How old is your city/area? What's some local history?
my town was founded in the XVII century, quite recent for the old world
>>1178589
660 years
Not much the past two centuries and i'd like to keep it that way.
Ayyyyyy PA bros WW@?
I'm from Hazleton, founded in 1780. Basically a bunch of coal-mining, industrial work, and workers' rights battles.
In all adaptations they show Alexander as some faggot fuccboi boywonder, while to be honest, the fucker had to have some battlehardened menacing pressence to be able to inspire fear and authority in order to conquer the known world. who the fuck would follow a twink.
Yes, I understand he himself fucked his own fuckboys, but so did Hercules in the legends, in those times not having fucked a man and subdued him to your own wishes meant you weren't a real man yourself.
>1 The outward appearance of Alexander is best represented by the statues of him which Lysippus made, and it was by this artist alone that Alexander himself thought it fit that he should be modelled.
>>1175812
As a man who has spent most of my years in locker rooms , boxing/MMA gyms, and state prison, most of the most macho, violent, respected and charismatic men are also gay.
Not that I would respect them any less for it, I'm not homophobic in any way shape or form. Most dudes are so low key gay or bi at the very least. Look at every hipster ever that rocks a Che Guevara shirt just because that nigga "looks" cool or every fauxMarxist on this board. They all claim to agree with their views and shit, but in reality they like their appearance in photos because they're just kinda gay. I'm straight as fuck, so no man can shape my views, and I laugh at most overly macho man and their insecurities.
>tl;Dr he was kinda of a fruit ,but so are most macho macho men.
Fffffwwwwaark he looks tanky as fuck but still a little pretty.
Taught by Aristotle and a good orator?
10/10 would follow
>This triggers the Orthodox
>Idol worship
>>1182042
>getting triggered by the Mother of God
wew
>>1182042
Isn't actually Brezhnev the one who destroyed CCCP?
>>1180341
How the fuck this incompetence fucktard manage to become a premier?
>>1180341
No, the beginning of the end was Khrushchev.
>>1180364
They were afraid of another Stalin so they opted for dull idiots.
How the hell did the Celts manage to expand so far?
>>1177525
mostly walking
>>1177534
This.
It wasn't like there was anything there, so it was less expnding and more moving your shit from one place to another.
>>1177525
it's not like that was a united empire or anything
Who were the better fighters?
>he doesn't know there were Arab crusaders
Nigger 30% of the levant was still Christian
Arabs are good at war.
That's why when they fight themselves it goes on forever.
Look at the middle east.
>>1176235
Well, for one thing, it wasn't the Arabs alone whom the Crusaders fought.
Actually, there were almost little ruling Arabs at the time. Most of Muslim Princedoms at the time were Turkic in origin. Their warriors included.
Why have attempts to unify the world under one empire always failed throughout history?
Have there been attempts to unify the world under one empire?
>>1175281
Romans...? Mongols...? Persians...? The British...?
>>1175280
Long distances and bad communication. Now that we have the technology a bunch of states gave nukes that prevent people from going to war.
What do you do to pay your bills or get disposable bodypillow income, /his/? Anyone here living the dream as historians or teachers? If not, how well do you cope with dealing with historically-illiterate philistines?
Pic unrelated.
>>1171608
Convenience store clerk.
It flies over most peoples' heads when I bitch that Camels claim to be Turkish when there's pictures of Giza pyramids on the damn box.
>>1171619
Probably because its autistic talk
>>1171608
Military officer (non-American type).
Pretty sweet, I got a distinction on my promotion board history essay.
Would these guys stand a chance in the real roman army?
If they pass the training and are able to follow army orders. I can't see any obese fucks there.
>>1167459
With actual roman officers to put them on their place? Yeah, some of them would. Maybe even most of them. They would probably not like it though.
>>1167459
Absolutely. Understand that your average Roman was far less healthier and shorter than those guys and if they have the disipline and pass the learning they would be better.
>American protestants think Harry Potter and Pokemon are works of satan.
And people wonder why young people are becoming less religious.
>>1157404
The Harry Potter one is justifiable since it presents witchcraft as something good and attainable maybe
The pokemon's fucking nuts tho
>>1157430
J.K Rowling flat out said her Harry Potter story is a Christian allegory
>>1157430
>taking Witchcraft as seriously
That's how you go in jail by the inquisition, it's not real. It's fiction.
The achievements of this man is remarkable, why does the average person not have some sort of admiration for his work and his reform of the government in France? He managed to turn a country built on a weak Republic into a strong Nationalist Empire by the end of his reign.
Is it because it was 200 years ago?
because no one really understands how great a change the enlightenment and modernisation was since we live in a bizarre theme park version of it where people talk about how all our knowledge systems and culture are natural
>>1155197
no one gives a shit about that manlet fuck lol
>>1155204
woah don't trigger me bro culture is relative
What was his fucking problem?
>>1178423
Literally daddy issues
>>1178423
What do you have against him?
>>1178423
He was a faggot.
Reminder that science is done best by people competent and respectful of philosophy, not by STEMlord autistic scientism positivists.
>>1183931
Funny how every pic on the left is in black and white
You couldn't find a modern scientist saying anything nice about philosophy?
>>1183941
I would, except the guys on the left set the paradigm everyone in color reads about. So they don't really have anyone to compare to ;-)
>>1183969
Should have posted Hawking on the right.
This is a thread for history's fascinating figures of intrigue with powers that shouldn't exist by conventional understanding. The only condition is that their powers or gifts be more than rumored, but well documented historically. So no magicians.
>Michel de Nostradamus
>Count of St. Germain
>Kasper Hauser
>Crazy Horse
>Wyatt Earp
>Rasputin
>Edgar Cayce
>Ze Arigo
>Nikola Tesla
>Edward Leedskalnin
>no magicians
>mentions Raspumeme
Way to fuck up.
>>1179841
Rasputin wasn't a magician. Try harder. Actually don't. Just leave.
>>1179847
Rasputin is a meme. You mention there shouldn't be any rumors, but almost everything extraordinary about Rasputin is just a fucking meme myth. He didn't have a 20 inch cock, he didn't cuck the king and he sure as fuck didn't survive three different assassination attempts, autopsy proved he died of a gunshot wound and the entire bullshit story was invented by Yusupov in order to demonize him and justify a fucking murder.
The only really weird thing that happened was the entire disease curing deal and even then we'll never know how much of that was his doing.
>trying to look up how american accents have changed over generations
>every result is either about that fake "trans-atlantic" accent or the "le americans speak original english" maymay
Well white people in the south used to speak like niggers do now, the Ebonics shit. Blacks were the only ones that retained it.
>>1178542
>"le americans speak original english" maymay
This true though
It amazed me when I first learned that Quebec French is basically the same French that they were speaking in France in the 17th century. France moved on, Quebec stayed the same.
Imagining an English parallel, that must be like somebody coming up to you and speaking basically Elizabethan era English.