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From my little understanding on Roman warfare, Roman swords did get longer by the Late Empire era, when they had to deal with Gothic and Sassanian cavalry.

>>2697504
It's called the Spatha

Which do you guys think was better.

>>2697504
Short swords have the 2nd largest killing record in history. Only the machine gun would eclipse it.

The whole point of Roman tactics was quick decisive stabs while having cover with shields. Germanics and Celtics would usually hack away with longer blades, which was wasteful and inefficient against disciplined legions. The Dacian falx was one of the few exceptions because it was a terrifying slicing weapon and the Romans had to adapt to its cutting power.

>>2697412
non-shit american foriegn policy
more importantly a non-shit KMT that actually knew how to run a country efficiently

>>2697412
The US and/or UK going all-in and sending troops and taking over strategic decisions from the corrupt and incompetent KMT leaders.

Even more gibsmedats from Washington. Also killing the most retarded and corrupt leaders.

Dunkirk

The Battle of Lepanto was one of the largest naval engagements in history.

>Implying war is good
The answer is probably Stalingrad, btw

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Starting off with the original American sex scandal

>Richard Mentor Johnson, the only candidate in Electoral College history who saw a mass defection of electors push his race out of the Electoral College and into Congress to decide.
>Johnson was on the Democratic ticket of 1836 as the vice presidential candidate for Martin Van Buren, the heir apparent to President Andrew Jackson. Johnson, a Congressman from Kentucky, was picked to balance the ticket as a partner for the New York-born Van Buren. But the Virginia delegation at the party convention in Baltimore refused to vote for Johnson as the vice presidential nominee. It rose to object after Johnson’s nomination announcement, stating he couldn’t be recommended to state voters and accusing Johnson of supporting the Bank of the United States.
>The vice presidential candidate was best-known nationally for claims made by his supporters that Johnson had personally killed the Indian leader Tecumseh during the Battle of Thames in 1813. It was also well-known in political and social circles that Johnson has inherited from his father a slave, Julia Chinn, who was an octoroon. Chinn became Johnson’s common-law wife, since the couple couldn’t marry under miscegenation laws in effect, and they had two children before Chinn died in 1833. Johnson then had two other relationships with women who were black or mixed race, and his personal life had been a campaign issue in several prior elections.

Sauce

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-one-election-where-faithless-electors-made-a-difference

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Stealing greentext from another thread

>Cleopatra reportedly had her first lover at twelve and built a temple where she kept male lovers drugged with performance boosters. She also purported had 100 lover in a single night, slept with her slaves, and heavily taxed or killed some men after the love-making was over. She learned many tricks it is said from courtesan at an Alexandria bordello. The Romans, who wanted to portray Cleopatra in the worst light possible light, were the source of many of these stories. In reality it is thought she spent much of her time sleeping alone and was busy managing her kingdom to indulge in too much debauchery.

>>2688325
>When black pussy gets the best of you

Pyrrhus of Epirus

>>2709436
>>2709441
Hence the expression "pyrrhic victory"

>Alfred Nobel
>Koenigsegg
>IKEA

Says the nigger

>>2709397
Literally all American stormfags and nordcentrists do this type of shit and WE WUZ.

>>2709421
*only not all
They probably do it because they have no identity of their own

>>2709279
>take guy's story
>invent shit
>invent some more shit
>"we now control the country respect the church or go to hell"

What a way to influence people

Moses wasn't real. Replace him with Confucius or Socrates or something.

>>2709279
Nah. Paul is more influential than any of them.

>>2709022
This meme.
You need to stop pal, it's getting old.

I imagine redpilled gentlemen who point that what is presented as evidence for the Holohoax is not reliable apply those same standards of evidence to this claim, right?

>>2709022
>photographic (((evidence)))
sorry hans you're gonna have to do better than that

>>2708862
I would say the exact opposite. They are a quite evil Jewish group that funds wars and corrupts the world.

Do they actually own most countries' central banks?

>>2708878
Do you think Syria has a central bank?
Why do you think the political left wants to kill Assad? (Protip: not because he is a """""dictator""""")

>Soviets dicking around with shit
>create Sputnik, first man-made satellite
>US government gets scared, makes NASA
>goes to the moon
A lot of innovation in the 20th century was for a dick-measuring contest

>>2708478
Yes. It happened because of advancements in aviation during WWII.

>>2708491
Actually it was a race between Team USA (Von Braun) and Team USSR (Korolev). There was a chance for Americans to send the first satellite but the US government was scared because of dumb legal issues concerning activity in space and because they weren't sure if they want a German being responsible for their great national moment.
So for the next 10 years they had to play catch up with the Soviets.

>>2708458
Because the Italian jews moved elsewhere

>>2708458
Destruction and foreign domination during the Italian Wars.
The further specialisation and development of financial and economic institutions by the Dutch and English.
The move of the center of international european trade links from the Mediterrean towards the Atlantic

>>2708487
Interesting. Thx.

I still believe, anon.

>>2708422
The older, 19th century view is that paganism lasted a LONG time, and that large numbers of Western European pagans were peasants up until the Reformation and the enforcement of strict, orthodoxy Christianity across Europe.
However, that view was heavily coloured by romanticism (its most famous proponent believed witches were followers of an ancient pre-Aryan fertility cult) and anti-Catholicism. A few modern scholars suggest that paganism was dead amongst the ruling classes after a century of Christianity's official introduction.

>>2708422
I don't know about modern times but:
- Boniface in 742 was complaining about pagan rituals still being carried out in Rome. Not necessarily pagan in spirit but in fashion
- We know of people binding prayers to trees up until the tenth century at least
- Some land in the south greece during the tenth century reverted to paganism, apparently.

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>>2708220
Throne of clay

>>2708239
Look interesting, thanks very much

Henry David Thoreau

Abe Lincoln

>>2708082
They think the USSR was funded by America.

>>2708082
Heebs finance both sides in everything so that they profit regardless of the outcome.

It's almost like every problem in the world is always magically the Jews fault

Isn't that convenient for them