What other year was more shitty than this year for you? I just want 2020 to be done, NOW! xstop:sadwave::gf:
Is 2020 the worst year or what?
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2018
May 18, 2018 my sister died. Sept 28, 2018 lost my Dad.
Today is my sister's b-day, Sept 3rd. She would have been 56.
Fuck cancer.
If you were set before Covid nothing has changed but inconvenience
. If not the worst is yet to come when the projected 40 million evictions start. My neighbor is in Taiwan with his son my cousins ex is in NEW ZEALAND and two of my aquaintences are in Figi almost zero covid in all 3 thanks to their country's leadership . Something we dont have
I don't know about 2020, but this article makes you think, friends...
536: the worst year in human history
The early Middle Ages, which began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, are not accidentally called the Dark Ages. Historians note the decline of cities and culture, the extinction of the population. After analyzing information about the events of that era, scientists came to the conclusion that the worst year for people who have ever lived on Earth was 536 AD.
A series of disasters
Researcher Michael McCormick of Harvard University calls 536 the beginning of "one of the worst periods" in human history. In terms of tragic consequences, it surpassed the year 1349, famous for the grandiose plague epidemic, and also 1918, when the Spanish flu killed 100 million people who had survived the First World War.
In 536, a significant part of the planet was covered with a mysterious fog. Twilight continued for 18 months in Europe and Asia, even during the day.
"The sun shone like the moon, without rays, all year long, as if it had lost its power," wrote the Byzantine author Procopius of Caesarea about an event that happened in the 10th year of the reign of Emperor Justinian. Procopius himself called the mysterious phenomenon "the greatest miracle."
In the summer, the temperature dropped to 1.5-2.5 degrees, due to which the crop failure hit, in particular, Ireland. A similar phenomenon was observed in China, where snow fell in the summer - in the northern part of the country 80% of the population died from hunger. The hungry years continued in the future - the decade from 536 to 546 is considered the coldest in 2300 years. Finally, the Justinian plague, which began in 541, killed a significant part of the surviving, but weakened by hunger, inhabitants of Europe and the Middle East.
Completing the picture of disasters is the fact that just in these years the Byzantine Empire was actively fighting in Italy, because of which many large cities were destroyed. On December 10, 536, the army of Belisarius returned the city of Rome to the rule of the empire.
Solving the mystery of the "black fog"
To answer the question of why the sun stopped shining brightly, a team of researchers led by McCormick analyzed layers of ice from the Colle Nifetti glacier in Switzerland. These data made it possible to establish that at the beginning of 536, clouds of ash fell into the atmosphere of the northern hemisphere. The culprit is one of Iceland's volcanoes. Eruptions and cold snaps were repeated in 540 and 547 years, as evidenced by the very narrow rings of trees that grew at that time in the Altai Mountains. A curtain of microparticles containing sulfur and bismuth literally "wrapped" the sky over Europe, evidence of which was found in the depths of the Greenland ice. This became the reason for new hunger years.
Comparison of the data of the "ice chronicle" with other sources allowed scientists to establish that almost all major cold snaps over 2300 years are explained by volcanic activity.
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The events of 536-660 years are called the Late Antique Little Ice Age - the average annual temperatures at that time were significantly below normal. But if for the civilization of the Mediterranean, famine and plague became the causes of decline, then for many peoples, climatic changes served as an impetus for migration and subsequent political prosperity.
So, the Anglo-Saxons during this period are actively moving from the coast of Northern Germany to the British Isles, where they create several kingdoms.
The Slavs from the territory of the hypothetical ancestral home between the Vistula, the Dnieper and the Carpathians begin expansion in three directions - to the south, west and east, up to the Peloponnese, Elbe and Lake Ilmen.
Another people who came into motion at that time were the Arabs. The cold snap caused an increase in precipitation in the Arabian Peninsula, which caused the local tribes to have more livestock - horses and camels - which in turn facilitated military raids on neighboring countries. The Prophet Muhammad was born in 570, and under his successor, Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, the Arabs who converted to Islam invaded the lands of Byzantium and the Sassanid powers, conquering the areas of the most ancient culture - Mesopotamia, Iran, Palestine, Syria and Egypt.
Meanwhile, historians are not inclined to explain all socio-political processes of that time only by climatic changes and believe that in each case there was a whole complex of factors.
That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing. Madjacks is here to teach history and geography lessons as well.
I live where ever I want whenever i want >>> have since i was 24 years old. My home and office is the globe.
Live on the moon if you want, good for you....Doesn't make you better than anyone....:0008
Makes me better in. one aspect of life. And if you dont recognize that you missed the train! Other wise i put my pants on the same way every one else does. As i pass into the last tri mester of life my only regret is that i cd not pass on what i know. A lifetime best friend once said to me
" Nobody sees whet you see." when i was explaining to him how to read a line . 8 years at the Stardust watching lottery numbers was an education that no one will ever have again. 6 months in Antigua inside an offshore was priceless too !
Just think.
30 years ago if you could have just found 3 minutes to spend inside a woman you might have someone to pass that info on to.
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Just think.
30 years ago if you could have just found 3 minutes to spend inside a woman you might have someone to pass that info on to.
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Just think.
30 years ago if you could have just found 3 minutes to spend inside a woman you might have someone to pass that info on to.
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The funniest comment I've ever read here!:142smilie:142smilie:142smilie
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You sure do live a fantasy life inside your head. When will you ever admit you're nothing but a loser degenerate gambler.
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2015 was the worst for me
Wife?s brother died in car accident, month later my last grand parent passed and my wife?s beloved cat died a week later, nothing worse than that. This year has sucked for many reasons but the worst, nah..
Wife?s brother died in car accident, month later my last grand parent passed and my wife?s beloved cat died a week later, nothing worse than that. This year has sucked for many reasons but the worst, nah..
