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Trin Tragula posted:Which month? Big difference between landing Feb 1915 and landing Dec 1915. 13th KRRC War Diary, 29th July 1915 posted:Advanced party with all animals & transport, 108 strong, under Major Johns left camp at 1.30 a.m.
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Milo and POTUS posted:How did ww2 radar work? I mean display wise? The only impression I get of radar display is movies and lol if you think I'd trust that. I mean they had it on all kinds of poo poo including fighters and airships by wars end but I have no clue what it actually would look like. Especially ships though; ie destroyers as radar pickets especially. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJwrmTgbkkk
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May 15, 2018 23:47
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13th KRRC War Diary, 14th May 1918 posted:The day passed quietly. Casualties - in the last 5 months (November - April) there were the following casualties - Killed : 38 Wounded : 179 Missing : 15 Gassed : 5 Total : 237 There's been one defensive battle and a trench raid of note during this time. So not a lot, but they've still taken nearly 25% casualties.
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May 15, 2018 23:52
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Epicurius posted:it's more bathos than pathos, but here's an Austrian WWI postcard about an wounded cavalry soldier and his horse. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/patrick-saunders-granted-dying-wish-to-feed-a-horse-one-last-time_uk_59b25b31e4b0354e4410eb1c and that wasn't even that dying guy's horse, just a horse
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May 16, 2018 00:12
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I'm surprised at both how rough the original dots and lines looked and at how much detail they describe the mechanics of how the readout screen itself functions. I wouldn't expect modern military men to be fully schooled in how their monitors work.
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May 16, 2018 00:17
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Insnaely cool but not as cool as the one about blowing up trains nsa Disclaimer: i do not blow up trains
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May 16, 2018 03:03
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zoux posted:I didn't know that there were Vermont nationalists but I'm not surprised in the least. The natural history of ND or Wyoming could make a pretty neat course, though—Hell Creek as the headliner. Jack2142 posted:Washington here, we had a state history class my freshman year of Highschool. It covered a bit about the native tribes, through the explorers to settlement. I don't think we got past the early 1900's. I'm curious: Did your schooling cover the Internment at all (and approximately what year was this)? I would expect Washington to be one of the best states for coverage given its particular history. My public schooling (mostly in Texas) touched on it for perhaps a paragraph of one textbook, and I learned about it mostly through family who were in Minidoka.
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May 16, 2018 03:04
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zoux posted:Maybe you should've started a war with Mexico over them outlawing Slavery's importance in the Texan Revolution shouldn't be understated, but come on. Half of Mexico didn't up and revolt for a decade because they were upset about Anglos losing their slaves.
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dublish posted:Slavery's importance in the Texan Revolution shouldn't be understated, but come on. Half of Mexico didn't up and revolt for a decade because they were upset about Anglos losing their slaves. There's probably written accounts that speak to commonly held grievances of the time. For instance, references to the military governor reportedly fomenting slave revolts and references to immigration (of slaveholders, with their slaves) being curtailed. Just like the confederacy, the Texans did the convention thing and wrote up multiple declarations as early as the late 1820s even.
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May 16, 2018 05:06
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dublish posted:Slavery's importance in the Texan Revolution shouldn't be understated, but come on. Half of Mexico didn't up and revolt for a decade because they were upset about Anglos losing their slaves.
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My 8 year-old son the other day was working on a fantasy game in a board game club at his school, and he decided his weapon was going to be a "spiked ball on a chain." This is something I know from D&D, though Wikipedia says a morningstar is mounted on a shaft rather than chain. Was the chain thing ever a real weapon? Or is it just a Gygaxian fever dream?
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pthighs posted:My 8 year-old son the other day was working on a fantasy game in a board game club at his school, and he decided his weapon was going to be a "spiked ball on a chain." It’s a type of flail. The spiked ball kind is rare.
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May 16, 2018 05:37
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pthighs posted:My 8 year-old son the other day was working on a fantasy game in a board game club at his school, and he decided his weapon was going to be a "spiked ball on a chain." Its real enough to be prohibited in Canada. prohibited weapons canada posted:14 The device commonly known as a “Morning Star” and any similar device consisting of a ball of metal or other heavy material, studded with spikes and connected to a handle by a length of chain, rope or other flexible material. Also extremely hard to be a ninja as a large variety of ninja martial arts equipment is illegal.
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May 16, 2018 05:41
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I assume the anti-nunchaku panic of the 80s and 90s was because of concealability right? Because baseball bats seem a far more capable weapon and yet they're not illegal. Hell, I'd take a golf club before nunchakus any day
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May 16, 2018 05:45
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Milo and POTUS posted:I assume the anti-nunchaku panic of the 80s and 90s was because of concealability right? Because baseball bats seem a far more capable weapon and yet they're not illegal. Hell, I'd take a golf club before nunchakus any day It's because Michelangelo was a party dude and that was just unacceptable.
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May 16, 2018 05:49
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In all seriousness I think it was related to anti-Judas Priest records played backwards and anti-D&D hysteria.
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May 16, 2018 05:51
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the cool spiked ball with chain kind of flail didn't really exist historically, it got made up by 16th century artists because its  .
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May 16, 2018 05:52
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The key thing about middle school level history is that it's at least as much about mythmaking as it is about cluing you into what you should know about the world. So they'll downplay the whole business about slavery and emphasize things like the Mexican government forcing Catholicism on them. A lot like how Thomas Jefferson has had so much rewriting that the image of him as a revered founding father is basically a totally different person from the actual man.
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Tunicate posted:the cool spiked ball with chain kind of flail didn't really exist historically, it got made up by 16th century artists because its Flails existed, but the chain was short. Much shorter than the handle.
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May 16, 2018 06:22
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The Lone Badger posted:Flails existed, but the chain was short. Much shorter than the handle. Sometimes there's not even a chain, and the parts are just linked directly: 
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May 16, 2018 10:11
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The flail is an adapted agricultural tool like the military scythe and billhook. At some point a bunch of peasants got together and realized that the tool they used for beating the poo poo out of grain would be good for beating the poo poo out of tax collectors.
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May 16, 2018 10:12
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Most tools make pretty capable weapons
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May 16, 2018 10:19
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we criminalise flails over baseball bats because there’s a legitimate use eg playing baseball. to contrast, in the UK you’ll get done for carrying an offensive weapon for a baseball bat but might get away with a cricket one.
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May 16, 2018 10:38
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the principal of a tool is you use sticks and hinges to build up a ton of mechanical advantage, which applies to braining another dude thinking about it, a sword is sorta different, because it gives a mechanical disadvantage: the tip is light, far from the fulcrum, and moves very fast
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CoolCab posted:to contrast, in the UK you’ll get done for carrying an offensive weapon for a baseball bat but might get away with a cricket one. It depends. The English law looks pretty kindly on the use of defensive batting when justified. Using a block stroke, or a front foot leg glance should be fine. But use of a square drive will probably be treated as excessive force.
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Mr Enderby posted:It depends. The English law looks pretty kindly on the use of defensive batting when justified. Using a block stroke, or a front foot leg glance should be fine. But use of a square drive will probably be treated as excessive force. Like everything else in cricket, I'm familiar with all of those words, but not in that order.
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May 16, 2018 10:57
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Milo and POTUS posted:I assume the anti-nunchaku panic of the 80s and 90s was because of concealability right? Because baseball bats seem a far more capable weapon and yet they're not illegal. Hell, I'd take a golf club before nunchakus any day https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1129426.html is probably relevant. Not going to say I agree with the case but the argument is that nunchaku are essentially only a weapon whereas those other tools have a secondary purpose. Personally though I feel like the bigger issue with nunchaku is people accidentally hurting themselves with it.
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HEY GUNS posted:Half of Mexico? It was immigrants from the US, who came there in order to take advantage of Mexico's generous settlement policies then turned their back on it. Slavery played a major role in causing the Texan Revolution, but it wasn't the only cause. Remember, Texas wasn't the only state that revolted when Santa Anna suspended the Constitution and abolished state governments...it was just the only place where the rebellion succeeded. Zacatecas also declared independence at the same time, and, just after Texas got independence, Yucatan also declared independence, and so did the states that made up the Republic of the Rio Grande.
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Mr Enderby posted:It depends. The English law looks pretty kindly on the use of defensive batting when justified. Using a block stroke, or a front foot leg glance should be fine. But use of a square drive will probably be treated as excessive force. 
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Fangz posted:https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1129426.html Nunchaku are basically threshing flails though, it's like banning scythes.
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May 16, 2018 13:31
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I don't know how much you expect the average American to thresh........
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MANime in the sheets posted:Like everything else in cricket, I'm familiar with all of those words, but not in that order. If an assailant comes at you from the short square leg position then a pull would generally deemed acceptable, a hook to the head less so. As for being attacked from silly point common law dictates an off-drive. In either case striking amidships is strongly frowned upon.
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May 16, 2018 13:54
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I feel like a war over cricket would be something directly connected to the India-Pakistan Wagah border closing ceremony.
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MikeCrotch posted:If an assailant comes at you from the short square leg position then a pull would generally deemed acceptable, a hook to the head less so. As for being attacked from silly point common law dictates an off-drive. In either case striking amidships is strongly frowned upon. I'm sorry, I haven't a clue what you're saying.
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FAUXTON posted:I feel like a war over cricket would be something directly connected to the India-Pakistan Wagah border closing ceremony. Wars over football, on the other hand, are more of a Latin-American thing.
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May 16, 2018 14:29
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The Lone Badger posted:Flails existed, but the chain was short. Much shorter than the handle. Friend of my dad's had an extremely rusty iron mace of this kind laying around. He said he wasn't sure but that he had heard it was used by cops at some point to frighten lawbreakers.
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Fangz posted:I don't know how much you expect the average American to thresh........ Probably about the same as I'd expect them to need scythes for anything but a sweet halloween costume?
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May 16, 2018 15:51
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do yanks not use scythes for rough gardening or allotment work? even my massively middle-class parents own a hand-scythe for dealing with large clumps of weeds or what have you
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No we use immigrant labor
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Williamsburg hipster hand threshing grain and selling it in recycled mason jars for $15
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