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Don't know if this is the board for it, but I'm gonna ask anyway.
How would the world look in case of full-scale nuclear war? Like, China and Russia go to war with Western powers.
Picture the Eastern Front of WW2.
A very large amount of people have been dislocated from their homes, nobody is quite sure what's going on, there's widespread hunger, and civil defense authorities are just barely keeping the fabric of society together.
And given that modern military formations have extensive NBC protection, the nuclear exchange will likely happen in tandem with large scale conventional warfare.
It wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would definitely result in tens of millions of dead, possibly hundreds.
Most nuclear...
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everyone dies except the richest people & their families (our best & brightest they'll say) who will wait out the chaos stemming from a world wide societal collapse and emerge years later to a mostly barren wasteland.
Picture a hotdog bun.
I'm doing some research for a novel set in 16th century France, where the protagonist is a fictional chef similar to Taillevent. I've done some cursory readings into this- books about spices, fasting, international food influence, etc. Would you know of any particular texts that would be useful for writing about this time and place? I want to know more about
>Kitchen structure
>Societal structure
>Manners
>Poisoning
In particular but...
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>>1215748
Question, what's the story about, like give me the broadest stroke about the plot you got down in your head.
>>1215762
A chef working for a minor- but still quite wealthy- noble who is morally compromised when he is offered a vast sum of money to poison a foreign guest of his lord.
Bump for interest
What does /his/ think of Adam Curtis?
Really enjoy his documentaries. I don't know that he's necessarily "right", but he presents interesting points
Brilliant. He's a bit like John Gray, but for documentaries
I enjoy his stuff a lot and a lot of the criticism he gets is from idiots who think there's something magical about video that makes it unethical to express an opinion using it. Essayists are allowed to have opinions, seemingly, but documentarians are violating some kind of sacred trust.
It's Memorial Day, so, in honour of that, let's post valiant men, battles, sieges, etc.
Pic related. One of the greats.
>>1215636
Pleb-tier.
Now, Nimitz, that was a great general/admiral.
>>1215636
Do they have to be American? Even so, here's one of my home state's heroes, John Stark.
>loses the Philippines
>one of the greats
Does correlation imply causation?
>>1215472
Define "imply"
Define "Does", "correlation", "imply", "causation" and "?"
>>1215481
imply
[im-plahy]
verb (used with object), implied, implying.
1. To indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated.
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Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?
Americans like to talk about it as though they did it for shits and giggles but there has to be a reason behind it
Was it just the sanctions America had placed on Japan in oil and iron which adversely affected their economy or was it something else
The Japanese thought that knocking out the American pacific fleet would give them time to take what they wanted in Southeast Asia without America being able to intervene for a year or two. The US and Japan both had a strong interest in a lot of the same areas in the pacific, I expect that the Japanese figured that if they kept pushing their luck they'd cross the US eventually anyway.
The US recovered a lot more quickly than the Japanese counted on, and they were pretty pissed about the whole thing.
>>1215288
They knew a war with America was inevitable after embargo. They were never going to let the japs get away with war in China and if they attacked European colonies, America would join in. They were in a pretty desperate situation as either they could lose face internationally by withdrawing from China or attack Pearl Harbor which would give them a breathing space of 6 months or so. Of course Americans were never going to let the japs get away with it, so they were pretty much doomed.
>>1215288
Due to the oil embargo, Japan wanted to attack Indinesia, then a Dutch colony, to secure an oil source.
FDR had publicly guaranteed the Dutch right to their colonial possessions, and the Japs were rightly worried that an attack on the NEI would result in an American attack. However, they assumed any reprisal would be a short punitive expedition, not an all out war to eliminate them as historically occurred.
Pearl Harbor was thus attacked as a way of knocking out enough of the fleet to give the Japanese...
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Are there any battles where one sides wins using completely only tactics. No battles where the winners outnumber the loser. Bonus points for battles where winners are outnumbered
>Pic unrelated
>>1215212
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal
most battles fought in italy he was outnumbered, his cavalry cucked most others, based but we all die one day
>>1215212
Look up Khalid ibn al Walid. The man was a monster of tactics, basically all of his early battles of islamic conquest were won on tactics alone.
>>1215212
The famous meme: Finland vs URSS? Finland didn't technically win, but it did in our hearts.
Was there anything similar in other cultures like the cult of Cybele, the Dionysian Mysteries and so forth? Like these wild orgiastic ritual gatherings for a god or goddess?
>>1214511
It's very hard to say for sure, because the accounts of pre-20th century historians tend to be fairly unreliable when it comes to sexual matters.
Either sexuality would be downplayed (or ignored altogether) as something indecent to discuss, or the sexual antics of the ancients would be exaggerated to make them seem more exotic or barbaric. Doubly so where religion is involved
>>1214511
Temple prostitution among the Sumerians
https://youtu.be/2GFaN9-1iz0
