Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓

@Pastpassport · Followed by The Culturist ➡️ · joined 26 Nov 2021

Every generation thinks it's the end. History says otherwise. I ask the questions you'd ask. Fighting the doomscroll with 2,000 years of proof. 3 essays/wk.

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Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

The same wreck that kept his eyes also kept the Antikythera Mechanism. This is a geared device that predicted eclipses, technology that nobody matched again for over a thousand years. https://t.co/XNncy0W2LZ

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Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

@JamesLucasIT The same wreck that preserved his eyes also preserved the Antikythera Mechanism This is a geared bronze device that predicted eclipses and planetary positions, technology that nobody built again for over a thousand years. 4.6K views · 201 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

Gladiator Gatorade! For building bone health 2,000 years ago. Fascinating. 585 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

@Pastpassport This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. I looked into this some more and found a recipe: https://t.co/1MxC5jnD14 1K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

Galen, the gladiators' own doctor in Pergamon, wrote that their diet was barley and mashed beans, so carb-heavy it built "spongy" flesh instead of dense muscle. The ash-and-vinegar tonic comes from a separate source, Marcus Varro, quoted by Pliny: "drink lye made from its 711 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

1/ Great men don't just win battles. They win men. Marching an army across a river into Italy got a Roman general executed. Following him did too. Caesar crossed the Rubicon, anyway. And not a single man in his army refused to wet his boots. Here are six examples of how htt

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Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

@Pastpassport Utterly fascinating. Thanks for this. @2Blows check this out. 141 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport14 Sep

Archaeologists in Turkey dug up a mass grave full of gladiators in 1993. They cracked open their bones and found something bizarre. Almost double the strontium of a normal Roman. That number only shows up one way: From ash. Not from wine. Not from wheat. Ash, mixed with ht

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Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport12 Sep

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Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport7 Sep

This is that idea in action in our new article today: https://t.co/W0yIW9ofVv 2.5K views · 23 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport5 Sep

@Pastpassport History makes the present feel a little less unprecedented. 3.4K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joseph Pickett 🇺🇸 ✓@Pastpassport4 Sep

The purpose of Past Passport: We tend to think everything is getting worse. History proves this isn't necessarily true. People have always found a way through the hardest times, because they haven't really changed. The same fears, the same instincts, and the same reasons to

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Medianaufrufe910dieses Konto949Median für 10K–100K

Reichweite, %5.10%dieses Konto3.49%Median für 10K–100K

Interaktion, %0.83%dieses Konto1.55%Median für 10K–100K

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Reichweite (Aufrufe ÷ Follower)	5.10%	3.49%	1.46×
Interaktionsrate	0.83%	1.55%	0.53×

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes77.9%792 in total

Reposts4.1%42 in total

Replies3.9%40 in total

Bookmarks14.1%143 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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