#Prussia

Iโ€™m reading this book on Lithuanian history and the history of identity and it really shows how much weโ€™ve dumbed down our questions and understanding of โ€œidentityโ€. For example, Lithuania
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Great. You know why a cop in Minneapolis won't face clear justice? The suspect was driving under the influence. That muddies ALL the water. You don't breathe the same, speak
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Today is time for another long thread on Polish and Russian history. This is a story about the contrast between three cultures: Russian, Polish and also German. It is taken
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When we think of Great People we often think too much about the "Great" and not enough about the "People".Whilst they are extraordinary figures, they were still people like anyone
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This paragraph on the Anglo-German naval arms race, from Andrew Bacevich's recent article in the American Prospect, has been bugging me since I first read it. https://prospect.org/world/china-conundrum-deterrence-as-dominance/ IMO his t
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Should I live tweet this historiography fight session? Ok. Here we go! Pipes' student up first. Pipes likened historians to intelligence analysts. This is both true and hilarious. Pipes felt
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"aren't y'all exaggerating about how bad Hetalia's effect on ppl was?"no bc there were a shit ton of cosplayers that made jokes out of real historical events bc of the
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THE PRUSSIAN CRUSADE, PART 3Last time we left the war-torn Prussia, the (((Teutonic Knights))), or rather 200 of them, were training the hosts of the Poles to help them genocide
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Who's ready for a Release Notes thread on the YP release of #Baccano! Volume 11? Apologies the thread wasn't out on release day yesterday as usual; thank you for waiting!(In
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would it be weird to start a meta thread on my oc's kinks? i kinda want to muse with myself on what each turn-on stems from and flesh out some
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Who teaches Modern European History at @CamHistory?Back in 2018 we ran a series of @MEHcambridge academic staff profiles that proved rather popular, so with a few new faces and an
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One of my biggest pet peeves: When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps. A English possessions in 1154 vs the 1st round of the presidential election+ Where
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After lunch we continue with one of our fields of expertise: digital editions of correspondence (watch out, this thread will be quite long :-) #dayofdh2021 #telota20years Let's start with the
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โ€žFirst the grub, then the morals.โ€œ - This quote by Bertolt Brecht is one that always comes into my head when I read and think about the claims of the
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Paid a pre-Covid visit to Glasnevin Cemetery to find where my Great-Grandad Frederick Schweppe is buried. On Glasnevin's database he's listed as "Only American citizen to fight in The Easter
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Thread: Debunking the myths and lies of the SNP/Yes and how theyโ€™ve radicalised Scots. Scotland subsidises England.https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-gers-2019-20/MYTH.We spend ยฃ81 billion for publi
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