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Alright, I'm finally going to collect all of my military history book threads into one master thread-of-threads to pin for easy access... Starting with, of course, the Franco-Prussian War.

I don’t even think Sweeney is that aesthetically compelling, at least compared to actresses from the 80s and 90s. Her defining characteristic is being untroubled by her sexual charisma. Everyone’s expected to be neurotic and so it’s jolting to see someone acting comfortable.

A weird lesson I learned as a kid playing Oblivion that's really hard to articulate without sounding clunky and awkward: I once had a character that had a high enough heavy armor skill to wear Daedric armor, that I enchanted with tons of strength buffs, which in turn allowed me…

The true nature of bird migration was finally understood in western science thanks to the discovery of this stork in Germany which was still alive despite having a central African hunter's spear through its neck

This is obviously overstated but it's more true than many are letting on For all the talk abt "high IQ" and "agency" On Here... if you want access to the main pipeline of good, important, lucrative lifepaths, then parents and other advisors need to be pushing you into it early

You know, it's easy to be critical and only email the companies whose mugs gave me lead poisoning, but maybe I should reach out and contact all the companies whose mugs didn't fill my blood with heavy metals. I feel like too often we never tell people they're doing a good job

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The mostly restored Civil War city class ironclad USS Cairo on display inside the Vicksburg National Military Park! This ship struck a confederate mine in the Yazoo River in 1862 and sank in a matter of minutes with no hands lost. The crew was able to safely make it ashore on…

Around 2000, there was a technological and cultural sweet spot in movie making. The romanticism of the 19th-20thC was still taken seriously and CGI was well/developed but not yet completely depended upon.

#OTD in 1944, Japanese forces managed to sneak through U.S. lines on Guam to assault a Marine battalion command post and division hospital. Cooks, bakers, clerks, combat correspondants, and the wounded picked up weapons to repulse the attack, proving the phrase "every Marine a…

look, you know that universities could have headed this off through self-governance. most of the right's establishment class didn't want this. i know cuz i talked to ppl about this they just came to conclude universities would never give them a fair shake so...unleash the rufo!

Universities were so confident that they OPENLY flouted antidiscrimination law AND demanded declarations of how employees and customers would promote the U’s political views. (DEI statements for hiring, promotion, admission).

Until about 1250 when the Maori arrived, there were no land mammals weighing more than half an ounce anywhere in New Zealand

Too Soon. 😭😭😭

I can’t comprehend this either

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Here’s a description of the French Revolution by Tocqueville I’d never seen: “Half-way down the stairs, we threw ourselves out of the window in order to get to the ground more quickly.”

I made an attempt

Hey, @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was.

The Cyclops has only been portrayed well once in a live-action film