Is that person in the back wearing tin foil or have they been scratched out?
it also looks photoshopped
[video=youtube;PD2XgQOyCCk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk[/video]
some music to listen to while you watch the video:
[vid]https://archive.org/download/BlueDanubeWaltz/JohannStrauss-TheBlueDanube-Waltz.ogg[/vid]
[QUOTE=Synavix;47565640]That's the face of someone who has seen some shit.[/QUOTE]
haha get it
that guy was actually wounded in combat and his friends were too
lets joke about it
[QUOTE=British Army Facebook]Regular and Reserve soldiers have marked the 89th birthday of Her Majesty The Queen on Tuesday 21st April in London at two visually spectacular events.
The soldiers, horses and Guns of The Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery pulling six First World War-era 13-pounder Field Guns.[/QUOTE]
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i'm curious, what started this whole "WHALES IN THE SKY" trend?
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I looked at these after the mandelbrot vid and it seemed like they were breathing
There was a book from the 90s called "the black company", which is basically the forerunner to the catachan style/Gaunt books, except unlike every other series even before game of thrones, the main characters can and do often die, because that's what happens to mercs in a fantasy world with super badass wizards trying to control the world.
Anyway, the company pisses off a particularly powerful cabal of wizards (one of whom is actually the avatar of an elder god in disguise) and the only place they can hide is in a desert where another set of alien gods have a direct connection to the worlds, so it's pretty much untouchable ground for the cabal.
The standout scene of this part is the mercs having a discussion of how the fuck they are going to get out of this place while riding a gigantic flying whale. This scene was reproduced for promoting the book by three different painters, they've kind of been shorthand for "you're not in kansas anymore, toto" ever since.
and [I]that[/I] scene was inspired by fantasy painting by scifi artists such as Chriss Foss, John Cardos and Timothy Bradstreet in the 80's who sometimes had flying sea creatures in otherwise generic suburban scenes on random generic pieces done for [I]Omni[/I] magazine and [I]Amazing Stories[/I] to pretty much signify "just like your town [I]but different[/I]."
[img]http://orig06.deviantart.net/9c95/f/2015/063/1/6/granfaloon_by_dantecyberman-d8kdp66.jpg[/img]
Coolest boss in Castelvania SotN.
[QUOTE=27X;47574602]-black company stuff-[/QUOTE]
Holy shit, someone else read those books? Those are some of my favorite fantasy novels.
[QUOTE=richard9311;47575926]Holy shit, someone else read those books? Those are some of my favorite fantasy novels.[/QUOTE]
Literally the best fantasy novels in the modern day
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2 year old FDR
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2 year old FDR[/QUOTE]
FYI, dresses were considered gender-neutral for very young children at the time. Easy access to diapers and white cotton could be bleached in case of accidents.
It's largely up to the mother to what they wear and for mothers, what the children are wearing is far less important than what the husband is wear.
Why did this end?
A change of multiple things at the end of the 19th century. Modern mass media (including popular fashion and advertising), works by Freud, children attending school at an earlier age, and the compounding effect of social attitude to gender awareness made the usage of dresses on boys decadent.
Fun fact: One of those who stresses boys to be "real boys" the most is no other than Teddy Roosevelt.
Hi
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[QUOTE]Locations of slave-run cotton farms in 1860 laid on top of counties in the South that voted Democratic in 2008 [/QUOTE]
Time to become a potato farmer.
[editline]22nd April 2015[/editline]
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Fun fact: These maps are more related than you think.
[B]How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline[/B]
[url]http://deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline/[/url]
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The 2000 warhead scenario puzzles me.
Why are there so many clustered close to Cheyenne, Bismarch and Helena. Yet none of the 500 ones are there.
[QUOTE=booster;47577549]The 2000 warhead scenario puzzles me.
Why are there so many clustered close to Cheyenne, Bismarch and Helena. Yet none of the 500 ones are there.[/QUOTE]
I guess when they only have 500 strikes, they don't want to waste them on missile silos.
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[quote]3 days and 240 years ago, on April 19, 1775, the 'shot heard around the world' happened at Lexington. A group of colonial minutemen gathered to confront oncoming British Regulars in order to defend military caches that Patriots had collected. The militias were said to have been given explicit orders to not fire unless fired upon and that British Regulars were said to have never been given explicit orders to open fire upon the subjects and the primary intent of their presence was to act as a 'show of force' to the colonists, never specifically fighting them. During the time, many colonists still viewed themselves as subjects of the King.
The ensuing battle resulted in numerous British casualties as they were constantly harassed by local militiamen [b]for about 15 miles[/b] during their retreat from Concord to the city of Boston.
[b]"The whole Country was assembled in Arms with Surprizing[sic] Expedition, and Several Thousand are now Assembled about this Town(Boston) threatening an Attack, and getting up Artillery. And we are very busy in making Preparations to oppose them"[/b][/quote]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Siege_of_Boston.Dean.USMA.edu.history.gif[/img]
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[quote]The diagrams above show the disposition of American troops around Boston during the siege. The rebels [b]virtually had no gunpowder to supply their amount of cannons during the siege.[/b] General Washington at the time bluffed the besieged British Army in Boston and the British Army dared not call his bluff and instead the British retreated from Boston via boat.[/quote]
You gotta hand it to a then, bunch of raggedy militiamen with muskets to stand up to a world superpower at the time and the ballsiness of our homeboy G.W.
[QUOTE=booster;47577549]The 2000 warhead scenario puzzles me.
Why are there so many clustered close to Cheyenne, Bismarch and Helena. Yet none of the 500 ones are there.[/QUOTE]
I found the site that the image came from, and a lot of the comments are saying that the 2,000-warhead strike is a first-strike plan designed to eliminate US military command and all nuclear capability before the US can respond, whereas the 500-warhead strike is retaliatory, and is simply designed to inflict massive losses.
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A day late, but you reminded me. The 21st was also the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. The decisive battle for the Independence of the Republic of Texas.
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[I]Only 9 Texians died.[/I]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto[/url]
Every year they reenact the battle.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLT4xTYAvk[/media]
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[I]*Battleship not a participant. [/I]
We built the tallest Obelisk(567.31-foot (172.92 m)) in the world to stand monument for the battle, and it's where we park Battleship Texas.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cLueWoS.jpg[/img]
heh, i went there a couple years ago, the battleship is really cool
wish i had been able to ride the elevator in the monument
[QUOTE=booster;47577549]The 2000 warhead scenario puzzles me.
Why are there so many clustered close to Cheyenne, Bismarch and Helena. Yet none of the 500 ones are there.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;47578452]I found the site that the image came from, and a lot of the comments are saying that the 2,000-warhead strike is a first-strike plan designed to eliminate US military command and all nuclear capability before the US can respond, whereas the 500-warhead strike is retaliatory, and is simply designed to inflict massive losses.[/QUOTE]
This. No point wasting nukes on empty silos.
There is little to no point attempting a counter-force (i.e. nuclear weapons on the ground) attack unless you can reliably destroy nearly all the weapons. If you've only got 500 weapons left because the rest were destroyed then your only option really is to lose less than the enemy, by destroying them more than you. At that point you're playing the long game and trying to destroy them so much that your nation recovers faster than them.
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[QUOTE]German women washing clothes at a cold water hydrant in a Berlin street. A knocked-out German scout car stands beside them, 3 July 1945.[/QUOTE]
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[editline]23rd April 2015[/editline]
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I bring you volcano
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Vietnam is wrong, it should be predominately "Buddhist" in the south and "Other religion" in the north.
The government and the census is biased towards state atheism; so unregistered religions (almost all of them) are considered "No religion".
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Sorry to break the mood, but that facepalm guy is like "Fuck! I missed AGAIN, and has to reload this fucking thing for 10th time now!!!!"
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