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Longstreet

>>1217037

And if you count Captains in this thread, Bloody Bill.

Patrick Cleburne, arguably the most overlooked of Confederate generals

>>1216707
That's because it was called Napoleon of Persia by an historian, not iranians themselves. And there's nothing wrong with it because said historian was writing for westeners and so the comparison was useful.

He didn't betray a movement out of narcissism and manletism though?

That we coined way later. To be fair, he does look like Napoleon, except with the brains, without the legacy and without any fucking thing in common. He was just another nomad savage in Asia.

>>1216616
You have to accept shitty hedonism to begin with in order to accept that argument.
>muh pain
>muh joy
How very important!

>>1216641
the words are just placeholders you could also speak of fulfilled and unfulfilled lifes

>>1216616
they are both neutral, also morality is a spook so utilitarianism doesn't matter

as in it didn't happen? or it wasn't really a 'golden age'?

It was okay I guess

>>1216614
like was it really a golden age due to islam itself. weren't most scientists persian?

It reads "The Doors of el Durinho — Lord of Moriales. Speak, amigo, and enter."

>>1216229
What state/city?

>>1216248
ITS A RIDDLE!

Picture the Eastern Front of WW2.

A very large amount of people have been dislocated from their homes, nobody is quite sure what's going on, there's widespread hunger, and civil defense authorities are just barely keeping the fabric of society together.

And given that modern military formations have extensive NBC protection, the nuclear exchange will likely happen in tandem with large scale conventional warfare.

It wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would definitely result in tens of millions of dead, possibly hundreds.

Most nuclear warheads will be concentrated on neutralizing the other side's nuclear assets or military targets rather than destroying cities, but the fallout from groundbursts will still ride the winds into populated areas and turn entire cities into dead zones.

everyone dies except the richest people & their families (our best & brightest they'll say) who will wait out the chaos stemming from a world wide societal collapse and emerge years later to a mostly barren wasteland.

Picture a hotdog bun.

>>1215748
Question, what's the story about, like give me the broadest stroke about the plot you got down in your head.

>>1215762
A chef working for a minor- but still quite wealthy- noble who is morally compromised when he is offered a vast sum of money to poison a foreign guest of his lord.

Bump for interest

Really enjoy his documentaries. I don't know that he's necessarily "right", but he presents interesting points

Brilliant. He's a bit like John Gray, but for documentaries

I enjoy his stuff a lot and a lot of the criticism he gets is from idiots who think there's something magical about video that makes it unethical to express an opinion using it. Essayists are allowed to have opinions, seemingly, but documentarians are violating some kind of sacred trust.

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>>1215636

Pleb-tier.

Now, Nimitz, that was a great general/admiral.

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>>1215636
Do they have to be American? Even so, here's one of my home state's heroes, John Stark.

>loses the Philippines
>one of the greats

>>1215472

Define "imply"

Define "Does", "correlation", "imply", "causation" and "?"

>>1215481
imply
[im-plahy]
verb (used with object), implied, implying.
1. To indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated.

?

The Japanese thought that knocking out the American pacific fleet would give them time to take what they wanted in Southeast Asia without America being able to intervene for a year or two. The US and Japan both had a strong interest in a lot of the same areas in the pacific, I expect that the Japanese figured that if they kept pushing their luck they'd cross the US eventually anyway.

The US recovered a lot more quickly than the Japanese counted on, and they were pretty pissed about the whole thing.

>>1215288
They knew a war with America was inevitable after embargo. They were never going to let the japs get away with war in China and if they attacked European colonies, America would join in. They were in a pretty desperate situation as either they could lose face internationally by withdrawing from China or attack Pearl Harbor which would give them a breathing space of 6 months or so. Of course Americans were never going to let the japs get away with it, so they were pretty much doomed.

>>1215288
Due to the oil embargo, Japan wanted to attack Indinesia, then a Dutch colony, to secure an oil source.

FDR had publicly guaranteed the Dutch right to their colonial possessions, and the Japs were rightly worried that an attack on the NEI would result in an American attack. However, they assumed any reprisal would be a short punitive expedition, not an all out war to eliminate them as historically occurred.

Pearl Harbor was thus attacked as a way of knocking out enough of the fleet to give the Japanese the advantage in the 6-24 month war they were expecting.

>>1215212
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal

most battles fought in italy he was outnumbered, his cavalry cucked most others, based but we all die one day

>>1215212
Look up Khalid ibn al Walid. The man was a monster of tactics, basically all of his early battles of islamic conquest were won on tactics alone.

>>1215212
The famous meme: Finland vs URSS? Finland didn't technically win, but it did in our hearts.

>>1214511
It's very hard to say for sure, because the accounts of pre-20th century historians tend to be fairly unreliable when it comes to sexual matters.

Either sexuality would be downplayed (or ignored altogether) as something indecent to discuss, or the sexual antics of the ancients would be exaggerated to make them seem more exotic or barbaric. Doubly so where religion is involved

>>1214511
Temple prostitution among the Sumerians

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>>1214260

>he never met Jesus in person, just claims to have had a vision

Why do we take this guy seriously but not Mohammed or Joseph Smith.

>>1214260
Jews demanded j the c pinned or they would chuck jewy tanty, quite the spectical.
Paul is escorted out of jew town by roman cohorts then later disappears in to witness protection

>>1214267
the other disciples apparently didn't take him seriously. it must have been frustrating for them to see him convert a lot of people to what they thought of as a misinterpretation of Jesus' message.

>>1214007
I have had interest in doing so, yes. On my mother's side, the most we know is my great grandfather is from the northern coast of Spain. On my father's, we hear stories of potential Dutch ancestors who immigrated to Ecuador.

I'd certainly like to know more, but I've heard very mixed things regarding these tests.

>>1214007
not interested with muh heritage, its just a clusterfuck.

>>1214012
To me the main problem is the price, but I'd like to get one when I'll have some money to spare. As an Eastern Euro with somewhat turanic features I'm especially interested in possible mongol ancestry.