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Is pop philosophy going to be the next pop science?
Why not both
if theres one thing we really dont need in this world its more alain de bottons and stefan molyneuxs
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What is the best translation of Homer's Odyssey?
Same question for the Illiad.
>>1113744
Depends on you definition of 'best.' Most readable? Or most accurate?
This one is in dactylic hexameter, I really like it: http://www.press.umich.edu/17212/odyssey/?s=look_inside
He also did an Iliad
>>1113744
Hammond.
Tell me about the Lombards.
They had long beards
>>1113714
Scandinavian Proto-Italians who got wrecked by the Normans and Franks.
>>1113714
Arian Christians
>final history exam then I get my degree
>Scots in North America
>4 hours from now
what a random ass subject
good luck bro
>>1113694
Thanks anon
Yeah it's not a particularly memorable topic. Scots dominated in coffee and tobacco, and were involved in the slave trade like everyone else. That's really about it.
I've never taken a history exam. Is it all essay questions? Does the professor grade it, or a panel of multiple graders?
Was the Renaissance an improvement for society in anything other than arts?
>>1113619
No
>>1113630
Right. Fuck Newton and the likes. An interest in science has never helped any society, right?
It didn't improve the life of the layman but neither did anything until well after the working conditions of the Industrial Revolutions were made non-abusive.
>>1113630
>(1452-1591)
>Died in 1591
Totally a dependable source.
The only animal to rise to the rank of Sergeant. Could detect gas undetectable by humans, pulled men out of "no man's land" by detecting their language and adored with many medals for his bravery. American hero.
http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=15
I can't wait for his appearance in Battlefield 1
>>1113246
For only $19.99!
>>1113228
That's adorable
Post cool maps.
>that time I drew an extensively detailed map and simulated realistic human migration patterns before writing up a fictional biography of a king by cobbling together multiple semi conflicting diary entries, propaganda, historic texts all composed by his friends, enemies, family, peasants, and fellow nobles
I am become Tism
Destroyer of social events
>>1113100
here's a better resolution, if anyone wants a closer look:
>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Fra_Mauro_World_Map%2C_c.1450.jpg
>>1113120
That's really cool. I know someone who's doing something like that with simulators for accurate geography and fault lines and such. Really cool stuff. I kind of wish I had the patience and creativity to go somewhere with a project like that. Do you mind sharing?
Question for Anti-Hedonists: Do you eat meat? If so, why? If you argue that it is for nutrition, do you eat Offal as well (Organs contain the most vitamin in the body, so eating them would be most efficient)? If Neither, then you do realize you put an animal through a lifetime of suffering for your own pleasure and convenience
>Do you eat offal
Yes, asado, morcilla and churrasco.
i eat meat because i want to
question for hedonists: why dont you just kill yourself with a heroin overdose?
>>1112957
>then you do realize you put an animal through a lifetime of suffering for your own pleasure and convenience
>implying this is bad
By extension of this principle, reproducing is immoral as you are subjecting another animal to suffer a life for your own innate desires.
How does the war go if this was the result? Note: Bismarck's rudder is functional. Damage report:
- Anton turret knocked out, needs port for repairs
- Bruno turret knocked out, needs port for repairs
- Slight list to port
- Moderate damage to secondary armament
Still leaking oil from engagement with Hood/PoW. In summary, it will definitely need to race for France to put in for repairs.
bump
destroyed a few days later by a torpedo dropped by a catalina
>>1112561
This :-(
How did modern European identity came about after the fall of the Roman Empire? Specifically in Western Europe where you had the Franks, Visigoths, and Lombards running around; how did these groups create a "French" or "Spaniard" identity?
Phillip II of France stylized himself as King of France for no reason when all the previous monarchies were King of the Franks, for example.
>>1111731
The short version is when a ruler controls enough of a region and has enough security he can "King of ___". Prior to that he might associate with a group of people (King of the Franks) or acknowledge a higher power (King in Prussia).
After that, that monarch and his descendants go about purging the state of religious minorities and establishing a common language.
This is, of course, a vast generalization. But in general geopolitical entities start as a state and then become a nation.
>>1111731
Basically they existed peacefully until Napoleon came around and Nationalized shit.
This is, of course, a vast generalization.
>>1111731
>how did these groups create a "French" or "Spaniard" identity?
Those identities were more loyalty to a King and the idea of common interest. This wasn't ethnically based. Once that shit started France was smart enough to kill regional linguistic groups ... Spain wasn't.
Who is your favorite Roman Emperor, /his/?
Pic related: Hadrian
>>1110773
greek/10
Trajan 10/10
Claudius
/his/
Why did Nazis hate Slavs?
They were living in their farm land/living space and weren't currently working as their slave labor force.
>>1110020
but they didn't
It's amazing how Hitler wanted to exterminate blonde/blue eyed Slavs but made an alliance with olive skinned mediterranean manlets and Japs
That's weird
What does /his/ think of Tora! Tora! Tora!
Historically inaccurate
>angled flight deck
>starboard bridge instead of port bridge
>>1108894
they also used Harvards in place of Zeroes. got to see one of the Harvards that was in the film flying at an airshow recently
>>1109095
I seriously doubt IJN would have had any captured Harvards during Pearl Harbor.
What happend to the souls of aztec sacrifices?
Where they eaten/stoppend to exist? Or did they serve the gods they were sacrificed to?
>>1100878
They go to the afterlife. Its their blood that the Gods want.
The Aztecs believed that people had 3 'soul centers', one in the mind, one in the heart and one in the liver.
The mind's soul (Tonali), was linked to the highest heaven of the universe and it was directly related to the gods. Tonali comes from the etymological root heat (Tona) and the hair was the physical manifestation of this soul, just like the sun rays are the physical manifestation of the sun's Tonali.
The heart's soul (Teyolia) was related to blood, literally and figuratively, since it was related to the ancestors and the knowledge....
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I think one of the best ways to have a closer understanding of these concepts and their perception of life is through their poetry:
What was it that your mind perhaps was finding?
Where was your heart?
That is why you give your heart to every thing;
without direction you take it; you go about destroying your heart.
On the earth, can you go in search of something? Can it be lived on the Earth?
Not for always on earth: just a little here.
Even though it be jade it breaks,
even though it be gold it breaks,
even though it be quetzal feathering it rips,
not...
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ITT: Good Borders.
Show me your borders, /his/.
Pic related, best map.
>>1090062
Thanks for using my map senpai.
I still think GrossGermaniums was a mistake.
>>1090064
It's a solid 9/10 map my dude.
I tweaked it a little by giving Cyprus to Greece, Corsica and Algeria to France, but others wise great map.
But I do wonder what that disgusting blob is next to Russia and Poland?
>>1090062
>inb4 posts that demand anatolia to be within greek borders
