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Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social |
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Pod: Tides of History, currently covering the Iron Age. The Pursuit of Dadliness. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. pwymanusc at gmail.
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Patrick Wyman
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New Tides of History: Warlords, War, and Society in Early Rome - Interview with Professor Jeremy Armstrong. Rome and war are inseparable topics, but what was war like in the early years of the city's rise to prominence? art19.com/shows/tides-...
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New Tides of History: Warlords, War, and Society in Early Rome - Interview with Professor Jeremy Armstrong. Rome and war are inseparable topics, but what was war like in the early years of the city's rise to prominence? art19.com/shows/tides-...
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New Tides of History: Carthage, Syracuse, and the Battle for Sicily. By 480 BC, Sicily had become a battleground for two rising powers, Carthage and the Greek colony of Syracuse. The remains of that battle still survive in the archaeological record.
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Patrick Wyman
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“Excellent contrast coloration on the serrated spines jutting out of its back,” upon learning of a guy whose claim to fame is getting rich disposing of asbestos by pumping it into dense residential areas
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Incredible that we as a culture are still discovering new types of Trump Guy. It's maybe not surprising given how much money there is to be made in unholy fields like subprime car loans, and also I guess given everything else about the culture, but still. Like discovering new types of horrible eels.
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Patrick Wyman
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When some expedition to a remote ocean trench brings back pictures of horrifying Lovecraftian creatures of the depths
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Carthage is known mostly as Rome's great rival, but it was a fascinating and meaningful Mediterranean civilization in its own right. art19.com/shows/tides-...
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New Tides of History: The Mediterranean World in 500 BC. Around 500 BC, Rome was shedding its kings, Carthage was about to become the greatest power in the Central Mediterranean, and Greece would soon enter its Classical Era. Let's take a tour. art19.com/shows/tides-...
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Patrick Wyman
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New Tides of History: The Mediterranean World in 500 BC. Around 500 BC, Rome was shedding its kings, Carthage was about to become the greatest power in the Central Mediterranean, and Greece would soon enter its Classical Era. Let's take a tour. art19.com/shows/tides-...
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Patrick Wyman
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Absolutely love to hear it, thank you!
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Patrick Wyman
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Thank you Pierre Dipshit!
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Photoshopping the Princess of Wales and her children is how a royal dynasty loses the divine right of kings in the 21st century
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Buddy we've all been there - so long as you didn't pass out, you're good to go. Congrats on the PR!
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Patrick Wyman
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Hell yeah
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Patrick Wyman
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Proud dad moment: my son’s first bout of delayed-onset muscle soreness
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Today’s 3-4-year-old soccer practice featured some real competition from the big hole that had been dug for some field irrigation. It’s not easy to keep the attention of small boys when there’s a hole nearby. The girls, by contrast, were completely uninterested in the hole.
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Patrick Wyman
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Lmaooooo. Make it a soft pack of Camel Lights
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New Tides of History: The Rigveda and the Dawn of the Iron Age in South Asia. The Rigveda is the oldest collection of religious texts in the Hindu tradition, more than 3,000 years old, and a fantastic window onto life at the dawn of the Iron Age.
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Patrick Wyman
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I have a shoulderrok, it’s fine, probably not worth the money
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Patrick Wyman
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Thank you!
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Tons of good stuff coming on Tides of History: Feb. 15: The Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization Feb. 22: The Rigveda and the Dawn of South Asia's Iron Age Feb. 29: Dr. Alena Giesche on Paleoclimate and the Indus Valley Civilization Mar. 7: The Buddha and His World
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Patrick Wyman
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Absolutely unironically
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Patrick Wyman
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Jim Nantz and Tony Romo exchanging a heartfelt “I love you” at the end of that game is the kind of normalization of male emotion we should be stoked to see. Tell your bros you love them
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Amy A
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The first few notes of Yeah are like sleeper agent trigger words that activate older millennials
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Singing along to every word of Ludacris’s verse on “Yeah” with my kids in the room, thought about the content of the lyrics for a moment, then just went ahead and leaned into it. The children have to know our culture
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📸📷🚀
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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by @patrickwyman.bsky.social is a Kindle Deal today in the US at $2.99
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Nate Wolff
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❌ I’m in a slough of despond ✅ I’m in a freshwater marsh of sadness
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Patrick Wyman
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My son just: 1) called me “bruh” and 2) beat me in a game of HORSE, I’m both dying of proud laughter and also a little shook about what the future has in store
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Patrick Wyman
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We know the man often suffered from the shits, so yeah, I'm inclined to agree
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New Tides of History: The Rise of China's Warring States. One of the world's first eras of mass-mobilization warfare saw armies of hundreds of thousands of men wiping out state after state until only one - Qin - would remain to rule all of China. art19.com/shows/tides-...
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Patrick Wyman
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Working on a bit about Otzi the Iceman as a short king with a skullet
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New Tides of History: Confucius and His Age. Confucius is one of the most famous and influential thinkers in all of human history, but who was he, and what did he teach? And how did his age - the closing years of the Spring and Autumn period - shape him? art19.com/shows/tides-...
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Patrick Wyman
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The “NO CHILD LABOR” notice on this children’s soccer ball has me asking a lot of questions already answered by the “NO CHILD LABOR” notice
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Patrick Wyman
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Like hell yeah brother I can imagine the gods coming and sitting and hanging out with me if I say the right words while I’m buzzing on ephedra
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Patrick Wyman
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If you want to have a really fascinating experience that will bring you closer to the human past, I strongly recommend reading early texts - Homer, the Rigveda, the Epic of Gilgamesh - under the influence of some kind of intoxicant, to really capture the vibe of the performance.
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Patrick Wyman
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It speaks directly to my soul
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Buddy I love everything about this
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It did take them an extraordinarily long time to order. We’ve all been there
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Patrick Wyman
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As much as I respect the move of smoking a fat J while going through the McDonald’s drive through I wish the people in front of me were working with something better than ditch weed
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There's a correct way to do this unholy thing, and it's to spiral-cut the hot dog and arrange it in circular fashion above the hamburger patty
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The hogs love the slop
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Classic of the genre
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I learned about the concept of poison pills from spending too much time caring about NFL contracts in the mid 2000s and now I understand all deal-making through a framework that features Hall of Fame offensive guard Steve Hutchinson
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Patrick Wyman
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Reading for the next couple of episodes of Tides of History: South Asia from the fall of the Indus Valley Civilization to the dawn of the Iron Age.
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New Tides of History - China in the Eastern Zhou: Spring and Autumn. Spring and Autumn (771-481 BC) marked the high point of both political fragmentation and aristocratic power in early China, and everything that came afterward was a reaction to it. art19.com/shows/tides-...
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Patrick Wyman
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I cracked up when I saw that.
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New essay: Ordinary People Do Terrible Things. The perpetrators of history’s atrocities weren’t a special group of evil sadists, but utterly average bakers, truck drivers, and laborers who made up the unremarkable mainstream of their societies.
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Bill Walton is in fine form tonight, rhapsodizing about the wonders of Colorado, the majesty of the buffalo, and the Pac 12
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New Tides of History: Venice through the Ages, from Salt-Panners to Maritime Empire to Tourism - Interview with Professor Dennis Romano. Romano's new book, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City," is my favorite single volume on Venice. art19.com/shows/tides-...
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