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Silly Burrito posted:Seems right. Whoever is in charge of doing stuff for the Dallas Star owns. First the Tweet after the Chargers moved and now this.
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Flikken posted:Whoever is in charge of doing stuff for the Dallas Star owns. First the Tweet after the Chargers moved and now this.
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FizFashizzle posted:so yeah... math i took mine on the 7th and hey we both got a 151 in math. you did much better than I did on the rest though, lol
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Poco posted:i took mine on the 7th and hey we both got a 151 in math. you did much better than I did on the rest though, lol one of my essay prompts was about someone banking on making a bunch of money selling high gfx video games i just went on a long rant about how poo poo the last sim city game was.
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FizFashizzle posted:one of my essay prompts was about someone banking on making a bunch of money selling high gfx video games Mine was some HR person gushing about speed-reading courses because two whole people were able to do their job better and i just said people in HR love to waste money on stupid crap. while not exactly analytical, it was incredibly cathartic to write.
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A Man and his dog posted:Hmmmmmm what should we eat for the games today? I'm thinking a bullet 
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I'm the "this is kind of stressful" sign.
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Jan 22, 2017 20:37
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Why Chich? Something serious going down or is just TFF behavior of oh god all 4 teams are teams I don't wanna root for ever.  Also today gonna be a good day. Watch football, my best friend I haven't seen in a while is gonna drop by to watch as well.
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I will force history chat onto this forum if I have to. I've been reading non stop Ancient Rome since the summer. Adrian Goldsworthy's biographies of Caesar and Caesar Augusts are fantastic. And I also read Tom Holland (of Rubicon fame) new book Dynasty which was pretty decent. But I need to put a recommendation to Mastering the West by Dexter Hoyos. It's on the Punic Wars and goes into superb detail on the Second Punic War. It's not just about Trebia and Cannae and then a fast forward to Zama like most accounts. It goes into all of the years in between with not only with the Scipios in Spain but the incredible effort by the Romans to defend against and contain Hannibal in Italy itself. At the height of the war the Romans had over half a million citizen and allied troops deployed in the field at one time, a scale of mobilization that would not be matched until Revolutionary France 2,000 years later. And this was after losing over 100,000 troops in the first few disastrous years of the war, most notably about 60k in one single day at Cannae. I would love to write a paper on how the Second Punic War can be considered the first Total War in world history but well  and to what end?tl;dr Scipio Africanus was a loving badass Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Jan 22, 2017 21:41
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cannae sounds loving horrifying blinded by dust, everyone facing a different direction, people killing each other just for a chance to escape....
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FizFashizzle posted:cannae sounds loving horrifying The human crush of the Romans trying to desperately fight or just plain run away in the vice like grip of Hannibal's encirclement is disturbing to imagine. The book Ghosts of Cannae goes into detail on the terrifying visceral carnage of ancient warfare and how Cannae was extra horrifying even by the standards of the day.
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The incoming technocracy will be worthwhile if it means we can send drones back in time to record footage of events like that. Cannae was horrifying, but I want to witness it!
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Jan 22, 2017 22:06
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I want to send a drone back in time to watch someone slip on their toga and fall down some stairs
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Doltos posted:I want to send a drone back in time to watch someone slip on their toga and fall down some stairs  Someone go back in time and get a copy of Lives of Famous Whores.
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I want to go back in time and donate my inferior genes to tom brady's mother
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I want footage of Charles II holding court
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I want to see Cato taking a poo poo while meeting with the delegates from some Eastern Client Kingdom.
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I want to see the roman ambassador demanding something, then drawing a circle around the other delegate and saying "make your decision before you leave this circle."
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FizFashizzle posted:I want to see the roman ambassador demanding something, then drawing a circle around the other delegate and saying "make your decision before you leave this circle." It wasn't just a delegate, it was a loving king! 
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I will force history chat onto this forum if I have to. I've been reading non stop Ancient Rome since the summer. Adrian Goldsworthy's biographies of Caesar and Caesar Augusts are fantastic. And I also read Tom Holland (of Rubicon fame) new book Dynasty which was pretty decent. I want to read piles of books on ancient rome...but I really have no idea where to start.
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I want a tape of Diogenes dropping a massive turd onstage
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I want to read piles of books on ancient rome...but I really have no idea where to start. Mary Beard's SPQR is a pretty good place to start.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I want to read piles of books on ancient rome...but I really have no idea where to start. Rubicon by Tom Holland is a good starting place.
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I really enjoy what I'm studying but one of the worst parts about going back to school is you can't read anything else. but ask me about type 2 diabetes 
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Chichevache posted:Mary Beard's SPQR is a pretty good place to start. This. I read it two months ago during my current blitzkrieg through the subject and its a great place to start from ground zero. It's a fantastic overview of Roman history, society, and culture. Rubicon is a fantastic book but its a narrative focused on one era of Roman history rather than a general overview.
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FizFashizzle posted:ask me about type 2 diabetes I didn't know you switched to power lifting.
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Chichevache posted:Mary Beard's SPQR is a pretty good place to start. Hunterhr posted:Rubicon by Tom Holland is a good starting place. thank you for both of these suggestions, I will read them!
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Chichevache posted:I didn't know you switched to power lifting. hahahaha
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hannibal is my posting spirit animal
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I want to read piles of books on ancient rome...but I really have no idea where to start. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3486446
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Scionix posted:hannibal is my posting spirit animal Relies too much on elephants and eventually gets driven out?
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achillesforever6 posted:I'd recommend the Ancient Rome A&T thread which also has a bunch of cool ancient history facts; also the occasional quack who believes in Atlantis and Romans coming to America Helpful hint for everyone starting to read this awesome thread. Ignore literally everything Agesilaus posts.
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Alaois posted:Relies too much on elephants and eventually gets driven out? yeah he marched elephants thru the alps to fight in italy oh WAIT thats loving IMPOSSIBLE u DOOFUS maybe read a FJCUKING book yes i know they sent him elephants later on some boats or some poo poo idc point stands
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ketchup vs catsup posted:thank you for both of these suggestions, I will read them! I completely forgot about SPQR. Hit that first.
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e: wrong thread, but I did purchase SPQR on the recommendation of this thread. Can't wait to read it!
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In The Name of Rome by Goldsworthy is a great compilation of mini biographies of the biggest names in Roman history.
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Detroit_Dogg posted:Someone photoshop the Wazzu flag into the background  Did my school do something dumb?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I will force history chat onto this forum if I have to. I've been reading non stop Ancient Rome since the summer. Adrian Goldsworthy's biographies of Caesar and Caesar Augusts are fantastic. And I also read Tom Holland (of Rubicon fame) new book Dynasty which was pretty decent. Ive been looking for a new book to read, so I bought this on Kindle last night after turning off the football games. I read the first chapter, it's really great. Somewhere in the 2nd chapter a sentence or two reminded me of how fun it is to play the computer game Civilization, and I now I have re-installed it on my laptop. Probably won't finish the book, but it gave me the inspiration I needed
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