Saturday Night Historian Thread

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The history of tavern brawls and fun times people had going out drinking on Saturday night in the past.

>>2493342
>The history of tavern brawls

Whats the most violent tavern brawl in history?

Alternate question: Whats the most violent a group of people got due to overindulgence in drinking and partying? 25 year rule, so don't list any of the recent chimp outs.

I learn Sanskrit. Like every day for the past five years.

Interesting things about Sanskrit:
> still has native speakers, only a few thousand though
> *not* the closest to the 'original' Indo-European language (if there ever was one); that would be Avestani
> gave birth to Pali, Hindi, and many other languages
> The over-god in early IE spiritualism was 'sky father', or 'dyuh piter' in Sanskrit, which gave rise Jupiter in Latin
> It's hard as fuck

>>2493378
have you managed to read any holy buddhist or hindu texts in sanskrit?

>>2493388
I've read some of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, but the sacred stuff is mostly in Classical Sanskrit, which is even more difficult than an already ass-rapingly difficult language.

So, no, not yet.