Robert Kasperski

The last male-line Piłsudski was Kazuyoshi Kimura (d. 2022), grandson of Józef Piłsudski’s brother Bronisław. Bronisław was an anthropologist who was deported to Sakhalin, married an Ainu woman, and wrote many important works on Ainu language & culture.

Narysowałem fragment kadru ze ślubu Władysława Hermana z Judytą Marią Salicką, wdową po węgierskim Salomonie. Ale coś pokręciłem i narysowałem Bolesława jako roczne dziecko. Tymczasem ślub Judy z Władysławem miał miejsce zapewne w 1088 r. #KomiksKrzywousty

Cork City Council to consider tiny statue honouring mosquito linked to Oliver Cromwell’s death irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…

Demain débute le célèbre festival du Sanja Matsuri à Asakusa. À partir de 13h, une grande procession traversera les rues avec chars musicaux, la danse du héron blanc (Shirasagi no Mai), des porteurs traditionnels et divers spectacles folkloriques #Japon

@gunthera_mws Rewelacja!!!

Na razie tak #KomiksKrzywousty

@LeonorBaezaG @CCHS_CSIC Congrats!

Save the date! El 20 de mayo inauguramos los seminarios del proyecto INPOCON (Información, poder y conflicto en el reino asturleonés) en el @CCHS_CSIC con Álvaro Lorenzo. ¡Si estás por Madrid no te lo puedes perder! cartel + info.⬇️⬇️

Sanada Yukimura

@sabyo222 実際には戦場では寒さとかの方が死因（綿入れとか股引が普及した理由）になるので、モコモコしてたとは思うけど、動きやすさ重視の演出はいいですね。鉄砲足軽は実包だと火花と煤がすごいので、頬あてもほしいところ。

The original stress test for political obedience, 207 BC. The Qin dynasty was collapsing. Rebels were closing on the capital. The chancellor, a eunuch named Zhao Gao, had already engineered the death of the First Emperor's chosen heir and installed a pliable younger son as a puppet. He had executed the previous chancellor. He now wanted to know whether anyone at court was still capable of resisting him. So he brought a deer into the throne room and presented it to the emperor as a horse. The emperor laughed. "Chancellor, you are mistaken. That is a deer." Zhao Gao insisted it was a horse. He turned to the assembled courtiers and asked them, one by one, what they saw. Some, trying to be honest, said deer. Some, understanding the test, said horse. A few said nothing at all. Zhao Gao marked the answers. Over the following weeks and months, those who had said "deer" were quietly purged: reassigned to distant posts, executed on unrelated pretexts, demoted into obscurity. Those who had said "horse" were promoted. The point was never to convince anyone the deer was a horse. The point was to find out who would say so anyway. Once a man had affirmed the obvious lie in public, his loyalty to truth could no longer compete with his loyalty to the chancellor. He was bound. He had no other option but to keep saying horse, forever. Within a year of this scene, Zhao Gao would murder the emperor he had installed, be murdered himself, and the dynasty would burn. The Chinese idiom 指鹿为马 (zhǐ lù wéi mǎ), "to point at a deer and call it a horse", has been in continuous use for 2,200 years. It is still the precise phrase for this exact maneuver.

The migration routes from Britain that shaped early America

Langzhong Ancient Town is located along the bank of the Jialing River in Nanchong, Sichuan Province. It has more than 2000 years of history, and the town has an extremely unique layout. General Zhang Fei of the Three Kingdoms (220 - 280) once garrisoned at Langzhong for 7 years.

I missed this important book on the Longobards/Lombards: Stefan Esders, Die Langobarden. Geschichte und Kultur, München 2023. You can read a few pages on C.H. Beck site. Link: cdn-assetservice.ecom-api.beck-shop.de/productattachm… #TheBarbarianWest

'Some might say they were lucky, but luck plays a comparatively small part in the career of a successful man of action. Luck is needed, certainly, but the prime requisites are intelligence and a first-class knowledge of the world in which he operates' Ernle Bradford

Sallet supremacy illustrated by Yuri Ishikiriyama

Japanese historians are gradually carrying out a fundamental revision of Oda Nobunaga's political goals; he was neither a revolutionary nor a power-hungry tyrant. #sengokujidaiforever

'As historians dig deeper into surviving documents, Nobunaga's image as a revolutionary is giving way to something more grounded: a leader who respected long-standing customs, carefully followed precedent, and chose practicality over bold ideology'. link: japan-forward.com/oda-nobunaga-t…

Frogs Through 5000 Years of Human History

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'The Battle of Adrianople: The Anatomy of Error' by Chengzuo Yao in: 'Journal of Late Antiquity': muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… I am happy to admit that I was one of the peer-reviewer of this fine paper.