Josh Johnson
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probably making a podcast
NEW EPISODE: Hell in a Small Place V (the finale) is LIVE. compendiumshow.carrd.co
Macedonia is properly pronounced ‘Makedonia’.
Which historical opinion will get you like this?
If you’re reading history trying to find the ‘truth’ about a subject, you’re doing it wrong.
Which historical opinion will get you like this?
Whenever this comes out I’ll be unreachable.
Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Ormund Hightower (James Norton) in the trailer of a new historical drama series called King and Conqueror 😃
The first Civil War show just went out on Patreon! Episode drops in podcast feeds next week. patreon.com/posts/13468198…
This is degenerate behavior.
Monogamy is not natural for men. Statistically only 20-30% of men have ever reproduced, while 80-90% of women have reproduced. Women were always sharing kings and discarding the surfs. This is the same today, all capable men have multiple women. Betas settle with one…
Now do Woodrow Wilson
FDR was a shit president and the closest America has ever come to a dictator. -He was the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms and literally had to die in office to leave it. Term limits were literally added because of him. Previously, it was just a respected…
The greatest threat to our republic is not that the constitution has been overrun, but that our people are uninformed, inflamed to rage by bad actors. You have the ability (collectively) to demand better of your institutions. That is the American dream in a nutshell.
I remember seeing the Interstellar teaser in theaters the night The Dark Knight Rises came out. What a time.
And I'll be grabbing one
THE ODYSSEY will be the first blockbuster in cinema history to put tickets on sale a full year before its release.
Fantastic Four skins are coming to Fortnite It is one of the most wanted collabs ever via HYPEX
Fantastic Four skins are coming to Fortnite It is one of the most wanted collabs ever via HYPEX
The fact that it’s South Carolina is a hilarious historical ‘rhyme’.
One of my favorite Xenophon anecdotes is the moment when he and his men pass the ruins of Nineveh and ask the locals who used to live there, and the locals don’t know. Blows my mind that massive cities lay there, abandoned, and nobody had a clue who the Assyrians were.
Xenophon’s Ten Thousand
Update on the next Compendium show! substack.com/@joshcjohnson/…
John Keegan is a fantastic military historian who seems to whiff on basic concepts (the Lost Cause and the Mongols) Which is baffling. I don’t think I’ve run across another historian who can be SO good and SO bad in the same work.
One of the good guys is killing it. Love to see it!
500. 500 total preorders for my debut Mercy: Tears of the Fallen. What a milestone. 10 days from release. Holy Hannah. Thank you everybody so far who had decided to come along this journey with me. a.co/d/cu1pIL8