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Edgar Allen Ho posted:John C. Woods The Behind the Bastards podcast has a great episode on this guy and how he ended up being the official hangman even after completely failing at the job throughout his military career. The Bastard who Executed the Top Nazis
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:One, Julius Streicher iirc but I'm not sure, took 28 minutes to die and the audience took a smoke break. Normally this would be horrible but he was a nazi so who cares. Someone should adapt this for theatre.
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Red Bones posted:The Japanese state begins around the 4th century AD, and the shogunate is from 1185 to 1868. So about half of Japanese history rather than 90%. The Japanese Emperor's office is closer to the European Pope than an European Emperor.
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FreshFeesh posted:The Behind the Bastards podcast has a great episode on this guy and how he ended up being the official hangman even after completely failing at the job throughout his military career. From his Wikipedia article: Born in Wichita, Kansas, Woods joined the US Navy on December 3, 1929, and went absent without leave within months. He was convicted at a general court martial and subsequently examined by a psychiatric board on April 23, 1930. He was diagnosed with "Constitutional Psychopathic Inferiority without Psychosis", was found "poor service material" and discharged. He rejoined in -43 While serving with the 7th Engineer Brigade in Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, on July 21, 1950, Woods was electrocuted while attempting to repair an engineer lighting set. So yeah, probably not the right guy for that kind of job. Or even at all for the armed forces.
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ChubbyChecker posted:From his Wikipedia article: I mean, as hangman of nazis, he did ok. Give credit where credit's due.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Santa Anna had some good ideas. Santa Anna replied: "Say to Mr. Poinsett that it is very true that I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor, and perfect sincerity, but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are, and under the influence of Catholic clergy, a despotism is a proper government for them, but there is no reason why it should not be a wise and virtuous one."
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hawowanlawow posted:Santa Anna replied: "Say to Mr. Poinsett that it is very true that I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor, and perfect sincerity, but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are, and under the influence of Catholic clergy, a despotism is a proper government for them, but there is no reason why it should not be a wise and virtuous one." He also fought for the Kingdom of Spain right up until Mexico had obviously won.
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ChubbyChecker posted:The Japanese Emperor's office is closer to the European Pope than an European Emperor. It's like a pope in the sense that it has authority over the state religion (although that's more of a case post-Meiji when the government actually starts organising and regulating religious institutions in the country), but also not because the role Pope has a lot of genuine, prescribed power within the Catholic Church. The Emperor's religious authority is (as it was during the shogunate) ceremonial. I think the point being made in the book was that the European visitor couldn't figure out the actual legal/political underpinnings of the government. He was aware of the tennō being some sort of important official in Kyoto that ritualistically endorsed the current government, and interpreted it purely as a religious official instead of realising it was a mixture of religious official and a (at that point) symbolic/ceremonial hereditary head-of-state. There are fights over control of the emperor a few times during civil wars in the Shogunate period because even though he doesn't have any actual power within the government, he's still technically the guy who delegates the authority to run the country to the Shogun so controlling the Emperor was still very useful in convincing other nobles to support your claim to the Shogunate. Red Bones has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Red Bones posted:
In a reverse situation the chinese monk Rabban Bar Sauma traveled to Europe in 1287 and he also had difficulties with understanding things. He, for example, writes about how the pope picks up the crown with his feet and place it on the emperor's head.
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In Daqin the worthiest person was always selected to rule and their opponents stood away
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In Daqin the worthiest person was always selected to rule and their opponents stood away quote:Their kings are not permanent rulers, but they appoint men of merit. When a severe calamity visits the country, or untimely rain-storms, the king is deposed and replaced by another. The one relieved from his duties submits to his degradation without a murmur.
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Kassad posted:
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Not exactly "historical" since it pertains to modern events, but I learned a bunch going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole before today's Europa League semifinal between Inter Milan and Shakhtar Donetsk. FC Shakhtar Donetsk is one of the more successful teams in Ukraine, based in Donetsk on the far eastern border of the country. It's a huge industrial center, particularly for coal mining and manufacturing. The team hasn't actually played in Donetsk for the last six years because the entire area is occupied by pro-Russian forces. I felt pretty ignorant learning this, because while Russian occupation of Crimea gets some media coverage, this area of about 2 million people gets much less attention. It has been under control of the Donetsk People's Republic for long enough that Russia actually recognizes formal documents like driver license and marriage certificates. Meanwhile, there are two areas of Georgia that also have had prolonged separatist conflicts and ethnic cleansing of native Georgians -- South Ossetia and Abkhazia. All of these disputed territories recognize one another as independent nations. The only UN states that recognize them are Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, and bizarrely, the Oceanic island nations of Nauru and Vanuatu. Anyway, to tie this back to soccer, there is a smaller organization that directly opposes FIFA called ConIFA -- the Confederation of Independent Football Associations. The 2020 ConIFA World Cup was canceled due to COVID-19, but the tournaments held by ConIFA include teams fielded by disputed territories or stateless peoples. The 2020 World Cup would've included South Ossetia, Darfur, Kárpátalja, and Kurdistan, among others. But, there are teams from Artsakh (a breakaway territory of Azerbaijan), Abkhazia, Sápmi (comprised of native Sami in Scandinavia), Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Somaliland, etc. Strangely, two sovereign nations in Europe also compete in ConIFA as they are not FIFA members -- Vatican City and Monaco. I find it absolutely fascinating that if not for the pandemic, players from some of the most war-torn and neglected territories in the world would have gathered in North Macedonia to play soccer on behalf of their homelands. And I also realized that, holy poo poo, there are a lot of active territorial conflicts that I'd never heard of.
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Aggro posted:The only UN states that recognize them are Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, and bizarrely, the Oceanic island nations of Nauru and Vanuatu. The pacific island countries (and other very small or very poor countries in general) are prone to recognising disputed territories in return for financial support (normally via foreign aid money). For example, you see some of them go back and forth on recognising Taiwan depending on who is signing the cheques in any given year.
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The first country to formally recognise the United States of America after it declared independence was Morocco in 1786. They signed a treaty of peace and friendship and the Morocco/US friendship is the longest unbroken relationship in the US's history. A copy of the treaty is displayed in a museum in Tangier in Morocco, which is how I learned about this.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I mean, as hangman of nazis, he did ok. Give credit where credit's due. There's no wrong way to
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Helith posted:The first country to formally recognise the United States of America after it declared independence was Morocco in 1786. They signed a treaty of peace and friendship and the Morocco/US friendship is the longest unbroken relationship in the US's history. Parts of the American Declaration of Independence are almost directly copied from the Dutch Plakkaat van Verlatinghe, a document signed by the Dutch provinces on July 26th, 1581, in which they declared themselves independent from their then-ruler, king Philip II of Spain.
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Red Bones posted:The pacific island countries (and other very small or very poor countries in general) are prone to recognising disputed territories in return for financial support (normally via foreign aid money). For example, you see some of them go back and forth on recognising Taiwan depending on who is signing the cheques in any given year. I was going to say that it's not quite that bad, but checking Wikipedia I saw that Vanuatu recognised Taiwan for one week in November 2004, so actually, yes, it is.
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Regarding the power of the Pope and the recognition of the breakaways - Croatia made a deal with the Vatican in 1991 to be the first to recognize its independence in exchange for certain privileges. The Vatican did and a ton of other European countries, as well as USA, followed suit, effectively signing the death warrant for Yugoslavia. So the Pope still kind of counts, or at least he did in the late 1900s.
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It seems bad from a gameplay standpoint to have 60 npcs move before the pc.
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Milo and POTUS posted:It seems bad from a gameplay standpoint to have 60 npcs move before the pc. The PC was Brutus 
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Piell posted:Should've taken Improved Initiative He cast the die, but rolled a I.
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https://thejeopardyfan.com/2020/06/final-jeopardy-6-11-2020.htmlquote:During the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BCE, he was stabbed 23 times. Interestingly, the autopsy performed on him determined that only one wound of the 23, a piercing of his aorta, was ultimately fatal.
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I don't think the other 22 wounds helped.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I don't think the other 22 wounds helped. Stabbings are weird like that, though, there’s usually a ton of superficial injuries plus one or two that did all the heavy lifting on their own. Despite that, there’s a reason for that jokenabout the difference between a winner of a knife fight and the loser. The loser dies at the scene, the winner dies in the hospital. It takes a while to leak to death from most things like that.
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Or that one girl who almost got sacrificed to Slenderman but apparently survived a dozen stab wounds. Knives aren't very reliable weapons.
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I think with prompt modern medical care stabbings and shootings are something absurd like 98% survivable if they don't hit you in the brain or heart. Of course prompt medical care is far from guaranteed so don't go getting in knife fights.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I think with prompt modern medical care stabbings and shootings are something absurd like 98% survivable if they don't hit you in the brain or heart. And if they get you in the guts you might be making GBS threads into a bag for the rest of your life.
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I remember hearing that your organs are pretty good at squishing and sliding around with relatively low-velocity stuff like knifing, but I'm not sure how true that is.
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Getting a small wound before people discovered the benefit of disinfection was also bad.
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In pre-antibiotics times you could get killed by a splinter f you were really unlucky and it got infected. Let alone almost two dozen stab wounds.
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Since pee is sterile, it's actually beneficial to have someone at the scene pee into any open wounds you have until you can get to a hospital or the EMTs arrive.
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Urine is not sterile, do not pee in open wounds.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Or that one girl who almost got sacrificed to Slenderman but apparently survived a dozen stab wounds. Knives aren't very reliable weapons. I looked it up and ~85 percent of stab wounds are superficial injuries (in the sense of not hitting something that can make you bleed out or gently caress up your guts) Unfortunately, much like potato chips, it’s very hard to have just one.
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Alhazred posted:Urine is not sterile, do not pee in open wounds. You're not my real dad you can't tell me what to do!
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Alhazred posted:Urine is not sterile, do not pee in open wounds. Nice try.
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Byzantine posted:I remember hearing that your organs are pretty good at squishing and sliding around with relatively low-velocity stuff like knifing, but I'm not sure how true that is. This sounds like the kind of thing someone would say if they were approaching you in a dark alley with a knife
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FreudianSlippers posted:You're not my real dad you can't tell me what to do! Fine! Get gangrene for all I care!
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