Could you guys recommend books about the French Revolution, please?
>>2754010
Alistair Horne's books are great for English language readers. His book on the Paris Commune (I know it's not the Revolution but still) was ace.
I wonder if militarylulz.com is full of shitty wermacht memes.
I bet it's full of shitty wermacht memes
>>2754028
I think it's more 2001 era Bart Simpson wiping his ass with Bin Laden tier shit
>Czechoslovakia refuses terms of Munich agreement
>Germany declares war in October 1938
>Britain/France declare war on Germany
>Italy declares neutrality
What happens next?
>>2753856
I don't think Britain would declare war.
>Britain/France declare war on Germany
The only country that was willing to back up Czechoslovakia was the Soviet Union. And their assistance would be limited given the lack of a land border.
>>2753856
Nothing, war is entirely symbolic until Germany decide to act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
dying
living for so long :^)
>>2753683
fpbp
would our history be different if humans could double jump?
We could explore the moon by now.
A thread died for this.
Parachutes wouldn't be invented because humans could just jump before hitting the ground
When terrible tactics foiled great discipline and training. Discuss.
>>2753259
one mistaken order, the charge was actually a considerable feat of arms, successfull carrying the russian position, driving back a considerably larger russian cavalry force and generally fucking shit up.
pity it was directed against the wrong target and decimated the formation in the process, but rasher charges have been ordered deliberately as opposed to by accident, in terms of stupid it rates with Neys attack at waterloo
>>2753259
That painting is not of the charge of the light brigade.
It's 'Scotland Forever!' by Lady Butler and depicts the charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Forever!
So what was Russia's war aim? Did they just want to end Ottoman control over Romania or were they going to go straight for Constantinople?
Why did Ayn Rand have a beef with George Romney?
she had a beef with everyone in general
>>2752856
She was an abrasive kike.
>>2752856
god he looks just like Mitt, or vice versa
Why is it called "evolution theory" instead of "Adaptation theory"?
because it doesn't deal with the adaptions of individuals but the evolution of large groups
>>2760281
But from what I understood the group doesn't "evolve" it simply adapts to the current environment.
I found this informative.
evolution (n.) Look up evolution at Dictionary.com
1620s, "an opening of what was rolled up," from Latin evolutionem (nominative evolutio) "unrolling (of a book)," noun of action from past participle stem of evolvere "to unroll" (see evolve).
Used in medicine, mathematics, and general writing in various senses including "growth to maturity and development of an individual living thing" (1660s). Modern use in biology, of species, first attested 1832 in works of Scottish geologist Charles Lyell. Charles Darwin used the word in print once only, in the closing paragraph of "The Origin of Species" (1859), and preferred descent with modification, in part because evolution already had been used in the discarded 18c. homunculus theory of embryological development (first proposed under this name by Bonnet, 1762) and in part because it carried a sense of "progress" not present in Darwin's idea. But Victorian belief in progress prevailed (and the advantages of brevity), and Herbert Spencer and other biologists after Darwin popularized evolution.
Any good books on morality/ethics?
i took a class in it and it was pretty unfulfilling
>>2759918
>taking a social sciences class
>>2759918
The ego and his own.
Peter singer books on ethics.
>>2759918
Kant
What was Marx's mistake that led him to create an ideology that ended up in mass murder?
Did he forget about human nature?
Which ideology doesn't end up in mass murder?
>>2759792
Anti-murderism
>>2759782
mass murder is human nature though
then why are you flying a Soviet flag, why do you parade Soviet iconography if it wasn't "true" communism
Which begs my question..is 21st century marxism purely an aesthetic movement
>>2759523
nah they truly believe communism is the answer
you just see businesses selling these retards Che shirts and other junk for profit
>marxism
>aesthetic
Yeah leftists are pathological liying scumbags. Too much of that "dialectic" is sure to erase every sense of truth.
>>2759523
Anybody who is unironically marxist is a complete idiot
Russo-Japanese War
Dutch-Japanese War
>>2759473
But the falklands was two white people fighting each other
>>2759473
Whoops, sorry. Meant to say pic unrelated.
Leave the Russians to me.
>>2759388
He was the Obama of republicans. Didn't actually get anything done and only liked because of charisma.
>>2759396
He got plenty of done. I don't like him because he normalized irresponsible deficit spending while masquerading as a small-government libertarian, but he definitely got stuff done.
>>2759414
other than defeating communism what did he get done
I invite you to try to name a single greater true, factual /adventure story/, strongest possible emphasis on that one defining phrase as we now understand it, in the entire historical record.
Don't report back to me with a WAR. Don't report back to me with a MASS MOVEMENT. Give me an ADVENTURE STORY, that actually happened. Individual, small-group accounts within the above larger milleus may serve.
I put it to you that you will not be able to come up with one which passes muster.
>>2759379
Done.
>>2759379
Heinrich Schleimann and his excavation of Troy.
Cortes and Pizzarro
With Cinco de Mayo coming up, what does it celebrate other than the Battle of Puebla?
>>2759089
the defeat of a foreign empire
>>2759103
Pretty much this.
Of course there was a 2nd battle not long after the first one in which the French won, but it the initial victory was pretty impressive.
iir it was made a holiday by Porfirio Diaz, in what I imagine, was just a way of stroking his own ego.
>>2759089
Mexico throwing away civilisation and nobility in exchange for being a violent shithole controlled by freemasons
*cuts your supply line*
Congratulations, you played yourself.
My men usually die the day after they arrive, supplies are not needed.
>>2758885
>Come on supply line step it up
What went wrong?