What was the point of the Space race?
>>2618245
To decide which planet is the fastest.
>>2618245
>Who has the biggest dick?
Sadly the Soviet Union won on all accounts like mass, speed, and girth, and the only thing the US can be proud of is that it can shoot the farthest
To develop the technology necessary for accurate ballistic missiles and demonstrate their accuracy to your enemy in a public show of power. In order to give reason for the massive budget required and encourage support by scientists you tell everyone that it is actually a quest for scientific achievement rather than military advancement.
ITT: historical figures that were actually the bad guys
all the medici popes
I have had an itch for the history of the Roman Republic for almost a year now. No YouTube video, 4chan thread, or Reddit post would drive this preoccupation away.
Looks like reading a book about the subject is inescapable. Though I'd rather invest that time in something else. What's the best book about the Republic (especially the last century) would kill this itch once and for all?
I just want a book that would give me a high-school tier knowledge of the Roman Republic up until Augustus. You know, a normie book about Romans.
>>2618131
>Looks like reading a book about the subject is inescapable. Though I'd rather invest that time in something else.
>I just want a book that would give me a high-school tier knowledge of the Roman Republic up until Augustus.
> a normie book about Romans.
history of rome podcast on spotify you utter pleb
if it's not in latin it's not worth reading.
Interested in this too, what's the best book that takes me from the beginning of the roman empire all the way up to its collapse?
Aren't diplomatic embassies inherently risky? Has there ever been been a case in history where an entire delegation was killed outright?
>>2618114
>Aren't diplomatic embassies inherently risky?
Yes, definitely.
>Has there ever been been a case in history where an entire delegation was killed outright?
Yup. Although not as often as you think. Almost every culture has deeply ingrained protections for messengers and diplomats, for obvious reasons, even from enemy states.
>be prussian officer
>sharp you sword in the doorstep of the french embassy just for the bantz
>fast foward a few weeks
>Jena
Ayy
So when a major power's leader goes on an embassy does the armed forces of that power go on full alert or what? Are they attached to a mobile nuke with a dead man's switch or what?
I am writing a paper on Claudius and I want to give the paper a Latin title. I am thinking something like, "Claudio Imperatore Infirmi" for, "Claudius the Infirm Emperor," but I am uncertain about if the Latin is correct as I've only used Google translate. I didn't know where to ask but thought this board would suffice. Is the Latin correct?
Also, any critiques on the title? I suppose you'd have to read the essay to know what I should call it but what are your intuitions about it? The paper is for a history of the Roman empire collegiate class and I am supposed to compare how a modern historian and Suetonius evaluate the emperor.
Cheers.
poor uncle claudius
>>2618145
Seconding this
>>2618145
Pauper Patruus Claudius it is
If people were allowed to kill indiscriminately the general level of cordiality and respect in society would rise very quickly. Prove me wrong protip you cannot.
>>2618047
Funny how the seams on those shorts outline a normal person's legs.
>>2618088
wud COLONIZE/10 irregardless
>>2618088
That fabric must be under tremendous pressure. Imagine how easy it'd be to tear open a hole and dive into her darkest heart of Africa.
Lawd, I don't even know if I've got enough inches to get past that ass.
They apparently experimented with the concept a little but gave up on it.
those big fuckers probably cost a lot to feed
four wheelers or snow mobiles would be cheaper.
>>2618043
That's pretty awesome.
>>2618043
America briefly experimented with camel cavalry during the Mexican war. However, the war ended before they could be deployed.
It would be about 100 years later when we had another dessert war (WWII), so camels wouldn't be useful.
>go to traditional Latin Mass
>preist stands with his back to the audience the whole time
>can't understand a fucking thing
>Mass is an extra 45 minutes long
Sorry /his/ you're wrong on this one
>>2618026
Catholics aren't Christian
>>2618026
Catholics are to Christianity what ISIS is to Islam
>>2618060
>if only
Actually Catholicism is to Christianity what the UN is to world politics, good for virtue signaling, gay rights and employment of useless people, but otherwise irrelevant.
>his favorite philosopher wasn't active in most intellectual subjects
>his favorite philosopher didn't pioneer disciplines in multiple fields
Who has ever cast their net wider in the search for knowledge than this based Greek?
He isn't called The Philosopher for nothing.
But I thought philosoniggers didn't believe in objective truth so what does it matter what he fields pioneered? He would have been better shitting in the street like Diogenes.
>>2617895
Plato
also protip: aristotle is a meme, just because he cast a wide net doesn't mean much. epictetus, plato, diogenes, pythagoras, tons of other greeks at least as interesting and intelligent, all with their own wide nets and idiosyncrasies and baffling qualities.
aristotle just happened to be the best preserved and widely read in europe after the fall of rome and the ensuing social structural reorganization, and thus his ideologies have permeated up to today as the best ones - not necessarily because they are best, but because they are the most historically discussed and reinforced due in large part to circumstances unrelated to his philosophy or the philosophy of others.
What can /his/ tell me about The Green Army in the Russian Civil War?
Bump for interest.
>>2617849
Only good guys
>>2617849
"Green army" was a catch-all for groups that weren't "red" or "white", thus it included anarchists, Ukrainian separatists, etc.
>Writing an essay
>Spend 6 hours annotating and highlighting important information from my first source in Adobe Reader
>It crashes and the autosave function is busted
>All of my work is lost
>mfw
Fuck this gay world.
Times when you got fucked while doing research thread.
>>2617840
ctrl+s bruh
>>2617840
Docs bruh
>>2617840
Autosave and PDF-XChange Viewer, bruh.
omg is this true?????
>>2617806
Almost?
What's the point of posting something like this?
>>2617806
So, this is the power of positivism..
It's over Lee. I have the high ground.
>>2617796
You underestimate my power.
>>2617799
Don't try it!
>>2617804
AHHHHHHHHHHH
Were they the ultimate JUST presidents?
>>2617745
Ike was better president than anyone who's succeeded him so far.
>>2617813
Explain.
>>2617745
Ike was literally the comfiest President of all time, and Nixon was probably the most adept, if not morally questionable. What does this even mean?
Were Kurds the original Vikangz?
I haplogroup is literally the autistic crogmanon/neanderthal lineage.
>>2617680
It's fake news
And this has nothing to do with Vikings
It's the sons of some random hunternigger who lived 28000 years ago
k*rds are in fact the original Homo erectus. They still are, even today, which is a testament to their determination to never evolve beyond basic animal behavior.