Interesting old maps too: "Kings Town formerly Dunleary", and from, if memory serves, the early 1600s: "Roch", possibly the original Blackrock?
October 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Explored an abandoned kirkyard on the shores of Loch Leven today.
There used to be a church dating from the Middle Ages here, later replaced by a mausoleum to the Thorn family. The oldest gravestones date to the 1600s.
The whole place is overgrown with yews, nettle, ash, bramble, elder 🌿
There used to be a church dating from the Middle Ages here, later replaced by a mausoleum to the Thorn family. The oldest gravestones date to the 1600s.
The whole place is overgrown with yews, nettle, ash, bramble, elder 🌿
October 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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people just went “oh dang” and kept tweaking the prester john idea about a super chill Christian king somewhere far away until the 1600s though
October 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Portrait of a Nun of the Order of the Holy Annunciation
Francesco Trevisani, end of the 1600s
(National Museum of Sweden)
Francesco Trevisani, end of the 1600s
(National Museum of Sweden)
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Not sure what kind of priest told you that (or where or when). I went to catholic school in the 70s and 80s and we read it in class and at home and were told specifically that we were *supposed to* read & interpret it for ourselves. Sounds like that guy was stuck in the 1600s!
October 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Tickets are now on sale for our autumn online lecture series. Four top historians on aspects of the 1600s, including a forgotten general, a dashing cavalier, slavery in 1600s art and Cromwell in the movies. Talks are recorded for ticket holders too! www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...
October 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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when Charles I did shit like this in the 1600s he eventually got his head chopped off, just saying
of course americans now are bootlickers and cowards, and our bourgeoisie are all high on fascism, so who's to say what will happen next
of course americans now are bootlickers and cowards, and our bourgeoisie are all high on fascism, so who's to say what will happen next
October 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I’m 65 years old. I became a grandmother for the first time two days after the last election. I will be attending my first protest today.
My family’s roots begin in this country in the 1600s. The fought in the Revolution- and now so will I!
My family’s roots begin in this country in the 1600s. The fought in the Revolution- and now so will I!
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Just thinking about that time I was babysitting in a house built in the early 1800s. I was in the kitchen with the kid and the cat, scooping some ice cream. We heard the piano start to play. The kid got scared. The cat ran and hid.
My hometown was founded in the 1600s so i'm 100% its haunted.
My hometown was founded in the 1600s so i'm 100% its haunted.
October 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A day late, but think about this, over 90% of Native Americans, 55 million people, were wiped out by the 1600s. In today’s numbers, that’s 820 million lives, 2.5 times the U.S. population.
This isn’t about blaming anyone alive today. It’s about truth, so we never let such destruction happen again.
This isn’t about blaming anyone alive today. It’s about truth, so we never let such destruction happen again.
October 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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me, sin eating at a funeral in the 1600s: hey uh are you gonna finish those?
October 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The main issue with this take is that things were really bad in the 1600s for the groups that would later dominate much of the world and form the US. And then the world had already ended once before for “them”(assuming continuity) in the 1300s. I propose that history is simply bad things happening.
we killed God and have spent the last few centuries trying to crawl out of His rotting eldritch corpse.
October 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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11yo: if she’s from the 1600s why did she ask to see his drivers permit
October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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From my Facebook Memories this morning
October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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You have over 2,000 great grandparents if you count back to the 1600s. Absolutely meaningless drivel.
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I feel like there's a William and Mary Quarterly article from about 20 years ago that talks about English anti-slavery sentiments in the 1600s. I remember it because I did a seminar paper around the same time in grad school that looked at a lot of the same sources. I'll try to dig it up.
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Traditional knowledge tells us fires have been a part of the landscape for millennia. Burn scars data show but a slice of that history of fire in the forests until Western colonization all but snuffed it out starting in the 19th century 📊:
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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imagine having a panic attack in the 1600s
October 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Christian Nationalists don't want to take us back to the 1950s. They want to take us back to the 1600s.
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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This appears to be a straightforward account of feudalism, of serfdom. It joins these things together. The reality is feudalism is a concept largely developed in the 1600s.
bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/Newsletters/...
bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/Newsletters/...
Hosted By Bedford Borough Council: Feudalism in Bedfordshire
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October 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The history of this being wrong stretches all the way back to the English Parliament in the 1600s. It's so wrong that Bessent should have to write a 15-page essay about how wrong it is and if it isn't sincere enough he should get an F and have to do it again.
October 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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While I’m at it, they weren’t put here. This is where they’ve been landing since the 1600s. It’s fascinating to watch certain neighborhoods change over every few years from one immigrant group to another. It’s also what makes this town cool as shit
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The phrase used to be 'going to hell in a handbasket' as in the 1600s, a hand-pulled basket on wheels was pretty speedy. Trump & his idiots are sending the US to hell in an F-22 Raptor jet. Every day they wreck more health, justice, defence, rights, jobs, and climate change mitigation capabilities.
"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Okay, I'm at the museum today and I want to geek out about one if my very favorite things in the universe: manuscripts from the middle ages.
This is an illuminated Qur'an from the 15-1600s. It's embellished with gold leaf and blue lapis ink.
And most of y'all have NO IDEA how expensive that was.
This is an illuminated Qur'an from the 15-1600s. It's embellished with gold leaf and blue lapis ink.
And most of y'all have NO IDEA how expensive that was.
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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