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I vote for the battle of Texel, fought between The Dutch navy and French cavalry. Pic related. They snuck across the ice by covering their horses hooves in cloth to avoid waking the sailors and captured 14 icebound ships. No casualties. The only known time in history that cavalry captured a fleet.
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>France always solves everything with cavalry charges but sucks at naval warfare
>"fuck it, we'll cavalry charge a fleet"
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>>426464

Age of Empires tier logic but it panned out lol
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it's probably a meme, but hilarous anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes

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Was Berlin 1936 the best Olympic games ever?
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>>426269
according to what kind of standards?
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No. Seoul was. The birds they released that were immediately fried in the Olympic torch cemented its greatness.
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Without a doubt
Rome and Barcelona Olympics were pretty cool though

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Why do so many people blame him for the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States?
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>>426248
He knew about it but pretended that he didn't. He intentionally made it difficult to test and study the virus because at the time the vast majority of victims were gays, and he was a raging homophobe.
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>>426255
prove it, pinko.
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>>426248

Because everyone needs to have someone to blame. There must be someone behind all the injustices of the world. Accountability doesn't exist anymore.

What do you make of the fact that not a single pharaoh tomb has ever been found in the pyramids?
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>>425792
Bigger targets, easier to loot, they have found tombs in Pyramids.
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>>425834
Pretty sure it's spelled "tumps" you dumb cunt.
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Not much, phaorohs have been found in other tombs.

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Why were Semitic and Indo-European polytheism so similar to each other?
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>>425718
because polytheism is highly syncretic
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Because it was based on the same everyday reality.
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>>425739
/thread

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Are mathematics vital (or at least Important) to understanding philosophy and knowing the truth?Discuss

P.S By truth is meant knowledge that could be characterised at fact
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A strong knowledge of math and statistic are imperative to an objective perspective on philosophy

It shouldn't all be objective but you need to have a strong consideration for objectivity or else you will be producing sheer opinions
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>>425702
>>425719
I finally understand why 4chan doesn't have a /phil/osophy board.
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>>425728
Thank you for your contribution to tbe discussion but could you enlighten us with regard to your opinion?

You're made commander of the French Army in 1914.

What would you change? What would you do differently when the July Crisis arises and the Great War subsequently breaks out?
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>>425374
>What would you change?
I'd not have gotten involved in the war.

Of course that is an ez pz answer. I'd invest much more heavily in howitzers. Not just Mademoiselle Soixante-Quinze.

I'd also make this book mandatory reading.

http://www.amazon.com/Steel-Wind-Colonel-Bruchmuller-Artillery/dp/0275947505

(Or at least attempt to teach the lessons from it)

>What would you do differently when the July Crisis arises and the Great War subsequently breaks out?
I would revise plan 17. We need more defensive fires. Mo trenches, mo machine guns, mo artillery. By not losing the main coal and iron producing regions of France early in the war, I'd make France's war effort go much smoother.

This will be an industrial war, not a quick war. Coming to the battle with that attitude will do more to help than anything.

Use our elan for spirited counter-offensives to retake critical terrain if captured by the enemy.

Appoint Marshal Fayolle as my chief of staff.

Pic related will be our savior
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>>425374
>What would you change?

Absolutely nothing, because every general would have a crying fit the moment I tried to do anything. Assuming they don't have their head stuck up their ass, I would start designing tanks, gas masks, and giving proper fucking uniforms to the troops instead of bright blue shit.
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>>425734
>i'd create new technologies faster than they appeared in reality !!!11

Video games: the post

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What are souls?
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babby don't hurt me
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>>424711
Certainly not what that picture seems to suggest, I'll tell you that.

Not all parts of a man can be seen and touched by other human beings. For instance, your mind cannot be seen or touched. The thoughts you think, that float around inside your head, cannot be touched by another human being in the same form they are to you. You can communicate those thoughts, but the thoughts they get from hearing this communication are their thoughts, and are not the same as the thought you attempted to communicate.

In the same way, a man's spirit is another part of himself that cannot be seen or touched. It is a part that stretches out from the part of space and time that we can perceive. It is the part that reaches up into the Divine, the Eternal. It is the part of you through which the Creator communicates. It also can touch the spirits of others. Like a muscle, it can be strengthened with use, although in most people today it is atrophied. To learn how to use it, you must quiet all other areas of your body and try. Just pray and pray and pray, and you will eventually learn how to use this part of you.
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>>424767

I just crank my spirit up to maximum power while I'm sitting on the toilet. I'm not sure what you are making so much fuss about, it isn't that hard.

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>muh globalism
>muh trade
>muh spread of islam
>muh pony express

>people think that the mongols were a net positive to humanity
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>muh no real point just a collection of words with muh and condescension chevrons in front
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>>424006
The mongols just went around playing a game of conquer shit land and get the biggest empire by ruling over a desert.
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b-but muh religious tolerance!

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Why was Agincourt such a shitshow?
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>>423068
France cant, and never could into war
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>>423068
Go to /tg/ and the the Osprey pdf hookup.
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>>423068

Because the French all wanted a piece of the action and be the first to fight in what would be a great victory, the completely left behind the thousands of crossbowmen and common soldiers and went charging off.
Because the soil around Azincourt is sticky, even on a mild day. The field had been deeply ploughed and churned up even more by the cavalry components horses warming up, so they were marching into a sticky quagmire.
The French chose the battlefield which could have been a massive advantage, but both sides just sort of stood around until the English took the initiative and moved closer, making the French now fight on their terms.
A classic case of terrain trumping numbers. There were more French than English, but they couldn't all fit on the quite narrow field, funnelling them into a small space where their numbers actually proved a disadvantage.

Also letting agents scout, with all the French battle plans, be captured and then not changing the plan. That was a crap idea too.

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>Columbus is evil because he killed and enslaved people and shouldn't be celebrated
>the natives that killed and enslaved people should be celebrated instead
can somebody explain to me the logic behind this?
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Haven't heard anyone say we should celebrate the natives
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>>422614
he didn't just enslave people.
He drew up the entire plans for the intercontinental slave trade while sailing in the Caribbean.
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>>422626
wheres this come from?

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Why Polygamy isn't accepted in majority of world?
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Insecurity
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>>>/int/
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>>422000

Because throughout the bulk of human history, you had more men than women in most societies, death in childbirth was ubiquitous and very, very frequent.

You did get some counterbalance in the form of things like war and working accidents, which tended to hit men more than women, but most societies don't have enough of that to compensate for the fact that almost every woman would get pregnant several times during her life.

So if you already have more men than women, concentrating mating rights towards a sub-set of men just isn't that reproductively efficient and it's going to generate a shit ton of social unrest as more and more men can't get laid.

Hence, uncommon.

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Does /his/ agree that communism is the worst thing that can possibly happen to a nation?

pic unrelated
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Worst economic system. Capitalism mixed with socialism would have to be the best.
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>>420666
>>420670
You should both just kill yourselves for the betterment of humanity
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>>420666
A theocracy would be worse imho, but yeah, gommunism is shit tier. Try Anarchism, it doesn't work either, but it is way more fun.

Tell me about the history of lesbians, /his/

Who were some famous historical lesbians? Pre-modern history, that is
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>>420357
The people of lesbos weren't particularly historically important. Modern lesbianism developed in the 1970s in the United States and United Kingdom.

Stop anachronistically backprojecting.
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>>420357
We don't know much since the large majority of history was centered on men
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>>420366
>Modern lesbianism developed in the 1970s in the United States and United Kingdom.
hahaha what the fuck

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How many historical figures were paedophiles?

Muhammed is the only one I can think of.
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>>418901
Mao Tse-Tung and Kim Il-Sung.
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>>418901
I would have to search for it, but i'm sure there were a few among the Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, and Chinese.
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Lewis Carrol and John Ruskin.

>>418909
sauce?

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