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Biggest retards of history
Mainly Rulers and Generals, people.who had power
Also Biggest whores
>>1044314
Who the nazis? No shit
>>1044382
I mean you tell me people who fit the description..
Lenin.
>utterly fucked his country by launching it into a revolution and subsequent civil war
>generous cession of territory to the Germans, worse than the Versaillers treaty
>when he realized people don't exactly like his retarded social experiments he went full coercive on the people
>legalized abortions, homosexuality, divorce, actively promoted absolutely stupid shit as "art"
>destroyed the country...
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Why couldn't France conquer the Channel Islands. They're so much closer to France they're basically surrounded by Brittany and Normandy.
muh english navy.
>>1044263
I've heard you can swim there from France.
>>1044267
You can swin the whole channel.
I'm looking to learn the complete history of the Roman empire down to the collapse of the Byzantines. Any recommendations on books / sets of books?
pic slightly related
>>1044068
>Roman Empire
Literal meme history desu senpai
>>1044085
What about Greeks?
just read wikipedia then find books on whatever interests you the most
I'm honestly tired of my destructive emotions getting the best of me. It os effecting my jobs and schooling, I have no discipline whatsoever. I don't have discipline, because I don't CARE enough. I don't care enough, because I lack the confidence to go through any of it. I'm always anxious about fighting an uphill battle everybody seems to go through. I hear horror stories of graduates not being able to get a job and they become crippled with. I don't want to go through some trial and error bullshit, I want perfect results from myself. But all of...
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You should just kill yourself desu. Life is neverending suffering anyway.
Can you actively teach yourself how to be stoic? I always thought it was something you developed over time naturally (for some people) as a method to deal with other people's shit?
It's like being upset and telling yourself, 'I'm not upset, I'm not upset'.. when you clearly are.. but a stoic just fucking deals with it. I am quite high right now.
>>1044129
This is what I do, I don't think it's Stoicism so much as repressing it. It's gotten to the point now where I can be happy or sad or angry but the overwhelming majority of the time I'm apathetic to everything and I'm not sure how I feel anymore.
Would not recommend at all tbqh.
How would Bosnian War end if NATO didnt came in and fucked serbian shit up?
inb4 muh 25 years, Yugoslavia started to breakup in 1990 so it fits
world war 3
eventually neighbouring countries would chip in and russia may or may not get involved
you what escalation means, right
>>1043748
Croatia would invade and win. NATO didn't do much.
>>1043994
Didn't they put an weapons embargo at Croatia?
Is this the best African country, historically speaking? Seems like it.
>Christian
>maintained its independence throughout the colonial period
>has an emperor
>>1043376
>Is this the best African country, historically speaking? Seems like it.
>Christian
GTFO christfag
Zoroastrianism rules 4chan
>>1043376
>Has an emperor
Had, you mean
>>1043418
Whatever you say my "Aryan" friend
You refer to something in your essay called the *ahem* Holy Roman Empire. Now, I'm not going to deduct marks, but could you elaborate on what exactly you mean by this? I have my own misgivings with the term, but I'd like to hear your arguments and am open to changing my mind.
>>1043228
I may have written it wrong, in fact I meant the
>satanic
>barbarian
>coalition
Hmm, I have to argue that this meme is becoming a bit stale.
One of the main reasons being, that
Last time it was posted was a mere 2 hours ago
Yeah, it's really annoying at this point
Recognizing this guys face in the catalog has become a daily occurence
Over the past 2 days,
My experience on /his/ has been polluted by this shitty meme
And i'm frankly tired of it.
No more shitty Voltaire threads, please guys
Every time i go on /his/ this crap is being posted
Mostly it's the same people.
Posting the same stale joke over...
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>>1043536
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Who was the best US president, and why was it FDR?
>>1043020
>Who was the luckiest US president, and why was it FDR?
ftfy
>>1043020
You got Andrew Jackson's initials wrong.
>>1043020
>literally supplied the army of the greatest threat to USA an enabled it to conquer half of europe and almost nuke the shit out of the US
>greatest president
Meanwhile
>BUSH SUPPLIED SOME TERRORISTS IN IRAQ THAT MIGHT HAVE ENDED UP BEING ISIS IN SOME FORM
>HES THE WORST
propaganda is a very powerful weapon.
local state/province history thread.
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http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=5664
>Arkansas General Assembly
>1837
>debating wolf-scalp bounty bill
>"Representative Anthony, an outspoken opponent of the notoriously corrupt Arkansas Real Estate Bank, offered a tongue-in-cheek amendment asking that 'the signature of the President of the Real Estate Bank be attached to the certificate of...
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Nevada
>1977
>the Tule Springs oasis park in Las Vegas is renamed Floyd Lamb Park in honor of the influential Nevada state senator who represented Clark County
>1983
>Lamb and other Nevada politicians were convicted of taking a $23,000 bribe in an FBI sting operation
>2016
>the city never changed the name
lol
good thread idea desu. don't have much to contribute rn but i'll bump and come back later.
>Dahlonega, GA
>Sight of the first gold rush in the United States
>Established one of the best military schools in the country
Unfortunately it became a State school and got all Liberal'd out
>Official start of the Trail of Tears
A lake is named after Winfield Scott who led the trail
>Georgia Gold fills the roof of the state capitol, the gold plating on the Paris Opera House, Buckingham palace and pretty much every...
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Who lost us our glorious Empire at Waterloo?
>>1042733
>at Waterloo
Pretty sure the empire was already dead by 1814
>>1042762
No Empire was alive and stronk until Waterloo (Ney...)
>>1042771
fucking Ney sending in the Cavalry without infantry support. What a fucking retard.
The real loser was Grouchy who completely failed to delay the Prussians and ultimately cost Boney the battle.
I've seen some historians who say Napoleon could have rallied for another battle near Paris and potentially won but his spirit was broke mes amis. Losing to wellington will do that to you.
What primarily motivated the bombing of Hiroshima? Was it a desire to prevent an invasion, an attempt to keep the Soviets out of Japan, or the result of bureaucratic momentum after spending tons of resources on developing a superweapon?
Honestly, I've put a lot of thought into this, and I think the answer is they did not put a lot of thought into it.
It's only afterwards that we realized the implications of the bomb. Sure some people involved in the project, for years, who were great and broad thinkers, distant from the day to day grind of the war, had some idea of what they were getting into.
But the A-Bomb was dropped because it was a bomb, and we were deploying every weapon we had at the Japanese at that point. For most involved, there was not a question of 'why' anymore...
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For the same reason we'd been using thousand bomber raids to do the same thing to every other city in Japan.
Plus, maybe to avoid an invasion.
The planned invasion of Kyushu also involved atomic bombs, but it made sense to use a couple as part of the strategic bombing campaign while you were mustering forces for the land invasion, on the off chance it got the high command to see sense.
Invasion. If it took months to dislodge a few thousand soldiers from a 5km island in the pacific, imagine fighting tens of thousands of them on their home turf and dealing with the millions of civilians becoming guirella fighters and suicide bombers. The easiest way was to use the brand new city annihilator to intimidate them into surrender.
So /his/ the year is 392 after the successful conquering of the German tribes by germanicus and the quelling of all rebellious groups by glorious Rome. Their borders to the east are secure due to both excellent diplomacy and the fact that the Mongols never come to prominence in Asia, one day an explorer is granted imperial assistance in the form of 1 legion and a relatively small fleet to go west across the Atlantic in search of a trade route to the mysterious Chinese empire, instead he comes back bearing news of treasure beyond count, and primitive savages willing to defend...
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>>1042624
ALEINS COME DOWN AND MAKE MY OC SONIC CHARACTER EMPORER
alt history is fucking dumb
Woah, I thought the sticky was unstickied for a moment there
>>1042624
>Romans having technology to cross the ocean
They probably wouldn't bother with overseas colonization that far due to MUH ROADS
What character from greek myth would you assign to each board?
Pic related is obviously /r9k/
Hercules would of course be /fit/
>>1042516
>"hercules"
>greek
triggered and rustled
/b/
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I'm taking a course about Europe during the Cold War next quarter, but have only studied it from the American perspective. What events, besides the building and destruction of the Berlin Wall, define Europe during the Cold War?
Also, any good books or material to get me into it?
McCarthy did nothing wrong
seriously
>>1042415
>define Europe during the Cold War?
Titos Yugoslavia and his break from Stalin
Francos reflective isolationism of Spain from the rest of Europe
The Troubles and the British recession.
De Gaulles France desperately trying to stay relevant post WWII.
As general topics at least.
>>1042415
Communist Europe:
Starvation of Holland 1944 (by the allies) & Indonesian independence
"Stop" order on the French Revolution
"Stop" order on the Italian Revolution
"Stop" order on the Greek Revolution
Defeat of French, Italian and Greek communist movements.
Czechoslovak coup
Rajk Trial (1949)
1949 purges (Anti-"titoist")
Anti-NATO campaign
Stalin's death
Berlin ultraleft riots (1953)
New Course in Hungary, Old Course in...
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Tell me about the Cultural Revolution. Is this the most history destroying event ever to occur? Could China one day fully recover from this event?
>Great
>Proletarian
>Cultural
>Revolution
Mao did nothing wrong.
>>1042409
Recover what? How?
