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Let's have a powder room thread, anons!

Women of the Middle ages, and I think I'll start with one of the most well-known: Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Duchess of Poitiers, marries French king, goes on a pilgrimage, rode bare breasted. Then on the way home, decides she wants to divorce his highness by the 5th cousin law, like, you never see this shit. Then, as if she wasn't already an absolute madwoman, she marries the king of England, Henry II, and takes half of France (in the form of her beloved Aquitaine) with her!!!
Then squeezed out a few Plantagenets, then was imprisoned for a decade, nearly two. After Henry died, Richard the Lionheart entrusted her as his regent while he was losing the crusades.

Not as action packed as Olga of Kiev, but this level of political intrigue was groundbreaking.

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Al'Musta'sim is hungry!

What do you feed him, /his/?

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What kind of historical/ancestral tattoos are ok for white people?

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Ex: I'd love to bitch slap Louis XIV, drive around with rum runners, and drink with Ben Franklin, maybe watch some ancient olympic games.

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I'm an athiest. I do not believe that any gods exist. The human race loves stories, likes purpose, everything in it's place & we'll all live happily ever after in heaven. No. There is no purpose, just a process.

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Pre-contact distribution of the Na-Dené language family.

So, how'd this happen?

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Serious question, were traps frowned upon is the past?

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Were there points in time where one was likely to see somethung out of a locon doujin?

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Doesn't the basic tenants of Christianity seem incredibly superficial.

If you are a Protestant all you have to do is 'have faith'. As if proclaiming something really means anything. If you are Catholic you need 'works' which translates to a few rituals of pathetic challenge (dunk some water on your head. Eat a cracker. etc.)


What I am saying is the concept of 'action' seems to be completly detached from Christianity

And you can see that when theology about conduct is discussed it is always about pussying out of it. For example the Jesus character makes it quit clear he does not want his followers to possess any money. He also wants people to spend their whole life going door to door discussing the coming Armageddon (this basically what he himself did) and when he wasn't being a doomsayer he was devoting himself to the poor and ugly; washing their feet, tending to their illness. He went out of his way to find the lowest members of societies and acted servant to them. This is how he conducted his life and what he preached. Than there is the aspect of martyrdom. Jesus was a martyred on the cross, so were everyone of his original followers. When he said do not resist your enemy he meant it in the most hardcore way possible.

All of these called to actions are hand waved away by theology. You don't LITERALLY need to have no money, to help the meek, to not resist being tortured and killed...no just continue doing your everyday life. And it makes sense because it's a lifestyle of extreme self-destruction, as evidenced by the miserable lives the Jesus and his earliest followers all lived. So all we get is this wimpy little list of rituals or a checklist of 'faith'.

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If God existed, why didn't she make everyone intelligent?

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On hours of sleep:
>Six for a man, seven for a woman, eight for a fool

Did he actually say this? If not does anyone know his sleeping patterns? I'm inspired by it, my main holdup with sleeping less is the thought it might hurt me during the day.

Actually I want a general thread on sleeping patterns of historical figures. I want to know how I should sleep. Sleeping drives me mad it's like it rules my life.

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What do /wethink/?

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>born in a family of serfs (slaves)
>>>become the most powerful man in human history

>assume control of europe's poorest, least developed country
>>>turn it into a global superpower
>>>900% economic growth from 1917-1939

>17% literacy in 1914
>>>90% literacy by 1939

>virtually no hospitals or clinics in 1914
>>>thousands of hospitals and clinics by 1939

>attacked by the biggest invasion force in history
>>>beat it back all the way to berlin

>save the entire slavic race from enslavement and extermination
>>>not even slavic

>smeared and defamed by his successors
>>>still the most popular historical figure in the former Soviet Union

How can anyone even argue that Stalin wasn't objectively the greatest, most successful human being of all time? By every metric of "greatness", he outclasses everyone else by a ridiculous margin.

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What are your thoughts on the Napoleonic wars?

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When Middle Eastern and Asian countries began industrialization and established their own factories, why did they copy western clothing? Why didn't they mass-produce their traditional clothing? The only people you ever see wearing their traditional costumes anymore, in everyday and professional situations, are the people in the wealthy Arab countries.