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1. Moto (cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 04:05:59 UTC Moto

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   @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz The f…?
   I was literally *just* looking up farthings / pence / shillings on Wikipedia because I have only ever used decimal currencies.
   And you have put a “Carolingian” joke on my screen, and I actually know what it means now.

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   • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 04:06:03 UTC Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

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     @cmdrmoto @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz He's the emperor after which the Carolingians are named.

     But he's also the topic of a metal album made by Cristopher Lee.

     Who famously played Dracula.

   • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 04:06:04 UTC Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

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     @cmdrmoto @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz Charlemagne? No?

     Maybe you have to be German to have heard of them...

     Now guess what the connection to Dracula is.

   • Moto (cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 04:06:04 UTC Moto

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     @jens @randomgeek @JessTheUnstill @maddiefuzz Yeah, I don’t have a great memory for human history.

     Technological history? I can trace the heck out of those threads.

     Charlemagne, wasn’t he supposed to be Tha God or something ?

   • Jess🧟‍♀️ (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 04:17:44 UTC Jess🧟‍♀️

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     I'd heard of Charlemagne, but it'd been a long time, and I didn't remember the broader context of his empire (or even that it was called the Carolingian empire). Most of my European History courses only really started at the end of the middle ages. So it was a fun history rabbit hole to drill down and learn something new when I learned about an Empire in Europe that I'd never really known about before!

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