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Brentos
@ Saturday, August 24th 2019, 4:11 AM
WinterWeirdo
@ Thursday, August 29th 2019, 4:24 PM
pinderhooks
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Brentos
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Calli
@ Monday, August 12th 2019, 7:41 PM
Sakana_Katana
@ Thursday, August 15th 2019, 5:37 PM
WinterWeirdo
@ Friday, August 16th 2019, 3:15 PM
Brentos
@ Saturday, August 17th 2019, 4:11 AM
pinderhooks
@ Wednesday, September 11th 2019, 5:21 PM
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pinderhooks
@ Friday, August 2nd 2019, 10:02 PM
Brentos
@ Saturday, August 3rd 2019, 2:54 AM
Sakana_Katana
@ Monday, August 12th 2019, 4:05 PM
WinterWeirdo
@ Monday, August 12th 2019, 5:23 PM
pinderhooks
@ Wednesday, September 11th 2019, 5:16 PM
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WinterWeirdo
@ Thursday, July 18th 2019, 1:44 PM
pinderhooks
@ Thursday, July 18th 2019, 9:47 PM
Brentos
@ Wednesday, July 24th 2019, 2:29 AM
Brentos
@ Wednesday, July 24th 2019, 2:43 AM
Brentos
@ Wednesday, July 24th 2019, 3:05 AM
Brentos
@ Wednesday, July 24th 2019, 5:25 AM
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I speak the language of Garlic. |
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That feathered helmet reminds me of how Voton & the Walküre are costumed in Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelüngen". Have you seen this opera? It's the one wherein the fat lady sings. Everyone in it -- gods, mortals & in-between is batshit insane; even Brünnhilde's horse. Rather than sit through 10 hour's performance, over 4 nights in a stuffy opera house, I recommend the graphic novelization by P. Craig Russell. Or, just watch the classic Warner Brothers' cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" With my spear & magic helmet! |
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He came, he saw, he conquered, but not quite in that order |
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This is why there's so much garlic in Italian sausage. The feathered helmet was more modeled after Asterix's helmet, even though he was a Gaul... I'd rather have drawn it more historically correct where the Celtic guy would have been naked or maybe had a cape but then it might not have made sense to everyone. He would have seemed more like a 'caveman' or something. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine how the people of North Western Europe of this time are usually portrayed as being well-dressed and having an abundance of iron, that wouldn't have been until like a thousand years later when the Vikings started taking it from their neighbors to the south and east. (Iron was invented independently long before the Roman conquests of North Western Europe in three different places, China, Iraq and Central-West Africa, at least according to Jared Diamond...) I think the Romans had cotton but only because their empire spanned into the regions where it existed but most people in Europe didn't have any of that stuff at that time, they would have worn furs and wool but only when it was winter. To this day most cotton in the world is from strains domesticated by the natives of the Americas from like four-thousand years ago. It just bugs me how it's so often portrayed that people of Europe were walking around like Asterix and Obelix with all this cool stuff they 'invented' when they were actually just surviving in a pretty cold and wet part of the world. If anyone's really interested there are books by Jared Diamond and Charles C Mann. I could go on and on like you know I can so sorry for another rant. |
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Just trying to make the world a better place... |
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Never having read "Asterix and Obelix" I, at first, thought you were referring to “Aurore et Ulysse” but, they were Belgian and, as centaurs, had no worries about clothes, whether wool nor cotton. Not to start a spat here but, elemental iron was discovered; not invented. |
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No spat here man, you're totally right. Most advances from many thousands of years ago were definitely discoveries as opposed to deliberate inventions. It's a super interesting subject. Jared Diamond mentions the 'Great Leap Forward' which happened 50,000 years ago where our species all over the world all at the same time adopted the same technologies like the bow and similar arrowheads and I think fire (I can't remember everything I read) after hundreds of thousands of years of making no major advances. (I'm guessing the Great Leap Forward had something to do with the climate...) But then after that it took tens of thousands of years of constant struggle until some of us (by accident) discovered some unique plants which eventually became super-crops. After the production of a food surplus we really started to take off, but only in the places where these certain plants existed in the first place. We started to discover things like iron, copper and plaster etc. Much of this history we've known for decades but I think Diamond's biggest contribution is how geography decided which peoples would enjoy the biggest benefits from these new crops, as in how wheat, barley and rice could be transmitted both east and west but the corn and potatoes of the Americas couldn't because there wasn't any east or west for them, the American continents go north and south. It took thousands of years for corn to reach the southern part of Canada but by that time people from Europe arrived and literally wiped out their mound-building civilizations with the germs from Eurasia causing the American Natives who survived to revert back to hunting and gathering. His books explain it all and take up too much time to write here. But if anyone here reads them, mostly Guns Germs And Steel, they'll realize why Europeans conquered most of North America and all of Australia but not Papua New Guinea or Africa (they merely occupied it for a couple hundred years). Spoiler alert! It all comes down to geography and germs (and why some people had the advantage of germs...). Sorry again for another rant but there's some books out there that have changed me so much man. |
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Coon
@ Sunday, June 23rd 2019, 10:28 PM
pinderhooks
@ Monday, June 24th 2019, 7:41 PM
Brentos
@ Sunday, June 30th 2019, 12:48 AM
Waccoon
@ Friday, July 5th 2019, 10:52 PM
Sakana_Katana
@ Sunday, July 28th 2019, 12:33 AM
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WinterWeirdo
@ Tuesday, May 21st 2019, 3:07 PM
Brentos
@ Saturday, June 1st 2019, 2:03 AM
WinterWeirdo
@ Monday, June 3rd 2019, 4:01 PM
Brentos
@ Saturday, June 8th 2019, 3:14 AM
Sakana_Katana
@ Wednesday, July 17th 2019, 4:14 AM
Brentos
@ Wednesday, July 24th 2019, 5:12 AM
Sakana_Katana
@ Sunday, July 28th 2019, 12:41 AM
Brentos
@ Wednesday, July 31st 2019, 1:51 AM
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Brentos
@ Wednesday, May 15th 2019, 6:12 AM
pinderhooks
@ Tuesday, May 21st 2019, 7:45 PM
Brentos
@ Sunday, May 26th 2019, 2:18 AM
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WinterWeirdo
@ Sunday, April 14th 2019, 3:34 PM
Brentos
@ Monday, April 15th 2019, 1:09 AM
pinderhooks
@ Wednesday, April 17th 2019, 11:51 PM
Brentos
@ Sunday, June 30th 2019, 12:52 AM
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Brentos
@ Saturday, April 6th 2019, 2:32 AM
Sakana_Katana
@ Wednesday, April 10th 2019, 5:29 AM
Brentos
@ Monday, April 15th 2019, 1:10 AM
pinderhooks
@ Wednesday, April 17th 2019, 11:59 PM
Sakana_Katana
@ Thursday, April 25th 2019, 2:02 AM
Brentos
@ Saturday, May 4th 2019, 2:48 AM
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