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>>2585240
Nelson's Navy had midshipmen as young as 12

>>2585240
The US Civil War. Children as young as 8 were employed in various roles. 8 year olds were called "powder monkeys" on ships because they delivered black powder to the cannons iirc... There were a lot of roles like the drummer boy and such that a small child could take and travel with the regiment and experience combat. The number of child soldiers during the US Civil War was in the tens of thousands I believe.

Children weren't even considered children until the mid 1800s.

Young children would perform non-combat roles tied to an army, young teens would be eligible to participate in combat.

Child soldiers as we see them today are relatively new and are only viable because of modern weapons.

>>2585212
Picasso is the right answer.

>>2585212
Dali was a degenerate and an edge lord

>>2585212
Greatest probably Picasso by virtue of his craft, innovation, and influence. Duchamp a close second but he doesn't really have the kind of stature that Picasso has, even though his innovation and influence is greater. But greatness doesn't really matter so I prefer Duchamp because I'm not really into the 'exclusive modernism' of formalism. Pollock is also a great.

>>2585119
That is Seneca, who was involved with Nero.

>>2585119
>Son of one of Romes most famous generals who people saw as their Alexander the Great and a paragon of virtue who would restore the republic
>Do stupid shit like build massive party barges
I get that history isn't black and white and that Caligula himself has been target of propaganda but I mean c'mon

>>2585173
Germanicus was over-rated, though. Or probably was.

>>2584927
>I'd love to go to church with a chick and shit

Modern American Evangelists.

>>2584930
*People who enjoy company and like having a good time

>>2584934
>you have to go to church with a chick to enjoy the company of others
xD

>>2584895
>this thread
>everyone here claims to have lived the hedonistic lifestyle
>25 year old virgin neck beards
>hedonists

>>2584901
Haha in retrospect that does sound spergy as fuck. I should have known better.

WE WUZ VIKANGS N SHIEEEEEEEEET

>>2584796
Big Bang tbqh

>>2584796

Invention of the first gun

>>2584796
Why does Thomas Cole's painting entitled "Destruction" trigger you

>inb4 minoans

clearly that's a modern painting

what evidence is there that they dressed in this way? even if they did, it's the King, not your average person

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>>2584458
>>2584449
Etruscans

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iconoclastic filth

It's kinda way to spread the seeds of fear amoung the people, by making the music in an impressive way and making it feel massive , totally powerfully, that just kicks in

>>2584218
Everything.

Bach is fucking trash, though.

>>2584174
>>>/tv/

>russia
lol fake news

Why do contemporary films have such a shitty, melodramatic aesthetic? It started with capeshit and now the cancer us spreading to all genres.

>WWI started because of Belgium
You ARE new to this.

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>>2584141
Makes me think of this nice and clever discussion about WW1 I once found in Youtibe comments
This is how normies view WW1

>>2584130
Yes it was. British involvement over Belgium was merely an excuse to get into the war, as it threatened to usurp the balance of power that was in their favor.

Overall, everyone had incredibly selfish reasons for getting in the war, and everyone had very selfish goals. America's probably the closest to a "good guy" you can get, but even then there was a lot of politicking around to brew up casus belli in 1917. In terms of war goals, America probably had the most benevolent goals as well, pushing Wilson's naively idealistic 14 Points.

It's a republic.

>>2584060
A republic is an indirect democracy.

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>>2584076
>A republic is an indirect democracy.

>>2583920
Focus on a specific author and try and understand them instead of this hive mind of poison.

>>2583920
The key is independent and critical thought. Honestly, even if it isn't necessarily the most exciting or obscure works, I would start with Aristotle's rhetoric and Plato's The Republic. Philosophy and writing, both, do a lot to aid to critical thinking skills, which are a necessity to escaping the hive.

Like >>2583942 said, you could honestly start with anything you wanted as long as you dedicated yourself to understanding their point and how they came to those conclusions through their evidence. Also, for the love god, check your sources and always question the intention of the piece you're presented with - especially if you have a history of /pol/-ism

>Or are there just way more teenagers on this board than I thought?
well obviously

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>>2583905

>>2583901
/his/ is literally /lit/ for retards. The only board dedicated to academia that isn't complete shit is /sci/.

>>2583839
study literature or cultural studies and try to find out which program specialize in what kinds of areas.Inside of linguistics, if anything that would be sociolinguistics (discourse analysis etc.)

linguistics is very diverse as a field which can be frustrating for undergrads who are only interested in one area and have to study a bit of all of them, some of which consist of bogus theories that have no relation whatsoever to reality.

however what you describe are normal parts of any linguistics program
>go and record some local dialect and analyze it
linguistic fieldwork and grammatical description - an important subfield
>logic
some people think they can study meaning in language with a formal logic approach, i think it's useless but it's pretty standard in some dominant schools of semantics - another important subfield
>anatomy of the mouth
this is essential knowledge for any student of linguistics, but especially important for those interested in phonetics - another important subfield

>>2583839
This is really unrelated to linguistics, OP. Try a comparative literature department.

>>2583941
yeah but none of that stuff gives much insight, you're only going to bea poor man's defectologist with that important anatomy of the mouth shit as for logic, it goes without saying that you should be able to support your argument, it's not like you're going to solve complex equations.

as for the fieldwork, stuff like that is nonsensical, you don't need to go to the ghetto in 21st century to know how niggers speak, it's bullshit work akin to sending sociology students to do 'polls'

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>>2583472
Looks good OP

>>2583472
I am very excited to start reading these military books. What ones would you recommend OP?

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>>2584562
To be honest, there are literarlly so many I can't even begin to recommend some. If you go into the subfolder called Osprey, you will find a fairly short book on almost every military unit and/or topic you could possibly think of. I read War Elephants, Navy SEALS, English Longbowmen, Napolean's Navy, Napolean's Artillery and that is probably less than 1%. I also read a few of the books on medieval warfare and those were really cool. My recommendation is to dive in and see what you can find in there since there is literally so much.

Here is a link to another collection of war books which is largely redundant but you might find the organization easier to understand.

https://mega.nz/#F!25YgTTIJ!qasLMuIYMd7vJ0Hm9EfGBw