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Ardennes posted:It was more than a "few bad things." The Dardanelles was largely his screwed and was bad enough it may have actively prolonged the war. He also pushed the landings in Italy in 1943 which went nowhere and used up a bunch of Western strength that could have been used elsewhere. He pushed for the use of chemical weapons on the Kurds earlier in life. He also started and fueled a civil war in Greece during WWII when it looked like the communists was about to get power.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. And also the Earth Shall Weep. The HBO adaption of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is also really good, if Incredible depressing.
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Grevling posted:Yeah Norse Greenlanders went there to trade with Dorset people and later Inuit (the Dorset culture lived in eastern arctic Canada and Greenland before the Inuit came a few hundred years ago) and possibly to get timber. There was also trade across the Bering Strait and way before 1492 the Inuit used iron tools from Asia. North-America definitely wasn't completely isolated from Eurasia. There's a theory that basque fishermen also went to America before Colombus.
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exmachina posted:The best king was Bernadotte, a French Republican who became king of Sweden. He had to hide a tattoo on his chest that said "death to all kings" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Square At least king Haakon VII of Norway used his power to tell the nazis to go to hell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_VII_of_Norway#Resistance_during_World_War_II
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When Norway voted to abolish nobility Bernadotte threatened to veto it. He wanted to suspend the norwegian constitution, a move so despotic that even the russian tsar told him not to do it. The best thing you could say about Bernadotte as king was that he, unlike other swedish kings, avoided a war with Russia.
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Chamale posted:Until the discovery of penicillin, disease during wars always killed more people than violence. Food poisoning killed more american soldiers during the spanish-american war than combat did.
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Chamale posted:
We know that it was a lot: https://www.science.org/content/article/feeding-gods-hundreds-skulls-reveal-massive-scale-human-sacrifice-aztec-capital
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Some Guy TT posted:
There's a place in France that's called Zone Rouge that has been officially declared as incompatible with human life because of the human remains, pollution and unexploded ordnance after WWI. It has been calculated that i would take 700 years to clean up the place.
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