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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
a statue of Yang Guifei (719-756), one of the Four Great Beauties of ancient China, said to have "a face that put all flowers to shame". She was put to death at 37 by the emperor who loved her, when his guards blamed her family for the An Lushan rebellion https://t.co/iITuuBeZ2W https://t.co/EVyS3W9sWZ
Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv
what else was happening in the 700s? Charlemagne would be born in 748, Al-Ma'mun (caliph who established the Baghdad House of Wisdom) would be born in 786. Arabs learned papermaking from Chinese around this time Borobodur begins construction in 760 https://t.co/euSj21eSMD
Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv
imagining a laser-eyed papyrus-maker saying "paper solves this" https://t.co/pIWTXFteBJ
