Wasn’t sure where else this might go
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Am I dumb or is this cover unreadable. What’s the book called? The World Simon Sebag Montefiore: A Family History? The Montefiore: World Simon Sebag: A Family History?
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It’s an outrageously bad cover design. Read it top to bottom and ignore the rings
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I tried Burns’ new Revolutionary War piece last week, but there is just something I cannot get on board with his stuff. I think its an over reliance on quoting from historical sources in a way that REALLY lengthens out what he’s trying to convey.
Im sure I’ll eventually work my way through the whole piece, but for now 1 episode was more than enough
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the drugs cant have been that good given that a team raised on Tennants Super and haggis beat them in the 1967 European Cup Final!
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currently enjoying watching Ronald Huttons lectures (you tube) for Gresham University.
oddly addictive to watch…
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This is EXACTLY what the internet is amazing for. There is a literal world of knowledge at your fingertips. I used to put on Paul Freedman’s Early Middle Ages series all the time.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77A337915A76F660&si=nmotmFTgaQ4jnPtL
Greatest invention ever if you ignore the pedos and the entire mental annihilation of a generation.
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Compendium of all human knowledge, innit,… as well as all it’s fuckwittery laid bare
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TAN?
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Sounds more like TIA.
TAN has evolved beyond knowledge.
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This is why you’re SPOTY.
Clearasil fixes shitposting?
Wonders never cease!!!
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Could have gone in the RIP thread, but feels more fitting here.
I had to read The Cheese and the Worms as an undergraduate.
Sad news.
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And coincidentally , in about half an hours’ time , one of the founders of the Annales school is to be entered into the Pantheon here in France.
Marc Bloch was persecuted not only by the Nazi occupiers, but also by the French state’
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On this day in recent history, a spectacular event took place, when Wagner PMC marched on Moscow (not that they got verty far, but).
https://x.com/NotWoofers/status/2069459721581482368
Pictures from Rostov
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I remember this and wondering why he stopped. It wasn’t like they were meeting much resistance. It happened so quickly and was over so quickly that the details are blurry in my memory.
I do seem to recall active units joining him in Rostov and even now, would think that along the way more would have. I guess we will never know. Anyway, time to read back on it
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