Since the days of generals with silly hats waving swords about are long gone, what is the highest ranking officer's rank present in the modern-day battlefield?
>>899965
In the US at least:
>Air Force
Colonels fly around and drop bombs. Counts as combat.
>Army/Marines
Captains and Majors are the nearest big hats nearest the shooting
>Navy
Admirals. No choice; they're on the boat.
What went so right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG3fCeI19IA
>>899926
>you will never see Europe unified like this ever again
feels bad man
>>900718
iktf
>>899926
>female crusaders
>the sultan is the khergite khanate from mount and blade
aaaah yes
JUST
Rochester castle, I'm John
Can anyone identify the language in this tattoo?
Chinese as transcribed by a blind five year old.
>>899549
Some of the characters are for sure chinese, but that could mean a variation of languages like old school korean or japanese.
>>899549
probably a con lang but it kind of looks like old/ancient chinese
I didn't know wether to post this in /lit/ or /his/, but since this is the humanities and he delves into poetry, art, movie, history etc...
What do you guys think of Nerdwriter?
https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1
He is a little too much tumblresque for me, but still it's quite fascinating to watch.
I would like to know if /his/ know any tubers similar to him.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog/videos
>>899621
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog/videos
Thx
His art analysis is entry tier garbage.
.
>>899536
>sacrum
>"forced"
>"""meme"""
>>899570
>reich
Kantian Ethics or Utilitarianism /his/, which is the better moral theory?
They're both articulated primarily by subjects of autism
>>899237
the dhamma
>>899237
Aristotelian ethics.
Is it REALLY true that Aristotle said that men had more teeth than women and he didn't bother checking because the scientific method hadn't existed yet?
Is knowledge of the greeks just used as a tool for people to look cultured?
Aristotle didn't really know much when it came to science, his philosophy still holds up though
>>899075
No one really cares about Aristotle's science.
This is the equivalent of saying that Einstein is pointless to read because his poetry sucks.
Does anyone know how common it was for a civilian to own a sword in Puritan New England in the 1600's? I ask because I have an ancestor who died in the 1650's in Massachusetts, who in his will left two guns and a sword behind to his sons. He wasn't in the militia, though he served as town constable, and the representative to the general court for his town a few times. There is a story though repeated in branches of the family and in a lot of genealogy books from even the 1800's saying that he had fought in the 30 Years War, that he had gone from Britain to Leiden, Holland (where a lot of Puritans ran), then served in some Protestant continental force or another for a while before going to Massachusetts from Leiden around 1636. I was wondering if that sounds plausible or if it was just some story developed to rationalize his leaving a sword behind. How common was it for a regular citizen to have a sword in that time and place? The South I can get, being a little more martial and Cavalier influenced, but I thought the Puritans might think a civilian sword a mark of pride or something, I don't know, I don't know that much about their everyday practices.
New Englanders who fought in the Pequot War were armed with swords, as John Underhill relates, "our men being compleatly armed, with Corslets, Muskets, bandileeres, rests, and swords (as they themselves related afterward) did much daunt them".
Swords were cheap enough that anyone but a servant or beggar could afford one if he wanted one.
The story of fighting in the 30 years war before going to Massachusetts does no seem unreasonable at all to me. Lots of British fought in the TYW. Wikipedia; "Frederick V's cause became seen as that of Elizabeth Stuart, described by her supporters as "The Jewell of Europe" leading to a stream of tens of thousands of volunteers to her cause throughout the course of the Thirty Years' War. In the opening phase this saw an Anglo-Dutch regiment under Horace Vere head to the Palatinate, a Scots-Dutch Regiment under Colonel John Seton move into Bohemia, and that to be joined by a mixed "Regiment of Brittanes" (Scots and English) led by the Scottish Catholic Sir Andrew Gray."
In 1640 it was ordered in Massachusetts that in every township the attendants at church should carry a "competent number of peeces, fixed and compleat with powder and shot and swords every Lords-day to the meeting-house;" one armed man from each household was then thought advisable and necessary for public safety. In 1642 six men with muskets and powder and shot were thought sufficient for protection for each church. In Connecticut similar mandates were issued, and as the orders were neglected "by divers persones," a law was passed in 1643 that each offender should forfeit twelve pence for each offence. In 1644 a fourth part of the "trayned hand" was obliged to come armed each Sabbath, and the sentinels were ordered to keep their matches constantly lighted for use in their match-locks. They were also commanded to wear armor, which consisted of "coats basted with cotton-wool, and thus made defensive against Indian arrows." In 1650 so much dread and fear were felt of Sunday attacks from the red men that the Sabbath-Day guard was doubled in number. In 1692, the Connecticut Legislature ordered one fifth of the soldiers in each town to come armed to each meeting, and that nowhere should be present as a guard at time of public worship fewer than eight soldiers and a sergeant. In Hadley the guard was allowed annually from the public treasury a pound of lead and a pound of powder to each soldier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidents
B-But look at all the stuff they DIDN'T b-burn...
>>898288
Amy Adams is mai waifu
Fukou Da!
Someone post the Irish Monk picture, I don't have it
Question to other STEM fags. When did you give up on the dream of doing anything related to history in your life and why?
> 18
> decided I wanted job security and money
Never had it in the first place. Although when I was a child I wanted to do paleontology as much as I wanted to do astrophysics, even made a schedule splitting up my work hours through the week.
When I grew up I stopped caring about the humanities and developed a passion for history only after I started studying Physics.
>>898260
Comp sci major here.
Well I was really interested in both philosophy and comp sci, so I choose comp sci for financial security, I still study philosophy on my own and don't regret my decision at all.
>he doesn't draw in his spare time
rofl
Have we solved the Problem of Universals?
>>898174
Are there universals at all?
When someone says "horse", like all words it's subjective to context. A certain society might decide zebra are included in the category, but ours doesn't. So there is no universal of horse, there are only linguistic/cultural norms.
I still don't get the problem of universals.
>>898196
The universal word is "huh."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/everybody-almost-every-language-says-huh-huh-180949822/?no-ist
What are some historical subcultures and/or counter-cultures?
Things like the Incroyables and Merveilleuses in 1795-1799 France, who dressed and behaved in exaggerated, decadent ways as a reaction to the events and end of the Revolution.
Swings Kids
>>898248
>Swing Heil! Swing Heil!
god I love early 90s teen historical dramas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwU4AGGZi9E
>>898248
>saint
>...<
>...<
>...<
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
What can you tell me about historical traps
All I know is that there was a roman emperor named Elagabalus who offered gold to anyone who could make him a woman, and that the prophet Muhammad traveled with MtFs
>>897813
>the prophet Muhammad traveled with MtFs
Source for this? I've never heard that
>tfw not a Roman Emperor with easy access to qt femboys
>>898303
>Source for this? I've never heard that
Sounds hypocritical enough tho.
Also, seeing as Islam considers homosexual relations a big no no, what's the reason for Afghan pederast practicises? Lingering Hellenic culture from the times of Alexander the Great?