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The former is what my German cousins called her, and the latter is the name my forefathers (Saxons) used for her. I believe the Northman equivalent was Idunn. Useless trivia of the day if anyone wanted to know. And yes the Ishtar connection is a touch tenuous. The Indo-Europeans and the...

Ironically, for an Empire so prolific at massacring Christians, the first Christian they executed wasn’t entirely Rome’s fault. Governor Pilate was effectively pushed into ordering the execution and he all but threw his hands up in exasperation by the end. That aside, whilst many Christians...

Got to say, for an ancient hippie wandering the desert, Jesus was quite a clever man. I didn’t realise he was all but immolating the people trying to word trap him with the Caesar quote.

For as much as Christians insisted on martyring themselves at Rome’s hands during its early days, it’s curious how Jesus himself sets up an “off-ramp” with that quote. As I understand it, for all the trouble he caused the priests, Jesus never openly defied the Romans.

The whole “divine right of kings” thing had wobbled and died a hundred years before the Rebellion. The Colonials felt their rights as Englishmen were being infringed and ultimately the war was an expression of such rights. As S’task explained, many in Parliament felt the same way (Lord Chatham...