Comments | wild_caroc: I just spent an hour an a half researching the Habsburgs

wild_caroc

I just spent an hour an a half researching the Habsburgs

Jan 12, 2006 17:01

I have to post this cool thing before I forget it. So, one of the main ways the Hapsburg family gained political power was through marriage (with the result that they ended up very powerful but horribly inbred). I read that their unofficial motto (meant to mock them) was "Bella gerunt alii, tu, felix Austria, nubes" which Jennifer translated for me ( Read more... )

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firiel2004 January 13 2006, 01:22:27 UTC

haha.. their motto is an insult..and not only that, it called them NOOBS.

The STUDY of history, as in the theory of it, is fascinating. I wish I could be a Bene Gesserit and bring the memories of my ancestors to consciousness, so I could see the real history of the world.

wild_caroc January 13 2006, 05:31:09 UTC

I'm talking about how people in the past have viewed the peoples of their past, but I totally made up the word. Oh, I am re-attempting to read Dune and am doing a lot better this time. I have some problems so far with the whole Bene Gesserit thing and Lady Jessica as a character, but I guess I can wait until I finish the book to argue them with you.