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Pontius Pilate posted:The mil hist thread seems like the de facto general history thread. Spans all of history and you can't military history without social, economic, etc history these days. I don't think anyone has ever been run out because their history related question fell into the wrong sub field. And if ya don't give a drat about the minute differences between tank model A vs tank model A.01 those types of posts are easy enough to scroll past. It recently had about a half-a-page earnest-ish discussion of why the NCR lost the battle of the hoover dam. If there's a topic that can get you run out of that thread, I haven't seen it yet but it's probably about tank destroyer doctrine
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Ainsley McTree posted:It recently had about a half-a-page earnest-ish discussion of why the NCR lost the battle of the hoover dam. If there's a topic that can get you run out of that thread, I haven't seen it yet but it's probably about tank destroyer doctrine Wojtek.
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I still don't know why wojtek dropped the bomb on Hiroshima when the Americans had so many tank destroyers ready to invade.
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Jan 14, 2017 01:38
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Pontius Pilate posted:The mil hist thread seems like the de facto general history thread. Spans all of history and you can't military history without social, economic, etc history these days. I don't think anyone has ever been run out because their history related question fell into the wrong sub field. And if ya don't give a drat about the minute differences between tank model A vs tank model A.01 those types of posts are easy enough to scroll past. You could say the same for a lot of fields (what doesn't interact with social history?) but obviously the fact that it's the military history thread is going to massively skew discussion towards comparing pike lengths so it would be better to have a thread that favours more general interests
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Friendly Humour posted:Which is why having a single Ask/Tell thread for History would be a good thing. Unnecessary compartmentalisation is unhealthy and annoying for reading. There's a reason why I have read every page of this thread and not a single one of that other thread. And it's because I noticed that this thread is great, which is why I read it. I have the opposite view; I'm very interested in some of the discussions in this thread and not at all interested in discussions about topics in, say, the military history thread. Threads tend to be dominated by whatever conversation/clique is the largest/loudest, and so I think the quality and range of topics would decline if the threads were joined.
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fantastic in plastic posted:I have the opposite view; I'm very interested in some of the discussions in this thread and not at all interested in discussions about topics in, say, the military history thread. Threads tend to be dominated by whatever conversation/clique is the largest/loudest, and so I think the quality and range of topics would decline if the threads were joined. That doesn't really make any kind of sense to me for a number of reasons, but I'm not going to start defending threads I don't read much. Cheers!
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:it would be better to have a thread that favours more general interests There's one in the Academia subforum for Ask Tell.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:There's one in the Academia subforum for Ask Tell. That one is more for history grad students and historiography though. Man there's a lot of history threads scattered about.
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Pontius Pilate posted:Man there's a lot of history threads scattered about. Sort of me point really. History A/T threads don't really get that many posts to make them unreadable, so merging them probably wouldn't hurt. I know this is more of a QCS kind of thing, but since so few read that forum to begin with I figured I'd post my suggestions here.
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Pontius Pilate posted:That one is more for history grad students and historiography though. Link that poo poo.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Cast_No_Shadow posted:I feel we are good with the three way setup we have now. Mil history for the tank circle jerks. That other one for star fort for bow fuckery and this one for really old stuff. Yeah I'm going to leave this as specifically ancient history but if someone posts a medieval thing and we talk about it a bit it's fine, no need to get spergy. Also since it started as a specifically Rome thread then everything to 1453 is valid anyway. 
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Grand Fromage posted:Also since it started as a specifically Rome thread then everything to 1453 is valid anyway. Don't you mean 1922? 
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Ahem, we  are still around, and since it was the official state religion of the empire I think that brings us to TYOOL 2017.
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Ras Het posted:My lecture notes didn't look at all like that The margin notes however look exactly how I write squiggly little notes
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Ainsley McTree posted:It recently had about a half-a-page earnest-ish discussion of why the NCR lost the battle of the hoover dam. If there's a topic that can get you run out of that thread, I haven't seen it yet but it's probably about tank destroyer doctrine Oh, such a thing does exist believe you me.
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Friendly Humour posted:Sort of me point really. History A/T threads don't really get that many posts to make them unreadable, so merging them probably wouldn't hurt. I know this is more of a QCS kind of thing, but since so few read that forum to begin with I figured I'd post my suggestions here. The milhist thread can move pretty drat quickly. Plus having several different threads means you can have different kinds of discussions going along simultaneously without worrying about them getting drowned out. If I'd make a suggestion it'd be to make a separate WW2 or tank thread, like 50% of the posts in that thread are related to those subjects it seems like. But I think that's been tried before without much success.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Oh, such a thing does exist believe you me. Something something Keldoclock or our own dearly departed 
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What's the lore on the tank destroyer thing? I don't read that thread as much as I read this one.
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Friendly Humour posted:Sort of me point really. History A/T threads don't really get that many posts to make them unreadable, so merging them probably wouldn't hurt. I know this is more of a QCS kind of thing, but since so few read that forum to begin with I figured I'd post my suggestions here. Why can't you just read more than one thread?
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Truly what these forums need are more megathreads.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Truly what these forums need are more megathreads. Rename Ask/Tell to Megathread Mountain.
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P-Mack posted:Rename Ask/Tell to Megathread Mountain. Merge Ask/Tell with PYF. To not take away from the thread, it'll be just like how Cisalpine Gaul became a normal part of Italy instead of a scary frontier over many generations.
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What are some good sources to learn about the famously fractured Byzantine politics? Something focused on a single emperor's reign would be good since I'm looking for a lot of detail.
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I've spent the last few days catching up on this whole thread by just reading Grand Fromage's posts, (41 pages!) so firstly thank you Grand Fromage, and secondly apologies if someone else has already covered this. Going back to the Buddha statues, there's a great ten minute clip here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHt6BgHxa8o about the four basic types of Buddha statue. In case you can't be bothered to watch it the 4 types are basically: Japanese wise old man Buddha, Chinese jolly fat bloke Buddha, Thai/Khmer beautiful sexy Buddha and Greek style Buddha from the areas that Alexander reached (Afghan/Pakistan) or skip to 4 minutes in the video for the bit about Greek Buddha.
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Quick question that I know has been answered before but I can't find it in the thread. What's up with the baby clinging to Augutus' leg in that famous statue of him? Structural support? Or is there thematic significance?
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Jan 17, 2017 06:41
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Well according to Seutonius. . .
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Cyrano4747 posted:Well according to Seutonius. . . That was Titus
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Canemacar posted:Quick question that I know has been answered before but I can't find it in the thread. It's Cupid, another famous descendent of Venus. That's the point. You can think of it as symbolic structural support. Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:That was Titus Tiberius rather. The Jewish traditions regarding Titus contain some salaciousness, but the Romans loved him.
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FiftyFour posted:Greek style Buddha from the areas that Alexander reached (Afghan/Pakistan)  Blew my mind when I really made the connection between ancient worlds that were completely separate in my mind. Remulak fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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skasion posted:It's Cupid, another famous descendent of Venus. That's the point. You can think of it as symbolic structural support. Yes, Tiberius.
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Remulak posted:There are some amazing Greek-style Buddahs at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco across from City Hall. Can't find the ones I was thinking of online, but this one is cool: Yep, that's the point for me when Art History and History became pretty much one and the same. Khan Academy's course seems to me to be quite detailed for a free online course, I've done 3 or 4 hours a week for months and have only just got past the Renaissance. Though with the American accents on all the videos I now keep calling it the Renner-sonce and not the Re-nay-sonce which gets me funny looks here in the UK.
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Specifically, portraying loose and folded clothing in statuary was a Greek innovation.
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I'm rewatching HBO's Rome for the fourth time now. Man, I do love this show. The last time I watched it, I followed it with I, Claudius, which begins roughly 20 years after Rome ends.
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bean_shadow posted:I'm rewatching HBO's Rome for the fourth time now. Man, I do love this show. The last time I watched it, I followed it with I, Claudius, which begins roughly 20 years after Rome ends. That's a nice combo, although it's hard to imagine a bigger contrast in the portrayal of Octavian.
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I'm doing a bachelor's degree in Classics. Younger lecturers keep mentioning Rome. I love it so much, too. I'd much rather have had more seasons of that than Game of Thrones.
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Fuligin posted:That's a nice combo, although it's hard to imagine a bigger contrast in the portrayal of Octavian. I love Brian Blessed and I love his performance in I, Claudius but it was weird as hell casting him as Octavian.
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He's an interesting choice for Augustus but I have to say he works. Graves' Augustus is very jovial and avuncular with the odd freakout, which is right in Blessed's wheelhouse even if he doesn't exactly look the part of the "historical" Augustus who looked 20 when he was 70.
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