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System Metternich posted:It helps when you don't think of it as s single war with clear-cut war goals and opponents and whatnot, but instead of a hilarious clusterfuck of several wars at once that just happened to coincide. Sometimes it's also like a TV show that tries to draw out its running time as much as possible with hilarious twists and turns thrown into the mix (looking at you, Restitutionsedikt). Half expected the Emperor to be at least indirectly involved against the Emperor.
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MrYenko posted:Boy have I got a thread for you... The Admiral in charge of the naval reactors personally interviews every single potential submarine nuclear engineer?  Well, at least he takes his job looking after all those reactors seriously.
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Nenonen posted:Heh, one month ago the police station in Finland's second biggest city was evacuated after a guy brought a rusty hand grenade that he'd found somewhere. And it was live with a very rusty pin and this guy drives 50 km to hand it over and is now facing criminal charges over it. It's not even the first time. At least once a year some yahoo finds an old bomb or a grenade and decides the best course of action is to bring it to the police station, you know, the place in the middle of town, where a lot of people are either working or visiting as customers. I checked and the previous time was in Jyväskylä in March 2015.
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OctaviusBeaver posted:I thought it sucked just as bad for the most part, because most slaves were on the latifundia and were treated like chattel. We just have a rosy picture of it because most of the slaves we hear about are Cicero's secretary or some other cushy job. The ones outside of rich peoples' houses didn't get written about as much but were far more numerous. And there were three major slave rebellions, the Servile Wars. Those helped slavery reforms along because they were afraid of slaves rebelling again and again.
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The True Finns have a bunch of candidates with immigrant backgrounds and every single one of them so far has either quit the party or been a basket case. I wonder which one he'll be!
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:A US congressman leaked the fact that Japanese depth charges were set incorrectly and thus did not damage US submarines. nice. quote:Following news reports of irregularities concerning his conduct in office, May was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress. The bribery scandal was intensified by testimony of excessive profit-taking in the Garsson munition business, and that the Garsson factory produced 4.2-inch mortar shells with defective fuzes, resulting in premature detonation and the deaths of 38 American soldiers.[8] After less than two hours of deliberation,[9] May was convicted by a federal jury on July 3, 1947, on charges of accepting bribes to use his position as Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee to secure munitions contracts during the Second World War. Murray and Henry Garsson also received prison terms.[10] After protracted efforts to avoid incarceration,[9] May subsequently served nine months in federal prison. What a poo poo. Plus ça change.
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