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Past Passport

Joseph Pickett

Every generation thinks the world is ending. It never has. Join our community of historical optimists proving the doomscroll wrong, with real history answers — no dissertations, 3 essays a week.

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No Guns. 70,000 Dead. Rome Thanked the Loser.

The pincer that killed 70,000 in an afternoon.

Cannae. August 2, 216 BC.

One of the bloodiest afternoons in ancient military history, fought on a flat, sunbaked plain in southern Italy.

By nightfall, up to 70,000 people were dead.*

Did...

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Six Ancient Empires Already Answered This Question

The Strait of Gibraltar. Nine miles of water, three thousand years of the same argument.

Ceuta is a Spanish city on a spit of Moroccan coastline, sitting where the Mediterranean narrows into the Strait of Gibraltar. Media covering this wee...

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Why We Still Gather in the Dark

Attic black-figure amphora depicting a musical performance, c. 6th century BC

400 BC.

Thousands filled the stone seats of the theater at Epidaurus, Greece, under a clear summer sky, the limestone worn smooth by generations. The audience l...

16 days ago
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Homer Translators Always Fight the Same War

Odysseus bound to the mast, sailing past the Sirens: the scene every translator in this piece rendered in their own word

X is fighting about a 2,700-year-old Greek word this week: polytropos, Homer’s first description of Odysseus. It means...

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How Rome Dealt with a Negative News Feed

Bust of Marcus Aurelius dates to the 2nd century AD, during his reign

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    Join our community of history lovers optimistic about the future. I ask the questions you'd ask and dig up real answers, no dissertations. Fighting the doomscroll with 2,000 years of proof. Followed by The Culturist, #2 in History. 3 essays a week.

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