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  1. A look back on career of Ben Simmons after Sacramento Kings signing rawchili.com/nba/?p=828446 #access:metered #Basketball #Kings #NBA #Sacramento #SacramentoKings #SacramentoKings #Source:USATODAY #ssts:sports:nba:kings #Sstsn:SacramentoKings #tag:Basketball #Tag:BenSimmons #Tag:CaliforniaGoldRush #Tag:CGRSports #Tag:ESPNInc #Tag:NationalSports #tag:NBA #Tag:OverallNeutral #Tag:Philadelphia76ers #Tag:SacramentoKings #Tag:SportsNews #type:story

  2. #MythologyMonday let's talk about King Lycaon...

    King Lycaon had 50 sons. He killed one of his sons & fed him to Zeus (because... idk something about wanting to test Zeus's omniscience... or something?)

    Zeus was so upset (which is sort of rich coming from this guy), he turned King Lycaon into a wolf.

    #GreekMythology #GreekMyth #GrecoRoman #Mythology #Myths #legends #Zeus #Kings #StarLore

    📷 :en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycaon_(

  3. A quotation from Shakespeare

    KING RICHARD: For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
       And tell sad stories of the death of kings —
       How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
       Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
       Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
       All murdered.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
    Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 160ff (3.2.160-165) (1595)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #autocrat #death #fate #kings #mortality #power #regicide #storytelling

  4. Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

    I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

    #Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

    Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.