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Sunshine Mix posted:I have a quick aircraft question....on the Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, there's this funny little module of the side off the cockpit with its own small propeller (pictured). What's going on there? Its a wind-driven generator
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Gnoman posted:Meat is an extremely energy-dense form of food, so that would probably significantly ease the difficulty of transporting rations. wittstock: http://www.1636.de/category/schlacht-bei-wittstock/massengrab-von-wittstock/ neubrandenburg: quote:Alle der mindestens 13 Individuen waren Männer, die in einem Alter von 15 bis 44 Jahren verstorben waren. Die durchschnittliche Körperhöhe betrug 170 cm. Der Zustand der Gebisse ließ auf eine gute, fleischreiche Ernährung schließen. Sehr häufige entzündliche Erkrankungen des Schädeldaches und der Nasennebenhöhlen, sowie Spuren von Mundschleimhautentzündungen deuteten auf äußerst schlechte hygienischen Verhältnisse, Parasitenbefall und unzureichende Wohnverhältnisse. tl;dr: probably even grosser than other early modern people HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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speak for yourself, when i was seven years old we spent one winter gathering wood because we had no money for coal for the furnace grad school's been amazingly cushy, comparatively
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Milhist thread, I need something very unusual for you, a hot take Netflix has a series named Roman Empire: reign of blood, is it good or bad
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Fangz posted:Yeah I think one of the commander guys makes a point of not having enough small ships and so being restricted to the Mole because they couldn't take people off the beaches, so the small ships (+ the jury rigged piers) fulfill that role. The French troops that made it back to France barely made it in time to even get ready to march to the front. By that point the French army was so depleted that even significantly better tactics didn't save them.
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HEY GAIL posted:hey i was at stralsund all weekend, fun fact: the witstock mass grave and a soldiers' grave from Neu-Brandenburg both evince that soldiers during the 30yw ate more meat than civilians but were in terrible health in other ways, such as parasites and mucous membrane inflammations I can't read German, does "parasitenbefall" mean what I think it does...? Anyway, just got back from seeing Dunkirk. (Loved it.) I was wondering, in reality, were hospitals and hospital ships etc considered "fair game" at this stage of the war, or did both sides generally refrain from blowing up anything with a big red cross on it?
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Tree Bucket posted:I can't read German, does "parasitenbefall" mean what I think it does...? edit: so much lice that they left traces on the surface of their skulls HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:Netflix has a series named Roman Empire: reign of blood, is it good or bad Bad, I got about twenty minutes in before I had to turn it off because the format is so bad.
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HEY GAIL posted:they probably have lice, friend Things rarely seen in DnD I mean how the hell does that even happen. Is this one of those "we don't wash ever because we believe bathing saps our vitality" sorta bullshit I think when it comes to medicine, Europe had to try out all the bad, wrong ideas before starting on some right ones
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PittTheElder posted:Bad, I got about twenty minutes in before I had to turn it off because the format is so bad. Good to know, thanks
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Nebakenezzer posted:Things rarely seen in DnD edit: i seem to remember hearing that wallenstein bathed every day, but i don't remember where i got it or how true it is. i do know he put rosemary and sandalwood in the water though edit 2: also, imagine them sniffling frequently. They would have, both the Wittstock thing and the Neubrandenburg thing mention mucous membrane problems, sinusitis and such. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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HEY GAIL posted:edit: so much lice that they left traces on the surface of their skulls guah
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Yeah that lice thing is terrifying. How does that even happen? Edit: I understand SO MANY LICE is a thing but how does that mechanically impact the skull? xthetenth fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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Tree Bucket posted:I can't read German, does "parasitenbefall" mean what I think it does...? I don't think they were ever considered fair game and were protected by the Hague/Geneva conventions. There are always exceptions though and they do lose that legal protection if they are used for "any military purpose". If it was used to evacuate any non wounded soldiers it loses that protection. The difficulty is in the knowing. Is it possible the pilots didn't see the markings? Or the Germans didn't believe it was being used exclusively to evacuate wounded? Or the pilots acted on their own initiative? Paris was a hospital ship that was sunk by aircraft during Dunkirk evacuations. BattleMoose fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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xthetenth posted:Yeah that lice thing is terrifying. How does that even happen?
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BattleMoose posted:I don't think they were ever considered fair game and were protected by the Hague/Geneva conventions. There are always exceptions though and they do lose that legal protection if they are used for "any military purpose". If it was used to evacuate any non wounded soldiers it loses that protection. The difficulty is in the knowing. I don't know about the Germans but the British didn't particularly care about the treaties, if they caught German planes rescuing downed pilots they attacked them, red cross or no red cross. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain#Air-sea_rescue
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Someone said Dunkirk is a movie where you find yourself holding your breath for 2 hours. I think it's accurate, there was a lot of points like that.
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FAUXTON posted:Someone said Dunkirk is a movie where you find yourself holding your breath for 2 hours. Another thing that comes out of casting unknowns is that there's zero sense that any of the characters are safe for the full film by virtue of their paycheck.
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Oh man they probably deemphasized the head louse situation in the recruitment pitch. That non-Wittstock site says that the bulk of the deceased died aged 25-29, and that the youngest individual was 15, which makes me wonder about how many campaign seasons it would take before your sinusitis and head lice have been carved into your loving bones.
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aphid_licker posted:Oh man they probably deemphasized the head louse situation in the recruitment pitch. edit: both of those data sets together gave me a cool idea while I was going to sleep last night, which is that if you find some unidentified 17th century bones now we have a way to (extremely roughly, and not foolproof) tell if they were soldiers or not. Someone who ate a lot of meat, had recurrent sinus problems or nose problems, and more parasites than usual, might be a soldier. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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How did armies in the 30 years war ration out food? Was there a nominal 'this is what a soldier should be getting'? How'd they store what they foraged?
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HEY GAIL posted:inflammation (and picking at it) makes microscopic traces on the bone loving cut your hair off what is wrong with these people
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WoodrowSkillson posted:loving cut your hair off what is wrong with these people Even if they cut their hair, which they did if they wore wigs the lice would just infest their head gear and return to their home skull with ease. Also, Barbers were minor surgeons and Dentists too and rarely around, if they weren't busy assisting the regimental surgeons with more important matters.
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Leaving the lice aside, and I know it's played out, but can we talk about this bullshit for just a minute:HEY GAIL posted:
How is this a word, German language? It's OK for "inflammation of the oral mucous membranes" to be a phrase, it doesn't need to be one loving word.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Even if they cut their hair, which they did if they wore wigs the lice would just infest their head gear and return to their home skull with ease. Also, Barbers were minor surgeons and Dentists too and rarely around, if they weren't busy assisting the regimental surgeons with more important matters. So don't wear the wigs and give the lice less places to live come on people
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Everyone had lice until like, the 19th century. Wait til you hear how these guys had to use the bathroom
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PittTheElder posted:Bad, I got about twenty minutes in before I had to turn it off because the format is so bad. Was that one series that portrayed itself sort of HBO's Rome at the end but cheaper but when you started watching it couldn't decide if it was a TV show or documentary and we got both talking heads and dry voice overs that kept sinking the pacing and pointing out the obvious? If so, I abandoned watching that after the 1st episode. It wasn't good. zoux posted:Everyone had lice until like, the 19th century. Wait til you hear how these guys had to use the bathroom Little hint about it, they didn't have toilet paper!
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As the opposing pike block enters into engagement range, a louse crawls into the man's left eye
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SeanBeansShako posted:Was that one series that portrayed itself sort of HBO's Rome at the end but cheaper but when you started watching it couldn't decide if it was a TV show or documentary and we got both talking heads and dry voice overs that kept sinking the pacing and pointing out the obvious? Speaking of Roman history, I've been watching Historia Civilis on Youtube this week. I like his style, I really like how he lays out historical battles and discusses tactics and provides visual aids for them. But there's so much bad history out there, I wanted to ask if any one who actually knows poo poo about Rome has seen them and can comment on his accuracy.
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HEY GAIL posted:edit: both of those data sets together gave me a cool idea while I was going to sleep last night, which is that if you find some unidentified 17th century bones now we have a way to (extremely roughly, and not foolproof) tell if they were soldiers or not. Someone who ate a lot of meat, had recurrent sinus problems or nose problems, and more parasites than usual, might be a soldier. Question for you and the other people in the thread who do research: How do you keep this kind of inference from becoming circular?
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WoodrowSkillson posted:As the opposing pike block enters into engagement range, a louse crawls into the man's left eye Better than still glowing gun powder particles.
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OneTruePecos posted:Question for you and the other people in the thread who do research: How do you keep this kind of inference from becoming circular?
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HEY GAIL posted:i talk to people who aren't me frequently Sounds pretty extreme, definitely re-affirms my decision to go into IT. Thanks!
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Is it the lice themselves that have scraped lines into people's skulls or just the fact that they would have been scratching like crazy 24/7
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OneTruePecos posted:Leaving the lice aside, and I know it's played out, but can we talk about this bullshit for just a minute: On the other hand it makes phrase boundaries that much easier to determine.
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OneTruePecos posted:How is this a word, German language? It's OK for "inflammation of the oral mucous membranes" to be a phrase, it doesn't need to be one loving word. Seems pretty simple to me. Mund - Mouth schleim - mucus haut -skin entzündungen - inflammation A lot of German words are just combining multiple words to describe something else. Baumwolle is cotton, for example, and the literally translation would be tree (baum) wool (wolle). Or the word Krankwagen (ambulance) which is Krank (sick) and Wagen (wagon/car/cart) combined.
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Why was Hans Rudel allowed to return to West Germany and even run for office in 1953 despite being an unrepentant Nazi who had helped Nazi war criminals escape justice?
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