all 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but naming your daughter "Glory of her father Goddess Fatherlover" is a bit weird to me.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 29 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Considering that her dad married his niece, and that her dad's great-great-grandparents were all the same two people, her name is one of the last weird things about her family.

    Fair play to Cleo VII; she introduced more fresh genes into her family bloodline than anyone had in generations. Four kids by two dads, you go girl.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    The man credited with inventing the mortgage was 15th century Englishman Nicholas Barbon. Sometimes his last name is rendered Barebon or Barebone; because Benjamin Franklin hadn't invented spelling yet. Nicholas Barbon's middle name was apparently "If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hasdst-been-damned".

    His dad's name was Praise-God Barbon.

    Look, if you ever want to know why American theology is as fucked as it is, it's because we were colonized by people like THAT.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago

    Cleopatra was very pale skinned. She was of an inbred Macedonian line dating back to Alexander the Great's conquest.

  • source