It's a contract signed by two people before they get married ("nuptial" means "marriage"; "pre-" is "before"). It usually defines how the marriage will work, what the expectations for each person is, and, most importantly, how property (including money) will be split between them in the event the marriage ends.

ACAB, especially this asshole

You're the kind of person who sits blithely by while fascists take over.

They're referring to the VP as "the hoe"

Fuck the police

I'd say the entirety of every county bordering DC is part of the DMV.

I'd assume it's much more likely the Persians knew Greek than the Greeks knew Persian. There were Greek colonies/cities on the Anatolian coast within territory the Persians claimed. Persia exerting influence over the Ionian coast and mainland Greek city-states supporting the Ionians is what sparked the Persian invasion of Greece in the first place.

It's a fallacy to think of the ancient world as disconnected entities. There was a huge amount of trade and diplomacy between different cultures even well before the Persian/Greek wars. The leaders and scholars knew about each other's customs, traditions, culture, and language quite well.

We were projecting power WAY before the Spanish American War. The Monroe Doctrine was all about power projection. We send gunships into Japanese harbors to force them to open ports to western trade. That was power projection. We had spheres of influence in China. We invaded Mexico multiple times. Manifest Destiny was a century-long policy of power projection across a continent. Hell, the first war we got into after independence was power projection in North Africa, a decade before the War of 1812.

The US has ALWAYS projected force outwards towards other nations. We notably avoided direct conflict with European nations when they were militarily, economically, and geopolitically more influential than us, but there's a hell of a lot of world that isn't Europe.