More that the only news we can read is from the Anglosphere, and the Anglosphere is dominated by American news, because we are very loud.

Generally just called re-enactment if it's supposed to be a strict representation of the battle. There are lot of Civil War re-enactments here in the US, and some of them get pretty rigorous, timing things down to the minute as they happened in the course of the battle.

You may be right, everything with this pic talks about the lynx, but the lynx may not actually be in the pic. I'll amend the title.

It's all fun and games until you find out the rest of the world isn't any smarter, we're just monoglots who can't parse foreign news sources.

All the world is just playing it by ear and hoping for the best.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1816-0610-501

"We're just gonna forget this one ever happened..."

large parts of the cultural revolution sounds like a secular mania to me.

I mean, I'd include that in the list of "Things that have weak material triggers and are largely outbursts of irrationality based on abstract beliefs"

1 out of every ~200 Russians, overwhelmingly young, formerly healthy men, are now seriously wounded or dead because of Putin's ill-conceived ambitions. Christ.

For reference, the last time the US lost anywhere CLOSE to that proportion of its population in war was WW2.

May they never be able to set foot outside of their apartheid ethnostate again.

I mean, hell, may they be arrested even inside of it, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

May they never be able to set foot outside of their apartheid ethnostate again.

I mean, hell, may they be arrested even inside of it, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

I think that the modernist and materialist interpretation of society is very lacking and outdated. Humans are not purely rational creatures, and incredibly counterintuitive behavior, up to and including massive movements of millions of people contrary to their material interests and the interests of their own social advancement, has been and is caused by religious mania.

I don't know, I think you may underestimate the depth of religious convictions in some areas of the country.

I can't help but feel this is topical

Commodus doesn't appear to have descended into megalomania until a few years into his sole rule. One expects the power got to his head rather than him simply being born wrong. C'est la vie!

Guerilla learning. I strike the unsuspecting with some piece of trivia and then disappear into the void, leaving them slightly the wiser, and no one can stop me!

FUN FACT: Romans actually put very little emphasis on teaching the dirty provincials Latin. They simply gave and posted all their laws and proclamations in Latin, and if the provincials didn't understand it, too fucking bad, ignorance is no excuse for not breaking the law.

This, obviously, put those who DID know Latin at a distinct advantage, not only for avoiding trouble themselves, but also for getting their fellows out of trouble by knowing what the law ACTUALLY was. It created a kind of lower provincial elite (or middle-class, if one prefers) with a self-interest in learning Latin (and, ideally, literacy). This relatively soft hand, as opposed to 19th century nations beating children for speaking 'dirty' languages, actually was very effective at establishing Latin in conquered territories. Language was one of the more deeply rooted aspects of the Empire in the West for this reason.

School really did prepare us for real life in the end

Was thinking more "Yes. 'Cool'. That's what you find them."

https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/375674-0

Scrungly Blorbo