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Is he the greatest meme that resulted from the Civil War? 2017-07-30 07:49:16 Post No.3163425
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Is he the greatest meme that resulted from the Civil War?
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Enlighten me about this man, /his/
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>>3163425
That is a masonic pose the hand-in-coat, otherwise I don't even know who this guy is.
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>>3163446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan
>INB4 "Go Back To Random Meme Fuck" rage
I decided to use the picture I did, because not only do I feel exactly like Jesus in that moment, but also the meme made me chuckle. Dark humor comes from dark times, but the laughter it produces is, I guess you'd say God's light.
>INBF tl;dr, not your personal therapist rage.
I feel like anyone who seeks spirituality and faith does so (when not seeking to deceive others) because either they or themselves were hurt badly. Like "im surprised the walls are still standing from the explosion" badly. A badly so painful even breathing words into makes you hurt.
My girlfriend is pregnant, and the moment I touched her bump I knew there has to be something bigger than the three of us guiding this universe... I'm in a position where I could seriously persue a life of academic faith. Preach genuinely, not piously.
>TL;DR:
I feel like my life calling may be to become a chaplain. Preferably after completing OSC (military officer school), because the pay grade was way better than my current. Faith can feed your family and not make you greedy.
Communication has always been difficult for me, so I figured why not skip /b/ for a night and actually think for a change.
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Good luck OP, I hope it all works out for you.
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Thanks dude, I'm like shitting my brains out nervous (found out like a day ago), but at the same time like, peaceful.
Appreciate the bump.
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What can /his/ tell me about the Edwardian era(1901-1910) in the United States?
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>>3163386
America really started participating on the world stage and established itself as a great power and a surging population. High industrialisation and great economy during the time basically set it on the path of becoming the most dominant power.
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>>3163386
Le Gilden Age, a time of much wealth and prosperity. For the Rockefellers and Astors, that is.
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FRANCE BTFO
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Tell me about the Portuguese empire. How did it stack up against the other European empires? Why was Brazil such a successful colony yet the rest of their colonies weren't? Why did it break apart?
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I'm sure this thread will sink and die since /his/ doesn't read / is mainly shitposters from other boards, but I thought I'd take a stab at this:
I feel like my retention when I read books is quite high, but it tends to focus on concepts. I can give a pretty good sequence of events, linear or branching, and give a handful of reasons why they occur. I'm good at synthesizing information and applying it to problems.
But I always have to go back to reference materials to get the details - years, names, locations. This is problematic on two levels: one, it completely inhibits my ability to carry IRL convos about topics I can write about quite fluently, and it makes it where as I zoom into a subject and name recognition and such counts for a lot more to be able to understand things better, I have to pay very close attention and actively push my brain to think that way.
I currently annotate books and found that starting that in mid-high school improved my ability to handle concepts and get to where I am now. I'm starting my Ph.D. work soon, and I know that details will be important to retain for conference chit chat and such on top of the reasons I mentioned. Anyone who's gone through a grad program or is just really really good at remembering details have any tips for adapting annotations or just general reading strategy to retain names, dates, etc.?
tl;dr: How do I retain small details as well as I do concepts?
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Have you tried annotating the details in a conversational tone?
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i find myself in the same boat a lot of the time. i'm in the midst of doing a history undergrad myself with aims of a Ph.D myself one day, and i find myself taking lots of very detailed notes as i read.
pro: i retain a hell of a lot more than i would otherwise, and it is a massive aid while
con: it is really, really slow going. i have to really budget my time.
not sure how to bridge the gap here desu
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i'm currently reading a big summary of the history of my discipline as a refresher of undergrad and primer for stuff i might have missed, and i'm doing conversational sentences or bullets essentially once per extremely dense paragraph. it's slow going but starting to help my retention. i just know that as i move beyond reading this book and have to recall some of these fuckers' names (even major theorists), my brain is going to gradually calcify into the broad narrative of European intellectual history that i've learned and relearned and refined over all my high school and college years
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Why did France and Britain's rivalry die after Napoleon?
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>>3162875
Because the rise of Russia, and later Germany, gave them common enemies.
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>>3162875
It didn't, they were still rivals and there were a few near crises. They stopped being mortal enemies because the governments of France stopped being interested in territorial expansion in Europe.
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France was as bad as Germany but less capable of crashing the plane
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Alternative american demographics 2017-07-30 04:30:24 Post No.3162824
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Alternative american demographics
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If mass european migration to USA after the WWs didn't happen, what would have been the demographics nowadays? Which "racial" groups do you think that would be majority/minority without any external influence?
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Anglos outnumbered ingidonous people pretty quickly because European disease caused an actual apocalypse. I don't think much would've changed beyond the English influence being more prominent than it is today, which isn't saying a whole lot because it's still fucking massive
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Was there any way that this could have possibly succeeded?
>inb4 6 million "le g*rm autism" memeposts
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>Hey guys, I know we conquered a lot of land, why don't we start enslaving, raping and genociding people? That will give us a lot of good press.
Is autism already in the G*rmanic genome?
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Let's talk about khalid 2017-07-30 03:39:17 Post No.3162662
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How can some dessert dude manage the armies so efficiently in most battle he fought (and won) when he's actually very inexperienced in the warfare?
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>when he's actually very inexperienced in the warfare?
He wasn't inexperienced. Even before the war against the Byzantine and Sassanid empires Khalid had experienced tens of battles in the Ridda wars and war against Muhammad when he was a Pagan.
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that tv series is top notch
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First of all, he wasn't inexperienced. Before he fought against Persians and Romans he participiated in battles against other Arab tribes and Muhammad himself.
Second, this is what we call a military genius. He didn't graduate from a military college, he never read a book about strategies, he just naturally developed his strategies.
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Incest in ancient Persia 2017-07-30 02:58:56 Post No.3162484
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How prevalent was this practice amongst ancient persians, is CK 2 just a meme on that regard or is there historical precedent?
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Leftists are claiming that pic related is why Africa could never accomplish anything.
What do you guys think?
Here is the paper: http://web.mit.edu/posner/www/WGAPE/tsetse_29october2012.pdf
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>>3162407
Its an aspect that hurt development, but no one claims that the entire reason is that fly.
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>>3162407
The Mongols also feared the tsetse warrior.
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>Philippe Pétain - sentenced to death, sentence commuted to life imprisonment
>Vidkun Quisling - executed
>Leon Degrelle - sentenced to death in absentia
>Anton Mussert - executed
>Jozef Tiso - executed
>Chen Gongbo - executed
>Jose P. Laurel - Pardoned by Manuel Roxas, lost a very close presidential election in 1948, democratically elected to the Philippine senate in 1951
Why and how?
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How big of a role did the Pony Express play in the Americans winning the American Revolution?
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>>3162262
Considering it was founded in 1859, I'm going to guess 0.
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>>3162262
This reminds me of a shirt I have that says "Pony Express, since 1980"