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"David und Goliath", 1888. Color lithograph by German artist, Osmar Schindler.
Further and ironically, Britain later went to at war with America in 1812 while still at war with France. Britain embarked on the Gulf Campaign to try to take New Orleans and possibly all of the Louisiana Territory (after financing its purchase)
@HarmlessYardDog I'm getting sent to join Ulfric and the boys, liberating my home from the Thalmor who BANNED OUR RELIGION and hunt down our people with the help of a corrupt and decrepit empire. LFG!
@FreeNortherner And all art will be in gloriously proletariat and mandatory Corporate Memphis style.
Nell wrote that Attucks was “foremost in resisting and was first slain. As proof of a front engagement, he received two balls, one in each breast.”
This is significant in that a wound to the front has always been considered a mark of martial bravery.
@MontyYuanti Yes. And lots of abrasive, sometimes even callous, good.
“With no significant political forces opposing the conversion of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is the struggle to retain one’s humanity in an increasingly artificial world.”
― Julius Evola, "Metaphysics of War"
I want all of these whimsy pictures from the middle ages to have been real: knights fighting snails and rabbits; people maintaining languid expression because they were impervious to being stabbed or cut; beings with faces in their torsos; etc.
Arthur C. Clarke said during a Smithsonian lecture that if the Greeks had been able to build on their knowledge the Industrial Revolution might've begun a millennium ago. "By this time we would not merely be pottering around on the Moon. We would have reached the nearer stars."