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which lost historical treasures would you like to see unearthed?
ur mums virginity
Why is baroque better than anything else?
>>1151109
Maybe not treasures but some famous ships are still missing. It's true we've found most of them but there are a few still missing.
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-famous-shipwrecks-still-waiting-to-be-discovered
“In the middle of April [1917] the Germans took a sombre decision. Ludendorff refers to it with bated breath. Full allowance must be made for the desperate stakes to which the German war leaders were already committed. They were in the mood which had opened unlimited submarine warfare with the certainty of bringing the United States into the war against them. Upon the Western front they had from the beginning used the most terrible means of offense at their disposal. They had employed poison gas on the largest scale and had invented the ‘Flammenwerfer.’ Nevertheless it...
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>>1151056
This isn't news. And a country financing political dissidents in an area they want to destabilize, regardless of whether they agree with those dissidents, is nothing uncommon. I expect Germany didn't anticipate Lenin being so successful.
I'd say it's comparable to the middle east right now. You support some fringe radical groups for geopolitical reasons then it gets out of hand and they hate your guts.
It was a very disloyal, bitch move though. The Kaiser and the emperor of Russia were cousins who spoke via telegraph frequently!
>>1151094
The tsar had already resigned by the time of Lenins return to Russia though.
Why did Stalin deport the Tatars from Crimea?
How much credibility is there in the official reason of collaboration with the Germans?
>claim to hate nazis / nationalists
>apply collective guilt to ethnic groups
Every time
>>1150679
Stalin didn't hate nationalism, though.
>>1150687
He was basically a Russian supremacist but he did declare to be against nationalism. Just commie things.
Did Ottomans ever tried to conquer Persia? If yes, then why did they failed? If not, then why they didn't even tried it?
Zagros mountains make pretty good natural borders.
>>1150384
Too many mountains and having to deal with Europe in the meantime.
they do, many times in fact. the first time they btfo the persians with gunpowder, getting caucasus and western persia. then a a stalemate with the persian and the ottoman winning sometimes, this went on for a long time until the ottoman and russia both got btfo by nader shah, also this >>1150869
Have there ever been a greater meme concepts than Tabula Rasa and the myth of absolute equality? Why the fuck are these challenged more often?
Because science answers those questions now.
>>1150269
Lots of things are more like guidelines rather than absolute truths. Semi-truths that are needed to make some society function properly.
That said everyone implicitly holds those concepts to be faulty yet holding them true makes life a lot easier and justifiable.
>>1151186
It's annoying when they bleed over into real life, for example the whole 'every aspect of society has to reflect the census' meme. It's never fucking challenged, it's just a given that everyone is absolutely equal and born with the exact same capabilities with any discrepancies chalked up to -ism, e.g. '50% of scientists aren't female because sexism'
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Is there anything to this Kek meme?
Or are the stormfags at /pol/ just fabricating shit again?
hmm
It's not invented by /pol/, it actually was a thing.
>>1149755
There really is a frog god in Ancient Egypt called Kek, dunno if the hieroglyphics depicting a person sitting in front of a computer are real tho
Are there any other artists or cultural figures in history that have led a tragic and strange life like Yukio Mishima? Japanese or otherwise. Byronic personalities in history, I guess.
>>1149688
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in all seriousness tho he was pretty cool
What's your favorite book. I've only read confessions of a mask and the temple of the golden pavilion but the latter is my favorite by far
I think he truly understood what it's like not only to be ugly
But what it's like to feel ugly in every fiber of your being pic related
>>1149714
I just began reading The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, after watching Mishima: A Life in Four Parts on the Criterion Collection. His writing is very reflective of his experiences, it seems
>His speech was intended to inspire a coup d'état to restore the power of the emperor. He succeeded only in irritating the soldiers, and was mocked and jeered. He finished his planned speech after a few minutes, returned to the commandant's office and committed seppuku. The assisting kaishakunin duty at the end of this ritual (to decapitate Mishima) had been assigned to Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita, who was unable to properly perform the task. After several failed attempts at severing Mishima's head, he allowed another Tatenokai member,...
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What would /his/ say is the most significant sporting event (or events) in history?
>pic related. The fights between these two couldn't paint a better picture as to what was going on in those times.
>inb4 1936 Olympics
Post nice things about Canada historically ITT.
/thread
Canada is a pretty cool guy. Free Healthcare and doesn't afraid of anything
I like how bro-tier Canada was during the Klondike gold rush at the end of the 19th century, when border disputes and law enforcement was shared between both countries with a minimum of rude landgrabbing and infighting.
They could have been dicks about all the dumb american prospectors edging in on their land but from what I've read they were honest and unnecessarily helpful in ensuring american safety.
Don't meme. Canada did some pretty based shit in both world wars.
How do I rebel against my overly strict Platonic parents? They are always telling me to do lame shit like meditate on the forms and won't shut up about Socrates and how great knowledge is.
>>1148872
masturbate in public and show them that a plucked chicken is a man
>>1148872
You don't deserve your parents.
>tfw your dad will never tell you to meditate on the forms
>>1148872
Become a Marxist
Plato appreciation thread. Aristotelianfags GTFO.
Let's discuss Forms and Ideas without any pure empiricist faggots denying the existence of abstract principles.
>>1148834
It's your fault we have christianity
There's a saying in philosophy that you're either an instinctive Platonist or an instinctive Aristotelian. I'm the former. Reading the Socratic dialogues in college was amazing, and then when I read the Republic it felt right and true in a way no book ever had before.
I think that's why I'm more of an Augustinian Catholic than a Thomistic one. I of course love Aquinas, but Augustine and his deep Platonism resonate with me more. I fucking love Plato.
So, lads, have you ordered your souls justly? Does your Reason have control of your Appetite...
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>>1148857
It's Christianity that has saved your ass from being plowed by Muslims.
Currently writing my final essay for my Humanities class
i could use some help with topics under the category of "Contributions of Ancient Greece". So far ive talked about the philosophers and that stuff and im now moving on to talk about democracy in the modern world. But after this im not sure what i should cover. Any tips are appreciated
Just talk about the Olympics for the rest of the paper. You can easily fill a dozen pages with that, plus it's a timely subject with the games in Brazil this year.
>>1148804
great idea, i only have 3 pages left to fulfill the minimum so that should help me reach it
>>1148790
Do your own homework you insufferable faggot.
Hey everyone, I'm looking at really delving into research on proto-indo-european languages and similar linguistic origins, so if anyone has any good sources for me (books, articles, etc) I'd be super appreciative.
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, Robert S. P. Beekes
Indo-European Language and Culture, Benjamin W. Fortson
From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Donald Ringe
New Comparative Grammar of Latin and Greek, Andrew Sihler
You can find pdfs of them all on libgen.io
I suggest reading Beekes first since it also has a few chapters introducting historical linguistics.
>>1148787
Look into the Basque language. Proto-European and unrelated to any living language today. Might give some insight into older or less influenced Indo-European languages
>>1148787
I'm a native spanish speaker and know portuguese and italian and a bit of french still can't understand how the fuck is romanian a latin language. It doesn't fucking sound or look in any way similar to the others...
>117 AD was 1899 years ago
>>1148508
>caesar was alive on this very day 2061 years ago
>i could see the hanging gardens 2604 years ago
How time flies.
To deal with high, heavy armor, what is better an axe or a mace?
Assume the weapon to be used with a shield and the user to be recently trained, strong and use heay armor himself.
Obviously, medierval settings, prove your claims .
Too many factors. Clarify time period and what you mean by heavy armor which with the previous bit can be anything from a gambeson and mail to lamellar to plate harnesses.
Also why a shield? Once armor advanced, shields fell out of favor heavily with people that could afford that armor in preference of more devastating weapons, starting with the dane axe and going into two handed warhammers, the pollax, halberds, etc.
Seems like an odd question.
Consider the bill-hook, stilletto pairing.
Most heavily armored knights would be mounted in a realistic setting, and so the first step is to get them off their horse, and preferably on their backs.
To do this the English employed the billhook. Similar to a halberd but lighter and consisting of several bird-bill like hooks, it was used not to damage the heavy armored opponent but snag on his helmet, armor, or strappings and read him down or tangle him.
They would then finish the job with a thin dagger through the eye visor, or between the plates in the...
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Neither. For heavy armor you want to use piercing weapons.
Proof:
P = F/A.
