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  • #4772
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    More books have been written about Napoleon Bonaparte than have days passed since his death(5/5/1821) Only JC has had more books written about him. Shakespeare is in the shakeup there somewhere.

    What would appear to be Napoleons favorite reading was the Ossian epic cycle of poems published by Scotsman James MacPherson. Ossian is a scots gaelic spelling and version of our Oisín. The son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill. Or Fingal in the scots cycle. So basically Napoleon as an adult was reading the same crap I was reading when I was seven.

    The critical success factor in Napoleon's victories was the overwhelming artillery advantage of his armies. It was Irish born Arthur Wellesley while leading English armies against the French in Spain developed the tactic of using terrain features such as the reverse slope of hills to negate this artillery advantage. Very successful. This very tactic was classically exhibited at the Battle of Waterloo which was Napoleon's great defeat.
    So eh Irish, it all ties in.


  • #4773
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


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  • #4774
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    The Anglo-Zanzibar war was the shortest in history, lasting somewhere between 38-45 minutes.


  • #4775
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,556 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    More books have been written about Napoleon Bonaparte than have days passed since his death(5/5/1821) Only JC has had more books written about him. Shakespeare is in the shakeup there somewhere.

    .

    In terms of academic books and articles about great writers, Shakepeare is the most written about writer of all time. The second is our own James Joyce, who started writing almost 300 years after Shakespeare died.


  • #4776
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Stalin was the father of Photoshop.

    Soviet censors retouched old photographs, sometimes it was to edit out members and opponents that had fallen foul of the purges, and on other occasions for more mundane purpose of propaganda.

    soviet-censorship-naval-commissar-vanishes.jpg

    Above, Chairman of the Central Commission for Party Control Nikolai Yezhov has been edited out of reissues. Interestingly, he was purged in 1940 after being blamed for the excesses of the purges. He had written a paper in 1935 arguing that political opposition leads to violence (and thus provided ideological basis for purging) and under his watch the purges went out of control with just under half of the political and military establishment falling foul of it.


    800px-Soviet_censorship_with_Stalin2.jpg

    All purged!


    It may look a bit shoddy to us now, but that would have taken some serious hours to get right.

    I should add, the Soviets were not the only ones, the Germans, Red China and even Churchill did a spot of photoshopping too!


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  • #4777
    Oldtree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Assuming the speed of sound to be 343m/s, the new Russian "hypersonic" Kinzhal missile, which can travel at 10 times the speed of sound, would be traveling at 3.43 km/s and has a range of up to 2,000km. That's 12,345 km/h.

    It would go from Dublin to Galway in about a minute, or for the full range go from Dublin to the outskirts of Vienna in 9 minutes 45 seconds give or take. If it could increase its range then only 3 1/4 hours to circumnavigate the equator.


  • #4778
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Isn’t there an island In the South Pacific called New Ireland?


  • #4779
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    david75 wrote: »
    Isn’t there an island In the South Pacific called New Ireland?

    It's part of Papua New Guinea


  • #4780
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I wonder if they have moles and snakes in there. :p


  • #4781
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    mzungu wrote: »
    Stalin was the father of Photoshop.
    ...
    I should add, the Soviets were not the only ones, the Germans, Red China and even Churchill did a spot of photoshopping too!
    Reminds me of a Romanian film of urban legends from communism.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Golden_Age
    The Legend of the Party Photographer
    Newspaper editors and Party officials fret over a photograph of Ceaușescu and the visiting Giscard d'Estaing to be published in tomorrow's paper. Much argument is had over how best to doctor the photograph to make Ceaușescu appear taller than d'Estaing, and whether he should be wearing a hat. Pressure is mounting as the deadline to get the paper out to the workers approaches. A hat is duly provided for Ceaușescu in the photograph, but no one notices until too late that he was already carrying one, leaving the image of him comically carrying one hat while wearing another. ...


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  • #4782
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    New Home wrote: »
    I wonder if they have moles and snakes in there. :p
    Lidl had a FLORABEST Solar-Powered Mole Repeller on sale here not so long ago.


    The absence of sunlight here wasn't even the biggest problem :rolleyes:


  • #4783
    sightband
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 670 ✭✭✭sightband


    mzungu wrote: »
    Stalin was the father of Photoshop.

    Soviet censors retouched old photographs, sometimes it was to edit out members and opponents that had fallen foul of the purges, and on other occasions for more mundane purpose of propaganda.

    soviet-censorship-naval-commissar-vanishes.jpg

    Above, Chairman of the Central Commission for Party Control Nikolai Yezhov has been edited out of reissues. Interestingly, he was purged in 1940 after being blamed for the excesses of the purges. He had written a paper in 1935 arguing that political opposition leads to violence (and thus provided ideological basis for purging) and under his watch the purges went out of control with just under half of the political and military establishment falling foul of it.


    800px-Soviet_censorship_with_Stalin2.jpg

    All purged!


    It may look a bit shoddy to us now, but that would have taken some serious hours to get right.

    I should add, the Soviets were not the only ones, the Germans, Red China and even Churchill did a spot of photoshopping too!

    I call serious bollocks on this


  • #4784
    New Home
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Lidl had a FLORABEST Solar-Powered Mole Repeller on sale here not so long ago.

    The absence of sunlight here wasn't even the biggest problem :rolleyes:

    I heard. :D


  • #4785
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Lidl had a FLORABEST Solar-Powered Mole Repeller on sale here not so long ago.


    The absence of sunlight here wasn't even the biggest problem :rolleyes:
    Surely that problem points towards the devices success:D


  • #4786
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It also works for dinosaurs and harpies, it would seem.


  • #4787
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,351 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    sightband wrote: »
    I call serious bollocks on this

    all well documented


  • #4788
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    New Home wrote: »
    It also works for dinosaurs and harpies, it would seem.
    And Unicorns:(


  • #4789
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    No, those were driven away by Nessie. Everyone knows that.


  • #4790
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    sightband wrote: »
    I call serious bollocks on this

    Fake 'fake news' ?


  • #4791
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,030 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Reminds me of a Romanian film of urban legends from communism.

    Make Ceaușescu look taller, LOL!

    Ceaușescu was 5'5, Giscard d'Estaing is 6"2

    The latter was actually born in Germany in an area occupied by France during the interbellum and he is still alive (age 92). He's fluent in German, which must have played a big role in the forming / growing in power of the EU

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



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  • #4792
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,351 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    unkel wrote: »
    Make Ceaușescu look taller, LOL!

    Ceaușescu was 5'5, Giscard d'Estaing is 6"2

    The latter was actually born in Germany in an area occupied by France during the interbellum and he is still alive (age 92). He's fluent in German, which must have played a big role in the forming / growing in power of the EU

    didn't realise he was still alive. I was a very young child when he was elected french president.


  • #4793
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,556 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    sightband wrote: »
    I call serious bollocks on this

    Well that settles it then.


  • #4794
    Fourier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    sightband wrote: »
    I call serious bollocks on this
    Why? It's well documented.


  • #4795
    sightband
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 670 ✭✭✭sightband


    Fourier wrote: »
    Why? It's well documented.
    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    Well that settles it then.

    Two cracking responses which say otherwise.


    Can send you on some quality photos of the Sasquatch and Loch Ness monster tag teaming Mary mcAleese if interested?


  • #4796
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,556 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    sightband wrote: »
    Two cracking responses which say otherwise.


    Yeah those responses are clearly not as detailed and well articulated as your post.

    Either you have a compelling reason to think the post you were dismissing is factually incorrect, or you don't. You could write your first post in response to literally any post on this whole thread, it wouldn't make it any more purposeful.

    The fact that you responded to a post that discusses a subject that is widely known about and verified repeatedly in historical scholarship just makes you look a bit foolish. Your sarcasm in this post doesn't change that.


  • #4797
    sightband
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 670 ✭✭✭sightband


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

    The fact that you responded to a post that discusses a subject that is widely known about and verified repeatedly in historical scholarship just makes you look a bit foolish. Your sarcasm in this post doesn't change that.

    Pass it on so, genuinely curious as an avid historian.


  • #4798
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,351 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    sightband wrote: »
    Pass it on so, genuinely curious as an avid historian.

    i call serious bollocks on this


  • #4799
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,556 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    sightband wrote: »
    Pass it on so, genuinely curious as an avid historian.

    David King's book The Commissar Vanishes goes into plenty of detail on it.


  • #4800
    Fourier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    sightband wrote: »
    Pass it on so, genuinely curious as an avid historian.
    Okay so I knew nothing about this, but literally only a few minutes googling revealed five academic texts discussing it and the current location housing the photographs, the Newseum in Washington D.C.

    Probably the most direct account from my searching:
    https://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Photographs-Stalins/dp/1849762511


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  • #4801
    sightband
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 670 ✭✭✭sightband


    Fourier wrote: »
    Okay so I knew nothing about this, but literally only a few minutes googling revealed five academic texts discussing it and the current location housing the photographs, the Newseum in Washington D.C.

    Probably the most direct account from my searching:
    https://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Photographs-Stalins/dp/1849762511

    Has to be true so, have you read this cracker from Amazon also?

    https://www.amazon.com/Planes-without-Passengers-Faked-Hijackings/dp/1478339748/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520892146&sr=1-13&keywords=9%2F11+conspiracy+books


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