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Postby Xathranaar » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:20 pm

I'm partial to the storming of the bastille myself.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:22 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:(Image)

You just like boobs.
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Postby The UK in Exile » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:24 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:(Image)

you know what I just noticed? theres a dude who isn't wearing pants and a lady who isn't wearing a top, but one dude decided "no. just because we are having a revolution doesn't mean standards need to slip" wearing a top hat and bow tie. Classy san culottes that he is.

EDIT: also Boboobies.
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"We fought for the public good and would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom"

"My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish’d of a base descent.I came unto your court for honour’s cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, This sword shall prove he’s honour’s enemy."

"Wählte Ungnade, wo Gehorsam nicht Ehre brachte."
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Postby Nazis in Space » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:25 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:(Image)
>exposed breasts

I thought posting nudity was frowned upon?
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:25 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:
The UK in Exile wrote:(Image)

you know what I just noticed? theres a dude who isn't wearing pants and a lady who isn't wearing a top, but one dude decided "no. just because we are having a revolution doesn't mean standards need to slip" wearing a top hat and bow tie.

EDIT: also Boboobies.

To be fair, the guy without pants is probably dead.
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Postby The God-Realm » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:25 pm

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Why do you willingly reject the Gospel and our holy father. Why embrace the devil?

Turning their backs on God is what caused Sodom and Gomorrah to be destroyed. Is that what you want for America?

America lost.
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Postby The UK in Exile » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:26 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
The UK in Exile wrote:you know what I just noticed? theres a dude who isn't wearing pants and a lady who isn't wearing a top, but one dude decided "no. just because we are having a revolution doesn't mean standards need to slip" wearing a top hat and bow tie.

EDIT: also Boboobies.

To be fair, the guy without pants is probably dead.


so someone stole his pants?! AND. ONE. SOCK?
"We fought for the public good and would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom"

"My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish’d of a base descent.I came unto your court for honour’s cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, This sword shall prove he’s honour’s enemy."

"Wählte Ungnade, wo Gehorsam nicht Ehre brachte."
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:27 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:To be fair, the guy without pants is probably dead.


so someone stole his pants?! AND. ONE. SOCK?

Times were tough.
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RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
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Postby Ceannairceach » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:29 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Ceannairceach wrote:Although I am an overly zealous fan of the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantine XI Palaiologos, I have to say that the fall of the last vestige of the Roman Empire is something of an inspiring event. It paved the way, in many ways, for the creation of a new civilization, a new world in which an imperial Rome was no longer necessary or even existent.

Well, but the "new civilization" was already in flower in the West by 1453 (1460, when the Turks took the last last vestiges). And the Empire had been a vestige for a good century by then, too. The Romans never really recovered from the sack in 1204.

Of course. I'm just using the fall of Constantinople and subsequent destruction of the holdouts as a symbol for the larger destruction of the Roman way of life.

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Postby Nazis in Space » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:30 pm

Ceannairceach wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Well, but the "new civilization" was already in flower in the West by 1453 (1460, when the Turks took the last last vestiges). And the Empire had been a vestige for a good century by then, too. The Romans never really recovered from the sack in 1204.

Of course. I'm just using the fall of Constantinople and subsequent destruction of the holdouts as a symbol for the larger destruction of the Roman way of life.
Define 'Roman way of life'.

Shockingly, in a history covering circa 2000 years, this way of life had a way of changing every now and then.
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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:31 pm

Ceannairceach wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Well, but the "new civilization" was already in flower in the West by 1453 (1460, when the Turks took the last last vestiges). And the Empire had been a vestige for a good century by then, too. The Romans never really recovered from the sack in 1204.

Of course. I'm just using the fall of Constantinople and subsequent destruction of the holdouts as a symbol for the larger destruction of the Roman way of life.

Which had been gone for ages. Anyway, which "Roman way of life"? Pre-Republic kingdom? Republic? The Republic after the defeat of Carthage? Augustan Imperial? Age of the Antonines? You can't take a span of almost 2,000 years and call it "the Roman way of life."
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And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water ...
"Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody." RIP Don Rickles
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. ~ Carl Schurz
<Sigh> NSG...where even the atheists are Augustinians. ~ The Archregimancy
Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
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Postby The UK in Exile » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:38 pm

Nazis in Space wrote:
The UK in Exile wrote:(Image)
>exposed breasts

I thought posting nudity was frowned upon?


the rule shop says no "obscene" images. and that it should be PG-13. I think we are good.
"We fought for the public good and would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom"

"My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish’d of a base descent.I came unto your court for honour’s cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, This sword shall prove he’s honour’s enemy."

"Wählte Ungnade, wo Gehorsam nicht Ehre brachte."
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Postby 4years » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:45 pm

Oh, the most inspiring moment, there are so mnay chioces:

The Paris Commune Revolt
The Storming of the Winter Place
The storming of the Bastille
The march upon Versailles that forced the royal family back to Paris
The founding of the 1st International
1968, need I say more?
1848 (see above)
Moving into modern history: The Jasmine Revolution and The Arab Spring
And the Occupy movement
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Postby Serrland » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:50 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:(Image)


Ah, ouais! Vive l'Orléanisme! Vive Louis-Philippe!
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Postby United Horizon » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:50 pm

World War 2 getting the US on the map
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Postby Grand Duchy of Prussia » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:54 pm

Choronzon wrote:
Saruhan wrote:Yeah, but it was Ethiopia

Ethiopia had one of the most modernized armies in Africa at the time.

It was the only modern army
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Postby The New Lowlands » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:55 pm

For me personally, it's split between 1609 and the Twelve Years' Truce, when the Dutch showed the world that a small, democratic, Republican, Protestant entity with religious tolerance- against most of the norms of the time -could survive a brutal assault by the large, oppressive, inquisition-supporting Spanish Empire.

The second is 15 August 1947, when Gandhi led a nation to independence from another oppressive foreign entity through peaceful means.
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Postby Euronion » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:56 pm

-The Formation of the USA
-Charlemagne's victory over the Moors
-The end of World War II
-The Fall of the Berlin Wall
-(I'll think of some other ones eventually)
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Postby Euronion » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:57 pm

Grand Duchy of Prussia wrote:
Choronzon wrote:Ethiopia had one of the most modernized armies in Africa at the time.

It was the only modern army


I think that's the point.
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Postby The UK in Exile » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:58 pm

Serrland wrote:
The UK in Exile wrote:(Image)


Ah, ouais! Vive l'Orléanisme! Vive Louis-Philippe!


non.
"We fought for the public good and would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom"

"My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish’d of a base descent.I came unto your court for honour’s cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, This sword shall prove he’s honour’s enemy."

"Wählte Ungnade, wo Gehorsam nicht Ehre brachte."
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Postby Grand Duchy of Prussia » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:59 pm

The battle of New Orleans crushing the the very same unit that beat Napoleon and a great end to an average war
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Postby Serrland » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:59 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:
Serrland wrote:
Ah, ouais! Vive l'Orléanisme! Vive Louis-Philippe!


non.


But...your painting... the Revolution of 1830... the July Monarchy... :(
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Postby The UK in Exile » Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:04 pm

Grand Duchy of Prussia wrote:The battle of New Orleans crushing the the very same unit that beat Napoleon and a great end to an average war


holy shit? prussian Uhlans were at the battle of new orleans?
"We fought for the public good and would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom"

"My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish’d of a base descent.I came unto your court for honour’s cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, This sword shall prove he’s honour’s enemy."

"Wählte Ungnade, wo Gehorsam nicht Ehre brachte."
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Postby Cameroi » Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:04 pm

Srboslavija wrote:Within the whole context - Obama 2008 would have to be right up there.


Capitolinium wrote:
Seconded.

Image


This isn't the "Favourite Movie Moment" thread.

the flag doesn't make it "favorite". the fact that SOMEONE was there, makes it inspiring.
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Postby Ostroeuropa » Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:05 pm

The UK in Exile wrote:
Grand Duchy of Prussia wrote:The battle of New Orleans crushing the the very same unit that beat Napoleon and a great end to an average war


holy shit? prussian Uhlans were at the battle of new orleans?


Shhh. We're not supposed to admit we didn't beat the french.
They let us pretend we beat them, and we let them pretend it was a purely french army that conquered europe :p
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