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This might be interesting to civil war folk, someone on imgur put up a sampling of stuff from his greatx4 grandfather's diary, from the Civil War. http://imgur.com/gallery/UdrFdquote:Robert Jackson was apparently captured in Gettysburg when his "ammo belt" (there's a name for it back then) was so heavy it pulled his pants down as he was sprinting causing him to trip and be captured
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HEY GAL posted:the Baroque is full of really weird art objects These are the sorts of things that make me, a proud English speaker, default to the French Objets d'art.
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FAUXTON posted:Goddamn, that is some poo poo you expect to get described in a William Gibson book, one is the residence machine of some special AI and the other transforms into a gun. yes you nailed it, in Neuromancer he describes this creepy computer terminal that is a reproduction of a human head and neck complete with functional windpipe, that would speak out interactions instead of using a synth voice. It was supposed to be a sorta baroque style work of art, adorned with lapis and whatnot. Hegel's guys would have totally loved it. I mean, poo poo: 
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nature, for The Baroque, is:
put all this stuff together and you get some deeply strange art products.  "Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II re-imagined as Vertumnus, the Roman god of metamorphoses in nature and life" and of course every vegetable in this thing has a symbolic meaning, these people love hidden puzzles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertumnus_(painting) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/design/24arcimboldo.html?_r=0 Rudolf II was the crazy one who locked himself in his palace, collected art, did magic, and had weird sex, instead of paying attention to the various stirrings that would eventually lead to the Thirty Years' War. like, look at the snakes in that painting loving fight each other while the monstrous head they depended on lies dying. hosed-up nature in its infinite variety HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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HEY GAL posted:nature, for The Baroque, is: Some of these things seem mutually exclusive. quote:Rudolf II was the crazy one who locked himself in his palace, collected art, did magic, and had weird sex Nice life if you can get it.
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Animal posted:yes you nailed it, in Neuromancer he describes this creepy computer terminal that is a reproduction of a human head and neck complete with functional windpipe, that would speak out interactions instead of using a synth voice. It was supposed to be a sorta baroque style work of art, adorned with lapis and whatnot. Hegel's guys would have totally loved it. ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Some of these things seem mutually exclusive. edit: on the other hand, there definitely is a thing where the louder these dudes scream about Order the more frightened of everything you can tell they are HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 05:41
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Nice life if you can get it. 
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Don't doxx vince
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Mar 12, 2016 06:56
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HEY GAL posted:you know the sex is the unwholesome kind though Wait, there's wholesome sex?
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Wait, there's wholesome sex?
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HEY GAL posted:not when a hapsburg is involved Be honest. How often is it just a Hapsburg?
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Mar 12, 2016 07:35
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dublish posted:Be honest. How often is it just a Hapsburg? can people bud, like yeast
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dublish posted:Be honest. How often is it just a Hapsburg?
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SeanBeansShako posted:Remember Ireland had a pretty nasty uprising recently too, and the British Army at the moment is still trying to rebuild after the disasters on the continent. It certainly is more a sane and realistic plan than loving Sealion. Two, technically, if you want to count Robert Emmet's shenanigans.
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HEY GAL posted:if my guys knew what a computer was, they would have figured out how to make it give you your horoscope first, and figured out all that darpanet stuff second What, dare I ask, is the darpanet stuff? Nebakenezzer posted:Should I know what a Bangalore torpedo is? Apparently also good for clearing mines in top-soil according to the manual, but I don't actually know if they worked in that role.
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HEY GAL posted:So, since a lot more people were literate during the 30yw than had been earlier (in Western Europe), a bunch of the big generals or political figures were media personalities, almost in the modern sense. (The most famous was Gustavus Adolphus, of course. For those of you who get JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24417366.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ) Deteriorata and I posted some propaganda, but there was also a trade in art objects related to various causes or various famous people. I've seen a little metal figurine of Gustavus Adolphus in his coffin, but I can't find a picture of it anywhere. I've never thought about how I want on my grave before, but this provided the question and the answer at the same time. Holy poo poo.
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Tias posted:What, dare I ask, is the darpanet stuff? She means 'inventing the internet' -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
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Buy the book! Including all-new never-before-seen trying not to laugh or cry at the run-up to the Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive! As part of a general drive to cover the Eastern Front properly this time!yours truly posted:So, over on the Russian side of the hill. There is good news; despite the best German efforts to launch diversionary attacks up on the Prussian border, their reconnaissance flights have detected a large number of German troops massing in southern Poland. There's clearly a major attack due here soon, and they've had a critical early warning of it. I wrote this a month and a half ago and I am *still* slack-jawed with shock over it. Anyway. Buy the book for a shitload more book-exclusive content. Now, can we please have something uplifting, Mister War? 100 Years Ago It doesn't look good. We've got to see what happened at Latema Nek. Turned out that tragedy turned into farce. How many times have we seen that happen to British Empire troops this war? But wait...there's something different this time... Elsewhere, everyone gets the benefit of General Joffre's opinions in person; General Haig moves house; the Russians are planning the Lake Naroch Offensive when they're not attending conferences; Grigoris Balakian says goodbye to Captain Shukri; Edward Mousley hears some sappers fishing Withnail & I style; Henri Desagneaux cracks down on drunks; and after over a year and a half of military service, ]Louis Barthas is finally on the war path about something.
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Suspect Bucket posted:This might be interesting to civil war folk, someone on imgur put up a sampling of stuff from his greatx4 grandfather's diary, from the Civil War. http://imgur.com/gallery/UdrFd You see, this is a rookie mistake. When routing and fleeing for your life your equipment only slows you down. Toss it, run for the hills and obscure your face if you can so the provincial militia or your own armies cavalry doesn't find you.
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Speaking of kit. a fun exercise in equipment management is that one Screaming Eagles game. You get your 20ish paras on the eve of D-Day, and you kit them out. Only that a goodish part of their carrying capacity will be taken up by socks, chocolates, etc. Why would you take that poo poo? Well, in game, it's tied to morale and stuff, and considering how your planned mission will immediately go haywire as you lose 50-80% of your dudes to drop shenanigans (dropped too far, chute didn't open, broke a leg, was in the plane when it got shot down, etc), you probably need all the morale you can muster. A fun example of popular misunderstanding of war is that they made a Great War mod for Napoleon: Total War. Oh the friendly fire that happens when one company fires through another (and they will do that).
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Trin Tragula posted:100 Years Ago Louis Barthas is a cool dude.
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HEY GAL posted:So, Animal and I were talking in PMs and he mentioned that I haven't done a lot of talking about the women of the 17th century. In part this is because the women of the Mansfeld Regiment left fewer records than the guys, which is the case for most women of the period. But there is no lack of female badasses in this period, like Julie d'Aubigny, who seems to have screwed/swordfought her way through most of France and the Netherlands. Ok so she is probably my new hero. This totally owns.
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Thanqol posted:I've never thought about how I want on my grave before, but this provided the question and the answer at the same time. Holy poo poo.
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Was flat ground really at a premium or was it manly just busy work?
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HEY GAL posted:the Baroque is full of really weird art objects These own, Vertumnus owns, head of Medusa owns, Baroque art owns
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100 Years Ago Logistics are delicious: a long look at the functioning of the Voie Sacree, the road that kept Verdun supplied. Admiral von Tirpitz resigns in complaint at the refusal to implement unrestricted submarine warfare (gee, isn't it a shame that someone didn't build more U-boats when he had the chance?), Grigoris Balakian is once again trying to get friendly with his Jandarma escort; E.S. Thompson complains about having to march; Edward Mousley goes to see the horses in Kut; Henri Desagneaux complains about the conditions of his rest billet; Private Louis Barthas is extremely satisfied with the conditions of his rest billet (he's about as far back as he can possibly be without falling into the Channel); and Robert Pelissier wonders if he will ever come down from the Hartmannswillerkopf after a month and a half up the line without relief.
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LingcodKilla posted:Was flat ground really at a premium or was it manly just busy work? All of Europe pretty much was rebuilding in the late 40s and early 50s (what with the continent having been bombed/shelled/fought over and all). They probably just didn't particularly care.
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There was also a lot of ideological rebuilding happening, too. Between countries trying to establish a post-war nationalist identity and regimes with very different ideological priorities that previous ones, you see a lot of monuments being built, destroyed, and replaced. I don't know if the communists were in charge of Czechoslovakia yet at that point, but that could easily be a component of it.
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HEY GAL posted:you know the sex is the unwholesome kind though Nice try dude, but you can't fool me with trying to hide the shape of your chin with a gossamer beard. Anyone is still going to be able to spot that Hapsburg jawline from a mile away.
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Trin Tragula posted:100 Years Ago I had no idea on the logistics of this thing, it seems incredible.
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The definitive image. Photographs can't quite match it.
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Trin Tragula posted:The definitive image. Photographs can't quite match it. Oh, wow. edit: love the use of light here, this is such a great drawing
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Cyrano4747 posted:There was also a lot of ideological rebuilding happening, too. Between countries trying to establish a post-war nationalist identity and regimes with very different ideological priorities that previous ones, you see a lot of monuments being built, destroyed, and replaced. I don't know if the communists were in charge of Czechoslovakia yet at that point, but that could easily be a component of it. Wallenstein himself was buried in a church on an estate that remained in the possession of his family until after the second world war.
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dublish posted:Be honest. How often is it just a Hapsburg?
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by the end of the spanish half of the lineage, when two hapsburgs love each other very, very much the resulting union is closer (genetically speaking) than if they had just been siblings to begin with so, you might be looking at the genetic equivalent of one and a half hapsburgs there HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Mar 14, 2016 |
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HEY GAL posted:by the end of the spanish half of the lineage, when two hapsburgs love each other very, very much the resulting union is closer (genetically speaking) than if they had just been siblings to begin with Is that why Charles II's crest looked like a bio hazard symbol?  
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 The resemblance is uncanny.
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 Okay, at this point I believe in a creating God, and his/her ill loving sense of humor.
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HEY GAL posted:by the end of the spanish half of the lineage, when two hapsburgs love each other very, very much the resulting union is closer (genetically speaking) than if they had just been siblings to begin with I studied genetics and I don't understand how the gently caress this even works Son of God or son of man, you can't gently caress your sister and expect much good to come of it.
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Without getting technical, it works like this - Genetically, Siblings share the same percentage of DNA with each other as they do their parents - about 50%, give or take a few mutations. Its not the same 50%, as you have 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs - one maternal, one paternal. normally, each choromosome is unique, having been passed down from either the maternal or paternal lines. When you get to the Hapsburgs, they interbreed these lines, which means people end up with two copies of the same chromosome, and therefore, the percentage that they are related to each other increases - I don't know what the Hapsburgs were exactly, but they had to be pushing towards 75% of the same genes in any given member. So its not outside the realm of possibility that any two Hapsburgs could be almost genetically identical, except one has a the Y (not a, the) Chromosome instead of two X's. I'm not even going to go into the recessive gene threat that is going on here. Just look at Charles II for that lesson.
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