Can we have a cool historical marches thread? Starting off with a Swedish/Finnish one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YSkW4sJU4
Here's a (in my opinion) top tier British one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrxHO-B2TY
Not sure if this counts as a march, but really cool nonetheless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD6oDnm43HA
MY FAVOURITE MARCH HYMN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkB8ZdzokiA
How come some people dismiss feelings as "just a chemical reaction?"
Should we not also dismiss atoms as "just a bunch of subatomic particles?"
Is something less valuable just because it is the sum of something else?
>>2689252
1. BECAUSE THEY ARE MATERIALISTS.
2. FEELINGS ARE NOT THE SUM OF "BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS".
>I didn't "shoot" that guy, I just re-arranged his particles, judge!
How old were you when you learned that (the expression of) emotions are historical contingent?
BTW we can't differ between emotions and any other cognitive functions anymore.
where's the Aristotelian golden mean between faithfulness and unfaithfulness, or honesty and dishonesty?
Ultimate final boss: Whats the golden mean between being ethical or not
>>2689160
>dont do to others what you dont want done to you
Nobody said you couldn't have asshole standards
>>2689160
>faithfulness and unfaithfulness
Recognizing when your faith is misplaced and retracting it.
>honesty and dishonesty
Dishonesty in the short term to aid in a long term more honest goal
>between being ethical or not
Changing your ethics when the situation proves your old ethics ineffective.
>>2689183
wrong
what is the worst time to be alive in X country?
>Russian
>literally any time or place in the history of that entire god-forsaken land
>Brasil
>anytime after the slavery abolition/republican coup
>France
>2020
Many salty anons think that Germany shouldn't exist. I disagree but can we all agree that Austria actually shouldn't exist?
Yes it should
Austria is a more chill version of germany you pleb
Middle europe would suck far more without the austrobros
True, in a scenario were you split Germany into many states after WWI, Austria should be absorbed by Bavaria and not with any autonomy nonsense or anything but completely abolished as an entity.
That way Bavaria is rewarded for seceding and feels content being it's own entity and is big enough to resist some future attempt to restore the empire.
>>2689286
Retarded.
How did the world react to their brutal executions?
"Start shit get hit."
--King George V
>>2688806
The daughter in the middle was hot...also the one on her left...
>>2688936
I mean right...
>watch Hitler take Poland, Austria, Czech, Yugoslavia, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine
>can't do anything about it
>sit down in London for three years doing literally nothing while Germans bomb the shit out of England including London itself
>uhhh America pls come help your father Britain
>Roosevelt finally decides to intervene
>Roosevelt starts sending you supplies
>Too retarded to actually be able to receive them
>Roosevelt realizes you're too dumb to even properly intercept the supplies you're given
>Roosevelt enters the War
>Roosevelt and Stalin defeat Hitler
Fast forward 70 years:
>you're the most famous Ally leader from WWII
How the fuck did it even happen?
>>2688376
You must ask yourself, who controls the media and what goes into our history books? I think you'll find a lot of (((masons))) and (((smiths))).
>you're the most famous Ally leader from WWII
I don't think Churchill is much more famous than either Roosevelt or Stalin
All three were giants of the 20th century.
>watch Hitler take Sweden
Why do people think the Roman Empire was good again when it was under the Republic that they conquered the majority of their territories and had their most glorious victorious? The Empire is overrated meme trash.
*victories
To gain an empire is much easier than holding onto one. The constant infighting of the Senate would have caused much more instability in the long run than the Imperial system.
You could also make the argument that an Imperial coup was inevitable, whenever the Republic faced an external invasion, whichever general successfully stopped it would be immediately tempted to simply overthrow the republic, and would have had the public support to do so, especially if the senate was seen as being too complacent in response to said invasion. Remember, there were calls to make Scipio Africanus Emperor way back in the days after Zama
>>2688435
Still doesn't change the fact that the Empire was a failure compared to the Republic. They expanded very little and couldn't keep hold of the new territories they conquered for any substantial amount of time.
Why don't we give free contraception to developing countries, not free food that may ruin their economies and make them dependent on further aid?
>>2688186
>& humanities strikes again
>>2688186
Best contraception for them would be AK-74's.
>>2688186
>Why don't we give free contraception to developing countries
We do, they're mostly not interested.
Could we get a historical feels thread? Stuff that really pulls the heartstrings, make you think, make you depressed, ect.
Anne de Gaulle was the youngest daughter of General Charles de Gaulle. She was born in Trier, Germany, where her father was stationed with the Army of Occupation in the Rhineland.
She was born with Down Syndrome and lived with her family until her death. For Charles, there was one sacred rule in the de Gaulle household: Anne was never to be made to feel different or less than anyone else. Charles de Gaulle was well documented for his reserve,
and even with family members he was usually not very demonstrative. Not so with his daughter Anne, who received a warmth that he had seemed to be storing for his entire life just for her. He would entertain her with songs, dances, and pantomimes, he would often act as a child himself to bring her joy. One Colombey resident recalled how he used to walk with her hand-in-hand around the property, caressing her and talking quietly about the things she understood. She was, he said simply, “My joy. She helped me overcome the failures in all men, and to look beyond them.”
In 1948, Anne succumbed to pneumonia, a month after her 20th birthday and died in her father's arms. Upon her death, weeping, her father said: "Now, she's like the others."
On 22 August 1962, Charles de Gaulle was the victim of an attempted assassination at Petit-Clamart. He later said that the potentially fatal bullet had been stopped by the frame of the photograph of Anne that he always carried with him, placed this particular day on the rear shelf of his car. When he died in 1970, he was buried in the cemetery of Colombey beside his beloved daughter.
She could only utter one word clearly in her entire life: ‘Papa’
>>2688138
What is this a picture of?
China has lots of ancient books. But are they really that old? Are they reliable?
Or are they all fabricated very recently? (Like, in 19th century?)
Ever heard of carbon dating? It's true that a lot of books have been destroyed and since reconstructed, but the major works can be confirmed to be legit.
>>2687406
Do they carbondate their books? I thought they mostly get copies from recent period.
I dont know. I mean they have 25 histories, ranging from 200BC to 1900s, all "already" compiled conveniently in one language, one format, and they say it's readable to modern Chinese readers. It just sounds fishy.
>>2687556
>I dont know. I mean they have 25 histories, ranging from 200BC to 1900s, all "already" compiled conveniently in one language, one format, and they say it's readable to modern Chinese readers. It just sounds fishy.
I agree, as if a government body task to both write and collate the history of a dynasty and even the history of earlier dynasties seems to exist...
What did fundamentalist Presbyterians in the 1920s and 30s mean by this?
>>2686905
decent to hell id imagine
>>2686905
They drew a staircase but meant to draw a slippery slope
Degenerate here looking for occurrences of my fetish in history
I'm into fatties, that ranges anywhere from sorta chubby to landwhale status as well as the weight gain required to reach said stages of fatness. What I hear all the time is that being fat in various cultures throughout history was a symbol of wealth, safety, security, the usual bullshit. What I want to know is how fat was "fat" at various times in history? Any recordings of occurrences of fattening people up for a specific purpose? I guess this thread is dedicated to the prevalence of fat in history.
>>2686805
>slippery slope is just a fallacy
>>2686805
>chubby chasers
Blame the historical attraction to fat fucks in your blood I guess
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What do modern-day Spaniards think of Franthisko Franco Ba'amonde?
Negative figure in Spanish history. Mediocre general and statesman.
>>2686479
If the Francoists were still in charge Spain wouldn't be the shithole it is now.
>>2686512
Franco and his government weren't good for the Spanish society or economy. Spain was corrupt and backwards during his rule. It'd still be a shithole.
So here's thing im a history pleb who hasnt taken a history class since high school (ap world and euro) and currently studing mathematics so it is unlikely that i will ever have one again in the future. Does anyone know how i can learn more abouy history if i am bad at reading. Im really interested in obscure shit like peoples who lived on the borders of empires
Here are some subjects i would like to learn more about
> pre roman europe ( spain, gaul, and balkans)
> pre islamic middle east and north africa
> pre alexander india
> ancient and medival history of afganistan, south east asia and korea
> steppe peoples and empires
> medieval africa and eastern europe
> anything on pre columbian americas
>>2686326
wikipedia
>>2686326
r/askhistorians can be nice.
Only good thing on the site.
>>2686326
Get books on them desu
Like just go on amazon, read reviews and go for it
Try to get ones reviewed well by experts in the field