I am so sad Montreal and Tampa have to play each other in the first round of the playoffs. Literally the two teams I have been following all year have to now knock each other out. Aaaaggghhhh. Well ... whoever wins that series better win the cup!
True. Although, I think Fico is dumber than Orban, so at least Putin's current EU errand boy is more incompetent than his last one.
I am really happy for Hungary managing to get rid of the tumor that is Orban. However, I am still refraining from a full celebration. After all, Magyar originally came from Fidesz and it remains to be seen whether he will keep to his promises or not. Either way I am cautiously hopeful.
Imagine that
The great historian of Late Antiquity Averil Cameron, who has died, reminding us that class matters alongside gender in British society wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...
An anglo saxon pendant in the shape of a cross. It is gold with intricately cut garnets inlaid.
This Anglo-Saxon pendant is covered in garnets. It was decorated using a method called cloisonné work which involves making a lattice of gold and filling the holes with gemstone which precisely cut to the size of the hole.
It's just starting to get anoying having to always argue with the more cynical academics that, yes, approaching the sources critically is important, but we shouldn't just outright dismiss them as some have done in the past few decades, because clearly we have found there's some truths in them.
We started off by believing everything ancient/medieval sources told us. Than the linguistic turn came and we started to question everything they told us. Now, with advancements in archeology, we are starting to figure out that, actually, the sources aren't so inaccurate after all.
Throughout academia you are yelled at for daring to reference a source without putting a specific page number (unless you're referencing the whole work), but then you read, even peer reviewed, history books that happily reference a source without a specific page number. Terrible double standards!?
"We'll just be there to fuck shit up and have you deal with the consequences of our stupidity 'alone'."
A company that worked with WhatifAltHistory that is passionate about bringing back "traditional masculinity". Ou man what a great opportunity this is. /s
The tea or coffee questions completly miss the point that they are both great and it just depends on the vibe and what you're going for.
Obviously, as always, it's far more nuanced than this (especially when it comes to the unification of Germany), but I just want to point out that people seem to forget that HRE existed and it wasn't just a completely useless political organization with no power or cultural influence.
Because this wasn't just 1000 independent polities. They were all part of the HRE. I feel like in recent years we have gone too far the other way attributing no political or cultural power to the HRE. Yes it was very decentralized with little administrative unity but it was still seen as one polity.
The current administration is really living up to its promise of bringing back Spartan military ethos by talking loudly and losing more than winning.
Also, someone out here asking the real questions 😆
We (Cambridge) won Varsity 5:1. I scored a goal and an assist.
(we don't need to ask how I scored the goal 😅)
I think it is OK for projects to have geographic or chronological focuses or limits.
(but also the project in question is clearly making a solid attempt to also reach beyond those limits).
Tomorrow (14 of March) at 20:00 GMT, I will be playing in the 108th Cambridge v Oxford ice hockey varsity. The oldest hockey rivalry in the world (disputed). If anyone is interested in watching, here's a link to the stream: www.youtube.com/live/4FxUJHM...
The true value of education is primarily that it helps, or even forces, individuals to develop as human beings, not necessarily as workers or professions, but to learn more about themselves & the world. This is why techbros seek to destroy education & culture more broadly.
Bluesky and YouTube are the only two social medias left where I don't get rage-baited to oblivion every time I go there. Rage-bait content certainly exists on these platforms but they provide sufficient enough user controlled curation tools that I don't see it.
I have been doing some reading about the French revolution, and what I found fascinating was that most of the French revolutionaries where well aware of the English Civil War and of Cromwell and refered to it, often negatively, in their speeches.
E.g., many of the laws disallowing women from owning and controlling property in the late 18th and mainly 19th century, were products of those times. In fact, in most European countries, women's property rights were far more lenient before the 19th century but got worse with the rise of nationalism.
Happy International Women's day!
On this IWD I would like to remind everyone that the rise of nationalism in a country is often linked to a strengthening of the patriarchy in that country.
Biermann, M. Costa, et al. "Masculinity roles, structural patriarchy, and nationalism." pp. 1-12.
Today marks 1 year since the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) for AskHistorians in our push to very actively recruit guests, and where are we now? Today is the 90th AMA in that effort, helping us cross the thresholds of 35k upvotes, 8k comments, and 15k link shares in that year (and ~10m views)!
I know there are many writings from the 18th century to today that talk about how culture will or has become the replacement for religion. However, the fact that no one, that I know, has written a book collating all these writings is surprising. A book titled 'Culture: The New Religion' would sell.
I think a lot of the finite commodity of human attention has been captured by AI channels making it harder, especially for new creators, to break into the market. Edutament is also a niche on social media and in a power dustribution rich get richer economy they will increasingly struggle to survive.
"When the field of history is left uncrowded by historians with full-time employment, historical actors—with self-serving intentions—who wish to exculpate and justify their actions will fill the vacuum."
(While I am here, I think there is often a mistaken assumption that because students are no longer reading massive amounts of literature in college, they're just lazing about, but that's not right.
In practice most of them have heavier workloads from their STEM and/or business courses)
Have fun losing to Canada today.