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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Prohass wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Every single human being except Fred Rogers and Jesus have been flawed

    Washington couldnt even resist the temptations of the Apple of Eden.

    Could you

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Prohass wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Every single human being except Fred Rogers and Jesus have been flawed

    Washington couldnt even resist the temptations of the Apple of Eden.

    Could you

    i cant even resist candy apples

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Prohass wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Every single human being except Fred Rogers and Jesus have been flawed

    Washington couldnt even resist the temptations of the Apple of Eden.

    Could you

    I mean, I don't really go out of my way to eat apples. And I could do without being sad about my balls being out.. So yeah, I think I could hack it.

    Jedoc on
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  • LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    What about

    Bob Ross

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Bob Ross was a flawed man who was healed by art and I think that's beautiful and also I'm probably just making this up as I go

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Bob Ross was a quiet revolutionary.

    Bob Ross?

    Rob Boss?

    Yes. Yes, you should.

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Norm Abram on the other hand has a faustian deal

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUG9NsRADsg

  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Every single human being except Fred Rogers and Jesus have been flawed

    Jesus wishes he was Mr. Rogers.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Look, I love Mr. Rogers, but sometimes I need somebody to overturn tables and run the moneylenders out of the synagogue, and I ain’t knockin’ on Fred’s Roger’s door for that particular service, dig?

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    Look, I love Mr. Rogers, but sometimes I need somebody to overturn tables and run the moneylenders out of the synagogue, and I ain’t knockin’ on Fred’s Roger’s door for that particular service, dig?

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    I stand humbled and corrected, Mr. Rogers, Sir.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I've never been so excited about bread and that's saying something cause I'm a bready boy I fucking love gluten and yeasts and other bread things

  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Bob Ross was a quiet revolutionary.

    Bob Ross?

    Rob Boss?

    Yes. Yes, you should.

    It's not robbery it's reappropriation

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Those sideburns...so majestic...they should have sent...a poet...

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    I posted this in the youtube thread as well, but two of my colleagues at the museum at which I work performed at the Kennedy Center their show about women following the army during the American Revolutionary War, and it is absolutely brilliant and a too often untold story that I highly recommend. With a bit of Q&A afterward explaining the research that went into it, and answering specific questions about some of the things they touched on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBzLDwtDdfQ

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    Real strong, facetious.

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    My uh, hmm

    great-great-great? grandfather, who, by all accounts, wasn't that great, killed a house full of men over a debt (his debt, no less) and fled the country with his wife

    they made their way over to America and got started on the family that would eventually beget, and probably end with, me.

    family history!

    Depressperado on
  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    6 generations back is nearly far enough to be related to 10% of PA

    (Is a statistic he pulled from his drunk ass)

    Captain Inertia on
  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    FWIW that video that facetious linked is brilliant and worth the watch.

  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    May 1932 - Lindbergh Baby Found in Hopewell, NJ (real sound)
    https://youtu.be/NnzA5aZ1Dxs
    5:09
    Rare nighttime footage of a search party on the scene where Charles and Anne Lindbergh's baby was found followed by an interview with William Allen. The disappearance of the child was a huge news story at the time. Films taken with early Movietone sound cameras in May 1932. Worked on footage/sound

    1928-1929: Life in England (real sound)
    https://youtu.be/NqyiMrIgwcw
    47:50
    Compilation of very early sound-on-film scenes of everyday life throughout England in the late 1920's. Scenes taken with early Movietone sound cameras. Compiled/remastered all footage and sound

    Peas on
  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire - Anne F. Broadbridge
    https://youtu.be/wUVvTqvjUaM
    5:00

    Trace the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire which, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, became the largest contiguous land empire in history.

    --

    It was the largest contiguous land empire in history— stretching from Korea to Ukraine, and from Siberia to southern China. And was forged on the open plains. In the 12th century, the East Asian steppe was home to scattered groups of nomads who, by 1206, would be united under the innovative leadership of a man named Temujin. Anne F. Broadbridge details the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire.

    Lesson by Anne F. Broadbridge, directed by Globizco Studios.

  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Peas wrote: »
    The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire - Anne F. Broadbridge
    https://youtu.be/wUVvTqvjUaM
    5:00

    Trace the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire which, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, became the largest contiguous land empire in history.

    --

    It was the largest contiguous land empire in history— stretching from Korea to Ukraine, and from Siberia to southern China. And was forged on the open plains. In the 12th century, the East Asian steppe was home to scattered groups of nomads who, by 1206, would be united under the innovative leadership of a man named Temujin. Anne F. Broadbridge details the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire.

    Lesson by Anne F. Broadbridge, directed by Globizco Studios.

    Dan Carlin has a 5+ (there's an 'Extras' show) series on this era titled "Wrath of the Khans" and its pretty damn good. I've seen it available for free in Google's podcast app.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
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    That is an impressive display of kit that is like at least two pistols, three daggery knives and two swords

    Hobnail on
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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    He's even got a backup helmet spike, for the ol Mamluk Rhino Charge

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Please don't post my picture when I'm dressed in my full 19th century weaponry open carry advocate regalia.

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    people make fun of the old timey spiked helmets but if you have a better way to guard against dropbear attack i'd like to see it

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Please don't post my picture when I'm dressed in my full 19th century weaponry open carry advocate regalia.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYxknwp7zAs

  • MuzzmuzzMuzzmuzz Registered User regular
    So, due to childhood mortality in history, there was a good chance secondborn, or even thirdborn sons (and sometimes...gasp, women) got to inherit wealth and titles. So many what-ifs.

    For example, Edward I of England (Longshanks) eldest son was named Alphonso (after his Castillian mother's brother), a very rare name in England. Who sadly died at the tender age of ten. Imagine... among all the Henry's, Richards, and Edwards, there could have been a King Alphonso of England.

    Also, there's at least two cases of Heir Apparent's named Arthur, both tragically passed away. The first was the nephew of Richard I (the Lionheart) who on paper was supposed to succeed him, but Robin Hood wasn't able to save him from Prince John's evil clutches. (Okay, that Robin Hood part isn't true, but the fate of the boy is suspicious)

    Then there's Arthur Tudor, eldest son of Henry VII, who died shortly after being married to Catherine of Aragon. This is made even more tragic because King Henry and his wife tried to have one more kid afterwards, and the result was the death of both the mother and child. Arthur's younger brother succeeded his dad, married Catherine (ick?) which led to some interesting timelines.

    Basically, if you are planning for your kid to become literally King Arthur, Fate will step in and slap you for your hubris.

  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    Then there's Arthur Tudor, eldest son of Henry VII, who died shortly after being married to Catherine of Aragon. This is made even more tragic because King Henry and his wife tried to have one more kid afterwards, and the result was the death of both the mother and child. Arthur's younger brother succeeded his dad, married Catherine (ick?) which led to some interesting timelines.
    This part is totally normal at that level of politics. England's alliance with Spain was way more important that Henry's feelings about Catherine. Based on, uh, later events he probably wasn't a fan, but he didn't really have a say.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Commoners also often remarried that way - basically a brother would take over the dead man's place inside the family business and help provide for his widow and children

  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    The Diggers were pretty cool for a bunch of religious squares
    The Diggers were a group of Protestant radicals in England, sometimes seen as forerunners of modern anarchism, and also associated with agrarian socialism and Georgism. Gerrard Winstanley's followers were known as True Levellers in 1649 and later became known as Diggers, because of their attempts to farm on common land.

    Their original name came from their belief in economic equality based upon a specific passage in the Acts of the Apostles. The Diggers tried (by "levelling" land) to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small, egalitarian rural communities. They were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around this time.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=OA4FTIz2Zrw

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  • MuzzmuzzMuzzmuzz Registered User regular
    a5ehren wrote: »
    Then there's Arthur Tudor, eldest son of Henry VII, who died shortly after being married to Catherine of Aragon. This is made even more tragic because King Henry and his wife tried to have one more kid afterwards, and the result was the death of both the mother and child. Arthur's younger brother succeeded his dad, married Catherine (ick?) which led to some interesting timelines.
    This part is totally normal at that level of politics. England's alliance with Spain was way more important that Henry's feelings about Catherine. Based on, uh, later events he probably wasn't a fan, but he didn't really have a say.

    What's weird is the Bible states that if an elder son dies without heirs, the next son is obligated to take the widow as a wife.

    But apparently there a bit of controversy over Prince Henry doing that because according to the Church you WEREN'T supposed to do that. (had nothing to do with King Henry VII wanting to keep Catherine's dowry, not at all) They had to get Catherine to sign that she had never done the Horizontal Mambo with Prince Arthur before he died, and was still a virgin before she got permission to remarry.

    Then when she only produce one daughter and no living sons, King Henry VIII assumed that marrying his dead brother's widow was the reason he wasn't having any (male) kids.

    Bit of a mixed message.

  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    Anybody want bananas, bad faith international institutions, and CIA-backed violence?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnTZZ55_0zY

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Muzzmuzz wrote: »
    So, due to childhood mortality in history, there was a good chance secondborn, or even thirdborn sons (and sometimes...gasp, women) got to inherit wealth and titles. So many what-ifs.

    For example, Edward I of England (Longshanks) eldest son was named Alphonso (after his Castillian mother's brother), a very rare name in England. Who sadly died at the tender age of ten. Imagine... among all the Henry's, Richards, and Edwards, there could have been a King Alphonso of England.

    Also, there's at least two cases of Heir Apparent's named Arthur, both tragically passed away. The first was the nephew of Richard I (the Lionheart) who on paper was supposed to succeed him, but Robin Hood wasn't able to save him from Prince John's evil clutches. (Okay, that Robin Hood part isn't true, but the fate of the boy is suspicious)

    Then there's Arthur Tudor, eldest son of Henry VII, who died shortly after being married to Catherine of Aragon. This is made even more tragic because King Henry and his wife tried to have one more kid afterwards, and the result was the death of both the mother and child. Arthur's younger brother succeeded his dad, married Catherine (ick?) which led to some interesting timelines.

    Basically, if you are planning for your kid to become literally King Arthur, Fate will step in and slap you for your hubris.

    They should have tried naming a daughter Arthur. I think Fate would have liked that.

  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
    The first and last king of Haiti - Marlene Daut 5:10
    https://youtu.be/q7lfSjjMNU8
    Dive into the life of Henry Christophe, a former slave and leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only king of Haiti.

    --

    The royal couple of Haiti rode into their coronation to thunderous applause. After receiving his ornate crown, Henry Christophe ascended his throne, towering 20 meters in the air. But little did the cheering onlookers know that the first king of Haiti would also be its last. Who was this revolutionary? Marlene Daut details how a man enslaved at birth rose through the ranks to become king.

    Lesson by Marlene Daut, directed by Cabong Studios.

    Animator's website: https://www.cabongstudios.com.br

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    You guys really shoudl check out Fall Of Civilizations Podcast. Well researched, well presented podcast.

    His episode on Easter Island/Rapa Nui is a highlight.
    he totally deconstructs the common theory that the locals deforested their own Island which led to widespread ecological collapse. He really does a great job of helping you get a sense of what the place may have been like at its height, and it's collapse

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    Osowiec Fortress, Northeast Poland, August 6, 1915. German artillery is finally in range of the Russian-held fortress and has been unleashing pounding volleys, but this day is the first that shows favorable wind conditions for gas shells, which the German guns begin firing around 4 AM. Russian defenses were manned by 500 soldiers of the 226th Infantry Regiment Zemlyansky, and 400 militia (mostly conscripts.)

    Chlorine gas is a nightmare. Grass turns black. Leaves turn yellow. Birds and insects fall out of the air, dying before they touch the ground. Soldiers describe it as making a landscape that looked like hell, and the Russians were not equipped to deal with this deadly weapon. Many had no gas masks at all, and wound water-or-urine-soaked rags around their faces. As more than 7000 German troops close in on the fortress, the highest-ranking survivor of the attacks, Sub-Lieutenant Vladimir Kotlinsky, decides with his men that the only thing left to do is charge.

    As the Germans close in, suddenly a surge of howling figures meets them in a counter-charge, and though it is only a hundred men, the German lines shatter and they instantly begin retreating, throwing their weapons down in terror and fleeing so quickly that they run into their own traps and siege trenches, at the sight that greets them; A hundred screaming Russian corpses, their flesh melting from their faces, literally coughing bits of lung and blood out as they charge, a final act of defiance that would forever after be known as the Charge of the Dead Men.

    Happy Halloweeeeeen~

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Yeah chlorine gas is fucked.

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