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Must have been awful. The heat, the mosquitoes and that smell of stagnant water from the brackish lake Mareotis mixing with smell of the salt of the sea.

Sounds ripe for dehydration and disease and general discomfort.

Nah, I'd prefer somewhere nice like Constantinople.

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>ywn visit ancient Helsinki
>ywn hunt bears with the Jedi
>ywn bathe in the blood of proto-ninjas

jdimsa

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>>1260516
> ywn experience the power of silphium
> ywn visit ancient brothels and partake in pure, affordable, hedonistic degeneracy.
> ywn waltz over to the slave market and purchase a young maid to warm your bed at night.

Why do I even live?

>>1260455
truly a masterpiece for the ages

>>1260179
>Admitting Austria, Bohemia, Netherlands, northern Italy, and north eastern France are the rightful property of Germany

>>1260190
>implying those provinces were even Holy or Roman

>>1260190
Fourth Reich when?

>>1260165
Tell me who did make it the top and what place they were in classes and then we'll talk.

>>1260165
Getting good grades isn't a leadership quality.

>>1261141

Eisenhower was 61st in his class

His entourage

>>1260047
No available loo, so he stopped eating.

>>1260047
He was an idiot that everyone though had something profound to say. Turns out he was just dumb as shit

>>1259864
IT'S YOUR FAULT WE HAVE CHRISTIANITY REEEEEEEEE

>>1259864
Fuck a plato

based fucking plotinus

>I always assumed the g in Agincourt was silent

I don't know why

>>1259522
Depending on the quality level of the documentary they get it wrong more often than you think. I notice it more with science documentaries but I also know the correct pronunciation or a lot more science shit.

But yeah I fucking hate that shit.

The trick is to never leave the house, that way you never have to speak to anyone (and thus avoid mispronouncing anything).

>>1259284
Could be small knives or even a whet stone with a handle.

>>1259284
Japanese swords often did have little knives on the saya called kogai. supposedly a boy would have to learn tho throw them accurately before he was given a sword

>>1259284

They're utility knives that fit into the scabbard instead of their own sheath. The larger blade is presumably a hunting knife/messer, so would be used to finish off the wounded animal and carry out basic butchery. Then the small knives would be used for more delicate work.

Well he would know, wouldn't he?

>>1259215
You obviously don't understand how Soviet political system worked.

What Stalin basically did was that he created a whole new ruling caste which he put down under him and made it loyal only to him. For any difference in thinking you could easily lose your career and your life, hell, even if the man as paranoid as Stalin saw you as a threat you were gone. This is why you had to tread very carefully if you wanted to stay in the system. Khrushchev perfectly understood this.

Now to the system, the famous Soviet nomenklatura. Nomenklatura was no different than, let's say, medieval feudalism or even better, ancient Roman clientele system. Each and every single Soviet bureaucrat, no matter how petty he was, owned his job and status to someone else above him. Basically an entire senior-vassal relationship system of personal connections and influences. Every top Soviet politician had his own "vassals", and so did Khrushchev. Without your own loyal followers within Party, you'd be nothing.

In this situation, you need to imagine Stalin as a dying king, and his possible successors around him, Khrushchev, Beria, Malenkov, as his vassals. After Stalin's death, a clash emerged, and Khrushchev prevailed. Beria was killed like a little bitch he was and Malenkov was too stupid to even pose a threat.

After this, cleaning of the ranks issues. Khrushchev needs to throw out all those Stalinist bureaucrats (of whom many support his rivals) from the Party and bring in his own loyal men, his own clientele to top positions. Otherwise, if he lets the Stalinists stay, he won't last for long. This is why he needs a condemnation of sort of Stalinist policies. How else is he gonna justify the purge of Stalinists from the Party? He needs a reason, and he finds it in Stalin's oppressive ways.

Hope i made it more clear. Khrushchev was later sacked in a similar way he rose to power, by Brezhnev and his clientele.

>>1259215
Either that or get purged along.

Atheism

>>1258986
Non denominational maybe

The one that doesn't blow up people for disagreeing with them.

I don't care about Muslims being Muslim, I care about large sections of Islam being against freedom of choice. Beyond that, I don't give a shit what clothes they wear, whether they starve themselves to death all year around, etc.

>>1258918
>Trump's probable rise to presidency
>Khan's rise to the seat of the mayor of London
>Egyptian god Kek

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>>1259027
This

bump
I really wanna discuss this

It's a doggy dog world

>>1258780
He's not white

>trying to oppose the Scourge of God

Or it could be that 99.99% of the gommies and other revolutionaries were anticlericals.

>>1258760
This is bullshit but I choose to believe it because it's a nice narrative

>>1258786
Well, as I said in my post, the anti-clericalism seen in Catalonia was noted for being particularly violent (more so than in other regions), and - most importantly - in that the anti-clericalism was grassroots, with people unaffiliated with the Leftist movements joining in and even starting up riots and the looting of churches and monasteries.

It simply seems too coincidental that the most fervent anti-clericalism in Spain happened to show itself in the same area that had some centuries earlier borne the brunt of a particularly devastating Crusade.

The fuck is this? grade school show and tell.

You're unfortunately ugly.

I'm sorry.