Post any interesting/crazy/weird/funny historical facts here.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: friends, rivals, then friends again; 2nd and 3rd presidents of the United States respectively; two of the five members of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence (which Jefferson wrote most of); generally considered two of the most important founding fathers, and the last two surviving.
Both died July 4th, 1826 of natural causes in their home states of Massachusetts and Virginia. It was the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States of America. Adams' last words were "Thomas Jefferson still survives" though Jefferson had actually died several hours earlier.
The leader of Germany, in the 1940s Adolf Hitler killed 12 million people in death camps and caused the largest war in human history.
>>1189577
Fake
Adolf Hitler was a fukin hippie smashing young fruelines from the hills and smokin the refer. Some bitch made a song about it..when they arrested him he even said he was a Patsy before Jack Ruby killed him.. He did nothing wrong.
What was their biggest mistake?
Being an anachronism.
not being able to adress the minority issue properly
>>1187142
making their empire out of 20 minority groups while only caring about the greivences of 2 of them
What's a good History and/or Philosophy podcast I can listen to?
history of rome before all else
Bumping out of interest.
>>1185351
Are you swedish? I have one for you then
Is truth a spook?
Spook is a spook.
>>1183666
This
>>1183661
Can truth control you? Can you serve the truth to the detriment of your own self?
Hello. Can anyone recommend some good Christian speakers ? Preferably on Youtube or if they have a radio show maybe. I'm looking for Orthodox or Catholic speakers who are interesting and intellectual. Thank you.
>>1192334
Kent Hovind
>>1192334
Listen to some of the free stuff on qorbono.com
https://www.qorbono.com/listen/Sample%20Talks
It is so good that I might buy some of their bible studies.
MUH LEGIONS VARUS
GIBE ME BACK MAH LEGIONS
>>1186318
ahw shiii
>>1186318
>when you're going through the Rome 2 benchmark test for the 15th time
How bad were the gulags, and why aren't they talked about as much as the nazi death camps?
You know what was worse than Nazi internment camps? Japanese camps on the Chinese mainland. No records were kept and the treatment was less humane than the way Nazis treated Jews. Tens of millions died.
I have no clue why no one ever talks about it. Lost to history.
>>1186085
>>1186100
The majority of post-war intellectuals in England and France (and most of the world, really) were vehemently left-leaning if not entirely communist in their mentality. Therefore, critiquing the USSR would've been counterproductive to their efforts. Mentioning the gulags would've also created a parralel to the Nazi death camps and therefore eroded any public sympathy due to the fact that the disgust for the German atrocities was at its freshest.
>>1186100
>I have no clue why no one ever talks about it. Lost to history.
Because it doesn't concern us, western europe talks about jews getting killed, eastern europe talks about slavs getting killed, china talks about chinks getting killed.
I've recently become very interested in world history and the rise and fall of cultures/nations. Now in the middle of pic related, since it seemed like a good start for essential reading.
Any recommended other interesting book suggestions?
>>1182620
I've always felt that these kind of discussions always mention 'meme books'
Cuz whenever I see such a topic it are often the same books over and over again
Maybe some books are really good, but why bother reading them if everyone does? What possible novel insight can I get?
Not that it actually stops me from reading meme books...
And yeah this sounds like intellectual hipstery
I'm enjoying Heart of Europe, which is about the
>HRE
I also had fun with The Faithful Executioner and Danubia.
I'm on an HRE kick.
>>1182658
It seems that there's a book about Poland called Heart of Europe.
Post games that got into history. Hard mode: no Paradox games
*got you
It turned me into the Late Roman Empire fanatic I am today
Total War games
GUN - kickass old west game
Sid Mier's Pirates!
Civs, Age of Empires
>perfect god writes a book
>book contradicts itself
Kek
>>1187676
You mean the protestants that follow the book?
>>1187680
delete this
>>1187686
>Sola
>Scriptura
>Lmao
>see /his/ shill for Christianity a lot
>finally fall for the meme
>go to church
>for communion they give us potato chips and soda because "communion is supposed to be fun"
Christianity is a joke
>>1185143
Protestant or Catholic church?
I take it you didn't go to an orthodox church. You didn't fall for the meme correctly.
>>1185171
Any Catholic church that did this would be excommunicated
Uunga here this be best cave for telling of cave stories.
>>1185102
me and my bros took down a mammoth the other day
>shit was cash
>>1185102
>bing gurr
>Wama damba
>Oomba doonga wagadonga
>shoo shoo umbalado
>Urdungur
>Wakadongo
>>1185102
>telling of cave stories
Go away Plato, no one likes you.
>Sexually liberal
>Socially/politically conservative
Is there a Church where I would fit in? Or is organized Christianity to remain forever beyond my reach?
>>1191443
Church of England aka Episcopal Church.
>>1191460
My impression is that they've become quite socially and politically liberal, at least here in America.
>>1191443
>>Sexually liberal
>>Socially/politically conservative
That is an oxymoron
>loses the philippines
>talks the president into a pointless campaign to retake them
>alienated allied troops
>keeps the emperor on the throne
Did this fuck do anything right?
>>1190673
Inchon was pretty awesome.
But then he just had to play down the Chink threat.
How we interracial relationships regarded in Egypt, Rome, and Greece?
Fuck off /pol/
>>1190025
...This is a good question though.
Anything from "who cares?" to "eww"