Luuuuuka
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Luuuuuka
@Luuuuuka2
Unvaxed pro-vaxer, monkey labour proponent.
Croatia Katılım Mayıs 2020
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@TCapsulae @lefineder We keep calling the Ukraine war "The Ukraine War" which feels like a placeholder name.
I'm pulling for calling it "The First Drone War"
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The Hundred Years' War didn't last 100 years.
The Eighty Years' War didn't last 80 years.
The Seven Years' War didn't last 7 years.
But the Thirty Years' War, by some bizarre coincidence, actually lasted exactly 30 years. We need to amend this situation and start calling it the Fifty Years' War, or something.
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@Unscrupulous67 @JohnnyGuido13 @RolloRouen So were Aragon and Castile at the time. A unified Spanish state wasn't a thing until the 18th century.
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@JohnnyGuido13 @RolloRouen That only happened because their king died in some expedition in morocco, and they still remained two separate kingdoms ruled by a single monarch
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Spain had a BIG ASS empire, and somehow never swallowed up Portugal.
Biggest posers in the world.
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Čeština
It's a fairly common way to armor up for light cavalry in the 16th century.
Shoulder armor (the germans sometimes used particularly long pieces that reach the elbow) gauntlets and a maille sleeve.
Mail armor didn't disappear with teh middle ages!
Katie ⚒️@KatieArmours
only got mail on that lower arm, too… cool af style of armour right there.
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@ClaryAldringen @Knightly_Hist Sorry for responding to a half a year old post but do you remember the source of this quote?
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@Knightly_Hist “…that he shall, as needed, serve at the castle with one horse, equipped in front and back armour with a gorget (or mail collar), in a fauld and MAIL sleeves, with a morion, a firearm, and a boar-spear, as befits a mounted arquebusier.” - Bohemia, 1552
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The Republican Party needs to start treating Gamers the same way the Democrats treat black women
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@HeinzArts @kirbyxd1234 The issue is without them she looks like Ben with a wig.
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El artista posiblemente se le olvidó que las chicas superpoderosas adolescentes tenían labios grandes pero sin querer queriendo mejoró sus diseños
LegacyNebula@legacy_nebula
Sometimes meeting your possible future selves isn't all it's cracked up to be... #powerpuffgirls #ppg #fanart
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I can prove my humanity, trivially, but doing so would result in me not getting the job.
𐙚 bambi@bbambied
literally what am i supposed to say
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@BovrilG The armor was already 44 kilos, it's hard to wear it at that weight and any heavier might have been impossible. Plate armor also topped out around that weight in the late 16th/early 17th centuries when it was designed to ressist firearms and it also lacked lower leg protection.
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On the scaffold, Ned Kelly received the light of Islam and flawlessly recited the Shahada. Even now he strides around the gardens of Jannah in a homemade suit of armour that doesn’t protect his legs for some reason.
communist captain obvious 🍉@pippercorn
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@eigenrobot The 3% that 8sn't is adding a tail, horns and turning your skin red.
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@societyimprover @nikicaga By the end of this decade they will have a 100% AI made 3 hour long adaptation of Camp of the Saints.
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The Chud fandom of this (excellent!) movie really is funny when all this is considered
MEJE ✪@callmeMEJE
Ridley Scott spent $110 million on this. A Muslim general is the hero. The Christians are the villains. Cambridge called it 'Osama bin Laden's version of history.' Edward Norton wore a mask the whole movie. Refused a credit. Still the best performance. Kingdom of Heaven. 2005.
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im reading a bunch of east german magazines and since theres no brands to advertise they just have ads promoting like, the general concept of going to a club
ukrsiberianFrancochenapan 🍭🥩⚢🖤🔪🐭🧀👁️👁️☯️🛣️@ukrsiberian
this was ads in USSR
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@tesukadim @Knightly_Hist You don't. It was for a turnament on foot.
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@Knightly_Hist Возможно я чего то не понимаю, но как ездить на лошади в первом доспехе?
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Here's 2 more, belonging to Henry VIIIth.
keanezaboi@keanejasem
First time seeing an Iron skirt
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@C4nn0n_F0dd3r Davila similarly mentions Spanish men-at-arms from the Low Countries fighting on foot with halberds, to help storm the entrenchments of the French army that was besieging Amiens in 1597, if I remember correctly.
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This was done to help conduct the assaults upon the numerous entrenchments positioned beyond the ramparts.
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".. [with] 50 men at arms, [their] foot on the earth each with a halberd in hand, the sword at the side & two pistols at the girdle, for to place themselves at the head of their footmen & there to make the greatest effort..."
- Maximilien de Béthune, on Villemur (1592)
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@CoKeynesian I have a better idea
Bring back the Shilling! Basically only keep 5p and up instead of knocking off a decimal
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I wrote this before, but pre-war Syria was the only place I ever traveled to where I once saw a list of expected bribes for various tasks written down on the wall of an office.
Jewish pashtuns with attitude 🇦🇫✡️@midnight_b65055
Iraqi corruption is on a whole another level. The fact this banana republic even functions on any level is nothing short of a miracle. If you were to do a legitimate anti corruption campaign here. You would have to jail half the population
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@Cibolan2000 @Asmallnotch @minervas_muse @nobodyknows2322 The rate of increase does seem to slow down after 2008.
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The UK has a combination of being poor enough where salaries between 36k and 50k are treated like US 6 figure salaries... and a culture that is incredibly class conscious in a "Oh, so you think you're too good for a hostel, Mister Prime Minister?" kinda way.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
“£200-a-night” per person right? Surely the prime minister of the United Kingdom isn’t staying at a hotel that costs like $275 a night?
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@pilesofskulls @arctotherium42 Anti-ship missiles were used successfully during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 and in the first year of the Iran-Iraq war though none were launched by aircraft.
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@arctotherium42 It wasn't just hard: no one had any idea what was possible. Whether a jet could attack a modern warship, or whether that ship could survive an anti-shipping missile launch were just unknown. There hadn't been a naval battle since 1945. We're in much the boat now.
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Van Orden is correct; it was a close war. Britain was trying to do something extremely difficult (recapture islands across the Atlantic) and Argentina had very brave and skilled pilots, who landed several gravity bombs on ships that did not explode due to bad fuses.
Very Brexit Problems@VeryBrexitProbs
This is a sitting US congressman. He thinks Britain "narrowly avoided getting its ass kicked" in the Falklands by sailing 8000 miles, capturing 11,000 prisoners and winning the war in 25 days. American education, ladies and gentlemen.
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@Annatar_I Crazy Romania grew that little even with Ceaușescu’s intense pro-natalist policies.
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Iran is an example where pop growth has meant it won't be invaded, in 1950 Iran had 16m people like Romania did as well, Romania now has 19m people & Iran has 87m people, if Iran had grown like Romania & it had 19m people it would be more feasible for it to be invaded & occupied.
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