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Why did they want us back so bad? What would it be like today if there was no civil war?
Because you're part of the union you gigantic faggot, there's no leaving. Get over the fact that you don't get to own black people, Andrew Johnson already bailed your asses out as it is.
>>962406
Secession is a threat to the legitimacy of the federal government. If they let the South secede, any state could secede over any other issue and eventually the government collapses
>>962407
Remember England you god damn hypocrite?
What was the eastern front like in WW1? Was it static trench warfare like the west? Were there large battles comparable to verdun or the somme?
It was more mobile.
1914 saw Russia invade East Prussia and take some territory. The Battle of Tannenberg checked this advance. Once Germany made Russia the focus of their attention in 1915, Russia was unable to cope.
Russian trenches were is no way comparable to the fortifications constructed in the West. Germany possessed superior quality and quantity of artillery. This meant in 1915, Germany relentlessly battered Russia and kept forcing them to withdraw.
Russia would have collapsed in 1916. However, Falkenhayn (the german Commander) preferred an attack...
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>>960890
West was only front in that war what was static, rest was mobile like in other wars.
>>961127
The Italian/Soča front was also pretty static, with the advances happening in 1915 and then in 1917, but not really far.
>It is reported that Schopenhauer was known as the 'death-persuader,' and that he was forbidden to lecture because so many members of his audience would kill themselves after listening to him.
they'd rather kill themselves than endure listening to the old fuck. i understand them
>>959703
source?
google says you are talking about Hegesias not Schopenhauer
And yet he lived until the age of 72
Which parts of the bible are historically inaccurate? Not counting supernatural stuff. For example I heard that the Exodus is completely made up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible
>>965715
Broadly speaking, no part of the Bible is historically accurate.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8584629&postcount=61
The timelins are utterly fucked, virtually everything before the Babylonian exile. For example Moses couldn't have conquered the Holy Land in 2500 BC or whatever the fuck, it goes against virtually everything we have on record.
What's the relevance of the Ouroboros (a snake eating its own tail) on the Declaration of Human Rights? What does it represent?
>>965443
Eternity
What goes around comes around.
>>965443
DON'T TREAD ON ME
Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical (or material) world, and that souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in some other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment, including thunder, wind, and shadows.
Before all the fake religions existed and holy scriptures were created Animism is what all humans believed in on the planet Earth. Most tribal people who don't have any contact with the rest of the world and haven't...
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>>965312
>there is no separation between the spiritual and physical (or material) world
>souls or spirits exist
If there's no separation between these two things and places, then how is it they are regarded as identical?
You're right but for the wrong reason: the correct conclusion isn't animism but materialism.
>>965324
*aren't regarded
>>965312
>Native americans saw the world this way before they were killed and slaughtered by european idiots.
actually they killed themselves far more and mostly died off from disease and alcoholism but nice try
Are there any good examples where cavalry charges have been effective and decisive in battle?
It seems to me that cavalry charges are mostly ineffective throughout history. At hastings the normans would never charge directly into the saxon lines because they were massed so well on the hilltop and would just ride up, try to jab at them with weapons and throw javelins.
At Crecy french cavalry was utterly ineffective since the english archers would take down the horses which probably created a wall of dead horses and knights which the rest of the horsemen couldn't ride...
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Oh and to add about Hastings, the norman cavalry was very effective once the saxons scattered and started running downhill chasing a fake retreat. The norman knights would then start riding through and between them cutting them down
>>964821
There's one perfect example from the end of the medieval period of a cavalry charge deciding the battle. Just not in the way they expected...
>>964821
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kircholm
Did warriors of past times really carry swords on the back?
Seems awfully impractical to me.
>>964300
Not sure, but may be rider style. Sword at a leg can harm flank of house and plus or give she a signal for turn.
>>964300
well he is doing it so i can assume they did it to
>>964310
>house
horse.
Is this accurate?
>>964100
Not enough Germ hate for /his/.
>>964100
I've not seen people mention Aquinas or Dan Carlin at all thats fucking reddit shit.
/his/ should be more about insulting the French and whining about how much better the Anglos are than everyone else.
Also
>No WE WUZ
>No hyper war
Step it the fuck up nigger.
>>964132
>Hates Wehrs
>Hates Anglos
>Praises Napoleon like a Saint
Is /his/ a Francaboo board?
What did he mean by this?
He meant FUCKING ROASTIES GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>964063
He is saying that when ur qt.13 gf says spryo the dragon is awesome she os really only sayin it cause she knows u love spryo dragon and that your cawk will get so hard if she talks about your fav spryo power ups.
On his death bed he said that if women can overcome their faults, their abilities greatly surpass that of men.
However he was pretty much right
The Aforementioned treaty heavily restricted BB CA and CL as well as the Nelson class (called the "cherry tree class" because it was cut down by Washington)
The treaty is largely responsible for the creation of the U.S. carrier fleet
What would have happened if the treaty was never signed, namely WWII, especially Modway?
Midway could easily have been lost due to the Japanese out gunning the U.S. With the largest battleship ever constructed and an overall better surface fleet
>>963816
With the treaty not being signed you would see a more pacific focused war from the onset by america. American's were restricted from fortifying pacific bases and was very much restrained by the ration put in place by the treaty.
That being said it is impossible to know if the American government would have invested more in the pacific, or if the Japanese economy could have afforded any more production of warships. Any naval ships they would have made would have without a doubt crippled them the further into...
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Japan would be even more screwed. Both America and Britain could outproduce Japan at a much greater rate than 5:5:3. If they both pursued more active building programs, with more and better ships, it wouldn't have been pretty for the IJN.
Let's play a gams: ITT, we post info about an obscure historical person from your country -but of course not his name-, and other anon tries to guess the country. Extra point for guessing the name of the historical figure. I'll start...
>fight in the opium wars
>then in your country, go to another war against a neighbor
>invade your neighbor's capital
>find Chinese slaves there
>having learnt Chinese in the opium wars, speak to the Chinese and liberate them
>they fight for you
>win the war and govern the enemy country's capital
>>963707
He fought the french in 1302, was imprisoned before that but one of his good friends switched places for him in prison (must've been awesome being high nobility in the middle ages) . His coat of arms is still the coat of arms of ~ half of the country
>>963861
Belgium
I was going to make a post about multiculturalism but I kept questioning myself what I really meant by what I asked. So how do people researching in multiculturalism conduct qualitative research. What do you even measure. When someone claim that one place is more multicultural than the other, what did he mean by this?
I post it here since the humanities are the disciplines that study human cultures. And pls don't bother with if multiculturalism is good or bad, that isn't relevant in the slightest to what I'm asking.
I guess you measure it relative to the social/cultural norms of the whatever time you are researching, which is pretty hard to do considering we generally know next to jack shit about social/cultural norms the further you look back.
"Multiculturalism" is often just a buzzword used by pundits and PR reps to sell immigration to the voting public for the purpose of fueling our GDP myopic drive towards infinite growth.
>>962960
>What do you even measure
The answer is so obvious I think I may have misunderstood the question but it goes something along the lines of
>number of religions
>number of different ethnicities/races
>number of different cultures
>the amount of or lack of ethnic, racial, cultural tensions (amount having inverse relationship with multiculturality)
>inclusion...
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How do people come up with new military strategies?
I assume they don't think of random shit in bed and hope for the best during the actual battle
>>962641
because every once in a while, someone or something comes along and changes the game, and everyone must fallow suit or die. guns becoming powerful, some genius,
Very interesting question. Humans are innovative by nature, and I guess when you get a particularly innovative guy, or someone who has one good idea, and combine that with experience and leadership potential, new strategies are developed. Also, strategies are tested and honed in a back-and-forth contest between adversaries, and the strongest strategies are continued and further innovated on.
>>962676
This.
It's a general constant state of seeking weaknesses to exploit. If one tool comes around that changes the limit of what can be done, the rest eventually adapt.
What's a good way to learn to read Latin fluently?
My university doesn't offer Latin as a foreign language, and I've never had a formal class about the language.
Im a total beginner
>>962223
The same way you'd learn a romance language today, starting with gender, conjugation and case then slowly branching out into vocabulary
try the CSCP course from Cambridge, it works fabulously
>>962234
Is that free like mit ocw?
>>962223
Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata
