neon
Re: VV helpful hints for beginners
ok make a thread to debate the shroud of turin thanks guys.
i have edited the guide again, let me know if it's heading in the right track, or if there is more that should be done or other things you'd like to add.
as i have said, its an evolving process and i'm aiming for consensus (tough i know!)
IN PATROCINIVM SVB MARENOSTRUM
hoi polloi
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
Sorry TG I didn't mean to cause you so much grief for was intended as a light comment on the particularities of some long standing regulars... Your named just poped up first becuse you had already posted earlier - could have been Sig just as easy - I thought by including myself as well the logic was clear.Can' t you read? How many more times do I have to explain to people with low reading comprehension that my list was a list of topics which I consider stupid and which I'm jokingly saying will invoke my wrath as part of the joke I was having with Atterdag . It's NOT a list of things that I'm forbidding. Hey, bring on the discussions of those stupid positions by all means.
edit: I took out that lat part of my comment at #12 - I suppose the question really should have been posed separately.
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IN PATROCINIVM SVB Dromikaites
'One day when I fly with my hands - up down the sky, like a bird'
But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place; some swearing, some crying for surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left.
Bons Soirs de Septembre
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
^This^ok make a thread to debate the shroud of turin thanks guys.
i have edited the guide again, let me know if it's heading in the right track, or if there is more that should be done or other things you'd like to add.
as i have said, its an evolving process and i'm aiming for consensus (tough i know!)
I'd hate to start deleting posts after this.
Granted Lettre de Marque by King Henry V - Spurs given by imb39
Сканија је Данска
عیسی پسر مریم گفت :' جهان است پل ، عبور بیش از آن است ، اما هیچ ساخت خانه بر آن او امیدوار است که برای یک روز ، ممکن است برای ابدیت امیدواریم ، اما ماندگار جهان اما ساعت آن را صرف در دعا و نماز برای استراحت است نهان
All of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
Otto von Bismarck
neon
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
what are peoples opinions on adding a section on primary/eye witness sources?
IN PATROCINIVM SVB MARENOSTRUM
Indefinitely Banned
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
That would warrant also a checksum on the psychology of witness accounts, and possibly methodology of Case Studies?
Jukutatsu shita
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
People also needs to learn the basic skill of comparing sources. The level of historical discussion in this forum needs to be heavily improved.
Dwarf Fortress
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
Perhaps a Sticky stating that 'Greatest' threads are forbidden should be added, similar to the announcement that polls are no longer permitted. There have been several cropping up recently, the latest being 'What was the British Empire's Greatest Victory?' or something to that effect, closed immediately by pannonian.
"There is no arguing with the barrel of a gun."
Magister Militum Vacans
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
I agree, getting rid of threads like "who was the greatest general" and "who is better: rome or sparta" threads should be removed.
hoi polloi
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
I'm not sure I would agree - given reasonable parameters and a detailed question and if a similar thread is not recent I see no particular problem. Books don't get written endlessly about Hannibal and Alexander decade after decade for no reason after all. Worst case nobody replies and if the thread devolves into simplicity it can be closed. I would like to see a better rational for why no 'great' threads should be allowed. To repeat books by real historians about lists of great battles, great leaders and great events are legion.I agree, getting rid of threads like "who was the greatest general" and "who is better: rome or sparta" threads should be removed
IN PATROCINIVM SVB Dromikaites
'One day when I fly with my hands - up down the sky, like a bird'
But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place; some swearing, some crying for surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left.
Magister Militum Vacans
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
If you require that they back up their opinions with sources than yes, i agree with you conon
Sabre of Secession
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
Is using Osprey Publishing Books considered a good resource or it falls in the category "beware off"? i ask, as I find those books quite good and they often consist healthy ammount of quotes and their bibliography is easy to check... also, some of the stuff marked as sources are accessible via free e-books...
Just wanted to know, before I write anything depending heavily on them...
MM
Senshi
Re: Vestigia Vetustatis Helpful hints for beginners
I only have two of them, but I have wondered the same before. Thus I'd also appreciate an answer on thisOriginally Posted by Minas Moth
19 May 2012 Hibernian 1-5 Heart of Midlothian
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Sir Winston Churchill
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