Hitler, fo' realz.

A more classical example? The Numantians? Or the jews at Masada maybe?

Bronx, late 1970s
Impoverished residents of Southern Bronx found themselves generally stuck in their apartment and housing complexes due to ridiculous housing price inequalities. Even the landlords were fed up with the amount of money they were losing on buildings that turned little if any profit. Residents turned to crime for money in the wake of the late 70s recession, and probably more hilarious, burning down their own buildings. By simply dousing the buildings in gasoline and setting them alight, landlords could claim great insurance money but also get rid of the destitute properties, while residents in many cases would be assigned by the housing authorities new apartments, usually outside of the Bronx. Cue 40% of the Bronx being burned down by 1980.

Jimmy Carter was once attending a game in the stadium located in the Bronx, and the television panned out to show, live, a fire burning down several blocks of the Bronx. Fires became so widespread that the fire departments basically couldnt do a thing to stop them, considering the age of most of the buildings.

>>40672
and yet the bronx is still shitty... what a shame

http://badassoftheweek.com/maibhago.html

Fucking Sikhs. Also, pretty much everyone on BAotW

Lol.

>>43468
Thanks.

Start at Indo-European migrations or the Bronze Age Collapse.

And why skip Rome? Rome was badass.

http://boards.the/ future.org/int/res/5048145

>>43436
So out of the group the person he spent the most time with was a gentile that he himself converted and that`s the reasoning for him being an accurate representation of the views of the apostles?

>>43439
If he were a Gentile then how would he have such an intimate knowledge of the Temple and how it operated?

>>43454
That`s my point Luke was an uncut Greek gentile converted to Christianity by Paul . Any "intimate knowledge" he would of had would be second hand .

I think my biggest beef with your argument is the whole Peter as "first Pope" thing. From the bible it appears James had more stroke in Jerusalem among the apostles than Peter. The entire Peter as the rock upon which the Church was built has been challenged by many non-Catholic scholars as a play on words meaning for faith as the bedrock of the church.

In many ways, Paul and the Gospels are not saying the old morality, with regard to solf-governance, has changed but that the old rituals no longer have any bearing because the life, death and resurrection of Jesus was the fulfillment of God's covenant with Abraham and his offspring. It seems the one biggest changes between the Old and New Testament is the reverence to dietary laws and the numerous polemics against them because they are vain rituals.

>>43465
"Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose" Mathew 5:17
anyone who feels that the destruction of the laws was the will of Christ needs to read more

>>43385
Her lanyard is an inadvertent Hester Prynne reference. Kinda funny.

>>42323

>She didn't stop there…

Yeah, what >>43409 said, she never actually had sexual relations with a horse. Just lots of men.

>>43433

That's a mighty fine observation bro

>>43381
probably winston churchill since immediately after WWII it would include parts of west germany etc

but i think the mongolian empire was bigger (by landmass at least)



also my pick is dalai lama, he is chill as fuck
or thomas jefferson

Basil the Bulgar Slayer. He might have been a mega hawk, but he was financially prudent and never sent soldiers on a campaign he did not join. Too bad he never made an effort to appoint a competent successor and his relatives were a bunch half wits.

The Westphalian peace which ended the 30 years war cemented this, some cal it the birth of the modern sovereignty model, but the HRE was never really a centralized empire beforehand.

There were all kinds of "autonomous" regions right from the beginning (e.g Bavaria) and the emperor usually didn't try to go for a strong centralized state like France or England so you can say the HRE never was centralized.

>read subject title

Get that Voltaire jive outta here!

Haters gonna hate.

it was never centralized before it was a loose confederation

charlemagne conquered bitches and recieved tribute from independent rulers (well by definition they arent independent if they pay tribute, but charlemagne couldnt tell them what to do)

the roman empire was not part related to the holy roman empire

The fall of the Hohoenstaffen dynasty. I think the entire controversy that caused the Holy Roman Emperors to get involved in the Italian peninsula in the 12th Century,and the constant feuding with the Roman Pope made the smaller and less omnipotent emperor a lot of enemies which ultimately curtailed the powers of the Holy Roman Emperor and made it more a honorary title than an office of real power.

>The subject must be the 20th or 19th century.
>Europe

wow,wonder what you'll be learning about.

Assignment info is this.


-Three books (chapters and good articles are valid too) for three movies (20%), due March 26. NO EXTENSIONS, NO EXCUSES. What is this paper about? Very
simple: find three old movies (the older the better) on European history topics, on things that happened to Europeans in Europe (no, for example, Europeans in China or in Canada! No Canadians in World War I!); and find three recent History books(you can select only a chapter from the book) or scholarly articles that study similar events or problems. Make a critique of the movie (shortcomings, manipulation, etc) and base that critique in the book you read.

Suggestions?

>>40625

Battleship Potemkin.

>>40559
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMs1dwNu_eI
your welcome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_(film)

this thread is full of fail

>>40673

Stop using fail as a noun, it makes you look like an 18 year old senior.

I actually like this idea, to an extent. The World Wars were European Civil Wars. And while I am glad we haven't had a third, I am saddened by what Europe has become.

>>40674

Stop using 18 year old senior as a pejorative. It makes you look like a 19 year old freshman.

>>40607

american revolutionary war = british colonial civil war

>>40434

>A DAMN GOOD REASON

Hmm subject to debate, the War Powers Resolution didn't exactly stop the executive from throwing its weight around.


The VN war increased the reliance on proxies to fight the good fight against communist expansion, like our dear friends in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Angola, etc. That worked out swimmingly for everyone involved.

DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>40426
I think heroin has been around before vietnam, unless vietnam did something more with heroin.

heroin was invented during the great binge

uhhh americans improved their tactics?
the smaller states of the world realized that USA and USSR werent invincible (proven again by soviet invasion of afghanistan) and if you played your cards right you could be neither ones bitch (ie mostly independant)

>>43319
definitly a twisted sadist. dunno if trolling or just extraordinarily stupid.

>>43347
How the fuck should I know he was a twisted sadist?

I got no books on him, no papers. Just a Slayer song. Hardly historically accurate right.

>>43319

>I'd certainly call Mengele a bad doctor

I'd do the same, my point was that Oppenheimer, Kervorkian and Tesla just don't fit into the same category as him.

they said i was mad when i said i'd put cats on the ceiling...ha! mad!

>Mad scientists

Look no further than Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vhHo6CUq4-o

In holland?

How the devil did they cross the North sea alive.. that shit's brutal. Are you sure it wasn't Scotland or France?

The more I think about it, this sounds crazy. Firstly, they managed to build a ship capable of sailing the ocean (partly) in 60BC and then they ended up shipwrecked and survived one of the worlds most brutal seas, and actually somehow managed to drift to Holland, paying no regards to the ocean currents?

IMO, this shit's pretty impossible..

>>43440
I'm a history major. I saw the same thing. I've been looking and looking and looking and I can't find any primary source to back the claim up. How do we know that 2 native Americans landed in Holland in 60 BC? There would have to be a written record from that time saying so. The Romans weren't there yet, so we wouldn't get it from them. The Celts and the Germans didn't have a written language, so we wouldn't have it from them, and the Indians themselves also didn't have a written language, so we wouldn't have it from them. MAYBE it was passed down through oral tradition, but it still would have had to be written at some point. Basically, this was based on absolutely horrible historical "research." I'll believe it if I see some primary evidence to support it, but I think the chances of this claim being true are slim to none and slim just left town...

Holland?

That's awfully specific you know.

Why the fuck didn't they land in Zealand? Or Friesland? Or anywhere along the coast of the Zuiderzee?

Holland is only a small part of the Dutch coastline.

>>43444

Foreigners like to call the Netherlands Holland, smartass.

And like >>43443 said, there was no written language or anything back then. Add to that >>43442

And I think it's impossible.

This guy called Dan Carlin does a history podcast, though I think he's mainly a radio broadcacster and does the history thing because it's something he's interested in. I've only listened to the ones on the fall of the Roman republic but they were very entertaining, though it seems to be more focused on telling a good story than concrete fact.

And yes, In Our Time is great.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is the only history podcast I've listened to. I got all of his podcast episodes off of a torrent that's sure to still be drifting around somewhere if you look hard enough. Covers anything and everything. Personally I'd recommend listening to his "Ghosts of the Ostfront" about the Eastern Front.

As >>43360 said, he's not by any means a professional historian and he prides himself on how he focuses more on the "human" and interesting parts of history as opposed to the academic side of it.

Also thanks for the recommendation OP, I'm going to go listen to some of it.

More great podcasts
You're welcome
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHistoryNetwork/AncientWarfareMagazine

>>43395
Holy shit, what a goldmine! Many thanks.

>>43397
You're very welcome

>>43425
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin#Etymology

Charles Manson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgczbztTmow&feature=relmfu

>>40355

>In the same year he lost his copy of the German Diplomatic Code Book which fell into the hands of the British and enabled Admiral Hall of the famed Room 40 to read German diplomatic communications throughout much of World War I (see Zimmermann Telegram).

eh

lithianian dudes fucked some shit up 400 years ago, now they fuck themself up.

Andrew Jackson, running around bitchslapping guys with his glove or cane, challenging them to.duels, and killing them in the middle of.the fucking street. Filled.with bullets which he didn't give a single fuck about. rode atop.his majestic white horse eye fucking the ladies.
written from my phone while dropping a fat deuce