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Will she ever die?
My dad legitimately believes that she will live to be 130
dont know but i hope so tbqh
No. She will use Pagan Anglican witch magic to become immortal.
God save the Queen.
ITT: post your favorite thought experiment.
What if an morbidly obese woman sat on my face?
What if Hitler was wrong?
MK Ultra
What significant historical events occurred between the Napoleonic wars and world war 1?
The reason I ask is because I have started reading The World Crisis by Winston Churchill and he says the british won 3 substantial victories in 3 different centuries which I'm sure is some revisionist history
But more so he talks about Germany having an unrivalled army and I was wondering what transpired in those 100 years to have this come about
>>1314615
Franco-Prussian war?
OVB unifying Germany?
>>1314615
Well let's name off some of the big points
>Opium Wars
>Austro-Prussian War
>Franco-Prussian War
>Scramble for Africa, Treaty of Berlin
>Boer Wars
>France becomes monarchy, republic, empire, republic, Paris Commune forms, and back to republic
>unification of Germany
>Boxer...
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WWI was a direct continuation of the Franco Prussian war
Are there any examples of an empire/kingdom/country that was led by an extremely introverted head of state?
I imagine it must be difficult to do diplomatic stuff if you're a massive autist
>>1314583
Qin Shi Huangdi was one.
>>1314583
Bashar Assad seems like an introverted autist
You wake up as Kaiser Wilhelm II on the day of your coronation
How would you prevent Germany's downfall?
>>1314450
DON'T BUILD THE FUCKING FLEET
Seriously, I cannot overstate how retarded a decision that was. It drives England into the arms of France and Russia, and it wastes billions on a deterrance strategy that doesn't have a hope in hell of working, because you build your boats to be too short ranged even if you can bring the British to battle and defeat them (hint, you can't).
And they're so absurdly expensive and such an investment in national prestige and your budget, that you can't...
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>>1314450
Don't be autistic.
Like, srsly.
That fucking phrase is thrown around a lot here but holy shiiiiiiit that guy was a colossal autist in exactly the way the word is used as a colloquial insult
>>1314450
Don't piss literally everyone off.
Thoughts on this? This guy claims that all of humanity, all over the world, slept in two four-hour increments with a break in between the two up until the industrial revolution, and that everyone forgot it ever existed after that.
In my own experience this is true. In fact I give myself about 10 hours of sleep these days so that after I wake up for the first time I can grab a snack and read a book before settling back in.
But yeah that's all I got s-sorry
>>1314397
Results?
>>1314404
It's a hell of a lot better than when I was in high school. Where I would just lay in bed for an hour or two and get less sleep overall. Plus I really enjoy the solitude late at night.
Philosophy is the last resort for pseudo-intellectual teenagers who are too uneducated to talk about actual science and math where their baseless drivel would be objectively disproved.
Mr Computer Brain can't into philosophy. Go cry on /sci/ or something faggot. You're making yourself look like an idiot.
Yeah fuck you faggot
>>1314313
>positvism
>bet you never thought of THAT before. Checkmate!
Do you think curbing Arab nationalism was a factor in creating Israel? Putting Israel in the grand-smack middle between Egypt and Syria gets in the way of potential open borders and trade agreements between Arab states.
>>1314215
I think the creation of the Israeli state was a fucking disaster. One that we have yet to fully pay for. That'll happen when that cocksucker Bibi gets too trigger happy and launches a missle towards Iran. Then he shit show will really begin. It's only a matter of time till they wipe themselves out. They can't handle their own nation. Too entrenched in that victim role.
NSDAP wanted to send the kikes to Madagascar, but Zionists wanted Palestine.
Oh, how much the world would've been better today if the axis won.
>>1314215
Yes. That was explicitly the British policy and one of their classic ploys everywhere.
The Ulstermen fucking love Israel as a result.
Enough of the Military Uniforms and Upper class attire, time for a thread about real /fa/
Peasants didn't have fashion, they just dressed modestly and practically according to what they could afford..
>>1314146
Not correct, latter medieval peasants could often afford fashionable clothing. Enough that nobles started putting restrictions on what non nobles could wear
>>1314151
>be a medevil peasent
>buy nice green shoes with 2 feet long points
>shoegate happens and the nobles put a 2 week waiting period on buying pointy shoes and limit the capacity to 2 inches. Also forbid any colors other than brown, black, and grey.
![Thank_God,_It's_Doomsday[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/EwkUdDB.png "Thank_God,_It's_Doomsday[1].png")
God requires faith to exist, and proof of existences destroys faith.
>>1314036
No.
>>1314036
>God requires faith to exist
Explain
>proof of existences destroys faith.
"Faith" and "belief" are two translations of the same Greek word.
>>1314036
>omnipotent deities obeying rules
Rules are only for people. Gods laugh at them. This was Plato's critique of the popular depictions of the gods, the gods behaved with impiety, but he was the impious one to question the natural order of things.
Would you rather fight in a modern battle such as Stalingrad or a medieval battle like Towton?
>>1314002
Towton had more opportunities to flee / play dead, so that.
In terms of warfare which is more objectively brutal?
I would pick Stalingrad just to see how brutal it was. I would want to be on the German side, during one of the stormings of the tractor factory.
The first one, that is. I have it on disc, bought a copy of it on Amazon and I don't think anybody genuinely plays it anymore on multiplayer.
Anyone interested in playing with me? You'd have to either download it or buy it, but I find the disc version to be alot better 2bqh, just my opinion.
I don't have the expansion for it, however, you know the one that includes Rome and all the other later antiquity nations of history.
No one plays the 1st one anymore. But check this out
http://aoe.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/aoecgi/display.cgi?action=ct&f=17,6327,,10
>>1314133
Whoa sorry for bumping, thought I was on /v/
>>1314133
There must be someone on this /his/tory board that still plays this ancient game. Surely!
Was Kursk winnable like he said? Was Hitler correct to move the boys to Italy? Would winning at Kursk even have mattered like Guderian said?
I've read about the situation in moderate detail but I honestly can't decide which of the three was right but I lean towards Guderian Hitler while respecting Manstein as the smartest of the three.
>>1313918
Hitler lost when he failed to capture Soviet oil fields, Kursk wouldn't change anything.
>>1313928
hitler lost when her mom shit it to this world
>>1313918
>Was Kursk winnable like he said?
Possibly, but bear in mind that Manstein's Kursk likely wouldn't bear much resemblance to the historical Kursk. For starters, the overwhelming bulk of casualties on both sides were in the Soviet counterattacks, not the German attack. And without such a huge buildup, it's less important of a target. It would straighten the German line, but not a whole lot else.
>Was Hitler correct to move the boys to Italy?
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Redpill me on Napoleon III. My limited knowledge on him tells me he was quite decent, but I need to study more. Many people say his reign was good, others say the Second French Empire was disastrous... What do (You) think?
I personally think he was pretty bright and made alot of good moves.
However, his greatness was unfortunately in direct conflict with Bismark who had a better army.
But Napoleon's decisions I would defend as being the right ones.
The French army was better than Prussia's on paper and everyone at the time thought so.
In reality the French army had already turned in to the stereotypical surrender monkeys they are in popular culture. They were poorly trained with the latest weapons and undisciplined.
He knew it but his parliamen...
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>>1313912
>popular culture
anglo culture, french army have one of the greatest history
>>1313912
Judging how he needlessly pulled France into the Crimean war all for the sake of 'glory', he was too swayed by imagining himself as a second Napoleon to think critically. 19th Century wasn't too good for France.
ITT: Historical manlets who never learned
>>1313879
>manlets
Stalin
>>1313892
didnt it turn out he wasnt even short?
