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>>2587594
>you hear me assassin ? Our troops are massing, get ready for the bombing, the shooting, the gassing
As edgy as that video is, i have to admit this was one cold line

>>2587927
The likenesses of the people portrayed are spot on, with the exception of Czar Nicky.

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>>2587594
>>2587927
>>2588359
Quick reminder that this was payed for by British taxpayers money.

>>2587528
How do Orthodox?

>>2587528
The papacy had lost the way, and thus the church had been lost. The rock broke, pretty much. Also, Luther just wanted reforms.

Don't know but they are heathens as well

>>2587470
There were some in the War of 1812.

Israel and Syria fought on the Sea of Gallilee a few times during the 1950s at least

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>>2587470
One of the biggest naval battles in Chinese history was the running battle of Lake Poyang, in the Yangtze river.

Basically after the Yuan Dynasty was driven away, the rebel groups fought each other for rule of China. The two most powerful ones were Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang.

The battle started in an amphibious siege of the town of Nanchang- a town that sat on a crucial bottleneck of the Yangtze river- by the Zhu's forces, which was repulsed. But then a bigger fleet was heading down to fuck up Nanchang. Chen decided to head out to meet Zhu's next fleet instead of suffering another siege.

It was a bigassfuck campaign along the Yangtze. The campaign had 100,000 men overall participating and hundreds of ships, culminating in Zhu Yuanzhang's now famous fire attack which destroyed Chen's fleet.

The battle proved decisive for ZHu Yuanzhang, as it solidified him as ruler of China, founding the Ming Dynasty.

Because they possess two of the widest rivers in the world that pass through important routes in the country, China has had many freshwater naval battles in history: along the Yangtze and the Huanghe rivers and the lakes that line along them.

>>2587307
Definitely the Old Testament. It's about 4 times as long, for starters, so there's just more of a chance by volume to have good stuff in there, but there's also actual poetry in it, which the NT doesn't bother with.

>>2587307

Neither has any real literary value, tho the OT has significantly more historical value (as an artifact, NOT as a source)

>>2587307
I guess it depends on how you define value.

In terms of sheer content, the old testament beats the new by a long shot.

If you're looking for moral guidance, the new testament offers more insight and moral teachings, more so than the old testament in that secular scholars can see value in Christ's teachings.

If it's philosophy you're after, the new testament wins our again, if only for the gospel of John.

If you're after poetry, the old testament, in Hebrew or Greek brings a lot to the table.

If you're religious (christian), Christ is the culmination of the Jewish faith. I would think that the new testament is more valuable than the old, simply because of the new covenant. Although, the old testament is quite important for contextual purposes.

>>2587242
Only harshmen know what must be done to bring peace

>>2587242

As opposed to...?

mujahideen are based af you retard

>>2587224
19th century when my forefather joined the British army and was given his double barrel surname due to having a biological father die and then raised by another and taking the second's titles
>ywn be a red coat officer sending thousands to their death to stop the N*poleon

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>ywn be a 19th century french coal miner and catch the eye of a supple young co-worker, her growth stunted by working in the mines long before puberty, and after long days of stolen glances and exchanged smiles working side by side in the cramped heat of the earth's bowels make love and ensure that the misery of the mines meets a new generation

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>>2587224
Mid-19th century Japan.

>ywn be an amoral ronin, wandering the country and challenging people to death matches and whose only goal in life is to become stronger and slay others, regardless of repercussions
>ywn be alive in 1853, when extraterrestrials descended from the sky in an advanced spacecrafts, landing in Edo and eventually forcing Japan to end its isolationist "sakoku" policy and kickstarting the Bakumatsu

>>2587203

Most of the Netherlands is built on reclaimed land.

>>2587238
I meant things that are a bit more antagonistic, used in a dispute of some kind.

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>>2587203
Yeah: Castles.

A lot of people think Castles are defensive, but they can be used for offensive strategic purposes. Just look at the orgy of castle building Normans did in Conquest-Period England, to extend their reach on Saxon lords whose loyalties were questionable.

But in it's own context, the Spratlys Artificial Island bases are one heck of a thinking-out-of-the-box moment for China.
>Argue with neighbors over those islands for 60 years already.
>Can't expand since attacking other parties is bad press while attacking the weakest party (the Philippines) will incur the wrath of its powerful US ally.
>Realize that the whole area is one big shallow water.
>There is literally no precedent for artificial Islands.
>Do the mad thing and piss off Sea Mexicans and Gooks.
>They can't do nothing.

How was he "good?"

>Alix Feodorovna
>Good

Sure thing, buddy.

>>2587180
he called himself the "little father" of his people and was living in the delusion that the majority supported him

The will of God is the will.
If God doesn't exist, then nothing exists.

>If God doesn't exist, then nothing exists.
comeon don't be such a cuck

i'm new to /his/, does this board misread Schopenhauer as much as /lit/?

>>2587093
So what? Britain, France, the United States and the Netherlands have colonies in the Caribbean in 2017.

>>2587100
All of those have a long history of colonization while Denmark is only notable for its possessions in a barren wasteland called Greenland

>>2587118
>while Denmark is only notable for its possessions in a barren wasteland called Greenland
If you scroll down the page and look at the thing that says "Danish Overseas Colonies" you'd find yourself an idiot.

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I don't know, but I want to breed with their women.

>>2586930
Well Algeria is independent now so I guess it was pretty successful.
Unfortunately it transformed France from the other guiding light of the world to a petty shadow of its former self.

>>2586947
that's not what their women look like fyi

Early Christianity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcellions

>>2586838
the jews

>>2586699
Not really but they are their descensants mixed with a bunch of shit

>>2586699
Bulgarians nowadays think of themselves as slavs or even thracians.
If you call them tatars they would probably bitch about it.

>>2586699
No, but Bulgars and "Macedonians" are :^)

Moon-and-Star is ancient symbols that predated Islam and had its roots in ancient cult of Nerevar.

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>>2586614
Blame the ottomans. This is merley symbolic (lunar moon i guess)

Yes. Also German officers regulary took showers right on the battlefield.

>>2586632
pls.......

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>>2586595
It's true. There's this (perhaps apocryphal) story of Zhukov counting the casualties after a raid on a German machine gun nest in Stalingrad. Zhukov reads out loud from a piece of paper '...five, six, seven. Seven. Not bad.'

A sergeant replies 'Only seven deaths, comrade Zhukov? That is excellent!'
Zhukov answered 'I was counting by the thousands'.