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Who do you think this Morrison is? E: SOLVED Teriyaki Hairpiece has issued a correction as of 02:54 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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I figured it out, immediately. I'm sorry for wasting anyone's time. I'll let the original post stand.
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Apr 13, 2024 02:53
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What military unit traveled the furthest distance just to get killed? Unit, not individual persons. My vote is the Russian fleet sailing from the Baltic to get sunk at Tsushima
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Apr 14, 2024 17:25
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion
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Apr 14, 2024 17:26
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What military unit traveled the furthest distance just to get killed? Unit, not individual persons. My vote is the Russian fleet sailing from the Baltic to get sunk at Tsushima That would probably be the answer, or the cargo submarines that travelled between Japan and Germany with jet engines and blueprints and stuff. e: maybe von Spee's squadron and other cruisers on foreign station during the First World War.
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Apr 14, 2024 17:29
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I still think a contender might be Australians getting blown up on various Western fronts? Don't know if they had a longer trip than the Russians before Tsushima
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Apr 14, 2024 17:31
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actually this attrition rate is remarkably low
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Apr 14, 2024 17:32
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:That would probably be the answer, or the cargo submarines that travelled between Japan and Germany with jet engines and blueprints and stuff. yeah if it isn't the Baltic Fleet before Tsushima, the German East Asia Squadron in 1914 is a good contender, especially when you consider that these ships had to get to Tsingtao on deployment before the start of the war, and if you count that it's nearly a complete circumnavigation e: 
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the Valentine tanks built in the UK and found themselves fighting the IJA on the steppes of Mongolia in August 1945 EDIT: there's also something very poetic about a tank executing a war of maneuver in the birthplace of the masters of the art. An armored steed, looking over the rolling plains where Genghis Khan began his world-spanning empire. "Remember how we used to run..." gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 17:57 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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Apr 14, 2024 17:46
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The Canadian "C Force" sent to garrison Hong Kong in late 1941 is another good contender, assembled from a Quebec regiment and a Manitoba regiment and sent to Hong Kong only to get immediately destroyed by the Japanese. Also noteworthy for Charles "Chubby" Power completely owning himself:quote:The two battalions Crerar selected were both Class C units, both evaluated on the lowest level of fitness for combat.[12] The first unit selected by Crerar was the Royal Rifles of Canada, which was only selected because of lobbying on the part of Associate Defence Minister Power who insisted that the Royal Rifles, full of his relatives and friends, go to Hong Kong.[12] Mackenzie King's diary mentions in passing in December 1941 that "it was Power himself who was keenest on having the Quebec regiment [the Royal Rifles] go, he mentioning at the time that his own son was a member of it".[12] vyelkin has issued a correction as of 17:54 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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Apr 14, 2024 17:51
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Travelling from Quebec to Hong Kong to get shot by Japanese people is precisely the kind of thing I'm asking about
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Apr 14, 2024 17:59
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im watching the sympathizer and i have the most weirdly specific question imaginable reference is made to ivy league educated people always claiming to be part black was this ever actually a thing or at least was it a thing in vietnam it kind of sounds like the author was just applying the more typical "my great great grandmother was a native american" family mythology bullshit to other races and completely misunderstanding why white people do that but im willing to humor the idea that american officers in vietnam pretended to be part black for some other unrelated weird reason
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Apr 15, 2024 14:29
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that wasn't a thing until the 23andme era imo
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Apr 15, 2024 14:39
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https://www.intelligent.com/34-of-white-college-students-lied-about-their-race-to-improve-chances-of-admission-financial-aid-benefits/?adfa This is the only thing with actual stats I could find, but that says white students overwhelmingly choose Native American when lying about their race. Also that if you see a white male in college/university, there's like a 50% chance they lied about their race.
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Apr 15, 2024 15:02
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i say swears online posted:that wasn't a thing until the 23andme era imo it was a thing for people to say XYZ ancestor was "Cherokee" as a way to excuse what was seen as obvious nonwhite characteristics
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Apr 15, 2024 15:42
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Please State Your Ethnicity to Continue
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Apr 15, 2024 15:46
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041524 posted:Please State Your Ethnicity to Continue Caucasian
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Apr 15, 2024 15:58
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bedpan posted:it was a thing for people to say XYZ ancestor was "Cherokee" as a way to excuse what was seen as obvious nonwhite characteristics
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Apr 15, 2024 16:02
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A Buttery Pastry posted:it was popular enough that it flowed back to the "home country" from the american side of my family. i was told as a child that one of them was a insanely fat american sheriff who married a sioux princess, which i definitely believed as a kid because they lead the story with the super fat part. Lying about Native American women is a time-honored tradition in the colonies. After all, John Smith probably never met Pocahontas; he was medivacced from Jameston after his powderhorn exploded while he was carrying it.
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Apr 15, 2024 16:07
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sullat posted:Lying about Native American women is a time-honored tradition in the colonies. After all, John Smith probably never met Pocahontas; he was medivacced from Jameston after his powderhorn exploded while he was carrying it.
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Apr 15, 2024 16:21
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Maybe he met her in London. No, she died of TB shortly after she arrived in London with her husband. He wrote about his 'adventures' 20 years later and they were mostly made up.
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Apr 15, 2024 17:31
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sullat posted:No, she died of TB shortly after she arrived in London with her husband. He wrote about his 'adventures' 20 years later and they were mostly made up. lmao so did they ever meet and were they ever married?
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Apr 15, 2024 17:38
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pow wow chow...
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Apr 15, 2024 17:46
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Some Guy TT posted:im watching the sympathizer and i have the most weirdly specific question imaginable reference is made to ivy league educated people always claiming to be part black was this ever actually a thing or at least was it a thing in vietnam it would be mildly interesting to look up the novel and see if the author does it there or if it's added in. iirc the guy shows a general in the show is known as "the crapulent major" in the book. e: I watched half of the first episode last night. it seemed pretty decent and I intend to continue. I did read the book so I am interested to see how they will put it on the screen.
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Apr 15, 2024 17:47
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plz do not discuss pochahontas in this thread as she predates napoleon and is off topic unless youre discussing the 1995 disney film which counts as history now because were all old
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Apr 15, 2024 17:52
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I had to explain the difference between North Korea and North Vietnam to an American yesterday and it lowkey blew my mind
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Apr 15, 2024 17:58
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mawarannahr posted:I had to explain the difference between North Korea and North Vietnam to an American yesterday and it lowkey blew my mind Did they think that North Korea still held American pows?
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Apr 15, 2024 18:02
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mawarannahr posted:I had to explain the difference between North Korea and North Vietnam to an American yesterday and it lowkey blew my mind hiring park chan wook to make a prestige tv series about vietnam seems like something strongly influenced by that subliminally but no one involved can really say as much because of how racist it sounds theres also a fuckload of irony involved there because south korea had even more per capita contribution to the vietnam war than we did but this is such obvious evidence of their always just being our vassal state its completely memory holed over there
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Apr 15, 2024 18:06
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ROK troops were also notorious for being extremely bloodthirsty in Vietnam, something that might have something to do with the fact that South Korea was a literal police state into the 80s
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Apr 15, 2024 18:29
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sullat posted:No, she died of TB shortly after she arrived in London with her husband. He wrote about his 'adventures' 20 years later and they were mostly made up. mawarannahr posted:I had to explain the difference between North Korea and North Vietnam to an American yesterday and it lowkey blew my mind 
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Apr 15, 2024 18:32
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bedpan posted:it was a thing for people to say XYZ ancestor was "Cherokee" as a way to excuse what was seen as obvious nonwhite characteristics On Vancouver Island, they would say "Hawaiian", rather than coastal Indian.
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Apr 15, 2024 18:34
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vyelkin posted:If you can find it, Esfir Shub's Padenie dinastii Romanovykh (1927) is pretty great It's absolutely fantastic ! Thank you so much for posting this. The music in particular is wonderful.
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Apr 15, 2024 20:32
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mawarannahr posted:I had to explain the difference between North Korea and North Vietnam to an American yesterday and it lowkey blew my mind I knew a guy who had only recently learned thar Israel is a recently founded country and not a direct unbroken continuation of the biblical polity
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Apr 15, 2024 23:05
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mawarannahr posted:I had to explain the difference between North Korea and North Vietnam to an American yesterday and it lowkey blew my mind My mom is generally well-informed but she somehow thought that South Vietnam still exists. I guess the reunification happened when she was too young to be watching the news, then it was too recent to be in any of her history classes.
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Apr 16, 2024 01:32
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a woman at a party was surprised that i was "white" when she asked where my unusual name was from (Portugal). "But you dont look like youre from Africa"
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Apr 16, 2024 04:58
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did you tell her about the kingdom of kongo and alfonso the first
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Apr 16, 2024 06:19
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Portugal was in the africa expansion for AOE2.
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StashAugustine posted:I knew a guy who had only recently learned thar Israel is a recently founded country and not a direct unbroken continuation of the biblical polity It doesn't even really have a broken continuity afaik, I understand Jews to be descended from the inhabitants of... get this... Judah. I guess there was a unified kingdom for what, a generation?
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Apr 16, 2024 09:32
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Tankbuster posted:Portugal was in the africa expansion for AOE2. Makes sense, Africa begins at the Pyrenees.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:did you tell her about the kingdom of kongo and alfonso the first Weka posted:It doesn't even really have a broken continuity afaik, I understand Jews to be descended from the inhabitants of... get this... Judah. I guess there was a unified kingdom for what, a generation? Less than 50 years. If you're in a history program, you can get fully funded research trips, grants, mentorship, connected to publishers, if you churn out inane pablum like "The History of Jews in the Land of Israel". It drives me up the wall. DJJIB-DJDCT has issued a correction as of 12:58 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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