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HEY GAL posted:awwwwww I shall do so. Those dudes would probably seriously fistpump if they heard someone's talking about them 400 years later.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 20:42 |
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Kemper Boyd posted:I shall do so. Those dudes would probably seriously fistpump if they heard someone's talking about them 400 years later.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 20:43 |
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Kemper Boyd posted:He's buried in the cathedral in my hometown. His tin casket has been put on display there, along with his armor. I usually give a tour to people consisting of "this wrought iron fence is 700 years old", "here is the only queen that's been buried in Finland", "Åke Tott was a big deal and probably The Biggest Deal in Finnish history and boy did he marry well" and "Torsten Stålhandske was one of the best commanders of cav Sweden ever produced and boy did he marry well." Didn't he die childless? Do you have good photos of his mausoleum? What does the text on it say?
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 20:48 |
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Koesj posted:How about them United Provinces. the biggest losers of the war. still full of dutch people even today.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 20:50 |
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HEY GAL posted:libre office Not a clue, I use SigmaPlot pretty much exclusively. When you get back to the US, your home university/department should have copies of better spreadsheet and graphing software they will install on your laptop for free. If you want to email me the spreadsheet you used to make that I can throw something together quickly as an example and I can help you with SigmaPlot when you're back. I would probably flip the whole thing 90 degrees and have the dates on the Y-axis, then you can add in major battles and events.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 20:54 |
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Pellisworth posted:I would probably flip the whole thing 90 degrees and have the dates on the Y-axis, then you can add in major battles and events. is sigmaplot online? i should finish counting dragoons tonight and then i'll have a completed spreadsheet as well as a csv document also, speaking of the 30yw dudes fistpumping from heaven... http://www.vice.com/read/this-guy-went-on-an-all-alcohol-diet-for-a-week-722
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 20:57 |
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HEY GAL posted:yeah, i definitely want to highlight at least Breitenfeld, Wittstock, and the Pomeranian campaign, because that's what the paper's about Yeah I would switch the axes so your dates and battle notations read left-to-right. You could also get fancy and have another graph parallel with shading that represents various phases and campaigns or whatever. Sigmaplot has a 30-day free trial that is fully functional: https://systatsoftware.com/downloads/download-sigmaplot/
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:01 |
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Hogge Wild posted:Didn't he die childless? Do you have good photos of his mausoleum? What does the text on it say? Should have clarified, not direct descendants because the noble side of the family has died out. But apparently some people related to him. A tour guide told me this when I wondered about a vase of flowers in the chapel. It's pretty hard to get decent photos or read the text on his memorial since it's behind one of those fences. If I ever have the chance, I could try to ask the staff if I could get some photos.
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Kemper Boyd posted:Should have clarified, not direct descendants because the noble side of the family has died out. But apparently some people related to him. A tour guide told me this when I wondered about a vase of flowers in the chapel. cool
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:04 |
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Just wanted to say that while I didn't read every part of your naval mine posts (I mostly read the tidbits with interesting sounding titles), they're very well written, and really cool and informative stuff.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:14 |
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Was it common for 17th century generals to be childless (or just having illegit kids) because they spent all of their life campaigning?
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Hogge Wild posted:Was it common for 17th century generals to be childless (or just having illegit kids) because they spent all of their life campaigning? wallenstein: one surviving child, one dead infant pappenheim: ditto but his son was also a soldier and died in the 40s in a duel, surprising nobody aldringen: no kids, the noble line he founded is the Clary-Aldringens, that's his sister's kids gallas: two kids piccolomini: three kids, all also soldiers, all died before he did. The piccolominis, like the montecuccolis, kinda all were in the military. tilly: no kids but he's a special case, his nephew was his heir sporck: two daughters, the noble line he founded was the Swets-Sporcks holck: was he even married? can anyone give a comparatively halfassed list of anti-imperialists HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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HEY GAL posted:anecdotally, i really think so. off the top of my head, Gustavus Adolphus with one daughter Christina and one bastard son Gustav, who was raised to a count by his half-sister. Btw, the cavalry museum I mentioned is in a town that was chartered by Queen Christina. And the aforementioned Stålhandske. Kemper Boyd probably knows more. Hogge Wild fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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...best queen?
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:37 |
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HEY GAL posted:...best queen?
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:40 |
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sexiest person in europe, right here. daaaaaang
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:the biggest losers of the war. still full of dutch people even today.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:49 |
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On the bright side, thanks to Gustavus Adolphus' efforts, there's a lot less Swedes in Sweden.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:50 |
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HEY GAL posted:...best queen? Catherine the Great was pretty cool too
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 21:51 |
HEY GAL posted:...best queen? I quite like But I may be stretching things.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 22:06 |
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HEY GAL posted:...best queen? itym best king Åke Tott's son, Claes Tott, was one of Christina's favorites and so bad at fuckin' the Tott line died out. Incidentally, I think there's a relationship between infertility/male impotence and riding horses. That would explain a lot, because all of those dudes spent a ton of their time on horseback. Dunno where I read this and if this is bullshit.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 22:07 |
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Kemper Boyd posted:itym best king What about Genghis Khan?
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 22:10 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmI3vAIhbE
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Kemper Boyd posted:itym best king
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Pershing posted:Not to criticise you, Cythereal, but I think an argument could be made to link instead and mark with a tag. This is from a bit ago but no, don't. This is the milhist thread. People doing awful poo poo to each other is pretty much its reason for being.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 22:23 |
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Pellisworth posted:Catherine the Great was pretty cool too Nay.
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I'm working on the last post about mines now, i may split it up into two depending on how much i feel like typing tommorrow evening but i wanted to ask if people would want to read another series of posts in a while when im done reading about the topic. Would people be interested in an industrial overview of production in the World Wars? I got very excited today when i found the US and UK official histories of wartime production and a book by a professor at my university about WW1 industry, it can get a little dry as a topic but if people are i will read them with a view to coming back and writing about them,
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Polyakov posted:I'm working on the last post about mines now, i may split it up into two depending on how much i feel like typing tommorrow evening but i wanted to ask if people would want to read another series of posts in a while when im done reading about the topic. Your effort posts on mines are great. And you know how this thread responds to new content Just post
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Polyakov posted:Would people be interested in
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nothing to seehere posted:Just post
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Cyrano4747 posted:This is from a bit ago but no, don't. That post was also prefaced with what it was about, and it was something you have to consciously read and interpret, not like a picture of a dismembered corpse.
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# ? Aug 21, 2016 23:34 |
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Pellisworth posted:Catherine the Great was pretty cool too Neigh.
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Kemper Boyd posted:
literally from a roleplaying game http://gregstolze.com/reign1/
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# ? Aug 22, 2016 00:20 |
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Watched from my balcony jets circling back to the lake for the Chicago air and water show while catching up on this thread. Good stuff. From that horrifying Warsaw story the narrator mentions how getting shot in a full stomach is much worse than an empty one. Any truth to that or just an old soldier's tale? Also I have deck of cards of naval spotting for ships from the 40s through the 60s. It's missing a card since I gave the ship class my dad served on to him. Useless as a deck and it's just a repro, so anyone want it? Thought one of you naval nerds might anyway.
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Feral_Shofixti posted:Neigh. Poor old Catherine, thought of studs and died.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Watched from my balcony jets circling back to the lake for the Chicago air and water show while catching up on this thread. Good stuff. From that horrifying Warsaw story the narrator mentions how getting shot in a full stomach is much worse than an empty one. Any truth to that or just an old soldier's tale? Presumably a full stomach means that your digestive tract is working and draws extra blood, whereas on an empty stomach there'd be less blood in the area where you got shot. Which is good. Kinda. Before antibiotics, a gut shot just meant your death was slow and painful, anyway.
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# ? Aug 22, 2016 00:39 |
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ArchangeI posted:Presumably a full stomach means that your digestive tract is working and draws extra blood, whereas on an empty stomach there'd be less blood in the area where you got shot. Which is good. Kinda. I have read that same story, that being shot into an empty stomach lessened the chance of fatal infections. Adolf Ehrnrooth, liutenant-colonel at the time, was hit into stomach by grenade fragments and, in an interview much later (he died in 2004) said the surgeon who operated him said his life was saved by the fact that he had not had the time to eat before taking part in an assault. Edit: The reason given was that if your stomach gets perforated while it has food inside that semi-digested crap is going to get into your stomach cavity and if there is nothing there you won't get poisoned by your lunch.
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# ? Aug 22, 2016 01:20 |
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Also an empty stomach wouldn't have all its lining cells producing stomach acid at full tilt, which the rest of your insides would probably appreciate.
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Nonsense. Have a hearty lunch before battle and instruct your batman to finish the job if you get gutshot.
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