>muh feeling
>>808550
Why do you dumb faggots prattle on about art when you clearly don't even understand the basic, underlying concept?
>>808550
/his/ only knows of three movements
>>808561
Fuck off Kyle
Dear /his/
I just read I, Claudius and found it to be the best thing I've ever read. What are the best nonfiction books that are about the time in I, Claudius (Augustus - Caligula)
>>808388
check out the Spartacus novelization, you'll probably like it.
>>808388
The Bible
What does it mean to 'exist'?
What is the difference between "being" as a noun and "being" as a verb?
>>808272
from an epistemological standpoint, a 'being' is a physical entity.
>>808272
I'm not trying to be funny, but you will get an extremely accurate and comprehensive answer to that question by looking up 'being' in a dictionary.
I believe being dead is not worse than being alive.
What's wrong with my belief system?
>>808144
depends
>What's wrong with my belief system?
You've reduced it down to a single sentence with no support or argumentation that is vague enough to allow for many differing interpretations that can all contradict one another.
>>808164
So essentially no worse than any other religion based belief?
Contradict me
Was he history's first feminist?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/07/feds-paid-709000-to-academic-who-studies-how-glaciers-are-sexist/
lol who cares?
>>808102
No.
many hunter-gatherer tribes were egalitarian so I guess they were 'feminists' in the best possible sense
Why is Cleopatra VII Philopator so famous?
Because of the dramatic, and historically important events of the Roman civil war.
Also, bitches.
>>808048
Because Shakespeare, you simp.
>>808048
She was the only Egyptian that wasn't black
Is impressively rapid industrialization thanks to Stalin and the Soviet system a meme?
>>807893
No but Stalin being a paranoid murdering psychopath is
>>807901
Actually this
>>807901
he was a good boy who dindu nuffin
holomodor? nice propaganda bourgeois swine!
>>>/leftypol/
Were there any people persecuted for witchcraft that were actually attempting to practice it?
>>807888
Of course.
Most of them, actually.
>>807888
Depending on what you mean by witchcraft. In those days, sneezing the wrong would be met with cries of witchery.
Puritans were no fun at all.
If the 3rd Reich had succeeded, would it have been more of a "New Rome" than America is/was?
not OP but bumping
germany today is europe's powerhouse. give them hegemony over the rest of europe, and given their advances in rocket development and eventual competition with USA and Russia, and they would have gotten to the moon sooner. we'd probably be 30 years ahead in the future overall.
>>807816
Germany today wouldn't be contending with two hostile superpowers the way a surviving Third Reich would be.
>>807816
>germany today is europe's powerhouse
ebin meme
Find a more based man than Monsieur Voltaire
>Millionaire
>Finest playwright of his time
>European Monarchs idolized him
>His people love him
>BTFO the Church
>BTFO Louis XVI
>BTFO Rousseau.
>holy
>>807766
Voltaire is an over rated hack, literally nothing he said was clever or intelligent. Hes a pretentious blowhard faggot and only an idiot would like him
>>807774
This. He was the Sam Harris of his century.
King John: was he so bad?
>>807614
No. He just inherited a shitty situation from his faggot brother.
Long run? No.
Short run? He did alright dealt a shitty hand.
You're a stinker, and you stink.
Why didn't French parts of the United States continue to speak French after the Louisiana purchase while Quebec remains francophone long after being incorporated to an English speaking country
>>807361
Because no one fucking lived there
>>807369
Nobody lived in New Orleans?
>>807369
in New Orleans and southern Louisiana there were quite a few people. In the deep deep pats of Louisiana cajun French is still spoken. Why didn't the state of Louisiana become the Quebec of the United States?
Daily reminder that Venetian Republic was longest continuous form of government in history and monarchies, empires, dictatorships are child plays compared to serious business and glory of the Doge.
>>807027
PAX
>>807070
VENETIA
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>inb4 butthurt Orthoboos
>>807093
I'm Greek and the best times my hometown ever saw since antiquity was under Venetian rule.
Praise the Doge.
In any form of medieval media I've watched aiming for realism, I've never seen a metal shield, let alone heard mention of one. Are they a late medieval/early renaissance thing? Or were they all just wood and leather with a possible thin metal lining?
>>806929
Later shields had metal lining on the outside. I really don't know why they didn't make metal shields. curios too if anyone knows, because surely if metallurgy can make armor it could make thin enough shields
>>806984
My guess was that they would be too heavy for something that has to be moved quickly and accurately, and it would be a waste of metal that could be used for plate armor, that's why I was wondering if they were real or just a product of fantasy
>>806995
true and besides the cost wood has some give and metal does not, so that could be an issue. I do know some people like Rome or afrika had like golden and jewel encrusted shields but not for war use, more of a wealth thing really. When you say fantasy are you counting plate shields? because those were def a thing
Where is the actual proof for God/Allah/YHWH/etc?
>>806884
You disprove it first and then I'll tell you how your disproof is wrong.
The religion baiting is getting out of hand on /his/.
>>806891
Disprove the existence of a waifu dimension where Renge-chan loves me.
