Last thread hit limit, but think it should continue
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William F Buckley is a fucking national treasure.
I wish he were alive today...The firing line was the last bastion of rational political debate that didnt have people yelling over each other.
>>3250610
*was, as much as it pains me to say
Firing Line remains one of my favorites. 20th century America is my specific historical interest (though I do not purport to be an expert by any means) so his show is a wonderful window to the past, and if would pay all the money in my account to speak like him
1st world war: monarch vs indigenous
2nd world war: (called the first usually) monarchs vs bureaucracy.
Ww2(3) aftermath of 2, post modernism vs Nat soc.
And ww4: 1980s_postmodern vs communism? Was the cold war just pretext to the real war in the late 80's/early 90s?
>>3250358
Colonization does not count as a "world war" anon
All political positions are based on our moral positions.
True or false?
If true, doesn't this mean that individuals should study morality before they study politics? Doesn't this also mean that any political disagreement is due to the different moral positions held?
I disagree. Morally I'd love to shower people less well off with money and help, but financially and logically I remain skeptical that society's underclass is a few bucks away from becoming productive and law abiding, and this forms the basis of my political stance
Post better collection of artwork than the Slav epic
protip: you can't
Post more
I know this guy hate Slav. But what is his opinion about Asian, Midle Easterner, Latino?
https://youtu.be/In7TpSypEwM
https://youtu.be/GG9U1A-3rSI
>>3249768
>that image
Can we discuss Oriental Archaeological Theories?
I can't believe Europeans and Americans are sole pioneers in this matter when we have old civilizations like China.
Do they really copy paste all Binford, Hodder and friends? Do they have different methods and theories? Do they produce methods and theory or they are mostly culture historical archaeologists?
>>3249651
>Oriental Archaeological Theories
Can you elaborate?
>Lives in a cave for 10 years
>Gets imprisoned and dies in prison
What are some hard lives from history.
>Write In Praise of Folly, which stokes the flame of reformist thought
>Be too reformist for the Church
>Be too Papist for the Reformation
>Tell Marty that he's retarded when he spergs out at you
>be WWI German Soldier
>serve under Rommel
>finish butt fucking 100,000 Italians due to superior tactics
>return to Austria
>all the soldiers there have literal autism and can't even shoot down Serbians
marching onward with sharpened sticks
>visit Ottoman allies
>they're sitting behind a trench doing ficki ficki and scratching their asses, while the British shoot at them from across a river every few hours
>mfw
>>3248321
Kek, mildly entertaining 4/10
>not using this picture
*blocks your path*
Not so fast.
What would've happened had Wallace not been shot?
>bunch of rural and suburban retard goatfuckers with tenuous bonds with Greek culture destroy the global superpower of the time and originate one of the undying empires in historical memory
How
THE FUCK
did they do it?
>>3247764
Aliens helped them. There are stories about ufos following Alexander and how they destroyed city walls with lasers.
With the spread of global communication, how likely is it that we will see major changes in languages again? For example, will we ever get to the point where American and British people won't be able to understand each other?
>>3247468
Doubtful. Between universal literacy, mass education, etc. modern languages are much more stable than they were in the past.
>>3247468
English is rapidly becoming "the" language of the planet Earth and computers play a large role in making this happen.
DO IT AGAIN ENRICO
1204 BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE
Enricho McDonaldo
>>3247279
>one of the engineers who defended Constantinople in 1453 was a Scot called John Grant
It all makes sense now
How did arabic become majority language in Middle East and North Africa?
>>3247039
The Arabs built an empire and spread it around.
>>3247039
Through force. At first the Arabs let the people they subjugated retain their languages, but eventually made it hell for anyone who wasn't Arabized or spoke Arabic. Truly Arab supremacy. In the Greek days only upper class Jews spoke Greek, the common folk spoke Aramaic. The Arabs destroyed all that, and now we will never have a Coptic speaking Egypt, or a Aramaic speaking Middle East, or a pure Berber speaking Maghrebi. It was stupid anyway considering a Moroccan Arab can't be understood by an Iraqi Arab.
Can anyone recommend me some good books on El Cid and William Wallace?
Both seem like immensely interesting figures and Id like to learn more about them and their time periods.
>>3246999
El Cid has its own book (well it is a poem) nigga
What are some great literary (fiction) works that pay attention to historical setting?
Game of thrones
>>3246784
> The Bridge on the Drina(Serbo-Croatian:Na Drini ćuprija,Serbian Cyrillic:Ha Дpини ћyпpијa) is ahistorical novelby the Yugoslav writerIvo Andrić. It revolves around theMehmed Paša Sokolović BridgeinVišegrad, which spans theDrinaRiver and stands as a silent witness to history from its construction by the Ottomans in the mid-16th century until its partial destruction duringWorld War I. The story spans about four centuries and covers theOttomanandAustro-Hungarianoccupations of the region, with a particular emphasis on the lives, destinies and relations of the local inhabitants, especiallySerbsand Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks).
Won the 1961 Nobel Prize for literature.