Horus, when talking about the Emperor in *The End and the Death, part II* attributes Alexander the Great's "he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" to Big E, and says he was known as *Sekhandur* at the time, which was the name given to Alexander after his conquest of Egypt.
Yerp;
>They stay for a few hours in the sun, moving along the dead road between the corpses of war machines. Oll checks his map and his compass, and discerns the next place.
>‘Not far this time,’ he says.
>‘You were here, weren’t you?’ Katt asks him.
>Oll wonders whether he should answer, and then he nods.
>**‘Where is this?’**
>**‘They called it 73 Easting,’** he says. **‘The greatest armoured battle of its time, they reckoned.’**
>‘Which time was that?’ she asks.
>He shrugs.
>‘Which side were you on?’ she asks.
>‘Does it matter?’ he replies.
>‘You must have been on the side of the winners,’ she decides.
>‘Why?’
>‘Because you’re alive and all of these machines are dead.’
>‘Okay,’ he nods. *Okay* means something different now. He looks at her, squinting in the desert light.
>‘Just so you know; my being alive doesn’t have much to do with the outcome of any battle. I’ve lived through things on all sides, one time or another. My life isn’t predicated on victory. I’m just fond of it. And I’ll chase after it when I can.’
\- *Unmarked*
Yep. America is mentioned. New York and New Zealand are hive cities. The Roman Empire is known and depending on the circle of people its mentioned in might result in a hot debate about whether it really existed or burning at the stake for the heresy of claiming humans had empires before the Emperor's Imperium of Man.
Malcador and the Emperor have a vault of old world relics. Malcador even has a working recording of Bach or Beetovhen that he listened to regularly. They had famous artworks and a few of Shakespeare's plays. Guilliman gives one of his marines a copy of Macbeth. Parts of the works of old world philosophers survived too.
The City of Mab has a relic shop that has a toy model of a soviet space craft.
Cawl uses the Goldilocks story to explain the goldilocks zone of solar systems to someone. He calls it the Gul Du Lac hypothesis. He also mentions the Apollo missions as the first times man ventured beyond terra.
The siege of the Tower of Babel and its destruction is a significant part of the Emperor's past, and detailed in the Siege of Terra series.
Ollanius was Jason, leader of the Argonauts.
Alexander the Great is mentioned and may actually have been the Emperor. The Emperor has been taking on different personas and roles throughout human history.
There's all sorts of neat Easter eggs in the lore.
The Eisenstein was said to be named after a scientist and a remembrancer in *The Flight of the Eisenstein*
Which almost certainly refers to seminal film maker [Sergei Eisenstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein)
There's a daemon prince of Khorne called Doombreed who is said to be a human warlord from the 1000-2000 AD range. He could be a lot of different conquerors, but the two most likely options are Genghis Khan and Timur Tamerlane. Genghis because he killed a lot of people and Timur because of his obsession with skull piles and civilian murder.
Oll Persson fought at the Battle of the Bulge, as well as sailing with the Argonauts, both mentioned in Know No Fear. I have heard that the Cabal had a part in JFK’s assassination, but I have no source for that.
Horus, when talking about the Emperor in *The End and the Death, part II* attributes Alexander the Great's "he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" to Big E, and says he was known as *Sekhandur* at the time, which was the name given to Alexander after his conquest of Egypt.
That would make the Emperor LGBTQ
Not a surprise, considering in the same book Malcador also say he was a man, a woman or neither when needed.
And?
They were just pointing out something interesting. What was the point of your aggressive question, though?
Just an observation.
Fairly certain there is a reference to 73 Easting by a perpetual
Yerp; >They stay for a few hours in the sun, moving along the dead road between the corpses of war machines. Oll checks his map and his compass, and discerns the next place. >‘Not far this time,’ he says. >‘You were here, weren’t you?’ Katt asks him. >Oll wonders whether he should answer, and then he nods. >**‘Where is this?’** >**‘They called it 73 Easting,’** he says. **‘The greatest armoured battle of its time, they reckoned.’** >‘Which time was that?’ she asks. >He shrugs. >‘Which side were you on?’ she asks. >‘Does it matter?’ he replies. >‘You must have been on the side of the winners,’ she decides. >‘Why?’ >‘Because you’re alive and all of these machines are dead.’ >‘Okay,’ he nods. *Okay* means something different now. He looks at her, squinting in the desert light. >‘Just so you know; my being alive doesn’t have much to do with the outcome of any battle. I’ve lived through things on all sides, one time or another. My life isn’t predicated on victory. I’m just fond of it. And I’ll chase after it when I can.’ \- *Unmarked*
Thank you, I knew the quote was out there!
What is 73 easting
Large tank battle in the Persian Gulf war
Yep. America is mentioned. New York and New Zealand are hive cities. The Roman Empire is known and depending on the circle of people its mentioned in might result in a hot debate about whether it really existed or burning at the stake for the heresy of claiming humans had empires before the Emperor's Imperium of Man. Malcador and the Emperor have a vault of old world relics. Malcador even has a working recording of Bach or Beetovhen that he listened to regularly. They had famous artworks and a few of Shakespeare's plays. Guilliman gives one of his marines a copy of Macbeth. Parts of the works of old world philosophers survived too. The City of Mab has a relic shop that has a toy model of a soviet space craft. Cawl uses the Goldilocks story to explain the goldilocks zone of solar systems to someone. He calls it the Gul Du Lac hypothesis. He also mentions the Apollo missions as the first times man ventured beyond terra. The siege of the Tower of Babel and its destruction is a significant part of the Emperor's past, and detailed in the Siege of Terra series. Ollanius was Jason, leader of the Argonauts. Alexander the Great is mentioned and may actually have been the Emperor. The Emperor has been taking on different personas and roles throughout human history. There's all sorts of neat Easter eggs in the lore.
The Eisenstein was said to be named after a scientist and a remembrancer in *The Flight of the Eisenstein* Which almost certainly refers to seminal film maker [Sergei Eisenstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein)
some aliens convinced a human rube to kill MLK
And Bobby Kennedy!
There's a daemon prince of Khorne called Doombreed who is said to be a human warlord from the 1000-2000 AD range. He could be a lot of different conquerors, but the two most likely options are Genghis Khan and Timur Tamerlane. Genghis because he killed a lot of people and Timur because of his obsession with skull piles and civilian murder.
https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/149lhp5/examples_of_ancient_and_modern_references_in_40k/
The Mechanicus has as a special item in their Codex what might be the actual skull of Nikola Tesla
Oll Persson fought at the Battle of the Bulge, as well as sailing with the Argonauts, both mentioned in Know No Fear. I have heard that the Cabal had a part in JFK’s assassination, but I have no source for that.
In Fulgrim, the poet William Blake is basically said to be a prophet of Slaanesh.