How much do you americans know about him? Do kids in your country know who he was and what he stood for? I always had the impression he's extremely underrated not only as a political figure but as an interesting character as well.
I first learned about him in the (very good) book "The War Lovers" while doing research for my thesis about the Spanish-American War.
>>580207
That is sad. He was the pillar of resistance against the imperialist politics your country now holds. Only a distant memory remains of what could have been, but I guess is no good to educate your children, right? That way they'd surely be able to see how evil their beloved America truly is.
I hope I'm wrong and most Americans don't share your experience.
>>580168
No, but I read a lot about the Spanish American war, and we recognize in many schools that the whole conflict was really just an excuse to take Cuba, and that any concern over the welfare of the Spanish treatment of the Cubans was an afterthought. We're taught it to be a textbook example of Jingoism and Yellow Journalism.
>vikings
>horned helmets
Ughhh
Also, historical inaccuracies that pissed you off thread.
>le cracked contrarian history expert maymay
>>580057
>the katana is the best sword ever created
> Movies with people eating food they couldn't possibly have ate
Potatoes and tomatoes are the worst offenders.
>Russia
>And then it got worse.
we lived in peace
then white ppl came
>>579991
>Japan
Kicking honky ass since 1904
>>579991
>India
WERE FREE, WERE FINALLY FREE!
"and then they were enslaved for 90 years"
Daily reminder that the Roman Empire continued to exist after 1453.
The Ottoman Empire was the direct inheritor of Rome and the continuation of the Roman Empire. The Ottoman family were also descended from the Byzantine Emperors via marriage to Princesses.
>>579551
The Roman Empire met its sweet release of death in the Fourth Crusade.
>>579551
cockroach meme
Why was Stalin so afraid of this guy? Why he killed him, even after he was expulsed?
Stalin didn't really enjoy letting political enemies remain alive.
>>579526
/thread
>>579526
/thread
Who the fuck even is this guy? Can we stop posting him now?
>>579465
no
Some irrelevant Britbong fascist who edgy 15 year olds on here worship.
Now, mods!
Last time I visited /pol/ there was a german shitposter that spammed this pic with retarded comments
Sup /his/, I am in dire need of your assistance. I am torn up in the decision of wether to study something where finding work in the respective field isn't teaching or a struggle (Any form of applied Physics or Chemestry, I entertained the thought of Engineering but I find it supremely dull), or pursuing my passion in History. Thing is, there are very few ways of working in the field without having to eat white rice every night and living in a shithole.
I also thought I might as well keep History as a personal intrest and hobby, while I pursue a profession with more appliances. What do you suggest /his/? If I want to go after a degree in History I will likely have to study abroad for my title to have any real weight. On the other hand, where I live the Public University has no real private competition in Sciences and Engineering.
A third option would be studying something in economics which I do not feel is a challenge but don't feel really intrested about.
>>579446
Major on whatever gets you a job. Because you're probably going to end up having it anyway.
>>579458
Of course having a degree gives you an enormous advantage when applying for a job, but the thing is actually working in the same field you studied, for History that means teaching, research or writing books. I don't want to teach initially, and I have to either be sponsored privately or by the university to do research (which is a hard thing to get), and writing books generally = starving
You'll be more fulfilled and able to enjoy history with it as a job. Perhaps become a stem guy and volunteer an evening a week teaching history classes.
Why do most people have such a childish understanding of history?
Thinking studying history is about picking sides, obvious biases when it comes to discussing some historical events (in most cases presentism), not comprehending the context of individual events and thinking they apply to everything else, not caring about historical people or understanding the effect their philosophy had on the modern world. Thinking that because X thing happened once and Y thing now kind of resembles it, it must be the exact same thing.
What are some historically ignorant things you hear people say from time to time?
>>579244
The most common one is how we advanced from the primitive days to the modern world in a timespan of roughly 200/300 years.Like we are a new species, the modern man.
>>579244
History is progressive. Dialecticfags fuck off pls
I find people's knowledge of medieval history the worst. Renaissance and Enlightenment memes about that period still persist in documentaries and general understanding.
Wouldn't the Migration Period fit the definition of a 'Dark Age'? Near constant warfare, decreased economic activity, decrease in literacy, shift away from urban lifestyle, etc.
You know, there's a reason the period after the disintegration of the Roman Empire is called the Dark Ages.
>inb4 buttblasted people insist that the Dark Ages were a myth
>>578912
Nobody claims it's a myth that the period between the fall of Rome and Charlemagne can be called a dark age in Western Europe. The trouble is when most people hear or use the term "Dark Ages", they mean the entire Middle Ages.
Migration period is a meme since it doesn't really correlate with genetics. Seems many of the "migration" were just a few invaders culturally assimilating the local majority.
Do Catholic dictators go to confession?
Were they expected to confess to the killing of political opponents?
>>578876
>Father, I have sinned. Today I've killed about 20,000 communists
>Good man, say 8 hail Maries.
If Franco went to confession, I'm sure he confessed to political murders.
Ante Pavelic dindu nuffin
December 1914 during the stage of Total war Germany led mass attacks on civilians and the government knew that invasion was imminent a letter was handed out to all military commanders giving instructions on how to act during German invasion. After the threat was cleared all traces of these instructions were destroyed. My question is that does anyone know what these instructions were?
>>578320
Invasion of which country?
>>578389
Britan
>Germany invading America
>in 1914
lel
Why aren't you a member of the Richard III Society?
>trying to defend Richard III's good name
Most of them probably wouldn't even be interested in him if it weren't for Shakespeare.
Because I don't approve of paedocides
>>578234
>paedocides
Base slander. Or so the society says anyway.
IMO, the guy has been massively demonized due to Henry VII's propaganda needs, his actual laws and shit reflect his reign as just and mostly benign.
He probably killed the little shits, but that's standard kingly behaviour really.
If the film Lawrence of Arabia historically accurate?
>>578204
As despicting the eternal anglo as it was, kinda
It doesn't matter. Peter O'Toole was gorgeous in it.
What about the sequel?
Here is an Orthodox FAQ and reading list I put together, if you're interested: http://pastebin.com/bN1ujq2x
But, main topic: Freemasons, and why Catholics and Orthodox don't like them. The answer is simple: they are trying to water down all the world religions so everyone has the same, very liberal, faith (this isn't about something sinister, but because they want to end things like religious conflict and division). This causes them to infiltrate religions and cause all sorts of problems. We've had two Ecumenical Patriarchs who were Freemasons (maybe more that we don't know about): the first, Meletius IV, recognized Anglican orders, and was the guy who started the movement to revise the Julian Calendar, which was partially accomplished by his successor (don't get me wrong, the calendar had to be revised, because if it is then it will be all out of whack with the seasons eventually, but the revision should have been something the whole Church did together, even if that took another hundred years, and it shouldn't have been pushed through for Masonic reasons, which is to align with Roman Catholics and Protestants). The second Mason Patriarch we had was Athenagoras I, and he got very buddy buddy with the Pope and rescinding the anathemas and all sorts of things.
So, this one reason why we don't want Masons in our ranks, because they have an agenda and owe allegiance to their fraternity rather than the Church. Most staunch Catholics also dislike the heck out of Masons, and while both of us want reconciliation, they'd agree it shouldn't be done through watering down, but rather through affirming a shared tradition.
>only nearby Assyrian Orthodox Church in my area is run by indians
Just fuck my culture up
>>578109
The Jewish Orthodox Church was the first one.
>>578071
I don't see it on the FAQ, so why do Christians insist that there are no discrepencies between the Gospels when even a cursory, casual reading of them reveals that there are?
you are now Adolf Hitler in 1933
what do you do?
Start drawing again.
/b/-tier shit, dawg.
>>577559
>use modern knowledge to win war
or
>annex everything up to danzig and then sit back and masturbate to hentai for a few decades
