The Wikipedia article of the day for July 29, 2021 is Andreas Palaiologos. Andreas Palaiologos (1453–1502) was the elder son of Thomas Palaiologos, Despot of the Morea, and a nephew of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the final Byzantine emperor. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Ottoman invasion of the Morea in 1460, Andreas’s father fled to Corfu with his family. Upon his father’s death in 1465, Andreas moved to Rome and was recognized as the titular Despot of the Morea and as the chief claimant to the ancient imperial throne. Although his father had never claimed the title, Andreas proclaimed himself “Emperor of Constantinople” from 1483 onwards, a claim that was supported by some of the Byzantine refugees who…
Month: July 2021
R. A. B. Mynors
The Wikipedia article of the day for July 28, 2021 is R. A. B. Mynors. R. A. B. Mynors (28 July 1903 – 17 October 1989) was an English classicist and medievalist who held the senior chair of Latin at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He served as the Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge from 1944 to 1953 and as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1970. Mynors had the reputation of one of Britain’s foremost classicists. A textual critic, he specialised in the study of manuscripts and their role in the reconstruction of classical texts. He was an expert on palaeography, and has been credited with unravelling a number of highly complex manuscript relationships. His publications…
Äntligen chili på gång
Vi är snart i augusti och äntligen syns det som att chilifrukter är på gång. Enligt informationen på fröpåsen så skulle man kunna få skörd juli-september och nu först syns det något som liknar chilifrukter. Bladen är fortfarande stora och fina men fram tills nu har jag inte sett nåt som tyder på att själva frukterna är på gång. Nu ska de bara komma fram ordentligt och sen mogna innan de går att skörda. Det är spännande.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
The Wikipedia article of the day for July 27, 2021 is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is a first-person shooter game, developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. It is a remastered version of 2007’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It was initially released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows in November 2016 as part of special edition bundles of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The story follows the USMC and SAS in conflict against a Middle Eastern separatist group and a Russian ultranationalist group. The remaster began development as the result of an online petition. It features extensive technical enhancements while retaining the original core gameplay, and includes new single-player and…