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>>1083553
>another "it's finals timel" thread
He hated being called teddy because it was the nickname one of his sons called him (and he passed away). It was said one could tell who was friends with him by whether or not they'd call him Teddy. One of his favored titles was being called the Colonel (calling back to his army days).

Conservation angle? While on a trip out west to do some hard living (I think it was to setup his ranch/hunt/enjoy nature), he was camping (or resting or something with his party) and a 2-3 men stole his canoe. With his small party, he tracked down and arrested the men.

When he was a kid, he was already extremely into nature, keeping detailed notes and sketches and collecting samples from places he'd visit with his family (like Egypt). As a mere child and even into his college days @Harvard (where he had a small apartment off campus), his room was filled with taxidermies specimens. Oh, he was very into taxidermy as well.

He produced scientifically significant work about animals he'd observe and hunt (he had a special affection for birds), but having already received fame for his other accomplishments (he was president at this time), he was disappointed the press would spend a token amount of time on his work and more on the human interest side of his accomplishments.

Theodore would rarely let anyone get him down as he liked people to agree with him and see things his way, but John Muir of pic related (at the time a celebrated naturalist who Theodore sought and succeeded at becoming fast friends with) after Theodore excitedly swapped a tale of a hunt he had (they were sharing nature experiences and were already friends at this point, might've been during a nature trip actually) and Muir (who hated hunting) said something to the effect of "Theodore, when will you put that childishness down?". Now, if this were anybody but a naturalist (an occupation Theodore respected more than anything) he'd have launched into...

>>1083658
Nice, anon. Can you recommend a good biography? I won't need it for this assignment, I just need some general info for that, but I'd like to read one anyway.

>>1083553
He really fucking loved Remington rifles.

There wasn't a worthy successor after Tito's death.

Serbs

>>1083527
This.

There's a reason the Czechs and Slovaks didn't do this shit.

>>1083246
Statistically its literally true, but we are also related to everybody else alive at the same time

All living organisms on earth share a common ancestor.

>>1083249
>>1083263
I am talking about direct relations.

No worse than the Civilization series

>>1083244
Not very, but still fun. Check out 0AD

>>1083244
nigga your legionaries are just dudes with Corinthian helmets and round shields and your centurions are guys with flat square shields and a spear.

it's 1998. it's a very good excuse to be inaccurate.

but i still played the shit out of this game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osarseph

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>>1082952

youre taking it to literaly

they are stories about man, about gods, life, reality, conveying models, guidelines, sets of methaphisical notions, or just bits of folk tales and sincretic religion

they are not about people, not realy, even if they involve some pseudo-history of this tribe or that, the protagonists themselves are stories, symbols and keys

some arbirary set of historic events and conditions might have influenced them, but they are myths, which have a logic of their own

take christ for example

so there might have been some jew named jeshua and he might have been a rabbi in jeruzalem, or maybe even part of some larger sect, but thats just a meaningless historical fact

the word incarnating, living among us, doing miracles and giving sacraments, revealing that which has been hidden since the begining of time etc... crucified buried and rissen on the third day and so on, thats the myth of jesus christ, the logos made flesh, and those are his stories and parrables, its all a myth, but that is why it has actual meaning and value

if it all literaly happened, it would be absurd and ridiculous

>an esoteric circlejerk to brainwash the masses
>/x/-tier crap

>>1082952
>Jimmu, Moses
Definitely not.

>Gilgamesh
Probably based on some early Sumerian king

>Odysseus
The Iliad might have been vaguely based on a real event, but the Odyssey is probably just mythology. It's probably worth noting that Homer himself is probably largely mythological.

In my country we learned about the Hellenistic period, almost as much as about Alexander, maybe even more...

>>1082548
You greek? or from any of related countries?

I guess if your country is related to an historical event, teachers are much more likely to teach about it plain simple.

For example, as a Chilean, as everyone on this forum, i got a shitload of info of national history. maybe even 75% of history in school.

Yet we still had world history, learning from prehistoric migrations till modern geopolitcs (aka the Pax Americana) and never heard about the diadochis and hellenistic period (and many other subjects) untill i started educating myself

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>He didn't learn about the Ghaznivid Empire, or the Tui Tonga Empire, or Couto Mixto.

How does it feel to have spent your youth going to pleb schools?

>>1082297

all of the pandora's box series is on YouTube. all of the watched over by machines.. is on vimeo.

lately i've been watching a lot of wes cecil's lectures on philosophy, they're sometimes a Little Goofy but generally very enjoyable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJnEFEtGJc

in Addition to that i enroll in online Courses and never end up finishing them. it's fun, you should try it. huge Sortiment, including ivy league universities:

coursera.org

>>1082311

furthermore, the act of killing is a movie/documentary definitely worth watching, if just for the style. finding a stream shouldn't be hard.

that's it (for now) from my side.

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quality 58:58 of your time desu senpai senpai

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>>1082206

About the only thing I can remember off the top of my head is that in a discussion in the Gemara of the things a father needs to do for his son in order to be a proper parent, there's a split among the Rabbis whether or not teaching him to swim should be counted as minimum acceptable practice.

>>1082206
The British Imperial navy would only accept recruits who could not swim, because those would defend the ships for longer.

In the Netherlands you learn to swim at school.

>>1082048
That's assuming that it's as likely for life to arise as the monkey's typing out all of Shakespeare. It isn't. Life is far more likely.

Abiogenesis is still stupid as hell, but it's definitely more likely than all of hamlet being typed by a monkey pressing keys at random.

>>1082071
Hell, life is probably more likely to arise from non-life in the correct environment than a monkey typing the two paragraphs in the post I quoted.

OP you just dont understand probability

>not being an elitist
Some people are just peasants, brah.

I fucking hate idiots

>>1081985
That's just like, your opinion, man.

>>1081869
stop fucking around
go read it

>>1081869
It's 544, why the hell did you wait this long? Even if you read 200 pages a day, you'd still only have like half a day to get it done.

>>1081869
In 2-5 hours, you can probably finish 75-150 pages. If you're fine with a whole day of non-stop reading. Depending on the person and the report, it should, more or less, take a day to write a "mediocre" report.

Get to it, faggot.

>>1081665
Which tariqa?

>>1081670

Chisti-Qadiriya.

Do you have a job? Does zikr interfere with it?

Not at all. Wars often mark sharp transitions, but more often than not they are inevitable side effects of economic and social trends, and have predictable outcomes as well. There are certainly exceptions to that, but they are just that: exceptions.

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>>1081494
Wars come, wars go. The end result is that some monkeys get killed, the arbitrary lines drawn by packs of moneys change a bit and some people end up paying taxes to another group of head monkeys who might spend more of it on roads and bridges or parties and whores than their previous.

However a few technically minded people come together, build a new machine to (for example) better pump out mines and in a few decades the world is a different place.

>>1082026
remind me why most of the machines are built ?

oh yeah, to win war

>>1081344
It's a really great book, I was surprised how organized and wealthy they Moors were. The had a prosperous and powerful kingdom in Spain. This book will open your eyes to the pain and tribulations that they went through by the hands of the jealous and fearful Spaniards.

The Smoors in Spain.

>>1081384
This is better:
>In 1527, the Castilian conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez and a crew of 600 men sailed from Spain to the Gulf Coast of the United States to claim “La Florida” for the Spanish crown. Laila Lalami recounts the voyage — and its brutal aftermath — in her new novel, “The Moor’s Account,” from the perspective of Estebanico, a Moroccan slave of one of the explorers. It’s a fictional memoir, told in a controlled voice that feels at once historical and contemporary, that seeks to offer a truer account of the expedition than the official (and hopelessly biased) version of events provided by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, one of the other three survivors.

more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/books/review/the-moors-account-by-laila-lalami.html?_r=0

How about those religions?

Christianity came from Judaism
Where did Judaism come from? How did it spawn?

>>1081297
Canaanite paganism