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Milo and POTUS posted:America is a part of Russia? Too soon comrade er I mean friend... too soon.
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Milo and POTUS posted:America is a part of Russia? Let's revisit this on November 4th 2020.
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June 9th, Norway secede from the union with Sweden and the swedish flag is taken down and the norwegian flag is raised on Akershus Fortress: 
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Alhazred posted:June 9th, Norway secede from the union with Sweden and the swedish flag is taken down and the norwegian flag is raised on Akershus Fortress: Thats dope as hell, gently caress you sweden 
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Alhazred posted:June 9th, Norway secede from the union with Sweden and the swedish flag is taken down and the norwegian flag is raised on Akershus Fortress: Clarification: this occurred in 1905, not earlier this week. Dagen H has a new favorite as of 21:17 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Alhazred posted:I didn't really talk about Finland but countries like Crimea where its hard to not argue that the end goal was not eradication so that russians could move in Yes but the conversation was about Finland and my posts was about how wrong it is to claim that the Soviet Union, when it invaded Finland, "tried to kill everyone and failing that, send the rest to the Siberia". Because for Finland specifically and the majority of people and ethnic groups within the Soviet Union or its annexed/occupied lands, that was not the case. Especially not so for populations/minorities as numerous as the Finns (would be third largest ethnic group, close behind Kazaks and Uzbeks). You can find tables with numbers in chapter 5 of this freely available academic book that shows examples of the relatively low amount of deaths. The book also goes into detail of the reasons why the purges happened and the logic behind them (hint, it was paranoia and racism coupled with trying to force a communist society into existence). I'm not saying killings, deportations and repressions are good, that they didn't happen or that it was not a spectrum of genocide against several of the 188 ethnicities present in the Soviet Union. I'm just saying that someone posting that the Soviet Union "tried to kill everyone and failing that, send the rest to the Siberia" in regards to its invasions of Finland, is spewing dumb loving hyperbole. Unrelated, here is some ancient cave art that shows an example of those cave paintings where the hand was missing parts of fingers. 
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Zudgemud posted:Unrelated, here is some ancient cave art that shows an example of those cave paintings where the hand was missing parts of fingers. Maybe making that hand gesture had a particular significance. I think that's more likely than a guy missing his third and second phalanx bone in all fingers except the thumb and index. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the hand on the right is holding up the index, middle finger and thumb.
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Temaukel posted:Maybe making that hand gesture had a particular significance. I think that's more likely than a guy missing his third and second phalanx bone in all fingers except the thumb and index. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the hand on the right is holding up the index, middle finger and thumb. Interpreting the missing digits as sign language have been a favorite too, especially as several rock paintings in Australia have have clear sign language uses. But other cave art from France look very different and there it could make more sense with ritual amputation, which was apparently not as uncommon as one might think considering these researchers found 121 groups where the practice occurred in recent history, even among hunter gatherers.
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Zudgemud posted:Unrelated, here is some ancient cave art that shows an example of those cave paintings where the hand was missing parts of fingers. She was looking kinda dumb With her finger and her thumb In the shape of an L On some cave art
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https://twitter.com/UrbanFoxxxx/status/1140668673620926464
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There's a new theory, based on the fingers on the handprints, that a lot of the cavepainters were female:
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Alhazred posted:There's a new theory, based on the fingers on the handprints, that a lot of the cavepainters were female: Would make sense; males out doing the hunting/gathering, woman at home doing the decorating.
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Gonna take this thread out of its summer slumber: The Deutsche Fotothek has digitised and made accessible thousands of photographs and motives of German postcard publisher Brück & Sohn, dating from the 1880s to 1989. The Fotothek is somewhat notorious for taking things that legally should be public and free and charging hefty fees for the download, but thankfully it's quite easy to grab their data nonetheless! A Chinese family in LA, 1903  Women plucking Tea on the Lehtenty Estate in Ceylon, c. 1897  Catholic monk in the garden of Santa Barbara Mission, CA, 1903
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System Metternich posted:
I used to color in the history text book photos with my highlighters too.
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What the hell, while I'm at it I might as well show off some other collections of the Fotothek. Here for example is its Sorbian collection: The Sorbs are a Slavic-speaking minority in Germany that mainly lives in the states of Saxony and Brandenburg. They are divided into Upper and Lower Sorbs, who speak different yet mutually intelligible dialects (some might also say languages). Until the early 20th century, they settled in a contiguous area where they were the majority (except in the larger cities, which were mainly populated by German speakers) and at its peak in around 1800 might have numbered more than 250,000 people. Assimilation, Germanisation, expulsion due to war and coal mining and two German dictatorships led to a strong decline, however. Now there are about 60,000 self-identified Sorbs left, of which about a third still speaks the language. Most of the self-identified Sorbs live in the Catholic Upper Sorbian area, whereas the Lower Sorbian language and culture have nearly gone extinct by now. The town of Serbin, Texas, was originally founded by Sorbian emigrants. The Fotothek's Sorbian collection covers about 21,000 pictures from the 1860s to the 1980s.  A Lower Sorbian woman in mourning, 1870  A farmstead in Trjebin/Trebendorf, c. 1890  Sorbian baptism, c. 1896  Passenger transport on the river Spree in Lědy/Lehde, 1896  Lower Sorbian women in the traditional spinning attire, 1900  Catholic Sorbs from Kulow/Wittichenau in the attire traditionally worn to confession, 1905  Protestant mourning attire in Klětno/Klitten, 1905  The traditional Catholic Sorbian Easter procession in Budyšin/Bautzen, c. 1940  Representatives of the Sorbian association at a local conference of the socialist party of East Germany, 1956  A Sorbian wedding couple in Budyšin/Bautzen, 1980s  Not from the Fotothek, but still interesting: protests against a planned eviction of the villagers due to coal mining in Klětno/Klitten, 1990. System Metternich has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Aug 20, 2019 |
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Can someone tell me who the person in the background of the gif below is? The army officer looking person behind Billy Joel? If this is the wrong thread, my apologies!
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Can someone tell me who the person in the background of the gif below is? The army officer looking person behind Billy Joel? If this is the wrong thread, my apologies! Oliver North
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Thanks!
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An american patriot who was wrongfully slandered by the liberal nazi media for doing his duty
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Sharing a post from the historical facts thread.   Anti urination devices dating to the late 19th century in Norwich. The idea was to deflect streams from pissers to make them do their business elsewhere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_urination_devices_in_Norwich  Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis cathedral in Paris. The original cup, made from a single piece of sardonyx, was carved in Egypt in the first or second centuries BCE. It somehow made its way to France over the centuries, where the Abbot commissioned the mounting in 1137. The final artifact is thus made from parts created over a thousand years apart. It’s on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and it is really beautiful in person. I definitely thought that the swirls and beautiful fluting of the original cup was better looking than the gilded silver mounting.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Sharing a post from the historical facts thread. Those are all over the old quarters of my city in southern Spain, too. Thought they were commonplace everywhere, guess not.
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New York back in 1911 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aohXOpKtns0
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Pookah posted:Jesus. Thats just basically all of european history. Just countless, mostly pointless, wars between neighbours
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Zzulu posted:Thats just basically all of european history. Just countless, mostly pointless, wars between neighbours This was somewhat different in that it was (mostly) literal class warfare. So "neighbours" in some sense, possibly, but not in the Mr. Rogers sense.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Sharing a post from the historical facts thread. Haha this was weird to stumble across, I walked past this thing multiple times a week for 15 years and had an immediate feeling of nostalgia and knew it was Norwich.
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 who knows why they held hands... theyre definitely not gay, that is a 20th century invention
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♫ Two skeletons Chillin' in a grave Two feet apart cause they're not gay ♪
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Bunch of photos from the archives of the Cryolite Mining and Trading Company (1854–1987) that ran mines in Ivigtut, Greenland have been put online, including a photo album from a private teacher, Ellen Jacobi, who taught the son of the company director 1910–12. Undated, but from a series dated 1869  Old Marie & Julius Search: https://arkiv.dk/soeg?searchstring=kryolith+rigsarkivet https://arkiv.dk/soeg?searchstring=kryolith+ellen+jacobi
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Krankenstyle posted:Bunch of photos from the archives of the Cryolite Mining and Trading Company (1854–1987) that ran mines in Ivigtut, Greenland have been put online, including a photo album from a private teacher, Ellen Jacobi, who taught the son of the company director 1910–12. In the same vein, I've got something for the Americans following this sleepy thread: The Illinois State Library aquired more than a million negatives from the Pantagraph, a Central Illinois newspaper established in 1837. They aim to digitise all of them, and they put the first bunch now online: Nearly 37,000 photos showing life in Central Illinois between 1933 and 1944  Bum camp, 1935  Police officers and a couple of johns arrested at a brothel raid, 1935  Baptist centennial banquet, men with false moustaches, 1937  4-H club cattle judging contest, 1937  President's birthday ball, 1939  Crowd of people around wrecked car, 1940  Police examine a murder scene in Colfax, 1941  Aluminum Drive at Bloomington courthouse, 1941 System Metternich has a new favorite as of 21:11 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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That is a supremely good post, and the link is outstanding. Thank you so much.
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Seconded. I especially loved the 4-H pic. My great grandparents were farmers during that era, so it made me think of them. They lived in Kansas though, which was an especially bad time and place for farmers to be.
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You know, I wanted to get a better feeling in what sort of area these photos had been taken, so I went to youtube and searched for "central illinois", but all it gave me was pages and pages of poo poo like this: So now I guess that central Illinois is mostly synonymous for "flat" and "fuckall to do". How close am I? 
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Illinois is Wisconsin's schlong, but it least it's not Ohio. That's the best that can be said of it.
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System Metternich posted:You know, I wanted to get a better feeling in what sort of area these photos had been taken, so I went to youtube and searched for "central illinois", but all it gave me was pages and pages of poo poo like this: As someone born and raised in Southern Illinois; very. The yearly town-wide yard sale was the highlight each year. Followed closely by the homecomming. Basically just imagine your typical down-home, farmer town and that'll be the entirety of the state excepting Chicago.
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No idea how long it takes until a thread falls off into the archives, so I'm just gonna crosspost this post of mine over in the historical fun facts thread:System Metternich posted:
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That painting is fetish porn, right?
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Come on guys, we're talking French nobility here It's not fetish porn, it's a curiosité erotique
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