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ToxicSlurpee posted:Pretty sure a lot of contemporary paganism in the western world is just plain descended from Wicca, which is literally a made up religion that a guy fabricated in the 1950's. He claimed he was talking to people who had been practicing magic in secret but that turned out to be bullshit.If memory serves it was 100% provably bullshit. Yes, hella agreed. I was just looking for more sources cause I love reading about old stuff. But speaking of folk-magic and folk-wisdom, I'm definitely not an expert, but I've read a bit here and a bit there, and there's no system at all to it. I know that sounds counter-intuitive in a way, but I mean like if say herbs A + B and prayer C together can cure disease D or whatever, you'd figure that eventually that cure would have spread to all countries. Even if only through wise women/men? Weirdly, every region has its own sytem of folk magic.
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Jaramin posted:Herb A or B may not grow everywhere, or the gods being petitioned may be not be worshiped, or maybe the local witches from one side of Lake Baikal hate the ones from the other side, etc. That and folk remedies tend to have a substantial component of the placebo effect, so they're not really useful if the person doesn't really trust it. welll the herbs in scandinavia are 10x more effective than the herbs in mainland europe so.
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Feb 28, 2016 07:32
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Jaramin posted:But the gods there only care about people praying to them 1/10th as much, so it evens out in the end. Haha yes the norse gods basically just do their own thing and are kindof annoyed when humans get in their way.
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Feb 28, 2016 08:08
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Well also, pre-Roman (or any, really) concrete has to be buried deep in the ground to survive the elements. Concrete is really good for stuff you need to be there for a couple centuries, but millenia will wear it down. In that case monoliths are better. Even if they're stacked on top of each other like a pyramid.
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Mar 5, 2016 10:00
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Babe Magnet posted:Concrete rules. There's dudes right now making self-healing concrete by infusing it with bacteria that awakens when it comes in contact with water, secreting limestone and patching the damage. i think we need to expose these covert concrete dudes
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Mar 5, 2016 22:48
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Egh I tried a search for a fun concrete video in Danish words and it was literally half 911 conspiracies and half nazi hitler wasnt so bad kinda stuff. Concrete is probably alright, but I'm not gonna put that in my interests ever again.
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Mar 5, 2016 23:11
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It's not impossible that it might show up. They just rediscovered a rune stone that had been missing for over 200 years (some long-dead farmer used it to build steps for his front door). Google Translate link to the press release: https://translate.google.com/transl...200-aar-1345612
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Mar 24, 2016 22:51
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Alhazred posted:The Gauls actually sacked Rome in 390 BC. The Gauls made the Rome pay a ransom of a thousand pounds of gold. When they started weighing the gold the Romans started protesting which lead to the Gallic leader Brennus tossing a sword on the scale and saying ""Woe the vanquished. 
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Mar 31, 2016 11:30
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Platystemon posted:The WWII U.S. Army booklet 112 Gripes About the French is good reading. Haha, most are pretty reasonable, but then there's this one: quote:48 "I'd like the French a lot better if they were cleaner."
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Apr 29, 2016 08:49
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Also, Technicolor & its predecessors are pretty far off from the colors you'd see with your eyes looking at the same scene. Actually, modern films are tinted as hell too (cf. The Matrix being intensely green-tinted in the matrix scenes). The "language" of color in photos & cinema takes learning. Saw this thing about how color film was developed by white people & optimized to capture white skin tones. Black skin tones were ignored for decades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16LNHIEJzs
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Apr 29, 2016 20:49
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Elyv posted:It's actually really interesting how much influence the steppe nomads had over the history of Eurasia for the last 4000+ years in general. The Scythians were a steppe people some 3k years ago, and I may be wrong but I think the scythe (as in the sickle-on-a-stick agricultural instrument) was named after them sometime before recorded history. They brought it here, or whoever named it back then thought they did. Re: film, I'm helping my parents scan their negatives from the 70s/80s/90s (3000 so far, and nowhere near halfway through god), and a lot of them are hella degraded. To be fair they've just been stored in like cardboard sleeves in a box on a shelf, but often the developed pictures in the albums that've seen daylight at least a couple times per year have better definition & clarity. Seriously if you have the opportunity to get all that poo poo scanned: Do it now, cause they'll only lose more color & more contrast & fade away into oblivion the longer you wait. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 00:50 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Ah that makes sense. I never looked into the chemistry of it, but the older they are, the more they're curving along the length, which makes sense cause that's the shortest side on a 4-image strip. most of the time It's still possible to put them in the scanner slide. Some of them got some moiré patterns when scanned but mostly they turned out ok. Biggest problem is that a lot of the pre-1990 ones are way dark or have like random sharp blots on them, which idk what are but they're there. Also to be fair: some of them my dad developed himself so idk his mixtures etc.
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Apr 30, 2016 04:23
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Oh man I remember when my folks started to rip some of the reels they'd recorded in the 70s. They had to borrow reel to reel player, they'd sold their own. But they had to align the tape head and the gain & and one more thing I think. At least I they figured out how to cut up the longass aiff into tracks for burning on cds. That's gotta be like a decade ago. I guess it's time to copy the important CDRs huh. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 05:35 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Apr 30, 2016 05:33
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Modern backup tape systems (ie invented after 1990, probably earlier) usually have some kind of auto-correction checksum going. Basically they can lose X% of the data, but the rest will be enough to reconstruct it. What X is depends on the sytem.
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Apr 30, 2016 08:37
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Sorry, when I say "modern" magnetic tape backup systems I just mean that those are still used. There's nothing modern about them.
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Apr 30, 2016 08:40
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One time in my life I recovered stuff off a CD that literally had a hole punched in it. It was a small hole, but it was stable enough to spin without blowing up. ISO9660 had the directory first so i could recoever everything that wasn't in the path of the hole. Not worth it btw.
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Apr 30, 2016 10:06
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Yeah inside a mountain they're solid. They're not solid at all in a pile on the floor and on top of an old crt TV.
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Apr 30, 2016 11:15
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Hence the wall. I mean the opposite of same
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Apr 30, 2016 13:01
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Check out this nazi gently caress signing a marriage bann with a swastika in 1761 from the Amsterdam Stadsarchief & yes I know the origin etc
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bitcoin bastard posted:British secret agent spotted. Artifact of translation. A more literal translation would be something like "Sure as the devil we'll shoot live rounds!" but it doesn't flow as well as Doffen's translation (in my opninion).
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Jun 25, 2016 08:10
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You probably mean lateral thinking (to be incredlby PYF) I had an historical anecdote but it's quite gone now. I'll put it here when it returns
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Jul 23, 2016 00:53
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I kinda doubt German fighters followed British bombers back across the channel... Like fro a total math point of view it makes sense to reinforce the non-penetrated parts surving planes. Irl its just voodoo Either way, those claimed external weak spots seem a bit ...unproven...
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ya that makes more sense I guess
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ArchangeI posted:16th century Oh wow those are fantastic. Thanks! In my genealogy research I've come across a married couple who lived in Copenhagen in the years around 1800. They were pretty much always drunk and belligerent, there's pretty much a new police case every 6 months for around 15 years. Example (my translation): quote:Reverently Promemoria! (I think the 5 rigsdaler line means that Tofte thinks it'd be worth a possible fine)
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From an 1802 complaint by a saddler apprentice regarding the husband, Ole Pedersen Tofte: "Today morning as I stood alone in the shop, the aforementioned my master came in and shut the door and locked it behind him and began to scold me and beat me until I was quite blue." From the documents regarding their separation: quote:Pro Memoria! quote:That I on different occasions have been called to Madame Tofte to bandage some significant headwounds, whereamong especially one on the left side of the temple was dangerous and has left a significant scar, and that she now again shows evidence of violent battery at various places of the body, that her husband is to have caused her; I in truth testify as requested. quote:Copenhagen, April 20 1805
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Say Nothing posted:German soldiers were given testosterone during WWII ( it was first synthesized in 1935) to try and increase aggressiveness and performance. They were ahead of their time in the use of performance enhancing drugs. Did anyone post about the early Tour de France winner who fell off his bike, was given a shot of amphetamines and a glass of brandy, then finished the race, won, & died? Thirty years old or some poo poo. Someone should post that story, not me though.
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Carbon dioxide posted:What's up with the same letter talking about both ducats and guilders? They used both at the time. E: Besides, it wouldn't be uncommon for an international trader to end up with coins from several jurisdictions. It'd also be possible to exchange them in most major port cities. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 20:17 on Jul 28, 2016 |
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This is a total guess, but presumably you either made arrows yourself (if you were poor) or hired a fletcher to do it (if you were rich). There wasn't a sizable middle-class yet in the middle ages, so there wasn't really a market for a lot of things.
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Shbobdb posted:Fletcher's guilds were big business because it was the purpose of government was to wage war and munitions are an important part of that, see the discussion of economics at agincourt. Well yeah, I just mean that there wasn't really such a thing as buying "20 arrows" or whatever.
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chitoryu12 posted:Yeah, but wouldn't the government still need to pay the fletchers for the arrows they produce on contract? The link Shbobdb posted has numbers for a specific contract.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I think it was a bizarre mish mash of making them yourself, bartering for the parts you couldn't, and sharing the kill with whoever produced the arrow. Like the town smith made basically everybody's tools but wasn't necessarily paid in coin. He still needed to eat so he's probably be willing to trade some tools for several loaves of bread and a chicken or whatever. Also most, if not all, meadows, fields, & forests were owned by a local lord, the church, or the king himself, and poaching was usually punishable by death. Commoners basically didn't get to hunt & so had very little use for arrows in general.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Well, at the very least explain what you're talking about, then. No don't, that currency was antimemeti–aw gently caress.
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Perhaps Wappenschild (escutcheon)?
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That's super cool. Looks like there's also been work (by others) at scanning Herculaneum papyri using similar techniques, too.
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I come from a fishing village in Denmark & since I'm a huge nerd I've learned that there's been a bunch of efforts to work with sand (too much/too little). I think the earliest (documented) case is 1680s though. Kinda envious re mediterannean history
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I've always been morbidly fascinated by the earthquake & tsunami that pretty much destroyed Lisbon on all saints' day 1755. The estimated death toll is 10–100 thousand people. Early morning quake in the atlantic, close enough to affect Northern Africa & Portugal, causing fires and house collapses, then the following tsunami washed in. It was felt in Greenland and possibly even Finland and Brazil & the waves were up to 20 meters. There was a flood in 1858 in Denmark/England/Holland that was possibly a tsunami as well, but not nearly as bad. Tsunamis in the atlantic are rare enough that they don't have a European name, but they do happen. E: Moorish architecture in Spain & Portugal is so beautiful.
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I'm possibly a descendant of Gabriel Milan, who was the governor of the Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) in the 1680s. That is, his descendants are pretty thoroughly documented, but I believe I have found that evidence the son through whom I descended was his wife's from an earlier marriage. Now, Gabriel's grandfather was supposedly a man named Henriques Dias Milão-Caceres (1528–1609), who lived in Portugal. He was a Jew (though converted to Catholicism) & had moved there because of Spanish prosecution (the infamous inquisition). In Portugal he did alright until the Portuguese also started up their own inquisition, and he was tortured and forced to confess to having been doing Jewish things in secret (a so-called crypto-jew). A horrible ordeal, I'm sure. He was eventually convicted of Judaism & burned at the stake, but he managed to put enough "blame" on himself to allow his children to escape to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, religions were pretty free even around 1600. There were the Dutch reformed, catholics, protestants, calvinists, and of course jews. Very cool I think. All the sons of Henriques eventually gave their children the name Henriques as a surname (they themselves were named like Manolo Dias Milão etc). There are many families around whose name is Henriques or Henriksen (the Danish variant) through him). There's no direct record, but supposedly, Gabriel Milan was the son of Manolo. In any case, he was definitely in Amsterdam from 1660-ish & on, until he became the governor in the Danish West Indies. Then he really made a mess of it and was called "home" to Denmark, went through a trial, and was sentenced to have his hand and head cut off & put on stakes, but was pardoned & thus "only" beheaded in Copenhagen. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 01:16 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:A lot of people don't know Portugal has two chains of islands, Madeira and Azores. Ronaldo is from the latter. I want to say Madeira is two-three islands and Azores is 10+. They're not very popular as tourist destinations because they're very expensive to visit and you might as well go elsewhere. Mainland Portuguese that have family there receive discounted airfare No need to apologize, it's interesting  Brazil speaks Portuguese too, which used to trip me up cause the rest of South America speaks Spanish.
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Chichevache posted:I did four years of Açorean Portuguese in high school. I never could understand a word of Brazilian. It sounds like French to me. gently caress I thought I was the only one! There really is a French sound to Brazilian Portuguese.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVRaW3NzfnU&t=27s I love this song, but the lyrics are completely impenetrable to me lol. To me it sounds like people pretending to speak French  .
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