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NSFW (Some Nudity and Violence)
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Indeed it is.
The Great Bummer of Russia and the Reign of False Dmitry the First.
I recommend reading every article by Wojtek Góralczyk in the storyteller archive on the site. The man is an incredibly good and hilarious writer. The other authors aren't bad, either. The language used is often NSFW, though.
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I kind of like protoindoeuropean's development into languages of the world - its so revealing as to what happened in history. The Words for Two Husbands (describing the wife with two husbands) - a relationship that (for the Indonesians) evolved over time into something Taboo and on into the Word For Anus. Of course the word for second husband (or brother in law) is now just 'second'.
Tragic really - Nungi comes home after a hard day of killing giant Indonesian drop bears and finds her two husbands involved in some sexual exploration without her. And so ended her dream of two men to pleasure her.
Indeed it is.
The Great Bummer of Russia and the Reign of False Dmitry the First.
I recommend reading every article by Wojtek Góralczyk in the storyteller archive on the site. The man is an incredibly good and hilarious writer. The other authors aren't bad, either. The language used is often NSFW, though.
That's some good shiznit there. I've got a book, Russian Rebels, 1600-1800 by Paul Avrich that's just full of Pretenders, false tsars, peasant jacqueries and Cossack revolts.
Depressing, but fascinating.
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So, usually, I am against the death penalty.
And, similarly, usually I giggle over news stories about people defacing artwork.
But this shiznit will not stand!
Send this truther to Razor Jenny say I!
Kill! Kill! Kill!
And if that isn't sufficiently historical for you, I read somewhere, but have never verified, that Eugene Delacroix was the bastard son of this fascinating plutocrat.
Cool.
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Richard the Third of England's body has been found in a carpark.
That reminds me of a St. Valentine's Day FB post from my younger brother.
Wars of Roses are Red.
Smothered newphews are blue.
I'd wait 500 years under a carpark for you.
500-year-old arrest warrant for Machiavelli.
Poor ol' Nick.
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What a sequel to Argo might look like - Part III
A "short" documentation of the history of Iran's nuclear program. Be sure to read the other two parts first. They are linked at the head of part III and II, respectivly.
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Wow, that sure was an interesting article, Comrade Dwarf. I think it deserves a larger audience.
Today 25th of Feb is the anniversary of the Februrary Strike in the Netherlands. During WWII when the occupied Netherlanders (Dutch for the uneducated) organised a general strike in protest against the Nazi treatment of its Jewish citizens.
It was harshly put down and many of the ringleaders were shot.
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Norwegian guerrilla warfare in the Iron Age.
I admit, I never knew that Roman military influence extended so far north. Neat.
Also horrible stuff, but neat.
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Pope Formosus was put to trial after dead in 897 AD. His corpse had to attend the ceremony.
When Charles II came back to be king of England, Scotland, and Ireland he had a bit of a grudge against the men who deposed, tried, and then beheaded his father. So he insisted that the ringleaders, some of whom had died in the interim, face punishment. Three were dug up, hung for a day, and then beheaded. The heads went on spikes for public edification.
Cromwell's head was still up there fifteen years later, at which point a storm blew it down and it passed into private hands.
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Here's Pepys, giving a brief description of what happened to those unfortunate enough not to have already pegged it
Also, relating to an old entry in the Did You Know thread...
Couldn't find a Samnell coat of arms - this is as close as I could get :) [/url]
Wow, that sure was an interesting article, Comrade Dwarf. I think it deserves a larger audience.I've been following, as have others I'm sure, but I don't thin we need to post to clutter up the thread with non-history posts is all.
Are you telling me what to do?
Because that doesn't usually end well.
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Upon second reading, I think I misread your post, Citizen Humual. My apologies.
Anyway...The Freedman's Patrol by our very own sexy Comrade Samnell!!!
[Starts dry-humping his leg, far from the prying eyes of Ms. XXXXX]
Here's Pepys, giving a brief description of what happened to those unfortunate enough not to have already pegged it
Also, relating to an old entry in the Did You Know thread...
** spoiler omitted **
Only know what I am picking up from the Wikipedia page, but so far, [hats off] hip-hip hooray! hip-hip hooray! hip-hip hooray!
Pope Formosus was put to trial after dead in 897 AD. His corpse had to attend the ceremony.
But, it appears, he was vindicated in the end when they killed the pope who put him on trial.
Bizarro!
Treasure-Filled Warrior's Grave Found in Russia .
Complete with Pathfinder compatible maps!
Here's Pepys, giving a brief description of what happened to those unfortunate enough not to have already pegged it
Also, relating to an old entry in the Did You Know thread...
** spoiler omitted **
At any rate, Samnell doesn't even resemble the name on my driver's license. The only consonant the two have in common is the first letter of a middle name I never use. Which is a bit of a shame since I interpret those squirrels as answering nature's call back to back and that just gives me the giggles. :)
Upon second reading, I think I misread your post, Citizen Humual. My apologies.
Anyway...The Freedman's Patrol by our very own sexy Comrade Samnell!!!
Currently blogging about a slave narrative. Husband and wife escaped from Georgia to Massachusetts. She was light enough to pass as white so they dressed her as a man and she took him north as her slave valet.
Neat story that I'm using as a kind of microcosm of slavery at large.
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She was light enough to pass as white so they dressed her as a man and she took him north as her slave valet.
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Currently blogging about a slave narrative. Husband and wife escaped from Georgia to Massachusetts. She was light enough to pass as white so they dressed her as a man and she took him north as her slave valet.
Neat story that I'm using as a kind of microcosm of slavery at large.
Ooh, I remember that one.
Restarting a series from an old thread of mine:
Heroes of Revolutionary Socialism
Can't find the source right now but...
A Gaul Chief was once quoted as calling the Romans "Barbarians" do to them "Mating" in the Open like Animals and called Caesar what effectively amounts to a hypocrite for calling his people "Barbarians".
Anyways here's something to contribute to the thread: They say real life is stranger then fiction, in this case it is.
I don't know if it's stranger than fiction, but it sure is hawt!!
Also note that she did lots of that before turning 20...
Audie L. Murphy. They had to cut things out of his movie because they were too unbelievable to put into a Movie.
She wasn't just good, she once bested three men at once in a duel?
That's so f$!@in' hawt!!
George Orwell, Graham Greene and D*v*d C*m*r*n's ancestors all received handsome sums in compensation when slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833
Not at all hot, but there you go.
More on bad British people:
Well, I suppose today is a pretty historical day, at least for us Catholics, with the first Papal renuntiatio since 1415 taking place in about 5 hours.
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I only watched the first one, but it was pretty amusing.
I only watched the first one, but it was pretty amusing.
I watched all of them. He's just started in on US history too.
Production values are great and the content is generally good. The main thing that irritates me is the occasional habit he shares with plenty of actual historians of trying to stake out the most contrarian position relative to general popular folk history. There's almost always a perfectly good reason to do that, but it often does shade into arguing more with dead historians than it really has to do with whatever ideas the typical viewer has.
I did get a good laugh out of when he decided not to do nationalism via the stories of Germany or Italy because those are the stock European, and then picked the stock non-European example though. Ok, great, but I'd much rather have learned something about Chinese nationalism or another period nationalism that doesn't usually get much treatment. Maybe Greek, South Slav, or Korean nationalism. All have relevant periods near in time to where he was and all have similar intersections with imperialism.
But I'm not him; I just swiped an idea from him.