What is randomness?
Antigod
Lack of knowledge to see the pattern
Impossible, not real.
Something I've always been curious about is everyday life for Romans. I don't know where to find much information on it. I know we're aware of how they lived, generally, but being an average dude in a Roman City-do we know what it was like? Did they really just sit around eating olives and shit all day? Were the cities near as clean as they are always portrayed?
>On April 19th, I made bread
>Antiochus hung out here with his girlfriend Cithera.
>Would that you pay for all your tricks, innkeeper. You sell us water and keep the good wine for yourself
>Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.
>Secundus likes to screw boys.
>Hectice, baby, Mercator says hello to you
Pretty much like today, but instead of facebook and instagram they just wrote on the walls
>>439117
>they just wrote on walls
That's really funny to me, for some reason. The idea that something would posses someone to just go fucking write something on a wall in the middle of the street is hilarious
>>439130
Shitposting is the most essential aspect of the human condition
What are some books that are a must-read for every history fanatic? No specific time period.
The Bible
Maybe not a must-read, but Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game is an interesting book about the rivalry between Russia and Britain in the 19th century, with a specific focus on Central and Southern Asia.
Was there ever a more degenerate culture?
>>438970
Just Western European culture, desu.
>>438970
Define "degenerate"
Really hope you aren't applying your subjective political opinions to history because that would be bad historiography desu senpai
>>438970
he looks so happy
How was it that the Poruguese managed to keep something as large as Brazil as a colony without Spain or the others taking it from them? They had a tiny population and certaintly had no military to successfully defend it.
>>438920
Weren't they a devout ally of England for years? Pretty sure it was one of the longest alliances in history.
>>438941
Yes, the English loved Port Wine.
>>438920
Treaty of Tordesillas
Who here /habsburgboo/?
I dare /his/ to name a more powerful family
>>438847
Majority of US presidents are descended from British royalty.
>>438847
Rothschilds
They kind of bankrolled almost every big war since the 1800's
People who were unsuccessful early in life but were "born again" with a more polished mindset.
Pic arguably related.
>>438710
Mozart.
>>438711
Didn't Salieri set him up?
Walt Disney
Scientists have a very ill formed definition of philosophy. Philosophy is a quest for objectivity just like science, that's why science was derived from philosophy. The philosophical method is much broader than the scientific one, applicable to human affairs and even to worlds that aren't actual, that's the power of introspection. They conclude that philosophical discourses are nonsensical because of their preconceived notion of sense data as the only source of objectivity, a notion derived from the philosophical method, after all you can't empirically verify that statement. But that assumption is what give scientific discourse the objective status, a assumption that every scientist in a lab makes even though they're not even aware of, the epistemic framework of science has a philosophical foundation.
If you as a scientist want to criticize philosophers try to analyze their claims from a philosophical perspective, because if your definition of objectivity is sense data then of course you're gonna think they're bullshitting you. But they're not, they're trying to do the same thing a chemist does in a lab, the problem is that is a lot harder to have that objective ground in philosophical subjects, you can't really use the sense data assumption when dealing with mental states now can't you?
And just to be fair, there's a lot of philosophies out there that are actually bullshit, because you don't really have a rigorous definition of objectivity like science does, then people go wild and claim they're telling the truth. But a scientist to deny the importance of philosophy is simply madness, science is permeated with philosophical assumptions, and being ignorant of them and philosophy in general may get you in epistemological troubles.
Is that Ray William Johnson? =3?
>>438649
Science is philosophy but it is a highly specific and proven to show results. The issue with most philosophies is that they don't provide society with anything. Any philosophy worth anything should either better people or give them a broader perspective and Science does this consistently, more so than any other branch of philosophy. Therefore I would say it does have some just in snubbing other less effective philosophies.
>>438649
That's nice. Philosophers can't make this happen, though.
I'll start with one of the worst, or perhaps the best, depending on your perspective
>Heinz Assmann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Assmann
>>438260
Not historical but wew.
Galileo Galilei
Very nice sounding name.
Praisegod Barebones - a member of the English Parliment during the Civil War.
Also, a character from historical fiction: Saved From Captivity Huff. He appears in serveral of Kenneth Roberts novels. In Arundel, he's described as a deliveryman and occasional thief, though his friend says "Never did he steal from me, except for small things I could easily spare."
Was German National-Socialism basically a reaction to Soviet Bolshevism?
Was Hitler's racial and antisemitic ideology an attempt to reconstruct Marxism-Leninism in a way more appropriate to the German setting?
Was his segregationist and later genocidal policy a variation on the theme of the destruction of kulaks and Eastern-European ethnic purges?
>>438019
>basically
Fuck off with this weasel word bullshit.
>Was Hitler's racial and antisemitic ideology an attempt to reconstruct Marxism-Leninism in a way more appropriate to the German setting?
Do you know who Liebnicht was? Korsh?
Learn the history of the SPD, Spartakists, AAUD, KAPD and KPD before you open your trap with this shit again.
>Was his segregationist and later genocidal policy a variation on the theme of the destruction of kulaks and Eastern-European ethnic purges?
>theme
Themes exist in literature and documents, they don't exist in historiographical narratives except as a device. Human relationships aren't "thematic" except through active subjectivities producing themes.
>Eastern-European ethnic purges
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Go wank to _Bloodlands_ and never post here again.
>>438023
>Go wank to _Bloodlands_
>implying that's a bad thing
OP was obviously going for Ernst Nolte more than Snyder though.
>>438023
>Liebknacht
>Korsch
Neither of those was Marxist-Leninist. Liebknecht died before the term was even coined.
>The current year
>Caring more about a newborn human infant than an ape
>This speciesism
Why haven't you embraced my utilitarianism yet?
>>437904
Clearly you are all blown away by my unassailable logic
DUDE LOOK AT MY PHILOSOPHICAL BULLSHIT
Like, I sit on my ass hammered all day everyday just thinking about shit. Watch my complex logic loopty loops towards making my controversial claim LMAO
>Unitarianism
>implying this is not just secular Christianity
>implying you don't just axiomatically assume that pain is bad because it's part of Christian culture
tell me about the unification of france
when?
how?
>>437401
Early Middle Ages by the Franks
By conquest
>>437419
more details
did england try to stop itr?
>>437563
Oh, my god.
Smh desu senpai
ITT: We post interesting/comical/odd/badass people.
>pic related
Guy was captain of a lightly armored cargo ship in a convoy towards the USSR in WW2. Some U-Botes came, and diaspora was ordered on the fleet, so he made a small flotila with 3 other ships.
Trying to avoid other potential attacks, he headed up north, but didn't have a map on him for where he was, and got his flotilla stuck in ice. Since they where sitting ducks for any bombers, he took out paint brushes and white paint, and told everyone to paint the ships white. He took some tanks out, not know how they work, but told crewmates to use them as anti-aircraft if they see enemies.
Lucky for him is that they broke free with no planes seen, and tried to find there way back by using a pocket atlas and some sheer luck. Eventually, a small group of allied ships found his group, and took him to a port in Russia.
The trip was more or less a success, as they did get the goods to Russia, despite being a bit late.
>Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gradwell
>>437257
Khan Sternberg. I win
>>437257
Adrian von Fölkersam
>In early August 1942, a Brandenburger unit of 62 Baltic and Sudeten Germans led by von Fölkersam penetrated farther into enemy territory than any other German unit. They had been ordered to seize and secure the vital Maikop oilfields. Disguised as men of the dreaded Soviet security police, the NKVD, and driving Soviet trucks, Fölkersam's unit passed through the Soviet front lines and moved deep into hostile territory. The Brandenburgers ran into a large group of Red Army deserters fleeing from the front. Fölkersam saw an opportunity to use them to the unit's advantage. By persuading them to return to the Soviet cause, he was able to join with them and move almost at will through the Russian lines.
>Operating under the false identity of NKVD Major Truchin, based in Stalingrad, Fölkersam explained his role in recovering the deserters to the Soviet commander in charge of Maikop's defences. The commander not only believed Fölkersam, but the next day gave him a personal tour of the city's defenses. By August 8, the German spearheads were only 12 miles away and the Brandenburgers made their move. Using grenades to simulate an artillery attack, they knocked out the military communications centre for the city. Fölkersam then went to the Russian defenders and told them that a withdrawal was taking place. Having seen Fölkersam with their commander and lacking any communications to rebut or confirm his statement, the Soviets began to evacuate Maikop. The German spearhead entered the city without a fight on August 9, 1942.
Pc related: Best Friend Otto Skorzeny (center Left and Folkersam (center right) touring Budapest which they pacified together.
>>437339
Wait, so he captured a city with no one dying directly? Pretty fucking tall order.
>tfw he doesn't realize he's God living in Paradise
>>436702
The kingdom of heaven is within you motherfucker
>>436709
Go back to reading The Lost Symbol, babby.
Research from Durham University has determined that a modern day person in England with English ancestry is almost certainly descended from king Edward iii of England, even with using estimates based on figures that would give the smallest chance of being a descendant of Edward, a modern Englishmen still has a 99.997% chance of descending from him.
https://community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/EdwardIIIDescent.php
This means that every Englishmen will be descended from all of Edwards ancestors including every post-conquest king except for William ii, Stephen and Richard i.
Through Henry i's mothers line going back to the house of Wessex, this means a modern Englishmen is descended from pre-conquest kings such as Alfred or Athelred.
Through Edwards's mother Isabella this makes the English descended from the house of Capet ruling France, and also of Spanish royalty.
So what I'm saying is if you are English, British or even descended from diaspora from the colonial era...
WE WUZ KINGZ!!!!
>>436579
What a bunch of inbreds.
WE WUZ PLANTAGENETZ ND CAPETIANZ N SHIIIEET
>>436579
>the house of Capet ruling France
Max, go fetch the old guillotine. It looks like we have a royalist infestation in the government again.
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