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Is The Last Kingdom a good show? 2017-08-24 11:46:21 Post No.3284804
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Ive read the first book, i liked it and iam going to read rest of them after i finish some others, but what about the show? is it simmilar in that way it would spoil books to me?
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Why are men supposed to support the principle of equality between the genders?
I look at Victorian society for example, and think "damn we really blew that one"
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Is there a correlation between the haplogroups R1a and R1b and the Satem-Centum langauges?
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>Has supplied weapons to anyone willing to pay for over a hundred years
>Has never caught shit for it
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http://www.businessinsider.com/swedens-dirty-secret-they-arm-dictators-2014-5
For those who don't believe me
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1. You're not to think you are anything special.
2. You're not to think you are as good as we are.
3. You're not to think you are smarter than we are.
4. You're not to imagine yourself better than we are.
5. You're not to think you know more than we do.
6. You're not to think you are more important than we are.
7. You're not to think you are good at anything.
8. You're not to laugh at us.
9. You're not to think anyone cares about you.
10. You're not to think you can teach us anything.
These ten principles or commandments are often claimed to form the "Jante's Shield" of the Scandinavian people.
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11. Respect your bull.
12. Keep the shed tidy.
13. Praise Allah.
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People sometimes get the impression that two-handed swords were REALLY heavy. Like so heavy that a normal person wouldn't even be able to pick one up. This is false. While two-handed swords certainly were heavy, they weren't as cartoonishly heavy as they are often imaged to be. A typical Doppelhänder would weigh at least 4.5 pounds, but no more than 9 pounds. Swords of 10 pounds or more were general reserved for ceremonial use only. To put this in perspective, an M1903 Springfield rifle from WW1 would weigh around 9 pounds when loaded and ready. So the average two-handed sword would weigh less than a WW1-era infantry rifle. The perception that these swords were massively heavy comes from their size. A well-built sword usually weighs far less than its appearance would suggest to the casual observer.
http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html#.WajGLYWcFYQ
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In fairness, 9 pounds is pretty damn heavy when it's not right in the palm of your hand. Most people couldn't just pick up a two handed sword and swing it without throwing themselves off balance, the same way most people do that retarded chick lean thing with firearms.
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>To put this in perspective, an M1903 Springfield rifle from WW1 would weigh around 9 pounds when loaded and ready. So the average two-handed sword would weigh less than a WW1-era infantry rifle
Yeah but you don't fight by swinging a rifle around, the weight only really matters in terms of portability and can be evenly supported from cover. But a sword you can only grip from the hilt, while its weight is often more heavily distributed along the blade. So no shit the swords were not that heavy, even at only 5 pounds your arms would turn to wet noodles after swinging it around at full combat speed for 10 minutes.
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Well made swords were balanced so that the hilt was able to counter balance the blade enough to make it easier to control, but even so there were limitations in pre-modern metal working, they could only get the steel and iron so light before it lost its strength. At a certain point you just gotta tell people to build up their arm strength.
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Today I realized just how old a sport baseball is and it blew me away. Do you know any interesting historical facts about sports?
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Reminder that this dude got BTFO by a woman and whined about it
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is he... dare i say it... our guy?
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Wade Boggs once drank 64 beers on a single flight to an away game. A true American hero!
Is this American's view on British history accurate?
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Mythology and the Bible 2017-08-23 07:48:15 Post No.3282288
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Pagan stories
>external struggle, action figure and fairytale style conflict
Biblical stories
>internal struggle, moral, psychological and spiritual conflict
Anyone else notice this? It is a bit of a generalization of course and is much less applicable to Greek drama, but seems like the overall case. Even pic related (Orthodox icon of Jacob struggling with God, which earns him the name Israel) reads more like a mystical description of an internal struggle .
Consequences in the Bible seldom have to do with cunning or physical prowess, they spring directly from existential dilemmas
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Alt History thread
Starting off with some Isaac's Empire
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If German tanks were so shit and R*ssian tanks were so superior, why did the R*ssians lose a shitload more tanks at Kursk and have way larger casualties overall?
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Wrong image
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Quantity has a quality all of it's own.
It's how the Chinese fought us to a stalemate in Korea
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God I hate r*ssians so much
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Comfy settings of the past you will never enjoy 2017-08-23 06:11:41 Post No.3281996
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Comfy settings of the past you will never enjoy
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>ywn be an expat in 1930s Havana.
>ywn sip fine rum at a lively lounge overlooking old town.
>ywn make love to a wide hipped curly top mulata who cooks you ropa vieja and rolls her own cigars
>ywn sip strong Cuban coffee at a bayside cafe alongside artists and writers
>ywn see Havana pre-revolution
Should just blow my brains out now desu senpai
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More historical cinematics 2017-08-23 05:57:35 Post No.3280442
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More historical cinematics
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hi, got any more like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=8ZFnvlP0XV0
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How the hell did Saint Paul write a letter to the Phillipians if the Philippines hadn't even been discovered by Spain yet? Did God give him divine powers?
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dude just stop being stupid lmao
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Southeast Asian Hinduism 2017-08-23 02:22:49 Post No.3279862
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How was it different from continental India?
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