Tag: Caesar

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The exact meaning of the number has been a topic of hot debate. It is commonly considered to denote Emperor Nero, who was cruel to Christians.
Symbolically, the number 7 has been thought to represent completeness. Hence, this number (in question) in contract signifies incompleteness and imperfection. Or alternatively, a quality of being complete in sinfulness.
Which number am I talking about?

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666 or the number of the Beast
This is in contrast to the Angelic 777.
Revelation 13:18 says, “Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is 666.”. Hence marking any person with this number to be devil incarnate.
Read More about the (deep) Interpretation of the number.

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During the American Liquor Prohibition period, Southern California elites would go to Tijuana for a drink. It was in this time period that X opened a restaurant in Tijuana.
According to an urban legend, on July 4th, 1924 the restaurant received too many guests & X threw together whatever leftovers he had. The dish was originally supposed to be a finger food, but has become an emperor of a dish.
What am I talking about?

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Caesar Salad.
Yes the dish is named after an Italian American chef, rather than the emperor of Rome.
Read More about its history.

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Rather than counting days of the month individually, early Romans had 3 principle days in a month & used to measure days from there. These were:
Kalends – beginning of the month
Nones – roughly one week into the month
“X” – middle of the month
While the first two are obscure, the third “X” is widely popular in a particular context which is regarded as a day of tragedy.
Identify X & why it might be popular?

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"X" is Ides, same as Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated.
Also, that's today!
Read More about the crazy way Romans used to count the days in a month. According to some estimates, at one point they had 10 months with 30-31 days each, & used to keep around 60 days as 'unassigned winter'.