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>>3262560
Except that the Germans were the best players in WW1, and France would've lost had Britain not joined the war

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La Pieta - Michelangelo

He sculpted this as a teenager. No one believed him so he snuck into the Vatican one night and carved his name on the sash on Mary's chest. When he got older he said he regretted it.

>>3261762
>>3261758

That is actually really interesting.

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Susanna and the Elders - Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia was known for not romanticizing scenes from the bible. The picture on the right is an xray of the final painting. This was her original vision for the piece.

>>3261686
Charlemagne or Genghis Khan, a tie between those two most likely.

>>3261690
Genghis Khan was extremely cucked ever since he was born, then he just sperged out on everybody because of his shit life.

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Chad

>>3203188
pasta please

>>3203188
proof?

>>3293866
>>3293866

It was specifically due to the fall in gas prices around that time. The USSR economy was very dependent on exporting petroleum. However, the fact that Gorbachev wasn't willing to employ authoritarian methods to keep the USSR together is what really allowed it to come up. Another leader, say Stalin, would have just clamped down and held the country together by sheer force of......force. But Gorbachev simply wasn't willing to do that.

My father's (born 1972) personal theory:
Deep disillusionment that started breaking out of the lower- and middle-rungs of society and begun seeping into even the most ideologically-driven organizations, right up to the very top. Once attempts were made to reform and slightly liberalize the system, an unpredicted and unstoppable chain-reaction started.
He specifically referred to the way the moment one of the top-guys made a play at grabbing an industry for himself, all the other top-guys rushed to do the same out of the fear of being left out. Nobody tried defending the old system.

My grandfather's (born ~1940) personal theory:
It was all that scumbag Gorbachov's fault. He engineered the Reconstruction to take everything for himself and his buddies. The Soviet Union could have been doing fine if it weren't for all the money, food and goods being sent to 3rd world countries as humanitarian aid.

>>3293866
It was almost incomprehensibly rotten and inefficient at its core. At some point there were sufficient numbers of people thinking enough of this, we can do better. And a chain of events culminating in the totally incompetent putsch of 1991 brought it down.

>>3293801
after what?

>>3293806
Napoleonic wars

>>3293801
French are civilized people.

No one says the middle ages began in 1066. They say the viking ages ended in 1066.

>>3293816

If you look at many history books in the UK they address the beginning of the middle ages as 1066 with the previous years referred to as the 'dark age'
Its a very anglocentric view point but they do teach it here and it is the starting point for many books

Example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Medieval-England-Mary-Bateson/dp/1521997438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502548397&sr=8-1&keywords=medieval+england

And a teaching website:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval-england/medieval-kings-and-queens/

People do believe this to be a starting date but it seems limited to the UK.

>>3293783
Final fall of the Carolingian empire 888, last true empire in western Europe
with the death of Charles the fat.

I identify the middle age with feudalism and absence of empires, France was probably the most important here.

Welll, aside from the takeover attempt that landed him jail, what else about Hitler could the average German citizen know about him to vote against him?

most people voted against the communists

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>>3293049
It's a shame...

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>>3293015
seems some are

>>3293015
They're Hamitic racially, but it is true that Ethiopian culture was strongly influenced by Judaism

>>3293032
>>3293015
Not all Ethiopians are thin nosed Amhara, though. Ethiopia is a giant stew of different ethnicities and "races".

No, but it's understandable why some Jew in 1941, several years after the Nazis had initiated anti-Jew campaigns in Germany, would be angry enough to call for such a thing. It's similar to burgers calling for the Middle East to be glassed after 9/11. You can always find a few people calling for such disproportionate responses. It doesn't mean that the majority of the group feels in such a way.

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>>3292770
>The Nazi Party used the book, written by a Jewish author, to support their argument that Jews were plotting against their country.[1]
>was he right?

pic related

>>3293059
I would have done worse.

>>3292570

Ingest Zyklon B pellets and get back to us.

>>3292570
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/polish/institute-for-forensic-research/

>>3292570
Zyklon B requires less concentration to kill a person than lice, so either Germans are retarded and can't figure out basic chemistry, or they intentionally killed people in there

smoke weed erryday

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>Christianity
>as long as I live as a good Christian the rest doesn't matter, sort of like a reverse nihilism because it encourages me to take more risks and therefore enjoy life more
Is this an acceptable position?

Platonism, but I don't intend to waste my time explaining unless someone is particularly interested and open to converting.

Needless to say, it is superior to Christianity because it rejects creation from nothing, doesn't place faith above truth, god is not an incoherent anthropomorphic triplet, and morality is demonstrable beyond "uh it says here".

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pic related was kind of a surprise for me

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>>3291878
Jeb won the election, but the Russians hacked the ballots

>>3291878
There being a unified French Identity and culture is something that has only been around for about 200 years

Nature itself measures how 'worthy' you are you sperg.

>>3291860
A person is not defined by the way it thinks or feels or the things they do. It's defined by biological parameters that have been recognized in the "animal" human being.

>>3291954
>gaiafaggotry

>>3291969
>cultural anthropology tard

Expect nothing but pseudoscience and people making very credulous arguments in support of pseudoscience for the next 150 posts O P

>>3291811
No, because unless you're very uncreative you can come up with better ways to approach objective reality. "You can't know nuffin" pseuds never seem to understand it's not an all or nothing thing how subjective your knowledge is. If you base your knowledge solely on anecdote and personal feelings, then you're being pretty subjective and have a good chance of landing on unrealistic conclusions. If you make more of an effort to check across different independent sources of information on a topic and come up with objective standards for what you'll count as significant or not in advance and let the data fall where it will, then you'll be less likely to fall victim to shortcomings of your own personal perception.

>dude everything in life can be likened to the shape of the number of the numbers six or nine.

>>3291811
No. The real issue instead is when a cultural/moral/ethical relativist position is masquerading as reality and treating all other views as unrealistic, irrational, or evil.