Recent content by Pangur Bán

I didn't see this mentioned on the forums here, but recently the Scottish comedian Brian Limond aka Limmy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limmy) did a Civ 6 playthrough on Twitch. Suffice it to say he used the opportunity to get vengeance on England for its various wrongs against his country...

Money at that level might appear to be little more than mathematics, but it is only one form of social, economic & political power. The challenge is to convert the money to other forms of power. Reduce people's economic freedom to your own benefit by converting the theoretical money to loans...

To a degree. The current Republican mix is an alliance of religious and nationalist conservatives with plutocrats. The plutocrats, who dominate, want the state not to block, and indeed to help, the acquisition of more and more wealth, really without limits. The nationalists/religious pleb-types...

One of the things that strikes me as a bit weird about the way the media analyse this sort of thing is the absence of politics. Whenever historians (or even anthropologists) try to understand similar problems over long periods, by contrast, it's to the victor goes the spoils, the powerful being...

@Owen Glyndwr I'd suggest disliking the term 'conspiracy theory' immensely and purposely neglecting the use of it. Basically, we live in a world where almost all the decisions affecting our lives are made by people more powerful than us, in secret. We don't typically get to see why they decide...

They said it was on the BBC, and I googled it and found that the Grand Bazaar tops it. I'm sure there are multiple ways of calculating this or deciding who is a tourist. BUT ND is a church and is free (except for certain areas), whereas I think Eiffel Tower is ticketed and expensive. I've been...

If anyone's never been there and wants to appreciate its majesty, it's fully reconstructed in Assasin's Creed: Unity, which is generally available for about £1 / $1 / E1--though there artwork inside is different in places.

200 years to build, virtually gone in a few hours. The most visited tourist site in Europe apparently, besides the Great Bazaar in Istanbul.

Heart-breaking.

It works without signing up, at least if you go there on an ipad it does. You could try following this like: https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Vendel_period You could try this later and maybe it will work (doesn't just now)...

Yes, Ajidica, you need to read the paper to critique it. I did not use the word astonishing lightly. It's on academia.edu, just do a google search. His observation is not that Anglo-Saxons shared names with Goths, which would be fatuous and wouldn't tell you anything since they were both...

Not often that I post articles on the history forum these days, but recently I came across an article about the origins of the English that is stunning because 1) it's argument is at least plausible if not compelling (it is based on an oral presentation and probably needs go be developed...

Are you aware that you've just provided the evidence needed to prove yourself wrong?

What? I think you may have to do some reading about the rules here!

Well done France, best team in the tournament and worthy winners.