ITT the bravest historical figures you know of
>>3384057
nice bait
Has an ancient iconic spot ever actually been rebuilt?
>>3383922
No, and IMO i'd rather see ruins that some tacky-ass reconstruction.
>>3383922
Goatfuckers are destroying sites far quicker than they can be repaired, but I think they've rebuilt the Buddhist statues of Afghanistan.
>>3383934
How is it tacky if its an accurate replica down to the materials?
Which one was a better /his/?
San Martin is GOAT
The true superior South American liberator.
>>3383918
JUDIOS!
ITT I will conduct a little bit of amateur philology and share my thoughts. My object of study is a page from an edition of Euclid which is about 1100 years old. It is 45, verso (the left page at the link)
http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/detail/ODLodl~8~8~57083~130478:Elementa,-Books-I-XV
The reason why I am interested in this page, is because a facsimile of same is used as the frontispiece for Heath's edition, which is now the modern English-language standard for the complete, annotated Euclid. Clearly, the page was chosen to be an attractive, representative example for what Euclid - on the written page - has looked like throughout history.
The proposition which is shown (top two-thirds of the page) is BOOK III, PROPOSITION 4. The thing being shown is: if two lines in a circle cut each other, and they don't pass through the circle's center, then they don't bisect each other.
Both script and language are Greek. The script, however, is a sort of stylized cursive Greek used during the medieval period, known as Greek Minuscule:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_minuscule
The text is Byzantine, and dated C. 888 AD. Given this (and the reference to "uncial" in the above wiki link), it is interesting to contrast the orderly-yet-stylized writing of this codex of the Elements, with another book, produced just a few decades earlier, and clear on the opposite end of Europe, between Scotland and Ireland: the Book of Kells.
Pic related is the example that wiki gives of an "uncial" script, and is a representative example for what the "regular text" pages of Kells look like, notwithstanding the famous stylized picture-pages. With Kells however, the language is not Greek, but Latin - a lavish presentation of (for the most part) the Latin Vulgate.
The next task, to make sense of the OP page, is to gather together three or four levels of translation: the original, a modern Greek transliteration, a possible intermediate romanization, and finally the English translation. Happily much of this is already online so it's just a matter of putting things in-parallel.
The original is already given. For the modern greek transliteration, this is fastest, but it's missing certain bits:
http://users.ntua.gr/dimour/euclid/book3/postulate4.html
A more thorough and closely-matching transliteration, with the added benefit of already-in-line parallel English translation, is HERE (pp. 73-74 of the PDF):
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/Books/Euclid/Elements.pdf
And for completeness, an English solo version is given here (which is not letter-perfect Heath, but is as close as makes no material difference):
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookIII/propIII4.html
Comparing these to the difficult page of the OP begins to make things make sense at a granular level. A good tactic is to focus in on the CAPITALIZED GEOMETRIC "ABΓ" - style forms, to orient yourself in a given text, and keep pace: I count 22 such items, consitently across the versions that I read (see pic related for a quick grab of these). Notice the bar-forms at tops of each, denoting that they are such-and-such geometric objects.
elaboration: close parallel comparison of the original with a modern Greek script.
What was his endgame?
i don't know. all homosexuals are "degenerate" by their nature. why would he want a society where the actions of his kind are illegal?
>>3383787
getting a blowjob from hitler
>>3383835
Because fascists make the best fuckbois.
>You will never hold the mandate of heaven
Yeah I wish I was Xi Jinping too
>>3383771
The fact I don't have it means I don't deserve it.
>>3383786
But if you take it that means you do deserve it
Anyone here ever heard of Baba Vanga? A supposed clairvoyant? If so, what do you think of thr supposed predictions? Do you think they are real or larp?
yeah I've heard of her. Pretty much bullshit tho lmao
I fucking love scale armor.
>>3383344
>hey Anon-Baghatur... do you need help removing your armor uwu
>>3383435
You can remove my gambeson any day.
Advantages/disadvantages of scale/lamellar vs plate?
>just discovered Hitler wanted to deport Jews to fucking Madagascar
The heck
>>3383324
Stalin wanted to deport them to Siberia. UN wanted to deport them to Ethiopia. In the end they deported themselves to US ad Israel.
What's weird with Madagascar?
>>3383324
What the allied nations aren't telling you is the reason that ended up being the plan is that no other nation on the planet would take them
Wouldn't the introduction of Jews cause irreparable damage to Madagascar's unique ecosystem?
let's get one of these threads going. recommend books. post charts. discuss books you're reading or plan to read in the future. ask questions about books. anything goes. all contributions to the progress of our collective knowledge as a board is welcomed. I'll start the thread by posting some charts i've made lately and resources for people to consult.
pic related is a new chart on the knights hospitallers
the /his/ Mega book archive with over 2000 books and papers to download
https://mega.nz/#F!dlZlDbqL!TXG5bGvWufONkrQAL7b7jA
for those interested in audiobooks, there are several in this section of the Mega
https://mega.nz/#F!8wI0iAbK!H5mfo6CnivegkGkulyTuBg
most of the /his/ charts made up to now can be downloaded together through the following link
https://mega.nz/#!95R1SCaC!2JQG77iCTQoOUpq_lPdv0fvd2cgJxkS50IksNZwbOm0
pastebin archive containing the Oxford annotated bibliographies
https://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
cambridge reading lists
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/hist-tripos/part-i/part-i-papers-2016-2017
>>3383318
chart on southern italy in the middle ages
free books can be found on libgen and b-ok. free academic articles can be accessed through sci-hub by pasting the link of your desired article into the search bar on the site
>>3383396
norman kindgom of sicily
>>3383420
franco's spain
>ITT: Ironic Deaths
>>3383307
> tfw Stalin didn't record Yagoda's and Yezhov's executions on camera for future generations
>>3384496
It was rumored that at Yagoda's trial, he denounced the court and said that Stalin would never allow him, his loyal supporter, to come to any harm, or be ousted from the party. Then, from the next room window, behind a thin, Asian curtain, on the second floor, a match could be seen struck, and the outline of it lighting a pipe was visible.
Is he /ourguy/, /his/?
>>3383300
shaDIVERSITY
Hmm..
What did he mean by this?
>>3383300
>>3383328
>shad
>>3383300
is that sam hyde?
What's the most significant event in the entirety of the world?
>inb4 french revolution
a cave being empty.
>thread
>>3383081
Invention of nukes.
>>3383084
Probably this desu
Why does the pope fear gnosticism?
>>3383040
They would've been left alone if they had agreed to accept papal hierarchy.
Because they fucking stink, okay.
>>3383040
why were medeival illustrations so shit at perspective? This is cubism tier
>There will never be an American Crown
It hurts guys ;_;
Jay-Z and Beyonce desu
>>3382606
Who would be the royal family anyway? Would it be male-preference primogeniture? What would be their roles in the American political system?
>>3382634
Drumpf dynasty desu.