Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
This idea occurred to me last night. Since the bubonic plague was thought to be the wrath of God, were there any towns or cities that were completely abandoned during and after the plague and thus marked on the maps with "Never go within 30 miles of this place again"? And on the other hand, were any towns or cities re-populated after the epidemic vanished?
I like to keep my audience riveted.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Anyone know any good reading suggestions for war in the Desert against the Ottoman Empire during WWI or similar events?
edited 14th Sep '17 6:47:54 PM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
Anbar should be able to fill you in on that. After all, he wrote a major thesis on that same subject.
The Fall of the Ottomans covers the whole of the Ottoman war fairly effectively. Desert Hell is probably the best existent book on the Mesopotamian campaign. Pyramids & Fleshpots covers the oft-ignored Egyptian and Western Desert campaigns.
Cape Malleum Majorem
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia).
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Good suggestions two of them are on my future book list.
Who watches the watchmen?
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Good read but be careful with it—Lawrence is a man of his era, and his work is accordingly prejudiced.
On that note, I cheerfully recommend Sir Ian Hamilton's Gallipoli Diary. Words cannot adequately express the sheer amount of bitter snark that is that particular document. Most fun I've ever had with a primary source.
Prejudiced in that general 'white man complex' type of way or towards specific political groups?
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Gallipoli Diary is just now in my Kindle Library. It was free on Amazon because its offered up by a group of volunteers converting it into digital format. :3. I am feeling rather pleased with myself now.
edited 15th Sep '17 9:07:05 PM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?
The Wanderer
I was finally able to find back my copy of Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II by Micheal Bess today.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Both. Lawrence has typically colonialist views which he tries to make fit the Arabs while still trying to justify his liking of them. It creates an odd narrative that is very progressive for the era in places, while shockingly ignorant in others.
Enjoy. And let us know what you think. Hamilton's writing was not what I expected a First World War general to sound like; be curious to see how it comes across to you.
edited 15th Sep '17 10:29:53 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
The Wanderer
Crossposting from the Military thread:
'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet Sub Off The Ocean Floor
Josh Dean's new book, The Taking of K-129, tells the true story of Project Azorian, a secret CIA mission to lift the submarine from a depth of more than 3 miles into a custom-built ship called the Hughes Glomar Explorer.
"There had been no salvage of a submarine below 1,000 feet at that point," Dean says. " ... [It's] probably the greatest feat of naval engineering. And on top of that, you had to do it in secret because it's not like a giant ship parked in the middle of the Pacific — where giant ships aren't normally parked — isn't going to arouse suspicion."
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Stanislav Petrov has been confirmed as dead at age 77. While he died back in May it was kept quiet. The man is one of the unsung heroes of the Cold War.
Stanislav is credited with having averted a nuclear weapons disaster when a Soviet Early Warning system suffered a malfunction and incorrectly announced a nuclear attack by five US missiles. He declared there a was a fault in the system and stood by it.
edited 18th Sep '17 4:29:09 PM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?
Anyone know which Imperial Japanese Army uniform is this one
◊?
Cape Malleum Majorem
Red collar tabs denote Infantry (which includes tanks.) The shoulder boards are those of a Corporal. (A Second Lieutenant's insignia would be the same, but with gold edges.)
edited 23rd Sep '17 4:36:46 PM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
I was also referring to the name of the uniform. I assume that the uniform was from the Second Sino Japanese War and World War II, so would it be the Type 5 (1931), Type 98 (1938), or the Type 3 (1943)?
As he seems to be an officer it would be Type 3, which was an officers only uniform although very similar to Type 98.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
use political terms to describe, not insult
[Current Affairs] A quick reminder of why colonialism was bad. This is a rebuttal to an essay called "The Case for Colonialism", by a Portland State University professor. The author here explains how the case presented in the essay is 90% and gives A quick reminder of why colonialism was bad:
edited 30th Sep '17 8:17:05 AM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Other than Auschwitz, which was manned by 7,000, how many men did Nazi Germany need to guard all the concentration camps they built across the territory they conquered?
The law in the night
Somehow I really don't feel like researching that, too depressing...
Inter arma enim silent leges
How incorrect am I in saving myself the hassle of learning all the minute details of the region by just calling the territories between classical Greece and Rome, Illyria. I'm not really particularly interested in the Balkans in this period and always glaze over stuff about them
Our Favorite Cowgirl, er, Mare
I think that sounds about right.
I like to keep my audience riveted.
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
During which time period? Old Illyria about corresponds to old Yugoslavia. But, depending on the time period (and the route), there was also Dacia, Samnium, Etruria, Magna Gracia, Transalpine Gaul, Cisalpine Gaul, Germania, Macedon, Epirus, Thrace, Scythia, Sarmatia, the Carthaginian dominated waters of the Mediterranean and ever-contested Sicily. And I've probably left some out...
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Alright, so as someone interested in the Second Sino-Japanese War and wanting to study it further in the near future, the argument over Chiang Kai-shek's legacy back in Taiwan is...intriguing.
It seems very polarized at the moment. Most KMT members still think he did what he had to do , built up the military, mobilized the people well, etc. The DPP supporters, from what I've seen, want to remove his presence as much as possible, and tend to paint him as a total villain. As for the NPP, I have no idea what they think.
As someone who's Chinese, but not from the mainland or Taiwan, I view him as both good and bad. I can respect him for defeating the warlords, uniting a party that was actually more of a giant bickering coalition under him, leading China through its war with Japan, helping the Taiwanese aborigines to some extent and his good traits, like incorruptibility and honesty. I also feel that compared to Mao, he was the better ruler (though still a dictator).
On the other hand, I cannot respect him for the White Terror (where teenagers got hard labor for minor 'opposition'), ignoring corruption, micromanaging his generals in the war with Japan (seriously hindering their efforts) and his abysmal management of the civil war. Although I don't think it's right to call him Taiwan's Hitler (as some do), the Taiwanese definitely have a justified reason to despise him.
If this was a long post, apologies-I needed to rant about this.
edited 12th Oct '17 11:17:19 PM by TheWildWestPyro
Dude, lay off whatever the fuck you're smoking. It's not good for you.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.