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Post by cloud9 on Apr 29, 2017 10:48:37 GMT
I'm proud my my people for their courage against European/Arab conquest.
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Post by Lavochkin on May 4, 2017 15:06:37 GMT
The physics of WW1 aircraft.
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Post by cheeseandonion on May 4, 2017 15:16:23 GMT
Here's a documentary about my non-country
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Post by Lavochkin on May 5, 2017 19:27:08 GMT
These vids got into the history of how these odd borders came to be. And another vid of more odd borders was made.
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Post by straykat on May 6, 2017 7:33:43 GMT
Stand with Arius and you stand with Muhammad. ...According to my unfounded, self-concocted theory.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on May 6, 2017 11:09:43 GMT
But he just said Jesus wan't eternal. He didn't go jihad on other people and didn't force them severe religious customs!
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Post by straykat on May 6, 2017 11:15:47 GMT
But he just said Jesus wan't eternal. He didn't went jihad on other people! I know, but it sparked that mindset in the region.. and I think Muhammad was a product of it hundreds of years later. He must've heard of it. Even to this day, ISIS thinks Jesus is going to come to the town of Dabiq and aid them in a final apocalyptic battle. Jesus is still held up in their biggest tales, but he's a very human Jesus.....one who now goes Jihad on people. I think of them as a Bizarro version of Christianity. Not a seperate religion. One that likes creating God in the image of Man. A God that's so human he enjoys rape and slaughtering children. A God brought down low rather than one that elevates. I think Gnostics (also popular in Mideast and Egypt, like Arius) may have contributed to Mohammad too. Because they were known to have said Jesus wasn't crucified at all. They couldn't accept someone who let himself be killed. Which is also something Muhammad picked up.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on May 6, 2017 11:32:59 GMT
But he just said Jesus wan't eternal. He didn't went jihad on other people! I know, but it sparked that mindset in the region.. and I think Muhammad was a product of it hundreds of years later. He must've heard of it. Even to this day, ISIS thinks Jesus is going to come to the town of Dabiq and aid them in a final apocalyptic battle. Jesus is still held up in their biggest tales, but he's a very human Jesus.....one who now goes Jihad on people. I think of them as a Bizarro version of Christianity. Not a seperate religion. One that likes creating God in the image of Man. A God that's so human he enjoys rape and slaughtering children. A God brought down low rather than one that elevates. I think Gnostics (also popular in Mideast and Egypt, like Arius) may have contributed to Mohammad too. Because they were known to have said Jesus wasn't crucified at all. They couldn't wrap understand someone who let himself be killed. Which is also something Muhammad picked up. All religions have schisms and many different schools and sects. In Buddhism (3 main and dozens in general), and Islam (Shia, Sunni and their sub-religions and cults), Judaism, etc. Some schools get some influence from other religions as well. Islam also (ab)used some Persian principles as well as Jewish and Christian ones. Give Arius a rest!
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Post by straykat on May 6, 2017 11:38:07 GMT
I know, but it sparked that mindset in the region.. and I think Muhammad was a product of it hundreds of years later. He must've heard of it. Even to this day, ISIS thinks Jesus is going to come to the town of Dabiq and aid them in a final apocalyptic battle. Jesus is still held up in their biggest tales, but he's a very human Jesus.....one who now goes Jihad on people. I think of them as a Bizarro version of Christianity. Not a seperate religion. One that likes creating God in the image of Man. A God that's so human he enjoys rape and slaughtering children. A God brought down low rather than one that elevates. I think Gnostics (also popular in Mideast and Egypt, like Arius) may have contributed to Mohammad too. Because they were known to have said Jesus wasn't crucified at all. They couldn't wrap understand someone who let himself be killed. Which is also something Muhammad picked up. All religions have schisms and many different schools and sects. In Buddhism (3 main and dozens in general), and Islam (Shia, Sunni and their sub-religions and cults), Judaism, etc. Some schools get some influence from other religions as well. Islam also (ab)used some Persian principles as well as Jewish and Christian ones. Give Arius a rest! No way. He's the the OG of heretics. One thing all other brands of Christianity have in common is the Nicene Creed. Well, the Apostle's Creed and Nicene. Protestants, Orthodox, Roman Catholic. You won't find many who give Arius a break. But if you spoke of his views with Muslims, they'd agree it's similar to them.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on May 6, 2017 12:08:35 GMT
All religions have schisms and many different schools and sects. In Buddhism (3 main and dozens in general), and Islam (Shia, Sunni and their sub-religions and cults), Judaism, etc. Some schools get some influence from other religions as well. Islam also (ab)used some Persian principles as well as Jewish and Christian ones. Give Arius a rest! No way. He's the the OG of heretics. One thing all other brands of Christianity have in common is the Nicene Creed. Well, the Apostle's Creed and Nicene. Protestants, Orthodox, Roman Catholic. You won't find many who give Arius a break. But if you spoke of his views with Muslims, they'd agree it's similar to them. Well, most of the eastern churches were OK with this guy, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestoriusnot Arius actually. Well I just found a few people in History who have almost the same name as mine! This Arius/Arian was one of them, so I was engaged to defend him!
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Post by Lavochkin on May 6, 2017 19:21:49 GMT
Here's the oddball tale of a Korean fellow who ended up fighting in the Japanese Kwantung army(their army in Manchuria), the Soviet Red army and the German Wehrmacht.
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Post by Lavochkin on May 7, 2017 6:29:38 GMT
Ian McCollum fires a German WW1 tankgewehr on a steel plate similar to the what the British Mark IV tank would have to see if it will penetrate.
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Post by indrexu on May 7, 2017 13:51:16 GMT
That's a pretty good video. It's useful to note that the ~16mm of armor that the angled shot had to deal with is about the same amount of frontal armor that a Mk V possessed. Also, a standing shot head-on at 50m would be, um, highly unlikely in combat conditions to say the least; you can see that the recoil generated by both shots was tremendous and, because of that, in the World War a T-Gewehr team would usually fire from a prone position.
And, of course, there's the standard boilerplate (so to speak) about the crash anti-tank measures prepared by the Germans over the course of 1917 and 1918: the T-Gewehr wasn't the only one and Germans would use man-portable explosives, bundled stick grenades, and field artillery firing over open sights against Allied armor, usually with good effect. There were a few people trash-talking about Battlefield 1 in the comments of the video, but in that particular sense BF1 actually got things mostly right: even at this very early stage of anti-tank warfare the Germans had several countermeasures available, most of which were actually pretty effective, and which among other things (doctrine, maintenance, numbers, etc.) severely limited the effectiveness of armored attacks in the World War. This is a long way away from trying to use a PTRD-41 against a Panzer IV.
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Post by Lavochkin on May 7, 2017 15:43:52 GMT
That's a pretty good video. It's useful to note that the ~16mm of armor that the angled shot had to deal with is about the same amount of frontal armor that a Mk V possessed. Also, a standing shot head-on at 50m would be, um, highly unlikely in combat conditions to say the least; you can see that the recoil generated by both shots was tremendous and, because of that, in the World War a T-Gewehr team would usually fire from a prone position. And, of course, there's the standard boilerplate (so to speak) about the crash anti-tank measures prepared by the Germans over the course of 1917 and 1918: the T-Gewehr wasn't the only one and Germans would use man-portable explosives, bundled stick grenades, and field artillery firing over open sights against Allied armor, usually with good effect. There were a few people trash-talking about Battlefield 1 in the comments of the video, but in that particular sense BF1 actually got things mostly right: even at this very early stage of anti-tank warfare the Germans had several countermeasures available, most of which were actually pretty effective, and which among other things (doctrine, maintenance, numbers, etc.) severely limited the effectiveness of armored attacks in the World War. This is a long way away from trying to use a PTRD-41 against a Panzer IV. A lot of times the Germans didn't even have to do anything and the allied tanks would break down on their own. Another interesting tidbit was how most of the tanks that the Germans used in WW1 were captured Allied ones. They barely produced any of their own, they merely produced 20 of their A7Vs.
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Post by indrexu on May 7, 2017 21:02:54 GMT
A lot of times the Germans didn't even have to do anything and the allied tanks would break down on their own. Another interesting tidbit was how most of the tanks that the Germans used in WW1 were captured Allied ones. They barely produced any of their own, they merely produced 20 of their A7Vs. Yes. Ludendorff was convinced that trying to retool German factories for AFV production would not be as useful as focusing on supply vehicle and U-boat production. He probably wasn't wrong. The Germans demonstrated in the spring of 1918 that they did not need armor to create tactical penetrations. As it was, the Germans usually employed their AFVs in a supply role. It was rare for German armor to engage Entente infantry, let alone Entente armor (small-scale engagements like Villers-Bretonneaux notwithstanding). Instead, they tried to use tracked vehicles to traverse parts of the old Somme battlefield that were too torn-up to use wheeled transport. This isn't to say that more armor would not have helped the Germans, were opportunity cost not a factor. It undoubtedly would have. A large force of French-style light tanks for exploitation purposes would have been outstanding for them in 1918. The British had two main chokepoints in their supply network, which the Germans targeted in March and April in separate offensives: Amiens and Hazebrouck. Both times, German infantry made it tantalizingly close to the rail yards of the cities only to be halted at their last offensive extremity. An extra force of armor would undoubtedly have tipped the balance. Honestly, had the Germans not been compelled to disband the Heereskavalleriekommandos of August 1914 due to a deficiency of horseflesh, one of those probably could have done the job as well. Lloyd George and Foch both admitted that the Entente probably would have had to negotiate if the BEF were forced off the Continent: if Amiens had fallen, it would've been curtains. Alternatively, Ludendorff could have instead maintained a proper grip on the operational situation and not wasted resources on frivolous attacks into Entente operational depth. But, y'know, what would've been the likelihood of that?
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Post by Heimdall on May 7, 2017 21:08:10 GMT
But he just said Jesus wan't eternal. He didn't went jihad on other people! I know, but it sparked that mindset in the region.. and I think Muhammad was a product of it hundreds of years later. He must've heard of it. Even to this day, ISIS thinks Jesus is going to come to the town of Dabiq and aid them in a final apocalyptic battle. Jesus is still held up in their biggest tales, but he's a very human Jesus.....one who now goes Jihad on people. I think of them as a Bizarro version of Christianity. Not a seperate religion. One that likes creating God in the image of Man. A God that's so human he enjoys rape and slaughtering children. A God brought down low rather than one that elevates. I think Gnostics (also popular in Mideast and Egypt, like Arius) may have contributed to Mohammad too. Because they were known to have said Jesus wasn't crucified at all. They couldn't accept someone who let himself be killed. Which is also something Muhammad picked up. There was actually a popular view in Europe for centuries that Islam was a form of Christian heresy rather than a heathen faith. It's why Dante put Muhammad in with the liars and heretics when he wrote Inferno.
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Post by Lavochkin on May 9, 2017 2:31:48 GMT
Tale of a Japanese Imperial army soldier in the pacific that became a holdout continuing to fight the war.... 29 years after it ended.
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Post by straykat on May 9, 2017 2:38:32 GMT
Tale of a Japanese Imperial army soldier in the pacific that became a holdout continuing to fight the war.... 29 years after it ended. I've heard about soldiers like him before. We need to weaponize Japan again. Pound for pound some of the most badass people. Fighting spirit.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-damashiiWe don't need to monitor the Pacific. We just need them as full allies again.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on May 9, 2017 21:10:37 GMT
This video probably explains half of the reasons and there will be another one later. Add Anti-Science Turks, fewer minorities, the Mongol Invasion, harsher theological schools, and you can see the big picture.
Poor guy got demonetized too
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Post by Lavochkin on May 12, 2017 17:30:35 GMT
Today's history lesson pertains to vocabulary and how certain words came to have the meaning that they do.
First up, how the word "gay" came to refer to male homosexuals.
Next, the history behind "pointdexter","nerd" and "geek".
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Post by indrexu on May 12, 2017 20:42:55 GMT
I've heard about soldiers like him before. We need to weaponize Japan again. Pound for pound some of the most badass people. Fighting spirit.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-damashiiWe don't need to monitor the Pacific. We just need them as full allies again. The best way to get the Japanese to lose a war is to get them to believe in yamato-damashii. Back in the Manchurian War, the only commanders that seriously believed that "human bullets" garbage were the guys who got their soldiers massacred and lost their jobs because of it - like Nogi Maresuke, who badly mismanaged the siege of Port Arthur. Nogi was so humiliated by his unofficial demotion - he retained command for purposes of national morale but relinquished authority to his chief of staff - that he committed seppuku shortly after the war ended, once Emperor Mutsuhito (who had forbidden him to commit suicide earlier) had died. One wonders who made the more egregious error: Nogi for being a moron, or IGHQ for letting him continue to be a moron for months while Marshal Ōyama kept screaming for them to wind up the siege and get Third Army on the road north already. The crazy thing about Japanese participation in the First World War is that they apparently learned literally nothing from it. They sent destroyers to the Mediterranean to do convoy protection from German U-boats, then promptly ignored those lessons in the 1940s against the Americans. They watched a generation of European men die in industrialized warfare and chose to double down on national spirit and morale rather than heavy artillery, armor, or close air support. They chose the Soviet Union as their primary military opponent and completely failed to create a military capable of defeating the Red Army. So when they actually had to fight a modern military commanded by a non-incompetent, as at Khalkhin Gol in 1939, they got their shit wrecked. The IJA did pretty well at beating up on idiots like MacArthur or Percival who were willing to basically gift them whatever they wanted (to say nothing of the deeply flawed Guomindang Army of National Revolution), but once the Americans and British stopped losing their own battles the Japanese were screwed. I mean, the Japanese, for all the power of the banzai charge myths, took incredibly high casualties in the Pacific compared to the Americans - despite enjoying the benefit of the tactical defensive, usually against an amphibious attack, both of which multiply the difficulties of an attacking force to high levels. Received military wisdom (including Japanese wisdom: they usually eschewed amphibious assaults in favor of unopposed landings, and the exception in 1941-42 was Wake Island, an initially embarrassing defeat) was that amphibious assaults were tactically impossible. The Japanese proved that wrong: as long as the IJA was defending and the US Army or Marines were attacking, amphibious assaults achieved dramatic tactical success on the regular. Yamato-damashii resulted in the Japanese piling up high casualties and rarely giving them anything to show for it. The modern SDF is a professional organization; even if its mission leans much more toward peacekeeping and infrastructure development than battle, I'd still rather trust the people in charge of it than I would trust the yahoos who led the Japanese military in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Post by Beerfish on May 12, 2017 20:53:31 GMT
1588 King Henry III flees Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly enters the city. 1780 Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces. 1865 The last land battle of the Civil war occurs at Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is a Confederate victory. 1940 The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Musee River. 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender.
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on May 13, 2017 2:33:22 GMT
1780 Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces.
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Post by Lavochkin on May 13, 2017 6:05:12 GMT
Time-lapse map of nuclear explosions throughout the years(since 1945).
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