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How does it feel to know that a drama teacher with no actual history related qualifications and who writes almost exclusively about piss and shit, is a far, far, far more successful 'historian' than you will ever be?
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He's also an autistic quack who thinks children should be put to work when they hit 11 years old and wants libraries to be banned
Also having talked to him personally, he has this bizarre theory that the Romans settled in Ireland that he wouldn't shut up about
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>>1443502
Not to mention that he recently called out museums for dumbing things down and telling people what they want to hear.
This from the man who sells books (and 800 different spinoff formats) about weewee and poopoo to children, because obviously they're too thick and ADHD addled to pay attention to anything else unless you make it into a rap.
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>>1443486
Feels bad, man
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>He actually thinks the Wehrmacht wasn't clean
>He doesn't know pretty much everything bad they did was babysitting SS divisions attached to them
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We had this thread yesterday, please stop
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>mfw I posted that thread and then gave up because I thought nobody was going to reply, but apparently it played out
All those missed (you)s...
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>>1443310
go away wehraboo
you will do anything to justify the mass atrocities committed against innocents in the name of nationalism
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what did he mean by this
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Europeans, and this is especially evident in Nietzsche, had a romanticized view of Islam in the 19th and first half of the 20th century that was based more on fiction works like The Tailsman than historical works by actual historians. Very similar to the fascination with Buddhism among white people today, and vice versa also why Christian missionaries in East Asia had so much success. They didn't know anything about it, it was just exotic and therefore interesting to them. Didn't help that Britain and France, and later Germany, made alliances with the Ottomans during this time and promoted an image their Muslim allies as "noble savages" while at the same time Christians are being massacred under Islamic rule. Notice how this fascination with Islam took place entirely in western Europe where no one had actually seen a Muslim in their entire life; the myth of Islamic tolerance was certainly unheard of in eastern Europe. You can be certain that if these western Europeans were alive today, they wouldn't say this.
Is this the best philosophical of this century yet?
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Stop spamming Mosley threads
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What is the most memorable historical meetup?
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There's a ton.
I think a sleeper pick would be the Guayaquil conference, when Bolivar met San Martin, after which San Martin retired to Europe and never took part in revolution again.
Then there's St Francis of Assisi meeting the Muslim leader al-Kamil during the fifth crusade, and trying to convert him to Christianity. Amazingly, Francis escaped with his life.
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Hello /his/. I'm wondering if you can help me out.
I once came across a quote by a high ranking Nazi official, maybe it was Hitler himself, maybe it was Goebbels, Idk.
The quote was a comment on the subject of racial purity, and went something like this: "germans are white in the winter and brown in the summer. it is not about skin color it is about blood."
Does anyone know what the actual quote is, and who said it? Hard Mode: the original German pre-translation?
Thanks.
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Seems like no one here knows m8. Try dropping this in a /pol/ NatSoc general. If there isnt one up atm, just find a nazi/germany related thread thats getting a lot of traffic.
Best of luck
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Daily Reminder this is what the average Greek boy looked like
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>>1442539
this pic made my dick happy
thanks OP
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The Egyptians got the Month right. 2016-07-21 04:37:41 Post No.1441807
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The Egyptians got the Month right.
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>deeply study the Rhind Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian mathematical document ca. second intermediary period
>They made numerous mistakes and were mostly interested in practical considerations, but they also had certain slight theoretical interests
>but in particular, they explicitly understood that a common year is equal to 365 days, and in the Rhind Papyrus we have a primary document explicitly making that ancient Egyptian understanding perfectly clear, at least ca. the time of its writing (and perhaps ca. the time of the writing of its lost, supposed source material)
>moreover, they divided the common year as follows: 12 months of 30 days each, and 5 "extra" (so-called epagomenal) days, (to which moderns could easily add the leap days as needed near the end of a calendar year)
>the cycle of of the moon is just-plain not commensurate either with the natural human inclination towards bases of five-or-ten (or easy multiples of same, e.g. 30), and with the days of the year. The notion of a "month" either directly tied to the moon or slightly apart from it is also a very tangible concept for humans, a passage of time in which certain essential information can be learned, a routine can be established, a short-term process can flow, as it were - which is why the month is such an obvious concept for everybody, plus or minus a few days
>some arbitrary retarded "thirty days has september.... leap day in february"... gregorian bullshit is devised later
>we don't just follow the Egyptian convention
One thing that the Egyptians got one hundred percent correct straight out of the gate was the basic daily calendar conception of the year. We should go back to it.
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>>1441807
Christian fucktards cannot into astronomy m8
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>>1441807
How about 12 months 30 days each, and then 5 days at the end of the year for a Purge-type event where we get to kill off the weak and stupid
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>>1441833
hehe
take my (You)
Birth of Isis, the heavens rained.
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What was the real reason for the attack on the USS Liberty?
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Apprently, Israelis don't like FREEDOM, LIBERTY and DEMOCRACY
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To frame Egypt to draw American intervention against Egypt.
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Russo japanese alliance 2016-07-21 03:51:34 Post No.1441714
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If before the start of WW2 (1935ish) the russians and the japanese became allies, what would happen?
Like if the japanese adopted some communist laws and the russians helped japan take china.
This would mean that the nazis would be on their own in ww2 and the soviet union would become a indirect enemy of the usa.
So, /his/, how dumb or good is this alliance?
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>>1441714
japan manchuria korea mongolia was all under one empire the soviet machine didnt really have a place. like they had the resources to divert to travel across siberia, through allied territory, and then into china.
they'd sooner take the mid east etc instead, protect their bread basin/basket
pretty dumb alliance plus they just recently went through sino-rus wars so relations would be temperered, cooled at least.
and then what, like sovie had a joined empire to expand into the pacific basin. hah. couldnt even hold alaska.
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Pre 2nd world war bolsheviks were internationalist provocateurs financing many violent socialist movements. People often wonder why they didn't do this and that with stalin because they forget stalin is a non entity at this time, Hitler and the emperor don't know who the fuck stalin is. The Bolsheviks haven't reached the point yet where they're a massive war machine that doesn't actually believe in communism and has nationalist goals
In 1935 the USSR is just some shitty nation that got beat by poland and has no officers, that also undermines the emperors divine mandate and the national socialist's social views. Chiang Kai-shek thinks he can even beat them alone without joining the anti-commitern pact
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why on earth would they do that? if you absolutely have to make these alt-history threads just try to be even somewhat realistic with these retarded scenarios
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How did people shave in olden times? Like Romans are almost always portrayed as clean shaven, did they shave themselves or did they have barbers who shaved them?
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Personal razors date back to the stone age.
That said, richfags would probably delegate the duty to someone else, like they did with everything.
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>>1441694
shells and flint knives
asia and india probably shaved with a thread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_(epilation)
Was there any possible way that all of the changes to France after the Revolution could have been kept? Or was decimalized time and a "muh Roman glory" calendar too much for people? Could France have ever became a state based around Reason or The Supreme Being?
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They could have been a little bit smarter and more humble, and settled for creating a parliament with real political authority, and a tame monarchy.
Although King Louis didn't make that easy. Maybe behead him for treason and install someone else.
But yeah, trying to change France 100 years in 10 was a recipe for failure.
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>he's a metaphysician
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>he's a positivist
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The Suffering Game: /his/ Edition 2016-07-21 02:22:03 Post No.1441470
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The Suffering Game: /his/ Edition
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Not trying to funpost or anything, just trying to get a scope of people's opinion on historical people.
THE RULES:
>1. The characters proposed must originate from the topic of the board the game is taking place in.
>2. The character requested cannot be an alternate interpretation of the original character portrayed through a different medium. Ash Ketchum is not /v/, and Jotaro is not /co/.
>3. In order for a character's spot to be contested, the post that claimed it must receive three replies contesting it. The three posts must give reasoning beyond "It's taking my characters spot".
>4. The original anon that took the spot may debate these contests within a 15 minute period. If no rebuttal is made, the spot is vacated. It is also vacated if the Board Master is not satisfied with the rebuttal.
>5. The character must not come from the same series as another character on the board.
/his/ only rule: Rule 5 in this sense means that your chosen person from history must not come from the same country/kingdom/tribe as another on the board.
Timeframe is anything before 1800. Begin.
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Historical Unarmed Martial Arts 2016-07-21 02:10:01 Post No.1441437
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Historical Unarmed Martial Arts
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What are some examples of unarmed, historical martial arts (not like modern HEMA stuff) other than Greek boxing, pankration and wrestling?
Speaking of those three, do we know how different ancient Greek boxing was compared to what boxing is today? Was it less moving, dodging and blocking and more just standing there and punching each other until one of you goes down?
And Pankration, was this basically the iron-age equivalent of what we would consider MMA? Or was it just a combination of the boxing and wrestling of the same period?
Finally, what other regions, countries, Kingdoms or the like had their own particular brand of unarmed fighting that we have historical evidence of? Be it wrestling and grappling of different types or some kind of striking art, is there any other good examples of significant fighting styles that were around before, say, the early modern period and weren't focused on at least primarily on weapon usage and instead used for unarmed combat or self defense?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_(sport)#Barehanded
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Pugilism and pankration where essentially kickboxing with some wrestling. There was lots of variations all over Europe.