a descendant of things like trifle or bread pudding usually called tres leches or trileçe (“three milk”) and uses condensed milk, evaporated milk, and whole milk. I think seis leches is a joking extension of that.