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The persistence of tradition: the curious case of Henry Symeonis (ox.ac.uk)
46 points by mintplant 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



“Daft? Of course it’s daft - it’s traditional!” - Terry Pratchett


What a weird tradition, denouncing this murderer guy for hundreds of years.

I did manage to witness the duck hunt, which is a once-a-century "tradition" when I was there. A bit weird to have a ritual that nobody was alive for at the previous iteration. I doubt there's even been two coronations that far apart.


“These things happen in a monarchy”

— Londo Mollari, Babylon 5, season 5, episode 10, A Tragedy of Telepaths (1998)




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