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>>3308031

War has a negative effect on everybody, but some take it harder than others. I recently came across a story of a British officer during African theatre of WW1 who became utterly convinced that his boat, which was carrying him and his troops to Africa, was going backwards. The captain and crew tried very hard to convince him that there ship was going the proper direction, but he just kept getting more and more angry. "I outrank all of you, who are you to be telling me that I am wrong!" Eventually he did accept that the ship was going forwards, however. At that point, he became convinced that the ship was actually on fire. Again, the crew assured him that there was no fire, he was merely smelling the food being prepared. Again he became angry. "Who is the best judge of whether or not the ship is on fire? It is me! I'm in charge here!" Only after being lead down to the kitchen and seeing the food being prepared did he finally calm down and accept that the boat wasn't on fire. The author of the book attributes this behavior to shell shock, that the officer had simply lost his nerve after fighting in the wilderness for so long.

>>3308031
>Goebbels
You mean Goring?

>>3308031
Most of those anecdotes are fabricated, and the ones that aren't are exaggerated, or decontextualized.

Tfw too irrelevant to be even mentioned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Civilis

>>3307886
Irrelevant loser tier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampsicora

>>3307886
No way is mithridates that high up.

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Alexander von Humboldt
>traveled a still largely unexplored continent
>catalogued stunning amounts of plant and animal life
>took tremendous personal risk in his travels
>broke the world record for mountain climbing
>met and became friends with the president of the United States (Jefferson)
>met Simon Bolivar
>was the most famous scientist of his day before Darwin published his seminal work
>genius-level writer
>handsome as fuck
>boned several hot latinas
>became a highly praised orator and lecturer
>wrote a brilliant, massive collection of books on the natural world

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>In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved. As he progressed on his voyages of discovery he surveyed and named features, and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. He displayed a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Tang_Records_on_the_Western_Regions
>The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions is a narrative of Xuanzang's nineteen-year journey from Chang'an in central China to the Western Regions of Chinese historiography. The Buddhist scholar traveled through the silk road regions of Xinjiang in northwest China, as well as neighboring areas in Central Asia and south China.

>>3307717
No. The confederacy was shit and something only dumb asses idolize and was keeping poor whites down.

I'm also butthurt these fuckers didn't do anything to support my state enough during the war.

T. Arkansian.

>>3307717
No matter what a few hundred racists on /pol/ tell you, it will never, ever happen again.

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>>3307717
A trek towards a certain body of water perhaps?

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>>3307492
You call that a chin? Check this.

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>>3307492
It was worse without the beard.

>>3307683
his chin was even the reason he got such a beard

>>3307407
plz respond

>>3307783
plz respond

>>3307407
What kept them out of Georgia?

>>3307363
what

>>3307363
Yes, it was a completely new form of government in what was considered one of the oldest, strongest monarchies in Europe. It was a complete social, political, religious upheaval that changed the entire continent for the better.

>>3307414
this

shame that the revolution actually failed at first.

>>3307315

Reels>feels is her whole philosophy. She argued that everyone operates from a place of selfishness if they want to admit it or not, so the best thing to do is to just embrace that fully because altruism is cancer. All altruism is is a way for the masters to control plebs and getting them to fulfill his selfish desires. Every horrible totalitarian regime is built upon altruism. The people suffer in those system, but they are told to suffer is a great sacrifice for the benefit of the collective, which is obviously bullshit, since the collective suffers for the selfish desires of a few elites. If everyone trashed altruism and embraced their own selfishness, then regimes like this would be impossible, since no one would put up with the bullshit of some charismatic weirdo shouting about utopia around the corner, just as long as they suffer for him.

>>3307343
> reels > feels
any notion of what is "right" or "wrong" aside from the meaning of "factual" and "non-factual" is "feels"

>how /v/ uses it to describe whether a game is good or not
this pisses me off so much, especially since actual reviewers use it in the same way

>>3307191
that's not Hirohito, that's Sun Yat Sen

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>>3307191
Can somebody redpill me on Avraham Stern?

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>>3307191
No seriously, why do all Nazis look like Mongoloid-Jewish subhumans?

>>3307153
>we may discuss the might of the British empire

There wouldnt be much to discuss, as it had none
Let's discuss its size instead
An empire of dist it was, but a big one still

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>>3307172

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>Ywn land on exotic islands in massive warships before subjugating natives for queen and country
>Ywn sip a gin and tonic in the Raj whilst a beautiful Begum waits on you hand and foot eager to serve
>Ywn oppress African tribes and their women whilst writing home to your beautiful wife who lives on an estate in the English countryside
>Ywn destroy Chinese Junks and race to the forbidden city to save the women of the delegation
>Ywn ride the railway from Cairo to the Cape
>Ywn mock continentals for being savage and brutish all because you have a channel to keep you high and aloof from them
>Ywn win a war in 38 minutes
>Ywn have a fleet so large and powerful that it doesn't actually win any battles because no one can actually challenge it
>Ywn hold the greatest spectacle in human history in the crystal palace
>Ywn have a language that combines the beauty of the Latin dialects with that ruggedness of the Germanic ones
>Ywn enlighten the savages of the world and be justly rewarded with their lands riches
>Ywn be kidnapped whilst on a diplomatic mission only to have your nation dispatch a massive fleet to save you
>Ywn oppress dutch peoples living in Africa by putting them in concentration camps before shitting on Nazis for doing the same to Jews all the while offending German diplomats by saying that Krauts are harsher
>Ywn pretend that both Jews and Palestinians will have a homeland before tricking them both and splitting the middle east with France
>Ywn race to the south pole, loose, and yet rewrite history in such a way that everyone only remembers your team that died rather than the foreign winners
>Ywn raise the only God tier flag ever devised on every continent
>Ywn watch the sun set on a tropical beach during the most peaceful and greatest period in human history all thanks to your proud race
Why even live if you are not an Anglo? And why even be an Anglo when you don't live during Pax Britannica?

>>3307010
It was the continuation of mongoloid rapist marauders larping as civilised peoples.

>>3307043
t. hans guenther von schwarzenburgerstein

>>3307043
butthurt Ukrainian detected

>>3306998
A historians bias is an intresting topic although I find it comes down less to societal influences and more to intentions regarding research, retrieving select information from data or building your conclusion on interpretation of texts. I'd say most history students do the former wheras only those with access to records can do the later.

>>3306998
An historian is always biased. Period.

>>3306998
How is the mood in French historiography nowadays? Is Annales School still dominant?

why are brits so obsessed with burning down an unfinished building in a nearly unpopulated swamp?

>>3306905
DRAIN THE SWAMP
history repeats itself

>>3306855
They aren't. You take a poll of 100 random Americans, and I'd guess that less than 12 would even remember what the war of 1812 is, let alone anything meaningful about it.

The only people obsessed with it are /int/ style shitposeters, because they need to constantly wank whatever country they pitch for.

>>3306645
RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE

*destroys confederate statues*

>>3306645
*says inflation is good for economy*
Hey, iam totaly legit economist.

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>>3306645
>my spook is more coherent that your spook
Impressive

Most states have armies, Prussia was an army with a state.

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>tfw u will never fight for the states very survival
>tfw Old Fritz will never lead you into battle