Egyptians were black people who made white slaves (yeah, including jews) build stuff for them.It's called karma, bro.
>>24708All Africans are black now? Damn, I should let my South African buddy know that he's a black fella.
>>24741This South African thinks he is black.
>>24745that is like the worst song i have ever heard, and it has the worst music video too
>>24745That nose makes Charles de Gaulle's look petite.
>>247498/10 for an excellent historical reference.
>No The Pacific threadWell, here it is.The first episode was pretty sweet, and historically rather accurate with the weaponry etc.I'm not sure how interesting it can be though, the Japs were somewhat incompetent compared to the Germans, and completely wasted their superior equipment (carries, larger guns, zeros, etc.) with silly mistakes. All in all they offered less resistance, though they were even bigger assholes (think we might catch a glimpse of Unit 731?).
>No The Pacific thread
Well, here it is.
The first episode was pretty sweet, and historically rather accurate with the weaponry etc.
I'm not sure how interesting it can be though, the Japs were somewhat incompetent compared to the Germans, and completely wasted their superior equipment (carries, larger guns, zeros, etc.) with silly mistakes. All in all they offered less resistance, though they were even bigger assholes (think we might catch a glimpse of Unit 731?).
How were they incompetent? Perhaps in terms of diplomacy, but they definitely dealt a major blow to the British when they took Singapore, and had the Americans not had sheer dumb luck at the Battle of Midway Australia would have fallen too. If anybody was incompetent, it was the Germans. They're the ones who botched the Battle of Britain with every possible advantage going for them.
>>24754Truth spoken. Japan dealt Britain its biggest military defeat in history. Even in the first episode of the show you see the Japanese flawlessly isolate the American Marines onto the island, cutting their supplies, all the while sinking 3 cruisers. So their infantry tactics were a bit more... liberal with human life. They could've performed a lot worse, and in many respects, I think the early days of the East Asian/Pacific War gives the best glimpse of two relatively equal competitors duking it out in the modern era.
Hanks and Spielberg wanted to do The Pacific before Band of Brothers. HBO is full of faggotry and the Airborne lobbied for Band of Brothers to be the first approved project. Spielberg actually walked off but was forced back by threats of a lawsuit.If America lost at Midway they would've regrouped and relaunched from Hawaii or a recaptured Wake.Also the Japanese were far superior to the Germans in terms of tactics and morale. Even at the end of the War there were stalwart Japanese officers and soldiers who held their position decades after the surrender. German forces surrendered a great deal of the time. The Japanese continued to-death struggle. Germany really only held out like that on the Eastern front against the Russian zerglings. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Hanks and Spielberg wanted to do The Pacific before Band of Brothers. HBO is full of faggotry and the Airborne lobbied for Band of Brothers to be the first approved project. Spielberg actually walked off but was forced back by threats of a lawsuit.
If America lost at Midway they would've regrouped and relaunched from Hawaii or a recaptured Wake.
Also the Japanese were far superior to the Germans in terms of tactics and morale. Even at the end of the War there were stalwart Japanese officers and soldiers who held their position decades after the surrender. German forces surrendered a great deal of the time. The Japanese continued to-death struggle. Germany really only held out like that on the Eastern front against the Russian zerglings.
>>24761>Japanese officers and soldiers who held their position decadesAnd if anyone is interested in this specifically. Because I'm sure some idiot is going to try to dispute this like the idiot in /nra/ disputing proven physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout
>>24761
>Japanese officers and soldiers who held their position decades
And if anyone is interested in this specifically. Because I'm sure some idiot is going to try to dispute this like the idiot in /nra/ disputing proven physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout
>>24762Forgot about those guys.Anyone know of any books in english covering their story and their attempt to get back into society?
>>24762Forgot about those guys.
Anyone know of any books in english covering their story and their attempt to get back into society?
If you could have fought in any war, besides WW2, which war would you pick?
The first gulf war, as an American, because I probably would not have been killed.
>>24490So you did go to school in Britain. Good to know.
American Revolutionary War: Guerrilla Militia force or a civilian intelligence agent
The First War. Literally, the first one, ever. I imagine there would be very little resistance to our invasion, considering we just invented the idea of invasion.
>>24535I lol'd hard.
Opinion: Woodrow Wilson was the greatest president of the 20th century, and the most effective progressive president in our history.Anti-trust legislation, reforming the banking, reforming the imperialist foreign policies of mckinley, roosevelt, and taft, pursuing peace but not being afraid of war, reforming the economy with the intention of making a fair playing field for small enterprises, a public education system with standardized levels of learning, etc.
Opinion: Woodrow Wilson was the greatest president of the 20th century, and the most effective progressive president in our history.
Anti-trust legislation, reforming the banking, reforming the imperialist foreign policies of mckinley, roosevelt, and taft, pursuing peace but not being afraid of war, reforming the economy with the intention of making a fair playing field for small enterprises, a public education system with standardized levels of learning, etc.
Just some quick comments while this thread becomes the full-fledged WWI discussion I figured it'd eventually turn into.>>24551Haha okay Glen Beck take a seat before you hurt yourself.>>24674 Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Just some quick comments while this thread becomes the full-fledged WWI discussion I figured it'd eventually turn into.
>>24551
Haha okay Glen Beck take a seat before you hurt yourself.
>>24674
>>24698Warren G. Harding was the greatest American president of the 20th Century because he did make the job as dull as dishwater. The President of the United States is not an elected king who should pantomime his best version of a 18th century monarch. In this federal nation state, his powers must be even more limited, because the presidency derives its legitimacy from the sovereign states that make up the federation, not the people of the nation.
>>24698
Warren G. Harding was the greatest American president of the 20th Century because he did make the job as dull as dishwater. The President of the United States is not an elected king who should pantomime his best version of a 18th century monarch. In this federal nation state, his powers must be even more limited, because the presidency derives its legitimacy from the sovereign states that make up the federation, not the people of the nation.
>>24703Where did I say that somebody had to be a tyrant to be interesting? Thanks for strawmanning me, bro.And Harding sucks because of his inefficiency, below-average intellect, disregard for long-term financial stability, inability to judge moral character, incapability of running a decent regime, as demonstrated by all the scandals and crooks that more or less ran Washington in Harding's day, and a general lack of any semblance of decent leadership. But odds are you knew all that and even recognize Harding as one of America's worst presidents, you just wanted to make a snide comment about the fact that I called him boring that you thought would invalidate my entire opinion. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24703
Where did I say that somebody had to be a tyrant to be interesting? Thanks for strawmanning me, bro.
And Harding sucks because of his inefficiency, below-average intellect, disregard for long-term financial stability, inability to judge moral character, incapability of running a decent regime, as demonstrated by all the scandals and crooks that more or less ran Washington in Harding's day, and a general lack of any semblance of decent leadership. But odds are you knew all that and even recognize Harding as one of America's worst presidents, you just wanted to make a snide comment about the fact that I called him boring that you thought would invalidate my entire opinion.
Me and my four consecutive terms disagree.
>>24756Ha, ok, I see where you're going with this one. You look familiar to me. Were you in "STOMP"?
“Caesar killed the Republic."y/n
“Caesar killed the Republic."
y/n
Augustus technically ended the republic.... even tough he claimed to be protecting it. Caesar would've done it if they had given him the time, it was clear in his will that he wanted octavian to succeed him (wich he eventually did). In my view the republic ended when leadership over it became inheritable. But there are other ways to look at it.
>>24205This. Marius laid out the ground for Caesar - shit he was even more of a dictator.Sulla only made things worse by instituting his own proscriptions though,
>>24205
This. Marius laid out the ground for Caesar - shit he was even more of a dictator.
Sulla only made things worse by instituting his own proscriptions though,
It was part Caesar, part the majority of Romans who paraded for Caesar to become almighty leader of Rome.
Sulla up in this motherfucker
>>24151You seem to forget the part when he refused to disband his army and marched on Rome. That's called a coup d'etat, since you clearly don't know anything about history.As for whether or not he killed the republic, what exactly was the Roman definition of republic? Was it representative democracy, or just having someone in power that did what the people wanted? Don't apply modern ideas of republic to Roman ideas of republic, they're very different.
>>24151You seem to forget the part when he refused to disband his army and marched on Rome. That's called a coup d'etat, since you clearly don't know anything about history.
As for whether or not he killed the republic, what exactly was the Roman definition of republic? Was it representative democracy, or just having someone in power that did what the people wanted? Don't apply modern ideas of republic to Roman ideas of republic, they're very different.
alright, so this is my first time /his/ you crazy motherfuckers and im in need of some help. i have this thesis statement from my history professor and i need help on what my thesis statement should be about.....what the hell should it be?must be between the year 1900-1970
alright, so this is my first time /his/ you crazy motherfuckers and im in need of some help.
i have this thesis statement from my history professor and i need help on what my thesis statement should be about.....what the hell should it be?
must be between the year 1900-1970
Why was hitler so loving of history?The french surrendured to germany in WWII in the same railway car the Germans surrendered too the French at the end of WWI.
yalll are really into war arent you...I'd do it on the rise of the USSR.
yalll are really into war arent you...
I'd do it on the rise of the USSR.
>>24623The best documentary was the one on the Treaty of Versailles. It gave me a whole new view on the "Stab in the Back" conspiracy.
>>24623
The best documentary was the one on the Treaty of Versailles. It gave me a whole new view on the "Stab in the Back" conspiracy.
>>24597this
You should write something about Vichy France. That's not really talked about much in history, everyone just assumes all of France was conquered. And not part of the Axis.
What are some inventions/ideas in american history that were criticized and doubted at first, but then became huge and blew past the negativity? ex. The race too the moon.
>>24663what are you on man? your post fells like trolling on acid
>>24662You can point out the corruption, absurdity, and downfalls of it, but you cannot deny that Athens practised the purest form of democracy in history.The only people who could vote were adult males who had obtained citizen ship and had served in the military. Also, for most of their history, there were no property requirements. They were not elected, as in a republic, rather just showed up to the Acropolis when they felt like it. Just because suffrage was restricted to a small percentage of the population doesn't mean it's not a pure democracy. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24662You can point out the corruption, absurdity, and downfalls of it, but you cannot deny that Athens practised the purest form of democracy in history.
The only people who could vote were adult males who had obtained citizen ship and had served in the military. Also, for most of their history, there were no property requirements. They were not elected, as in a republic, rather just showed up to the Acropolis when they felt like it. Just because suffrage was restricted to a small percentage of the population doesn't mean it's not a pure democracy.
>>24665I just want demarchy implemented in the new world order.
Nikolai Tesla and Thomas Edison are disappointed in this thread.
>>24742BITCHES DON'T KNOW BOUT MY AWESOME.
Ok, you now have a time machine. The problem is it can only be used once, and it can only go back in time. What time period would you go to? Would you change anything, or would you be a fly on the wall?
>>24727I lol'd, but chill.this is a place of ideas.
>>24727
I lol'd, but chill.this is a place of ideas.
>>24729am i not being chill?
>>24734murder isn't very chill, I'd say
>>24734
murder isn't very chill, I'd say
>>24744oh yeah
>>24729"YOUR IDEAS ARE WRONG AND MINE ARE RIGHT BECAUSE I AM SUPERIOR TO YOU!" - Human Nature
So I've always wondered why the U.S. Navy and air force didn't just bomb the fuck out of Normandy beach on June 6,1944. Why did the U.S. waste all those lives to German mgs?
why didn't germen riflemans not shoot holes in battleships and sink invasion fleet??
>>24512Filthy troll, you.
Why didn't germans aimed their Arties where Churchill lived!?@?!ZEIG HEIL!#!!fef!!@
>>24519Actually, that did happen, sort of.The V-3 explosion powered hyper-long distance artillery. It could chunk 150mm shells across the channel from France. It was supposedly permanently aimed at London, so accuracy wasn't an issue once they got it calibrated.Too fuckin bad the idea is bollocks.
>>24519Actually, that did happen, sort of.
The V-3 explosion powered hyper-long distance artillery. It could chunk 150mm shells across the channel from France. It was supposedly permanently aimed at London, so accuracy wasn't an issue once they got it calibrated.
Too fuckin bad the idea is bollocks.
>>24476>air force>1944
>>24476
>air force>1944
Does anybody have an useful picture of a timeline of human history?
>>24232I wouldn't say so, at least in an image form that would be uploaded here, because the world's history is all-encompassing, and it's sunjective to determine what was important (apart from the world wars and certain revolutions like the insustrial revolution)
>>24243I think its pretty universally agreed things like the bronze age and tahe advancement of agriculture were pretty damn crucial to human history.
>>24243
I think its pretty universally agreed things like the bronze age and tahe advancement of agriculture were pretty damn crucial to human history.
Yes, but a timeline that only had things as important as that would be pretty general and useless, and as the previous poster said, you can't really get more specific without being quite biased. And arguably it's better to be entirely ignorant than to have a narrow world-view.
I don't care if it's biased towards what somebody else feels is important. That's sort of the point, innit?
>>24240Most men would rail the shit out of her.As for the guy, if he can reproduce, he is good to go for evolution. Society/social services have eliminated stupidity as a negative for survival. Ironically, smart basement dwelling neckbeards won't pass their genes on...
Alright /his/ I haz question.i'm really interested in the transition of Western and Eastern Late-Classical culture into Medieval culture - I'm reading Boethius right now etc. etc. you know the drill.I have found random references in my readings over the years to the "Roman Senate", as late as the Avignon Papacy. Now, naturally, this would have been purely a city council/ceremonial but it seems to have held a certain amoutn of power at various times (i.e. Avignon, they offered the Pope a place in the senate as a way of enticing him back to Rome). It also seems to have evolved continuously from the original Republican Senate since there are continuous references from before the fall of the Western Empire (duh) through to the writings of Pope Gregory and Boethius etc and, afaik, no Roman speaks of any "dissolution of the Senate" - which, one would think, they would have mentioned as an important historical event, even if it only had symbolic importance. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Alright /his/ I haz question.
i'm really interested in the transition of Western and Eastern Late-Classical culture into Medieval culture - I'm reading Boethius right now etc. etc. you know the drill.
I have found random references in my readings over the years to the "Roman Senate", as late as the Avignon Papacy. Now, naturally, this would have been purely a city council/ceremonial but it seems to have held a certain amoutn of power at various times (i.e. Avignon, they offered the Pope a place in the senate as a way of enticing him back to Rome). It also seems to have evolved continuously from the original Republican Senate since there are continuous references from before the fall of the Western Empire (duh) through to the writings of Pope Gregory and Boethius etc and, afaik, no Roman speaks of any "dissolution of the Senate" - which, one would think, they would have mentioned as an important historical event, even if it only had symbolic importance.
Good question.I know that the papacy basically tried to set itself up as the successor to the Empire. There may be some info if you follow that thread.
Good question.
I know that the papacy basically tried to set itself up as the successor to the Empire. There may be some info if you follow that thread.
Lets discuss genocides in history that aren't given the attention they deserve.I'll start with Holodomor. 7 million Ukrainians were forcible starved to death by Joseph Stalin in the winters of 1933 and 1934.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSc8ZKvDKw
Lets discuss genocides in history that aren't given the attention they deserve.
I'll start with Holodomor. 7 million Ukrainians were forcible starved to death by Joseph Stalin in the winters of 1933 and 1934.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSc8ZKvDKw
The Genocide committed by the British on the Irish people. They were constantly pumping food OUT of Ireland during a FUCKING FAMINE.That's attempted genocide.
The Genocide committed by the British on the Irish people. They were constantly pumping food OUT of Ireland during a FUCKING FAMINE.
That's attempted genocide.
>>23793the irish could not afford the food. that's capitalism.
I think too much is made about death counts. Human life isn't that precious. I could talk about 42 million American abortions, or something like that. But when I try to argue about history I always mention the ideological beliefs, and not the death count.
White terrorism.
What I find hilarious about this thread is that everything here is a failed genocide. You'll never know about the ones that succeeded.
