Here are some stories and places you will find edifying.
For 600 years, the only way to reach these monasteries was to climb into a net and let monks haul you, by hand, hundreds of metres into the sky…
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) May 28, 2026
The place is Meteora, which means suspended in the air, where enormous pillars of sandstone rise straight out of the plain of… pic.twitter.com/nGgr4t2SoX
He survived pogroms, fled the Russian Revolution, escaped Nazi-occupied France, and lost his beloved wife. And through all of it, Marc Chagall kept painting.
— j wall ✡ (@jwhaifa) May 26, 2026
Born in 1887 in Vitebsk, Belarus, Chagall grew up in a Hasidic Jewish family in a small shtetl. That world, with its… pic.twitter.com/djTbJXKgJA
Chagall is one of my favorite artists.
The Black Death arrived in England in 1348. Within two years, somewhere between a third and a half of the population was dead.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) May 23, 2026
The peasants who survived noticed something within a generation.
There was nobody left to work the fields. The labour shortage was so severe that… pic.twitter.com/Fm7OllhRrV
The Medieval period was not really a Dark Age.
The most evil Roman emperor wasn't Nero. They have the wrong man.
— Ancient History Hub (@AncientHistorry) May 29, 2026
Nero gets the headlines, but he never came close to Caligula, and the truth about Caligula is darker than the cartoon version you were taught in school. Forget the story about him making his horse a consul.… pic.twitter.com/PCqFuDXN0u
Happy Friday!
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