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An anon the other day was talking about physiognomy and caste systems, I wanted to read more but I can't find anything, does anyone have any links?

here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUEN1ZuDSMg

>>2461843
>all black people

Of fucking course.

>>2461681
In Inferno (2016) the protagonists use a painting in the louvre as a shield knowing that the pliceman would not shoot it. Its probable that this was itself a reference to an historical event but I don't know what it might have been.

hell

I'd shoot right through Washington Crossing The Delaware if there was an enemy seeking to use it as a shield

>>2461752
>>2461780
>implying they keep the originals on display so something like this can happen

>>2461536
Winged hussars are so aesthetic

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Calvalry doesn't tample cohesive units. Cavalry dooesn't charge into people forming a wall, instead they stop before hitting people and get scared at pikes leaving knights utterly vulnerable and awkward. The value of cavalry is its speed that makes blocking their maneuvers with infantry very difficult, and the fact that flanking with cavalry plays into people's fear and if done correctly leads to routing. Once pikes become the most used infantry weapon in europe,cavalry could only really attack if the enemy flanks were already engaged, otherwise risking getting knights trained from childhood killed by peasants with long sticks.

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>>2461827
>Calvalry doesn't tample cohesive units. Cavalry dooesn't charge into people forming a wall

This is not true at all.

There were many late medieval and early modern cavalry armies that directly engaged enemy infantry in tight ranks. The winged hussars are a pretty good example of this, as some of their equipment (specifically the lance) was designed to allow them to strike pole-arm armed infantry before impacting the infantry weapons.

Another example were the gendarmes of France (and Burgundy, though Charles got his ones BTFO charging Swiss pikemen head on), who were armoured so completely, man and horse, in plate that, given the right conditions, they could simply smash through infantry formations with their tightly packed and extremely heavy charge.

This continues all the way up to the 19th century, with Napoleon's Lancers being especially devastating against coalition infantry, forcing the use of the compact infantry square to avoid the rush and encirclement that a direct charge could cause, and even then, squares were not always effective in stopping the charge. The power of the lancer's charge at defeating infantry head on was made quite clear during the Napoleonic wars, so much so that they were routinely employed throughout the 19th century, and even into World War 1.

>I listened, my face calm, and I replied, with a satisfied smile, that I was unaware whether anyone had ever made the same criticism, but that I found it perfectly justified, and that I agreed that you could find fault with this passage's lack of verity. “But”, I added, “a poet can be excused for taking refuge in an artifice which is hard to spot, when he wants to produce specific effects which cannot be created simply and naturally.” The emperor seemed to agree with me; he returned to drama and made some very sensible remarks, remarks which could only have come from someone who had observed the tragic stage with a great deal of attention – such as a criminal judge might do – someone who felt very deeply how far French theatre had strayed from the natural and true. He went on to talk about destiny plays, criticising them. They belonged to the dark ages. “Why these days do they keep giving us destiny?” he said. “There's no destiny, only politics”. He turned once again to Daru and spoke to him about taxes. I stepped a few paces back and found myself close to the turret where I had, more than thirty years earlier, spent many hours of pleasure and also sadness, and I had the time to note that, to my right, towards the door by which I entered stood Berthier, Savary and another person, Talleyrand had moved away. Marshal Soult was announced.

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>A tall man with a fine head of hair entered. The emperor questioned him teasingly about some unpleasant events in Poland, and I had the time to look around me in the room and to reflect on the past. The old tapestries were still there. But the old portraits had gone. In that place used to hang portraits of the Duchess Amalia, a hand-painted half mask, and the portraits of all the other governors and members of the household. The emperor rose, came straight towards me and, and by a sort of manoeuvre, separated me from all the other people in the line in which I found myself. He turned his back to those people and spoke to me lowering his voice. He asked me whether I was married, whether I had children and other personal matters. He also questioned me on my relations with the house of the princes, on the Duchess Amalia, on the prince and on the princess. I replied in a natural manner. He seemed satisfied and translated for himself these replies into his tongue, but in slightly more forceful terms than I had managed. I must also remark that, in the whole of our conversation, I had admired the variety of his affirmative replies and gestures, in that he was rarely immobile when he listened. Sometimes he made a meditative gesture with his head and said “Yes” or “That's right”, or something similar; or if he had stated an idea, he most often added; “And what would Monsieur Goethe say to that?” I took the opportunity to make a sign to the chamberlain to see if I could retire. On his signalling yes, I immediately took my leave. The fourteenth. I received the Cross of the Légion d'Honneur.”

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Thoughts?

thank you for this anon, bump

They were both the top of their time, each in their respected field

A spook

>>2461511
The Latin and Greek first person singular nominative pronoun.

>>2461527
Like the word (guy)

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>he doesn't live in a run down apartment with a stack of books from the public library, stolen wifi, and a shortwave radio that only picks up the BBC world service

Embrace asceticism and purge yourself of the worldly pleasures.

but i already have autism?

>>2461458
By playing Skyrim loaded with mods where everyone is big boobied woman, among other things.

I think they have medications for this now.

>>2461453
wtf bump

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>>2461453

>tips foil.

CAPTAIN

He just kept talking in one long...

In-cre-di-bly un-bro-ken sen-tence,
moving from topic to topic,
like he was in a trance;
it was really quite hypnotic.

Hypnotic.

>>2461268

>twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.6231.pdf

Think about how that would work for a minute. I'll wait.

People used to have common sense before everything went to shit in the 20th century.

Thank G-d's chosen people.

>>2461268
For good reason.

>>2460881
Did the inquisition happen in those areas? I thought that was just in Spain.

>>2460881
bump will deliver soon

>>2462229
yes, the inquisitions spread to all iberian colonies, as well as to the papal states, sicily, southern italy, and northern italy

Would say yes. He got in trouble on account of us. Also, I read a study one time that argued that the ability to cook things with fire, and thus better digest all different kinds of food, was the biggest kickstarter for the development of the human brain.

>>2461680
if you widen your area of expertise, in this case hunting to encompass more species you spend less time looking for food and more time doing other things so I guess that would be true.

>>2461680
>>2462017
but, to be fair, I think the human brain was by far the most developed organ in the history of the planet far earlier than we discovered the use of fire. I'd argue just discovering the use of fire shows you a sign of intelligence.

>>2460373
I don't think traditionalist is the right word for Evola. IMO he's more of a romanticist. He's probably the easier the read though. Guenon is straight traditionalist.

Evola is comparatively easier due to literary style.

>>2460373
Evola is easier to read. Guenon had allot more influence from the early moderns and medieval philosophers so it is must more deductive, geometrical and rigorous. Evola's style is much more similar to Nietzsche's.

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Pic related has some good Nietzschean themes.

>cancerous /tv/ meme
>the duellists
I'm left conflicted

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>>2460354
Mongol was good as fuck. It's a shame that Russian bastard director dragged his feet on the sequel and now it's not going to happen.

Also to piggyback on this, were there swords that looked like this that were used historically. I think they look incredible and at a glance I think they're reasonably practical but I've never seen historical artifacts, paintings, etc. where they look exactly like this. Only in Mongol and the Marco Polo show. I know nothing about sword construction so I might be missing something on how the weight and balance would work but they're honestly my favorite non-euro style swords aesthetically.

>>2460181

> Azure three Lions' Heads affronté Crowned Or (for Dalmatia)

Those are leopards.

>>2460201
pretty sure they're lions. They've got the mane man

>>2460181
If you're American, check out your local SCA branch. They have a vast number of heralds to learn from.

If European, there's probably another historical group that could help you.

>>2460169
In Corsica there are some interesting stelae statues in some cases wearing armor/horned helmets and with long sword and daggers sculpted in them

>>2460262
Yep, there is a lot of interesting Megalithic archaeological sites in Corsica. However, as far as I know, if you go from that island towards the peninsula of Brittany, you will barely found such Megalithic clusters in Inner France.

Is this because the rest of them have been removed or desecrated or simply because Megalithic concetrations werent a widespread custom?

european and mediterranean megaliths all tend to be within a reasonable distance of coastlines. it's entirely conjecture, but my guess is that early societies that had the expendable time and resources to walk around pushing large rocks upright for shits and tricks might have had some subsistence on naval trade.