The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XX

[Borachio]

Hook....er....crook.....look....shook...

 

[Arakhor]

Just do anything which rhymes with book, basically.

Owen!

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Read a book.

Military History!

 

[Borachio]

Spoiler :

Archer, I. John R. Ferris, Holger H. Herwig, and Timothy H. E. Travers. World History of Warfare (2nd ed. 2008) 638pp
Barnett, Correlli, Shelford Bidwell, Brian Bond, and John Terraine. Old Battles and New Defences: Can We Learn from Military History? (1986). online edition
Black, Jeremy. "Determinisms and Other Issues", Journal of Military History, 68 (Oct. 2004), 1217–32. in Project MUSE
Black, Jeremy. Rethinking Military History (2004) online edition
Black, Jeremy. Warfare in the Western World, 1775-1882 (2001) 240pp.
Black, Jeremy. Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975 (2002), 256pp
Bucholz, Arden. "Hans Delbruck and Modern Military History." The Historian vol 55#3 (1993) pp 517+.
Chambers II, John Whiteclay. "The New Military History: Myth and Reality", Journal of Military History, 55 (July 1991), 395–406
Chambers, John Whiteclay, ed. The Oxford Companion to American Military History (2000) online at OUP
Charters, David A., Marc Milner, and J. Brent Wilson. eds. Military History and the Military Profession, (1992)
Citino, Robert M. "Military Histories Old and New: A Reintroduction", The American Historical Review Vol. 112, no. 4 (October 2007), pp. 1070–1090 online version
Cowley, Robert, and Geoffrey Parker, eds. The Reader's Companion to Military History (2001) excellent coverage by scholars. Complete text online free of 1996 edition
Dear, I. C. B., and M. R. D. Foot, eds. Oxford Companion to World War II (2005; 2nd ed. 2010) online at OUP
Doughty, Robert, Ira Gruber, Roy Flint, and Mark Grimsley. Warfare In The Western World (2 vol 1996), comprehensive textbook
Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present (1977), 1465pp; comprehensive discussion focused on wars and battles
Echevarria, Antulio J. Imagining Future War: The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880-1914 (2007)
Grimsley, Mark. "Why Military History Sucks", Nov. 1996, War Historian.org, online at [1]
Holmes, Richard, ed. The Oxford Companion to Military History (2001) 1071pp; online at OUP
Jones, Archer, 2001, The Art of War in the Western World, University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06966-6
Keegan, John (1999). The First World War (9th ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-40052-4.
Kohn, George C. Dictionary of Wars (3rd ed. 2006) 704pp; very useful summary across world history
Karsten, Peter. ed., Encyclopedia of War and American Society (3 vols., 2005).
Karsten, Peter. "The 'New' American Military History: A Map of the Territory, Explored and Unexplored", American Quarterly, 36 #3, (1984), 389–418 in JSTOR
Kohn, Richard H. "The Social History of the American Soldier: A Review and Prospectus for Research", American Historical Review, 86 (June 1981), 553–67. in JSTOR
Lee, Wayne E. "Mind and Matter—Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field", Journal of American History, 93 (March 2007), 1116–42. Fulltext: History Cooperative and Ebsco
Littauer, M. A., and J. H. Crouwel, The origin of the true chariot, Antiquity, (1996) Volume 70, Number 270, pp. 934–939
Lynn, John A. Battle: A Cultural History of Combat and Culture (2003).
Lynn, John A. "Rally Once Again: The Embattled Future of Academic Military History", Journal of Military History, 61 (Oct. 1997), 777–89.
Mearsheimer, John J. Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. (1988). 234 pp.
Messenger, Charles, ed. Reader's Guide to Military History (Routledge, 2001), 948 pp; detailed guide to the historiography of 500 topics
Morillo, Stephen. What is Military History (2006)
Moyar, Mark. "The Current State of Military History", The Historical Journal (2007), 50: 225-240 online at CJO
Murray, Williamson and Richard Hart Sinnreich, eds. The past as prologue: the importance of history to the military profession (2006).
Noe, Kenneth W., George C. Rable and Carol Reardon. "Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies" Civil War History 53#3 2007. pp 229+. online edition
Parker, Geoffrey, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare (2008), good overview
Porch, Douglas. "Writing History in the "End of History" Era - Reflections on Historians and the GWOT" Journal of Military History 2006 70(4): 1065-1079. Issn: 0899-3718 Fulltext: Ebsco, on war on terror, 2001–present
Reardon, Carol. Soldiers and Scholars: The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920. U. Press of Kansas 1990. 270 pp. ISBN 978-0-7006-0466-1.
Reid, Brian Holden. "American Military History: the Need for Comparative Analysis." Journal of American History 2007 93(4): 1154-1157. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: History Cooperative and Ebsco
Reid, Brian Holden, and Joseph G. Dawson III, eds., "Special Issue: The Vistas of American Military History, 1800–1898", American Nineteenth Century History, 7 (June 2006), 139–321.
Spector, Ronald H. "Teetering on the Brink of Respectability." Journal of American History 2007 93(4): 1158-1160. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: History Cooperative and Ebsco
Spiller, Roger. "Military History and its Fictions." Journal of Military History 2006 70(4): 1081-1097. Issn: 0899-3718 Fulltext: Ebsco

Still bored?

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Not anymore !

 

[Mango Elephant]

And on the subject of hurricanes:

Why can't the US keep its hurricanes to itself? Whenever there's a noticeable one over there, a couple of days later we get quite heavy winds in the UK and they blow some of my plant pots over.

This is outrageous! Can't you either keep them all to yourselves or at least blow the residue out towards Japan where it can't do any harm? They wouldn't notice - what with all those tsunamis, earthquakes, and stuff. But we're pretty civilized over here, thank you very much.

Anyway, please bear this in mind with the next hurricane. I'd be very grateful for your consideration in this matter.

We only do that so piss off your One Direction.

 

[Borachio]

"We only do that so piss off your One Direction."

???

Sorry, I just don't know what this means.

It could be "We only do that to piss off your One Direction". Still means nothing.

Or "We only do that. So piss off. You're one direction." Meaning?

Could be humorous. Or aggressive. Not a clue.

Could be intentionally absurd. I still don't get it.

Could be some kind of drunk rant.

 

[Syno]

"We only do that so piss off your One Direction."

???

Sorry, I just don't know what this means.

It could be "We only do that to piss off your One Direction". Still means nothing.

Or "We only do that. So piss off. You're one direction." Meaning?

Could be humorous. Or aggressive. Not a clue.

Could be intentionally absurd. I still don't get it.

Could be some kind of drunk rant.

One Direction is a popular boy band.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Yeah, the capital letters were a clue. I'm not too illiterate.

(Not trying to be rude)

 

[Borachio]

This is a US product?


Link to video.

No wonder you get irritable. I can't bear to watch it all. Is it like that all the way through?

@ 264,000,000 views it looks like they must be popular.

OMG They're English!!!!!!!!

 

[cardgame]

It's not a terrible song, but it has absolutely no business being so popular. Tween girls ;_;

 

[Syno]

I like it, personally.

 

[Borachio]

Well....they do say there's no accounting for taste. But it would bug the hell out of me.

 

[Mango Elephant]

OMG They're English!!!!!!!!

The blonde guy's teeth is a clue.

 

[Quackers]

not perfect but they look healthy to me just a bit crooked.
you have high opinions of yourselves you americans.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I think he fixed them now, but chances are slim that a 19 year old (particularly a rich one at that) wouldn't have teeth like that (if just because of braces).

 

[Arakhor]

That hair looks bleached. His teeth look fine though. Not everyone's teeth have to resemble dentures, you know.

 

[_random_]

In America they do. Mine are pretty yellow, but perfectly straight. I've only met a handful of people who go through life here with teeth like that.

 

[cardgame]

I'm with Arakhor on this denture lookalike controversy. Braces are expensive and painful, and take years to work... screw that noise.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Last night, this little freak dropped from the ceiling (I think) and landed on my hand, and I freaked out, taking off my shirt in a hurry (spent the next ten minutes making sure he was it and making sure he was the only one).



What is it?

However, I think I recall seeing the one that fell on my hand as being completely black, and a bit larger. Is that a problem?