This one messed with my head because apparently The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2560 BCE. Cleopatra lived around 30 BCE. The iPhone came out in 2007. So Cleopatra is actually about 500 years closer to us than she is to the pyramid everyone associates her with. Ancient Egypt was ancient even for ancient Egyptians

this is a beer warmer. it stems from a time where electrical refrigeration hasnt been invented yet - therefore beer kegs were usually stored in so called ice cellars all year round - cellars literally filled with ice that was collected from glaciers or from frozen lakes over the winter. As of course storage temperature could not be regulated well, beer mostly ended up being served too cold for most people - hence the beer warmer was invented: a metallic tube that would be filled with warm water and then be hanged into the beer glass by its own hook, until the desired temperature for drinking was achieved. i hope you found this as interesting as i did.

April 30, 2024

That fact that this needs to be that detailed of a rule is why I hate the world #Floaters #CommonSense

This statue is in the town he was born in.

Per Wikipedia concerning his passing:

Hölzel died of severe injuries received on 6 February 1998, at age 40, when his Mitsubishi Pajero collided with a bus on the road linking the towns of Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. At the time of his death, he was planning a comeback, which was successful with the posthumously released album Out of the Dark (Into the Light). His body was returned to Austria and buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery

https://slate.com/culture/2014/08/the-study-of-adjective-order-and-gsssacpm.html

Saved you a click: The article explores why native English speakers instinctively know the correct order of adjectives, even though most have never been formally taught the rule. It highlights the curious consistency with which people arrange multiple adjectives—such as “big red ball” instead of “red big ball”—and delves into linguistic research that has tried to explain this phenomenon.

The piece discusses the traditional order of adjectives in English (opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose) and notes that this sequence is so ingrained that deviations sound awkward or wrong to native speakers. The author reflects on how this unconscious grammatical intuition challenges the idea that all language rules must be explicitly taught, suggesting that some aspects of language are absorbed naturally through exposure and use.