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Why the heck did he list 'a herring' twice?
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Because it's a list for multiple days, and you don't want to store fresh fish for too long without a fridge if you can help it. Also team salami FTW.
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Mar 6, 2017 10:17
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He'd probably have told his illiterate servant what to get, and the picture list is more of a memo than an instruction. So the servant in the market thinks "wait, did he say he wants bread?", looks at his paper, sees four blobs and yeah, that's the bread.
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Mar 6, 2017 10:29
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Samovar posted:Why the heck did he list 'a herring' twice? One to eat and the other to cut down the largest tree in the forrest.
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Mar 6, 2017 17:22
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FreudianSlippers posted:Being a huge douche was integral to being a renaissance genius. I think it was more integral to being Michelangelo. All the other renaissance geniuses seems kinda chill.
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Mar 6, 2017 17:52
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Alhazred posted:I think it was more integral to being Michelangelo. All the other renaissance geniuses seems kinda chill. I thought it was Raphael who was cool, but rude?
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Alhazred posted:I think it was more integral to being Michelangelo. All the other renaissance geniuses seems kinda chill. Someone hasn't read Cellini's autobiography.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Someone hasn't read Cellini's autobiography. And if you haven't you should.
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Just a reminder that Cellini's autobiography features a demon summoning ritual inside the Colosseum that goes wrong and is solved when someone shits their trousers.
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PYF Historical Fun Fact: I thought it was Raphael who was cool, but rude? Mods, I beg of you.
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Adding to plane ramming chat but phone posting so doing it from memory. Ramming did become one of the only viable method for bringing down heavy American bombers that were roaming over Europe with impunity towards the end of world war II. A specific unit was created for this very task and were outfitted with specialised bf109s with a supercharged engine and only a single machine gun for defence. The idea was you'd approach the bomber formations from behind and above/below while firing before bailing out at the last minute and parachuting to safety. The men chosen to undertake this task and were often the most fanatical of the Luftwaffe pilots left alive, this often meant they were the youngest and not trained to a high degree so the results were not fantastic. The pilots in these units considered themselves modern day knights to a degree and and believed they would go to Valhalla for dying a warriors death, they were also hopped up on Nazi amphetamines which might have contributed to some of the wackier beliefs. *edit - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_Elbe Abongination has a new favorite as of 05:15 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Abongination posted:The pilots in these units considered themselves modern day knights to a degree and and believed they would go to Valhalla for dying a warriors death, they were also hopped up on Nazi amphetamines which might have contributed to some of the wackier beliefs. so fury road but in the sky
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Mar 7, 2017 05:10
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Anyone interested in ww2 plane chat should do themselves a favour and pick up a copy of : "Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany"
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The whole drug situation in ww2 is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. Especially the experiment with the one man submarines and the claustrophobic cold turkey men they crammed inside them.
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Samovar posted:Why the heck did he list 'a herring' twice? Maybe the first one was a red herring.
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Arcsquad12 posted:The whole drug situation in ww2 is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. Especially the experiment with the one man submarines and the claustrophobic cold turkey men they crammed inside them. Talk more.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Maybe the first one was a red herring. Nice.
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Captain Terence O'Neill, the last prime minister of Northern Ireland, served in parliament for 24 years, six of them as prime minister, and in that time faced a grand total of one competitive election, which he almost lost (to Ian Paisley).
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Why did the Russians go with a derivative of Caesar instead of Basileus for Czar?
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Mar 13, 2017 03:55
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The first Czar was in the 18th century, during the enlightenment when Rome fetishism was at peak revival. Peter the great so badly wanted to be taken seriously by Europe that he adopted a lot of western customs. It would make sense he would take the title of the Western Roman Emperor.
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That works.
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I will add I messed up and while Peter was the first emperor, he wasn't the first tzar, who was Ivan IV, who wanted to show he was powerful enough to challenge the Byzantine emperor and the khans, so he used a different name "on par" with those.
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catfry posted:Talk more. Look up the history of Pervitin, a combat stimulant the Germans used in WW2 based on methamphetamine. The documentary High Hitler has got a lot of crazy anecdotes. One of them involves a company of soldiers on the Eastern Front coming down with the shakes as they ran out of drugs. They thought they were under attack by Russians, fired off all their ammunition into the darkness, and then the Russians rolled up the next day and captured them all without a fight.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Look up the history of Pervitin, a combat stimulant the Germans used in WW2 based on methamphetamine. "Pervitin" isn't a stimulant based on methamphetamine. It is a brand name for methamphetamine. Similar to how "Heroin" is the Bayer Brand name for diamorphine.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I will add I messed up and while Peter was the first emperor, he wasn't the first tzar, who was Ivan IV, who wanted to show he was powerful enough to challenge the Byzantine emperor and the khans, so he used a different name "on par" with those. Actually Simeon I of Bulgaria was the first monarch to use the term Tsar, way back in the 10th century. His victorious warring with the Byzantines got them to grant him the title as a diplomatic concession. He received the junior rank of Caesar, "Tsar", technically remaining below the rank of the one true basileus.
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So what ever happened to good old "wanax"? Were the Byzantines too cool for Homer?
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Potatoes and dairy, actually. Potatoes don't have everything but are pretty close. Technically potatoes and dairy doesn't have absolutely everything you need either but your body can make whatever else it needs out of what those things provide. You'll have to eat something else a bit to get molybdenum but generally potatoes can provide drat near everything you need if you eat a bunch of them. Apparently in Ireland, after the potato showed up, the average Irishman's diet was a bunch of potatoes, some milk, a bit of oatmeal, and sometimes some salted fish. They were described as "healthy and good-looking" so they must have been thriving on it. Until the famine, anyway. You can survive for quite a while with just potatoes but for long-term, normal lifespan survival you need other things but potatoes and dairy is drat near enough. This is why poutine is a superfood and literally the best thing ever.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:PYF Historical Fun Fact: I thought it was Raphael who was cool, but rude? Caravaggio was a party dude
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:PYF Historical Fun Fact: I thought it was Raphael who was cool, but rude? ask and ye shall receive
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This is something that Doyle wrote to his friend Houdini after a visit:Arthur Conan Doyle posted:Just a line to say how much we enjoyed our short visit yesterday. I think what interested me most was the ‘trick’ you showed us in the cab. You certainly have the most wonderful powers, whether inborn or acquired. Alhazred has a new favorite as of 22:03 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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Doyle, as a spiritualist, believed that Houdini's anti-fraud activism (in which he exposed tricks used by charlatans and dishonest magicians) was a ploy to hide from the public the genuinely supernatural character of his own powers. For instance he thought Houdini could phase through solid objects such as walls. He also believed in fairies.
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steinrokkan posted:Doyle, as a spiritualist, believed that Houdini's anti-fraud activism (in which he exposed tricks used by charlatans and dishonest magicians) was a ploy to hide from the public the genuinely supernatural character of his own powers. For instance he thought Houdini could phase through solid objects such as walls. He also believed in fairies. the creator of the great detective
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gently caress man, I just hope at some point Houdini threw up his hands at trying to convince him that he wasn't magic, and then started loving with Doyle.
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AriadneThread posted:the creator of the great detective Doyle was interested in the supernatural and occult (as was popular in high society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras) while he was writing Holmes but became full-bore spiritualist in 1916 partly as a reaction to the violence and destruction of the First World War. He went so far as to write a story in which the ultra-rationalist Professor Challenger converted to spiritualism so he would have a medium to explain his beliefs.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Doyle was interested in the supernatural and occult (as was popular in high society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras) while he was writing Holmes but became full-bore spiritualist in 1916 partly as a reaction to the violence and destruction of the First World War. He went so far as to write a story in which the ultra-rationalist Professor Challenger converted to spiritualism so he would have a medium to explain his beliefs.
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Nessus posted:If this religion is good enough for Dan Aykroyd it's good enough for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKqjIv91Zx8
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I always imagine it must have really bummed Houdini out to meet Doyle and realize "Oh... this guy's just some rube."
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Pushkin, a great Russian poet, hid in a closet in his childhood to observe the visit of a poet he admired. He expected the poet to say something profound, but the poet just asked where the bathroom was. Never meet your heroes.
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