My mothers side of the family claimed to descend from the Romanov family. it has been passed down, i do not know for how long. I have no idea if this is true or not. My mother barely knows anything in regard to this due to not being interested and the rest of the family doesn't know i exist. what do you suggest i should do about this? i barely know anything about russian history.
any help would be appreciated
Research your family history, perhaps pay one of those places that goes through archives.
Basically with no way to really help beyond that with literally no evidence or ideas.
Just a moment. So she was attempting to explain to you, that you were formerly monarchs et cetera?
Where does the idea that a strong, powerful, and wealthy nation has a "moral obligation" to help those less fortunate than itself come from? Is it an idea only present in the West?
Is it the idea of a "moral obligation" the biggest spook around?
Christianity.
>>534025
This. Absolutely no question.
>>534025
/thread
I'm a Christian myself, and even I say this. The problem with this theory is not that they should be working to help or improve these other countries. The problem comes when there are those who will put on a false sense of piety to champion this idea and loot and exploit those other nations. However, one must take into account the reality that imperialists must have known; that if they had not exploited the other countries for their untapped wealth, another power was going to do so and victimize their country when the next war came.
I really think Peter Hitchens had it right when he said, "You either have your own empire, or you're a part of somebody else's." The exploitation of these nations is one of the great tragedies of history, but if imperialists did not do it then the tragedy would have been in their own country when the power that did comes for them.
hey /his/
what kind of swords would the apostles have carried?
Roman gladius?
Which Game of Thrones character are you?
>>534022
wat
Can we have a topic dedicated to the dissolution of this nation?
BUMP!!!
What happened in the immediate time after the dissolutions. I know there was some kind of armed coup crisis but know nothing else.
What about it?
I'm tired of being merely above average when it comes to the subjects I'm interested in such as philosophy, history, and economics (mainly theory).
Can anyone recommend some good, basic books for laymen that covers everything needed to advance to more advanced books?
>be interested in a historical subject
>read primary sources
>I'm tired of being merely above average
I got bad news for you, bud...
>>533837
>subjects I'm interested in such as philosophy, history, and economics (mainly theory)
Could you be a little bit more specific? If you're giving that vague directions you might as well stay average in all these fields.
Analytical Philosophy Megathread
>>533753
http://www.philpapers.org/archive/sinPG
Scientism and I Fucking Love Science types are incredibly annoying, but the fact that all philosophers can offer in response is myticism and solipsism is pretty damning.
>>534622
Because most philosophers seem to try to apply their extremely deeply thought ideas to argue against scientism when all it takes is to point out that simple everyday life is enough to do it.
Would a german soldier under the wehrmacht be considered a nazi? thank you in advance.
Although he would have felt sympathy for the party lines of the NSDAP, members of the German armed forces before and during the Second World War were not permitted any political suffrage and were forbidden from joining a political party, and therefore technically could not be considered a Nazi.
>>533694
They were fighting for the Nazi state and their policies.
>>533694
Depends on what part of the Wehrmacht.
Heer?
No.
Luftwaffe?
No.
Kriegsmarine?
No.
Waffen-SS?
Yes.
Could Nazism have been a cohesive ideology without racialism? Would it have been more like pre racialist fascism? Or is non-racialist Nazism an oxymoron?
>>533624
How could you have a unified national identity without race?
>>533648
Fascism managed to do it. They had a Jewess as their propaganda minister.
>>533624
Did you even read anything about Nazism? Its based on the superiority of a race of people over others.
What were weapon laws like in ancient times? I know there were restrictions on blade size etc but say I am a British commoner in the 15th century, could I go out and just buy a halberd or arqebus if I had the means?
>>533550
Well I know blacks weren't able to have guns except the Creole community of Alabama thanks to the Adams Onis treaty that the government actually accepted to respect. Allowed them to have their own schools too.
>>533550
Yes, although there were laws about strangers possessing them in towns and going out at night. Men were required by law to possess certain weapons and armour for military service.
Check out the Coventry Leet Book online for some interesting bit's and pieces about the practicalities of daily 15th century life.
oi! hope yev got a shovel license!
Celts had the biggest empire in Europe. Better than Roma.
Why does it never get talked about? Matter of fact why are celts so lost in history and never talked about when they are the true Europeans and the ones who civilised Europe before Roma? They invented Art.
>>533531
> celts
>empire
They were a culture... not a united empire
There was no empire, just a bunch of people conquering shit and establishing small local dominions.
>>533531
>They invented Art
>As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Khan. To me, being a Khan was better than being Emperor of China. Even before I first wandered into Samarkand with a Mongol army, I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being Persian in an empire that was full of Arabs. They weren't like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They invaded and looted entire villages and no one ever raised a sword. In the summer when they raped the female populaces all night, nobody ever called the Mamluks.
>>533410
>To me, it meant being Persian in an empire that was full of Arabs.
Failed meme friendo... most of Timur's empire would have been Turko-Persian
>>533410
>called himself the sword of Islam
>almost all campaigns aginst fellow Muslims
>>533468
The Abbasid Caliphate's most prestigious people were Persians.
They filled the sciences, government, philosophy, economy, etc.
Daily reminder that celts were washing with soap (which they invented) in lakes once a day while anglo-saxons were filthy mutts.
Anglo saxon hygiene:
>As with the Elizabethans, the anglo-Saxons didn't really believe in washing their bodies much. In fact, monks were said to have a maximum of five baths a year, and that was considered to be overdoing it. It appears that at least one commentator of the time may have cottoned on to something when he observed that the Danish habit of bathing and combing the hair every Saturday seemed to score the Danish men points with the women.
Celt hygiene:
>Celts probably even washed their hands in the mornings with their tallow soaps and as they bathed. Given how embedded their cultural hygiene practices were, their hand-washing rates may have far exceeded today’s rates in the United States, which fall below 50% for many groups. Ahem, citizens of the United States. Are you going to let the ancient Celts out-do you in hygiene?
>In spite of the soup-straining facial hair, however, the Celts were very much into shaving, which kept away pestilent vermin, and even had nail clippers to keep their fingernail growth in check.
>a Celtic warrior had to bathe before a meal or before battle.
>But for many ancient Celts, hygiene was an important part of their culture. Did you know that they often get credit for having invented soap, or at least for passing it off to the Romans?
The word 'hygiene' in the first millennium, certainly among the Anglo-Saxons, was an oxymoron.
For instance, people would dig their latrine pits outside the backs of their houses, apparently untroubled by the odour, which would have mingled deliciously with the droppings from their animals and perfumes of similar pungency.
The flies, of course, must have had a field day. A good tramp in the latrines, followed by a stroll across any food they might find lying about in the house, no doubt made their day.
For some reason, the Anglo-Saxon thought it only fair and reasonable that his or her body should play host to any parasite that was anxious for shelter. The whip-worm, despite its name, was relatively inoffensive. The maw-worm, however, was not. It favoured people's liver and lungs, and had the most startling habit of suddenly appearing from the corner of someone's eye.
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>smelly saxon savages
>It almost goes without saying that bathing wasn't the most popular pastime around, either. The monks of one 10th. century European monastery were ordered to bathe 5 times per year. Now to your average Anglo-Saxon, this was fanaticism. Once a year, fine. Twice, if you were one of those fastidious types, but five times? Come on!
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Tell me about the Proto-Indo-Europeans
>>533254
Daily reminder that the British R1B L21 lineage was in Ireland from at "least" 2000BC. They may have been there from up to 3000BC.
>>533254
This graphic is very bad, anon.
>>533254
Well for starters your map doesn't show the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Is this the only Nietzschean superman in history?
No, he was the only true Nietzschean superman.
That would be Rasputin.
>>533038
Not at all. When Nietzsche spoke of the Übermensch he though of Alcibiades, Caesar, Cesare Borgia and Napoléon.
What do you know of Dionysus?
Everything. Why?
originally a thracian deity
>>533006
Did he really exist?