[QUOTE=gukki;51488490]Sup aux, have some slash and burn instead of the never ending brutalism.
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Raatajat_rahanalaiset.JPG/400px-Raatajat_rahanalaiset.JPG[/t][/QUOTE]oh yeah, "Raatajat Rahanalaiset", a poetic name which could be roughly translated into "The slaves to money", also known simply as "Kaski" or "Slash and burn". the name comes from a verse in the Kalevala national epic, and in the original context the word "raataja" which can translate into "slave" or "toiler" means a slash-and-burn farmer. nowadays the word more commonly means someone who works hard, as if in slavery, and from the painting you can see why.
it's one of the iconic works by Eero Järnefelt, an important figure in the history of finnish realism. the work is from 1893, a time when the area later known as the Republic of Finland was an autonomous patch of territory controlled by the Russian Empire - the finnish national spirit was awakening towards the beginning of the 20th century, which could be seen in the art produced at the time. some went for national romanticism, while others created works of national realism.
i'm no art expert nor particularly enthusiastic about traditional art, but i've always found the style he had very nice to look at
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/J%C3%A4rnefelt_Laundry.jpg[/t][t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Eero_J%C3%A4rnefelt_-_Autumn_Landscape_of_Lake_Pielisj%C3%A4rvi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg[/t]
you'd be hard-pressed to call me a nationalist of any kind, but here's one of my favorite paintings (by a different artist) from the late 19th-20th century transition period, a time when the Tsar's lackeys decided they'd had enough of that "finnish autonomy" tomfoolery and started to impose all sorts of restrictions and limitations.
it's simply entitled "The Attack" and you don't need to think twice about the symbolism it exhibits.
[img]https://helmioppi.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/a_isto.jpg[/img]
it hangs on a wall of the finnish national museum in a room chock full of other artefacts from the russian tsarist era. if i recall correctly, you can find this among them:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Kansallismuseo_valtaistuin.jpg[/t]
a throne that the russian emperor Nicholas I used to cushion his royal rear during the Porvoo parliament meeting of 1809, the same meeting where Finland was handed over to Russia by the swedes (the former had emerged victorious in the so-called Finnish War) and granted autonomy. his predecessor had it manufactured in 1797.
the dude on the wall next to it is probably emperor Nico himself.
and since i'm on the topic of what's in the finnish national museum - you know how the Sistine Chapel in Vatican has those famous frescoes painted by Michelangelo in 1500-whatever? our own Akseli Gallen-Kallela snorted at that christian nonsense and gave the national museum these folk metal album covers instead
[t]http://www.kansallismuseo.fi/fi/Image/16962/kansallismuseo-freskot-rajattu-arno-de-la-chapelle.jpg[/t]
[vid]http://i.imgur.com/nICguqJ.mp4[/vid]
Sand physics are cool
Maaaan, I want to see sand dunes one day
[t]https://i.imgur.com/OwA61pO.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;51497625][t]https://i.imgur.com/OwA61pO.png[/t][/QUOTE]
John: "I have a great name of this settlement"
Stuart: "I think I have one better"
[img]https://i.redd.it/5mra3qv4v52y.jpg[/img]
philippines drug crackdown and not a still from some cyberpunk movie
[QUOTE=Griffster26;51481467][t]https://i.imgur.com/yfJPbR2.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Oh fuck, don't even get me started about Vasa. One of the biggest mistakes in Swedish history like holy shit this is why you don't listen to the king when he asks "But can we put more cannons on it?"
[editline]8th December 2016[/editline]
[t]http://www.titanicnorden.com/skepp/pics/wasa.jpg[/t]
How much land is federally owned by state:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/dIP2pIr.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Scot;51491926]Ah so that's what this album cover is
[t]https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4072231170_5.jpg[/t]
(its gud btw u should listen 2 it)[/QUOTE]
I like this album cover of his better
[img]https://earthnight.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/emancipator_safe.jpg[/img]
looks like some giant buffalo or something
[QUOTE=Griffster26;51498168]How much land is federally owned by state:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/dIP2pIr.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Holy shit what's even the point of Nevada
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;51497980]Oh fuck, don't even get me started about Vasa. One of the biggest mistakes in Swedish history like holy shit this is why you don't listen to the king when he asks "But can we put more cannons on it?"
[editline]8th December 2016[/editline]
[t]http://www.titanicnorden.com/skepp/pics/wasa.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
A lesson in weight distribution and ballasting. Should've tossed more rocks in the bottom.
[editline]8th December 2016[/editline]
I feel like that would've been something they should've thought about? Though I don't know that story. Was it just like a spur of the moment demand from the king or what?
[quote]The ship foundered after sailing about 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. [/quote]
[quote]Vasa was an early example of a warship with two full gun decks, and was built when the theoretical principles of shipbuilding were still poorly understood. There is no evidence that Henrik Hybertsson had ever built a ship like it before, and two gundecks is a much more complicated compromise in seaworthiness and firepower than a single gundeck.[/quote]
Oh. Well I guess someones got to blaze the trail. They left us with a valuable example of how not to do it right. Ship design back then was basically[I] "Well this worked in the past, so..."[/I]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51498323]Holy shit what's even the point of Nevada[/QUOTE]
There's a lot of military bases in Nevada including the infamous/famous Area 51 although a lot of it's probably natural parks as well.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;51497806]John: "I have a great name of this settlement"
Stuart: "I think I have one better"[/QUOTE]
Jim Jones: I have an even better one.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;51497980]Oh fuck, don't even get me started about Vasa. One of the biggest mistakes in Swedish history like holy shit this is why you don't listen to the king when he asks "But can we put more cannons on it?"
[editline]8th December 2016[/editline]
[t]http://www.titanicnorden.com/skepp/pics/wasa.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Sweden made a lot of mistakes in its history.
[img]http://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h425-c728x425/upload/58/42/4f/peter-der-grosse.jpg[/img]
Like for example not being a part of Russia.
[QUOTE=Broguts;51498915]Sweden made a lot of mistakes in its history.
[img]http://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h425-c728x425/upload/58/42/4f/peter-der-grosse.jpg[/img]
Like for example not being a part of Russia.[/QUOTE]
This guy right here. Every other emperor after him lived in a palace. He? He lived here:
[IMG]http://j-travel-spb.ru/sysfiles/43_197.jpg[/IMG]
After devastating fires in the city he refused to rebuild his home in stone, so he just painted it to look like it's made out of bricks.
[QUOTE=DaBeaver;51499152]This guy right here. Every other emperor after him lived in a palace. He? He lived here:
[IMG]http://j-travel-spb.ru/sysfiles/43_197.jpg[/IMG]
After devastating fires in the city he refused to rebuild his home in stone, so he just painted it to look like it's made out of bricks.[/QUOTE]
Peter the Great is an almost mythical figure. The mother fucker was 6'6" SIX FOOT SIX the man was a fucking giant. He also had a case of petit mal epilepsy, his face twitched and it scared the shit out of people. He was best buds with the king of Poland (considering Peter was Russian this should have been fucking impossible) The king of Poland was a 6'8" fox throwing champion (a sport where you throw a live fox into the air as hard as you can) Peter the Great killed a whole lot of people who revolted against him, took a lot of power from the church and common peasants literally thought he was the Antichrist, or Satan. The guy was a lot of fun to write essays about in school.
[quote]fox throwing champion (a sport where you throw a live fox into the air as hard as you can)[/quote]
I would love to see how this became a thing.
[QUOTE=OvB;51499373]I would love to see how this became a thing.[/QUOTE]
It was a high-risk sport because sometimes the fox would get the better of the thrower and rip his jugular out.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;51497806]John: "I have a great name of this settlement"
Stuart: "I think I have one better"[/QUOTE]
Darien: Screw you two, I'm going to make my own colony. With Blackjack. And Hookers.
[QUOTE=OvB;51498442]A lesson in weight distribution and ballasting. Should've tossed more rocks in the bottom.
[editline]8th December 2016[/editline]
I feel like that would've been something they should've thought about? Though I don't know that story. Was it just like a spur of the moment demand from the king or what?
Oh. Well I guess someones got to blaze the trail. They left us with a valuable example of how not to do it right. Ship design back then was basically[I] "Well this worked in the past, so..."[/I][/QUOTE]
Currently the ship is located in the Vasa Museet (Museum of Vasa). Inside there's a small terminal where you can play a minigame, the goal of the game is to make the weight even as to prevent the ship from sinking. :v:
[QUOTE=Griffster26;51497625][t]https://i.imgur.com/OwA61pO.png[/t][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE= online encyclopidia wikiped]Close to the fort they began erecting the huts of the main settlement, New Edinburgh, and clearing land to plant yams and maize. Letters sent home by the expedition created a misleading impression that everything was going according to plan. This seems to have been by agreement, as certain optimistic phrases kept recurring. However, it meant the Scottish public would be completely unprepared for the coming disaster.
---
In August 1699, the Olive Branch and Hopeful Beginning with 300 settlers arrived in Darien to find ruined huts and 400 overgrown graves. Expecting a bustling town, the ship's captains debated their next move. When the Olive Branch was destroyed by an accidental fire, the survivors fled to Jamaica in the Hopeful Beginning, and landed in Port Royal harbour. The Scots were not allowed ashore, and illness struck the crowded ship.
On 20 Sep, Thomas Drummond set sail from New York in the sloop Ann of Caledonia, (formerly the Anne), picking up another fully supplied vessel (The Society) on the way. They arrived in Darien to find the burnt timbers of the Olive Branch rotting on the shore.[/QUOTE]
What other fuck-ups in history were this bad
The only other thing that comes to mind are the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident"]antics of the Baltic Fleet[/URL] during the Russo-Japanese war
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51498323]Holy shit what's even the point of Nevada[/QUOTE]
nukes
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51498323]Holy shit what's even the point of Nevada[/QUOTE]
As I understand it, land in the US is considered to be originally owned by the state, and remains so until it is sold. In most of the western states, the land simply hasn't been sold off yet, due to lack of interest (would [I]you[/I] be interested in buying up acres of Nevada desert?).
I suspect my understanding is lacking, because wouldn't it make more sense to be owned by the state and not the federal government? But that's the way it's been explained to me. Maybe it has something to do with former territorial status?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;51501096](would [I]you[/I] be interested in buying up acres of Nevada desert?)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I would actually.
[editline]8th December 2016[/editline]
Here's a PDF showing the Federal land in Nevada:
[url]https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/printable/images/pdf/fedlands/NV.pdf[/url]
We tested a lot of nukes there. Then there's also Area 51 and all that stuff.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/FtLrXI5.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;51501096]As I understand it, land in the US is considered to be originally owned by the state, and remains so until it is sold. In most of the western states, the land simply hasn't been sold off yet, due to lack of interest (would [I]you[/I] be interested in buying up acres of Nevada desert?).
I suspect my understanding is lacking, because wouldn't it make more sense to be owned by the state and not the federal government? But that's the way it's been explained to me. Maybe it has something to do with former territorial status?[/QUOTE]
This is likely not true, at least not anymore. I'd imagine a fair amount of western land was distributed through the Homestead acts, but those were repealed in 76, and recently (in Utah, at least), there was a shitstorm about having some ski resorts build a ski lift on public land, because it would set a precedent for selling public lands to corporations.
[QUOTE=Broguts;51499376]It was a high-risk sport because sometimes the fox would get the better of the thrower and rip his jugular out.[/QUOTE]
I can imagine that's why a majority of the people watched. Like crashes in Nascar
[QUOTE=Broguts;51499362]Peter the Great is an almost mythical figure. The mother fucker was 6'6" SIX FOOT SIX the man was a fucking giant. He also had a case of petit mal epilepsy, his face twitched and it scared the shit out of people. He was best buds with the king of Poland (considering Peter was Russian this should have been fucking impossible) The king of Poland was a 6'8" fox throwing champion (a sport where you throw a live fox into the air as hard as you can) Peter the Great killed a whole lot of people who revolted against him, took a lot of power from the church and common peasants literally thought he was the Antichrist, or Satan. The guy was a lot of fun to write essays about in school.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget the best part, his personal army of "play soldiers" dedicated to playing mock war games for entertainment, which eventually became part of the actual army.
Map of Africa in 1950
[t]https://i.imgur.com/SARpXSH.jpg[/t]
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