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Anyone got any recommendations for English-language reading on the Czechs and more specifically Moravians?
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>>1220735
Seconded
T. Grandma was Moravian
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>>1220735
thirded
T. The father of my grandfather was czech
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no but i have cool pics of prague
Do nuclear weapons keep the peace?
Do major countries having access to nuclear weapons keep them from fighting each other directly? The Soviet Union (and by extension Russia in modern days) and the United States never fought each other directly, is this because of nuclear weapons.
Yes, they fought many proxy-wars and are still fighting them today. But my question is, would more lives have been lost during the Cold War if nuclear weapons didn't exist? Would early NATO against the Soviet Union in direct conflict have saved more lives, or did nuclear weapons keep the causalities to a minimum?
If so, do you think more countries getting access to nuclear weapons will keep the peace? Will it force countries to seek peaceful solutions to conflict, or will it eventually spin out of control?
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It's basically just a Mexican standoff. Personally I don't think more countries should be allowed to create and have access to nuclear weapons because that makes the others more likely to pull the trigger.
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>>1220693
Yes it is just a Mexican stand-off, but now NATO and Russia are currently forced to actually meet with each other to discuss problems.
But maybe that is what is needed, especially since Europe likes to fight devastating wars at the drop of a hat. Now they are forced to agree on things.
I feel that a really horrific war would have occurred if both the Soviet Union and The United States didn't both have nuclear weapons.
India and Pakistan have little skirmishes, but nothing really bad happens because they both have access. North Korea, the most volatile country in the world, has them now, and nothing has happen. They do use the power loosely, but that's just to get food. However no one really wants to fuck with them.
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>>1220708
Israel has them and everyone is super butthurt at them, and the middle east is very volatile.
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>be Greece(not Rome)
>can't handle your economy
>get indebted to generous and hard-working Latins
>Latins rightfully ask you to pay debts
>chimp out and massacre them
>later crusader sack your city in retaliation
>thousands of years later neckbeards whining about muh evil catholics crusaders sacked a Christian city
Are byzaboos literally the most retarded people on this website ?
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you won't even get a (You), fag
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>>1220680
"Real"CrusadesHistory, please go.
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>>1220691
disprove one thing that I said
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> "The cat's stewing you, I told him, 'You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho.'"
What did he mean by this?
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>>1220672
You have the right idea about a conspiracy to kill JFK, but the wrong conspirators.
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>>1220706
dig it
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One of the great disappointments of my adolescence was finding out just how full of shit Jim Garrison was.
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I accidentally posted before I was finished writing. What did his motto mean? He had undertaken what?
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>>1220503
>dieu et mon droit
What did he mean by this? What god and what right did what for him?
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>Deus vult
What does god will?
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Soviet leaders didn't actually live in Commieblocks? They had palaces and shiet, right?
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>>1220491
They had "state" residences and "state" cottages, yes. Party elites had their own apartment complexes which you may or may not call commie blocks, though, pic related.
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>>1220630
And this is one of the residences Gorby liked a lot.
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>Has a revolution to destroy the monarchy and form a republic, killing untold numbers of French men/women
>Ends up installing an Emperor anyway
How does a nation fuck up this hard?
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>>1220475
Burke warned them
>Trying to eliminate tradition.
Pleb tier cucks
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>Has a revolution to destroy the monarchy and form a republic, killing untold numbers of Roman men/women
>Ends up installing an Emperor anyway
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>>1220487
>No matter how much we distance ourselves from the past, we are doomed to repeat it.
Oh god this feel.
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What does /his/ recommend if I want to read about the German unification and the founding of the German empire?
Also, what's the link for the /his/ recommended reading?I can't seem to find it
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>>1220315
Indeed
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bump
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>>1220308
Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark is a good place to start. Covers the kingdom of Prussia from the Thirty Years War to post World War 1 (technically the end of WW2 but only briefly to highlight the end of old-world Prussia).
>le strong pagan warriors who rekt christcucks :DD
>Sweyn build fucking churches
>Battle of Strangford Lough when christian vikings rekt pagan ones
why are Vikings used as poster boys for some fedoracore LARP bullshit if they weren't even particularly anti christian? Lmao neopagans step up your game raids had fuck all to do with religion.
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>>1220303
>why are Vikings used as poster boys for some fedoracore LARP bullshit if they weren't even particularly anti christian?
Because neo-baganism is meant to divide and conquer the West.
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The viking age ended before Sweyn became king though.
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>>1220338
He was viking as fuck nigger.
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/his/ approved films threads. Both documentary and feature. Share your thoughts about suggestions.
>pic related
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>>1220183
Braveheart! Until Braveheart I didn't knew Scottisch people existed
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>>1220183
Pearl harbor
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>>1220183
A movie about the campaign in favour of the "no" that ended the chilean regime of general Pinochet.
It focusses in the TV advertising campaign, so its not a full study of the history, but its a very interesting movie anyway.
And a entertaining one.
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Why do people still say there was a genocide of indiands in the US?
Also, why didnt Europeans get wrecked by diseases in the Americas as soon as they would land on American shores?
Or why didnt some of them carry diseases back into Europe causing huge amounts of casualties?
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>>1220175
Cause Spaniards used Caribean islands to acclimatize themselves to the New World.
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>>1220178
How would this work? You cant transmit antibodies....
Many would die of american diseases and those that would stay would be immune but the moment new people arrive they would suffer the same fate...or as soon as a carrier would go back to europe american diseases should spread among europeans killing them..
Perhaps American diseases were not as lethal because of the different living conditions of native americans and europeans..
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>>1220175
checkout this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
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>hic sensus cum non puella
Quid facitur , amici?
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>>1219987
Retifico e ratifico o que você disse.
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Negro de mierda psh familia
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Non porcus.
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Did christianity kill Rome? 2016-05-31 12:53:17 Post No.1219971
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Did christianity kill Rome?
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>Catholic Christianity, as opposed to Arianism and other ideologies deemed heretical, was declared to be the state religion of the Roman Empire on 27 February 380[50] by the decree De Fide Catolica of Emperor Theodosius I.[51]
>By convention, the Western Roman Empire is deemed to have ended on 4 September 476, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus and proclaimed himself ruler of Italia
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>>1219971
Christianity poisons everything and I do mean everything.
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>>1219971
So Christianity destroyed Rome a 100 years later?
Rome nearly went under a 100 years earlier. It was going to happen inevitably. Things were actually prosperous and well under Valentinian I's reign.
Rome had actually always been filled with lots of eastern religions carried over, it wasn't some great conversion for "ways of our ancestors" to Christianity.
If Christianity destroyed Western Rome, why did Eastern Rome continue for over 1000 more years?
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>>1219971
>Eastern Roman Empire adopts Christianity as the state religion at 380 AD
>survives up until 1453 AD
OP is a faggot.
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How do polysyllabic languages originate?
Indo-European languages are all about the stem, which is basically a sandwich of consonants with a vowel filling. Chinese started off this way before losing most of their end consonants.
e.g.
amo
amas
amat
The stem is am- and was originally something like HAM or KHAM in Proto Indo-European.
But then you have languages ike Japanese or Hawaiian where very basic words can have double or triple decker sandwich structures.
Naka-yama and Zhong-shan are written the same way, but the difference in root structure is very obvious.
In Latin it would be Mediomons, Mediomontem; here you have MED and MONT as the roots, and -io- as an archaic genitive, then -s and -em for the nominative and accusative. It's actually more like Chinese than Japanese in root structure, the Chinese just leave the grammatical elements implied.
But Nakayama is NAKA and YAMA, not NAK and YAM joined grammatically.
What I'm wondering is this: at the most primitive stage of the language, how is root structure established? In Chinese and Latin, it's a one syllable consonant sandwich, but how did this happen?
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>>1219838
Maybe I'm wrong and some linguistically informed /his/torian will come to the rescue, but most likely thia thread is a bit too smart and specific for /his/.
Maybe get an account on a small internet forum for linguistics and do a similar thread there.
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>>1219846
Yeah the problem is that you are too smart for the rest of the world, it's not the retardedness of your thread at all.
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If I was to take a rough guess m8, they probably created some form of structure after the need for polysyllabic words was fore filled, explaining such messy inconsistencies as you state. They'd make do with whatever they had made in the past, for such things that require the immediate creation of new types of words due to a threat of war or something equally primitive.
Or the king could've just done it with his divine right. Y'know.
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Is morality a buzzword, /his/?
>If morality is subjective, then it is irrational, derived from empathy, biases molded by the environment etc and without inherent worth.
>If morality is objective, then it requires a higher source to validate it, thus it is theistic. If morality is theistic, it is a human code of conduct arbitrarily set by a superior being, thus it is just as irrational from a human perspective, no action being bad in itself, but because the god(s) deemed it as such for humans.
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Do we have to have so many threads on this subject every day?
If your world-view is that of an Atheist, then yes morality is entirely within the human brain. If your world-view is that of a Theist, then it depends on the qualities of your god. You've even established this in your greentext.
All this thread will be, as they always are, endless arguments between people with these two differing world-views.
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Every word is a buzzword like every idea is a spook. When you will ever learn, anon?
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>>1219294
morality is a spook