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Why does everyone have such a boner for Thomas Edison?
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Joseph Swan invented the light bulb. Edison just marketed it and sold electricity to the public.
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>>3337813
"invented the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
You basically answered your own question. He made the idea a reality.
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>>3337813
They don't. It's much trendier to shit on him at the moment, despite him basically being the Steve Jobs of his day.
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*loses*
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*to the entire world*
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>>3337714
>declare war on an opponent you can never beat
>declare war on more opponents you can never beat
"Woah haha look you guys we only lost because the whole world was against us"
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>>3337711
*revels in the right side of history losing the most important war of all time*
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>Spain failed to conquer England
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>>3337605
No shit Spain wasn't going to conquer France
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>>3337605
>England succeeded in conquering Scotland
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>Mary didn't recatholicize England and pass it onto a Habsburg heir
>Tfw world is not united under the habsburg dynasty
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What's the /his/ opinion on this guy. Did he really murder and ugh fuk hundreds of children or was it to discredit him so some guys can take all his estates and wealth?
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>>3337524
Knowing the kangaroo court that sentenced Elizabeth Bathory based on horseshit charges, I'm leaning towards the latter.
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>>3337524
He confessed
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Obviously a frame-job. If he was murdering little children, Michael and the Saints would have warned Joan
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Why did British pay all those countries to invade France?
Was it just their natural perfidy, or were they afraid of the French warrior?
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>>3337503
Les deux mon commandant
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>French warrior
I laughed
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>>3337503
Napoleon recognised that France would only be the dominant power in Europe if Britain were defeated, so he dedicated everything towards that end. The British (or rather Tory, the Whigs were in favour of a truce) response was completely reasonable.
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Holy Roman Empire (of German Nation) 2017-09-05 06:40:28 Post No.3337308
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Holy Roman Empire (of German Nation)
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How did it end up so disunited?
Why didn't medieval Germany go through same process as France and England?
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The treaty of Westphalia made it a loose confederation with no single ruler
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>>3337325
It wasn't really united even before that.
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>HOLY
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>The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from trinus, "threefold")[2] holds that God is three consubstantial persons[3] or hypostases[4]—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as "one God in three Divine Persons". The three persons are distinct, yet are one "substance, essence or nature" (homoousios).[5] In this context, a "nature" is what one is, whereas a "person" is who one is
Historically speaking how did early Christianity develop this bizarre and nonsensical theology?
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>>3337233
>be one who deseves god's love
Like this kid?
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>>3337257
Yes, it looks like he is not learning properly.
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>>3337233
It was voted in in a council.
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Was he one of the greatest leaders of all time? 2017-09-05 06:10:09 Post No.3337190
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Was he one of the greatest leaders of all time?
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He turned a shitty kingdom into a great power. He won great victories against Russia, Poland, Denmark and HRE and expanded the borders greatly.
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Really? Great victories?
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literally who?
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>He won great victories against Poland
Where and when?
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Where do you guys find sources? 2017-09-05 06:04:00 Post No.3337166
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Where do you guys find sources?
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I want to learn a shitload about ancient strength challenges, specifically stone lifting. I want do some period strength athletics with my local SCA, but can't find any primary documentation, or any good sources in general for that matter.
Where do you guys find good reading material? Am I gonna have to read through lots of stuff about lots of different specific regions and build a big picture about lifting stones through that?
How do I into learning?
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A Google search for "X time period primary sources" is normally a good start.
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https://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
Here's a metric fuckload of sources. They may have what you're looking for
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>>3337192
This is unironically the type of answer I'm looking for (in case you were being snarky).
So this is confirmation that I'm going to have to collect the topic specific stuff myself. Fine by me. My case is kinda weird, because I'm interested in a fairly specific facet of ancient cultures, and also because I'm partly looking for stuff that is confirmative of the existence of the stuff I'm actually interested in. So I'm not sure exactly what specific time periods, cultures, and regions are gonna yield information about what I'm looking for, which is people who picked up rocks as tests of strength.
Part of my problem also is that there are multiple instances of specific thing being talked about with different important details. So I'm trying to find the truth about it.
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>Therefore the torrent of Islamocentric academic publications; television documentaries from PBS, the History Channel, and the BBC; declarations by UNESCO; and the National Geographic traveling exhibits extolling the “transmission of Greek science and technology” by Islam to the backward West overlooks that, whatever the actual degree of this transmission, the transmission not only of Greek science and technology but also of Greek sculpture, painting, drama, narrative, and lyric, which could not and did not take place via Islam because of religious barriers, would equally have taken place without Islam, if Islam had not interrupted with its military conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries the direct communication between the Christian West and the Christian East.
well?
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According to Thomas Aquinas, the greatest commentator of Aristotle was not some Christian, but Averroes. Clearly, the Christian thinkers of that time very much appreciated the works of Muslim philosophers and the contributions they made to the development of Ancient Greek thought.
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>>3337003
*commentator on Aristotle
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>>3336909
>if Islam had not interrupted with its military conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries the direct communication between the Christian West and the Christian East.
Does he think the Eastern and Western Europe are divided by North Africa or something? The Byzantines held parts of Italy well into the 11th century. They were in direct communication all the fucking time.
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Did he really singlehandedly mastermind the entire Holocaust? Is he above all to blame for the death of 6 million jews?
Did Hitler really dindu nuffic? The Jews themselves admit it now after all, they say Amin al-Husseini was the real driving force behind the holocaust, not hitler, according to the jews.
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>>3336854
Isnt that ryan gosling?
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>>3336854
gr8 b8 m8
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>>3336854
>one Jewish guy says it
>The Jews themselves admit
Fuck off with this hive mind bullshit.
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>DEUS VU---
why did the cr*saders get their ass kicked so much? was it because they sucked?
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>>3336780
>Catholics
There's your answer
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>>3336780
The power of "Unkown" (aka massive outnumbering)
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>>3336788
templars werent catholics you prodscum, they were proto-zionists and got excommunicated by the pope and pretty much all wiped out
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Being an American, my knowledge of racism against blacks stemmed almost entirely from America's history with regards to slavery. Even in politics, this is pretty much the only event that is cited. However, the older I get, I am beginning to see that blacks were discriminated against by literally everyone. America is honestly the least offender as far as I can tell. Walk up to any person in Eastern Europe and ask them what they think of blacks. It's the same answer everywhere. And these are people that have never set foot in America a day in their life. Go to any part of Asia, a continent that homes half the fucking planet, and the answer is the same. Hell, I was even talking to a Dominican individual the other day and they were explaining to me how they don't like blacks either. These people are basically black themselves.
So how is it that all these cultures, who have had no interaction with one another, have all arrived at the same conclusion?
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You need to broaden your perspective and look at the phenomena of racism more generally, rather than racism specifically against blacks.
If you look at history you will see that quite a lot of civilizations had a dislike of foreigners and different ethnic groups. To an extent this is an innate impulse in humans that dates back from our days as hunter-gatherer peoples who do better when they favor their own in-group and stay away from the out-group.
It tends to be more acute with black people because you can tell at an immediate glance that they are different, whereas it is much harder to do that with people of Irish or Eastern European descent.
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I want a black girlfriend.
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Because their racism originates from observing the behavior not of racist Americans, but of brown people.
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>theologian
>interpreted the Bible literally instead of figuratively
>bullied by chad sailors on The Beagle for being a moralfag
>discovered evolution
>becomes doubtful since he takes the Bible literally
>gets angry at God for letting his daughter die
>starts skipping church
>claimed to be agnostic
>started wearing hats
>died a bitter old man
>inspired a generations of skeptics to think the same about religion
Was he the Patient Zero of Fedora fags?
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>Believes that blacks are equal to whites
>Actually meets them
>Start thinking about how whites should genocide blacks in the future
He was just your regular /his/ guy that got culturally enriched
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>>3336613
>Was he the Patient Zero of Fedora fags?
Nah.
He only lost faith after a massive personal tragedy, and even after that, he said evolution and religion can be mended together without worry, and didnt get triggered when people mentioned God or asked him about it.
Now compare that with a modern r_atheism fedora, and Darwin is St. Augustine.
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At what percent one can can himself european
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>>3336492
100%
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>>3336492
The map is evaluatin populations not individuals you dumbfuck. So, 100%
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>>3336492
42% because turks make me butthurt