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what is your favorite school of swordsmanship? 2016-12-20 07:59:48 Post No.2117978
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what is your favorite school of swordsmanship?
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mine has to be German Longsword, but i also like British Broadsword
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>>2117978
I'm best with Meyer, but I love Bologna school, they just have the coolest moves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoyRnUYbrE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xl_Z4B3Ug
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Easy
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>>2118471
You have about a hundred surviving schools to choose from
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Why was Islam so much more 'progressive' 1000 years ago, especially relative to Europe.
Was it the mongol invasion? Why did they never recover?
Serious answers please and no ''muh golden age myth''
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Because most of the problems of modern Islam stems from Western powers purposely fucking with Wahhabism and Arab tribalism in the 20th century.
The eternal anglo strikes again.
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because this dude
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>>2191231
there was no "golden age", they simply copied greek/persian works into arabic
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Lost civilization in the Amazonia 2017-01-07 07:52:16 Post No.2190818
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Lost civilization in the Amazonia
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In the municipality of Calçoene in northern Brazil, a cattle rancher named Lailson Camelo da Silva found what would become known as the “Amazon Stonehenge.” It’s a series of 1,000-year-old stones that experts now believe to be a primitive observatory.
According to The New York Times, da Silva was removing trees in the late 1990s to make land for his cattle to graze on when he discovered the stones.
Taking its name from a nearby stream called the Rego Grande, the stone arrangement comprises 127 blocks of granite, standing upright in a circle over 98 feet (30m) across.
Each of the blocks stands up to 13 feet (4 metres) tall and weighs several tonnes and appear to be irregularly shaped.
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As Brazilian rain forest has been cleared away to make way for animal grazing,the architectural footprint of a network of ancient villages has been revealed
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Hundreds of circles, squares, and other geometric shapes once hidden by forest hint at a previously unknown ancient society that flourished in the Amazon, a new study says.
Satellite images of the upper Amazon Basin taken since 1999 have revealed more than 200 geometric earthworks spanning a distance greater than 155 miles (250 kilometers).
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at what point in history did your country level up?
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like 200 times since 1776 at least.
it's pretty boring when you're invincible and could one hit anything on the planet, so we just sprinkle guns on little guys to see what happens.
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Late 1800s imo
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This thread just made me "level up" .
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How would neanderthals and modern man have interacted with each other? Was there trade? Exchange of culture? War? How were they capable of producing fertile offspring, despite being separate species?
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Neanderthal art bump
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>>2189936
Well, there is debate about the neanderthal/man hybrid. It could also be a common shared ancestor given that asian populations can have more neanderthal DNA than northern Europeans. That and Italians have more neanderthal DNA than Northern Europeans as well.
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gross
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How did we become rational animals?
What is the ultimate purpose of the human reason?
Do you guys think our ability of reasoning was a mere accident derived from our accurate memory and sensibility?
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>>2189898
>How did we become rational animals?
Evolution.
>What is the ultimate purpose of the human reason?
There is none.
>Do you guys think our ability of reasoning was a mere accident
Any kind of evolutionary development is but an accident that stuck around because it wasn't detrimental to reproduction.
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>>2189898
>2015+2
>he thinks we're rational animals
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>humans
>rational
Have you ever even talked to one?
>Haha, I'm going to write a dystopian novel where Everyone is treat as a slave to the state and is only allowed to have enough food to live and no luxuries!
>Lets see, how do I start?
>I know! 'A spectre is haunting Europe.'
>Heh, this is going to be epic!
>"Hey Marx, I read your book!"
>What'd you think?
>"This is revolutionary! This will unite humanity!"
>H-heh, yeah. It sure is something.
>"I'm going to give this to the poorly educated factory workers and naively promise them it will make their lives better!"
>Okay, ughm, is that the best idea?
>"Sure! We'll liberate the proletariat and kill the Tsar's children!"
>Y-you too..
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>>2189809
You have trueley debunked Marxism, good job.
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>>2189809
Screencapped for posterity. EPIC post bro
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>>2189809
Is tobacco a luxury
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How did the Arabs conquer so much land?
Also looking for general books on early Arab conquests, trying to educate myself on it but I dont have many good books to start with
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temporary military advantage before their neighbors and internal factions adapted to the changes
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>>2189630
This, plus most of that is enpty desert and mountainous badland
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>>2189637
After living in Iran and travelling through Afghanistan and Pakistan, I can say this is mostly true. The Revolution sent Iran back 100 years, a shame, really. The land itself, especially in the north, near the Caspian sea, is a sight to behold.
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Just read on /pol/ that Willy wanted to have sex with his mother ( >>>/pol/105948299 )
Is that true?
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>>2189427
Everyone wants to have sex with their mother.
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>willingly subjecting yourself to that cesspool
why?
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>>2189427
I think we all do at a fundamental level.
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Is it true that pagan norse were more sexually 'liberal' than christians around them?
For example I heard that you weren't gay as long as you were topping.
Or is this all bullshit?
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>>2189385
Trying to explain it in modern terms of what is and isn't liberal is fucking gay my dude.
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>>2189385
>For example I heard that you weren't gay as long as you were topping.
This is pretty much a cultural universal
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If you can't name at least five of the people in this picture you need to get off /his/.
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Victoria is the only one of any consequence.
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>>2189373
1800s are a meme century
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>>2189373
Was this the first UN summit?
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Is sex a human right?
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>>2189291
Human rights is subjective I am sure people could decide it just depends on the culture and society I suppose
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>>2189291
If you're Chad
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Didn't Jeremy Corbyn say something about this?
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Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944> 2017-01-06 11:13:57 Post No.2189175
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Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944>
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>was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.
Who was in the right here?
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>>2189175
>The Korematsu decision has not been explicitly overturned,[4]
Can't let them do another sneak attack.
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Maybe I should have made the thread more /pol/ friendly
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I don't know the case specifically, but in my opinion internment was one of those things that was obviously on-the-nose immoral and unlawful but justifiable in the "we were at war nigga the stakes are too high to pull punches" sense.
There were probably better ways to vet loyal and disloyal Japanese, though.
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ITT:Historical figures that shaped the world that we live today 2017-01-06 09:53:59 Post No.2188789
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ITT:Historical figures that shaped the world that we live today
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>Hardmode:No Hitler
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Becomes really mind baffling once you consider how retarded it really was.
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>>2188820
Really though? How large a role did she have in government?
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Best books on the napoleonic wars? I'm looking for something concise.
>under 300 pages
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>under 300 pages
Not gonna be good then
If you can read Dutch I would like to recommend Johan op de Beeck's double biography of the man himself
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>>2188738
"Why our world is shit and what it could have been" by Pierre le Frog
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>>2188738
>under 300 pages
Holy shit OP, are you looking for a Magic Tree House book? I'm sure if you got an ebook, you could resize the text to make it 300 pages, but be prepared to squint.
I'll give you a TLDR for the Napoleonic Wars:
>The French Monarchy was not liked.
>The French people decided to kill them.
>The Eternal Anglo smelled the blood spilled by the guillotines and his eyes got beadier, and nothing but more than two decades of warfare could satiate his bloodlust.
>The French ran out of people to kill, and issued an "ultimatum" to the Austrians. It essentially read, "Abandon your defensive positions or we will attack you." The Austrians couldn't understand French, so the French just declared war.
>Austria and Prussia went to war with Revolutionary France, England looks on and masturbates furiously.
>France guillotines officers who refuse to press an attack or pursue a fleeing enemy, so naturally they conquer and conquer.
>The Eternal Anglo and the leprechaun he's been raping join the war against the French.
>Napoleon is finally getting to do something with his life, as he wasn't born into any high noble branch (he was minor nobility).
>The French are destroying everything that moves, guillotining everything with a pulse, a very successful murder spree.
>Everybody BTFO by France except for the Eternal Anglo, who loves war more than anything. France so bored at this point so the French military splits up - the Navy goes to war with the United States and the Army goes to war with Egypt.
>The French Navy gets BTFO by Admiral Nelson and Napoleon fucks up the campaign in Egypt. Napoleon tells everybody that he scored a great victory in Egypt, and people actually believe him.
>Peace was finally achieved. However, the Eternal Anglo, ever addicted to destructive conflict, went to war with France again.
>Nobody makes any gains for several years. The Eternal Anglo devours his leprechaun fucktoy and absorbs his magical powers.
>Peace is achieved again.
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