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Who would win? Ancient romans vs. Zulu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOm_2dGzqp0

I hate to tell you /his/ but I have been informed by a friend of mine that all mammals and land treading animals, as well as most oceanic animals have in fact evolved WRONG. See the squid's eye is correct, and every other species has their eyes WRONG. We evolved WRONG our cone and rods are on the back of our eye, whereas the squid has their cones and rods on the front.

Why would you ever want your cones and rods on the back of the eye while they should be on the front? We can't see, raptorous birds can't see, cats can't see, nothing can really see. Only squid can see and we have evolved WRONG the squid is far more advanced because it evolved right.

Calling attention to this documentary, which sets out to tell the history of private central banking in America. It documents the different ways it can be established, the tools it uses for control, how it took over America, after most of the world. And it presents the alternatives that have been repeatedly suppressed by international banking cartels for hundreds of years.

Big props to Bill Still for making this. He still makes videos on his YT channel on a regular basis (he supports Trump btw).

lets start at the beginning, shall we?
i knackered the audio completely so i could halve the episodes, instead of cutting them into thirds. woud yall prefer better audio, or less pieces? it takes about as much work on my end to do it either way

The whole "Rome was built on the backs of shitposters" threads on /his/ and /v/ got me thinking, do we have any other examples of imageboard-esque culture and memes throughout history that are similar to the ones today? It's hilarious and awe-inspiring to see how people from different times and cultures throughout all human existence often had a lot of things in common if you look deep enough.
I sometimes wonder if there was a historical equivalent of baneposting.

>mfw we've got /his/ without an Osprey thread

Dig out them pdfs and get clipping, peasants.

ITT: cool looking flags of now defunct countries

First up is the flag of The Orange Free State

Julius ceasar vs patton. its a sword fight with their weapon of choice.
i must remind you that patton designed his own saber, studied with the best fencers of the day, and was the last US master of the sword.

why was every story in the ancient world written as a poem? was there some reason it all had to rhyme, or was that just the best way to kill time or something. did people writing non-fiction, like Thucydides and aristotle, write in some rhyming verse?