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> All the Countries We've <strong><em>Ever</em></strong> Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To
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That sounds awesome! I'm currently building a world for a book. And something like this seems super helpful. Do you think it's the same as this one, even though the cover isn't quite the same? https://www.amazon.com/Time-Travelers-Guide-Medieval-England/dp/1439112908
Thank you for giving us this refresher course, about a year ago I read a great book about the Cholera epidemic in London in 1854 and I remember reading about the mechanism of diarrhea in there.
This one and Rogue One need a "making of" book like these.
If access was given on that level, we might find out the truth.
Thanks, will definitely check that out!
Also responding here for /u/rock_lobsterrr since they asked for some recos as well.
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is about a deadly cholera outbreak in Victorian London. The disease killed so many that it led to the creation of the Bazalgette sewer system that London still uses today.
New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns, Lisa Ades, and James Sanders is a beast of a coffee table book that outlines the comprehensive history of Manhattan from swampland backwater to thriving modern metropolis. It's chock full of some fantastic stories, including the one about two reclusive brothers who were found dead in a brownstone that was heavily booby-trapped. (One was invalid, and the other was killed by his own booby traps.) The whole book is a lovingly-created tapestry of New York's ambitious, brutal, and just plain weird history.
That's all I got for now, but if I remember something else, I'll add it to my comment.
Sometimes if you read you learn things.
> before the Church plunged Europe into the Dark Ages
If by the "Church" you mean the "collapse of the Western Roman Empire partly due to invasion and raiding" and by "plunged" you mean "precipitated the slow decline of the infrastructure of the society" and by the "Dark Ages" you mean the "Early Middle Ages" then there are plenty of history books, a good overview one is Europe: A History or for a wider view History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day.
Adrian R. Bell is one of the leading experts in this field. He has a few books that might appeal to you. Also, there’s A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Tuchman, which covers a lot about warfare but also other cultural topics.
Anyone who wants a fairly short, fun-to-read book about how the Church kept literacy and the written heritage of Greece and Rome alive during the Dark Ages should read "How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe". It's a tremendously inspiring and uplifting true story about people persevering as their world collapsed around them - great for these black-pilled times. There's an Audible version, too.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Irish-Saved-Civilization-Irelands/dp/0385418493
Corrupt government payment systems is for sure a 21st century problem.
14th Century problems were more along the lines of Bubonic Plague, Hundred Years War, Brigandage, Rapine, Schism and such.
https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirror-Calamitous-14th-Century/dp/0345349571
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. I understand :) What got you into soccer? and random question but is soccer big over there? It's nice to meet an American fan. I play FPL as well. How your team doing? Mine hasn't been doing the best though and with Aguero scoring 5 goals this week, I'm very much regret not having him on my team. If you like European history then I recommend you check out "Europe: A history" by Norman Davies I linked to Amazon USA for you to check it out. It's a good book and a good read. I know what you mean about there being a lot of history here. I remember when I was younger when my family used go on holiday, we used stop at a car park that had a castle and monument there. I never really thought much of it until I was older and decided to look into what it was about. It turns out this happened there. Feels strange to know that it may have happened on one of the spots we may have parked. I've always wanted to visit Boston and D.C so I'll definitely check them out in the future. To be honest I haven't heard good things about Philadelphia, What's wrong with Philadelphia? One place I'd suggest you check out is York. After all, New York and York share history and name. There are many places I've love to visit in Europe too. Italy or Spain would be where I'd start. Thank you for the advice, I appreciate it.
Thanks :) I can't take credit for the "bitter worms in iron cocoons" part, which is modified from an anonymous poem cited in A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. I'd also highly recommend that book for anyone out there looking to write medieval European fantasy.
The Making of Star Wars is a fantastic read. Even if you think you know the majority of the story behind the making of the first film, there's a ton of stuff there I guarantee will be new to you.
>https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Countries-Weve-Ever-Invaded/dp/0752479695
From one of the reviews:
>The author deliberately stretches the definition of "invaded" to include short military interventions and actions by pirates, privateers and armed explorers.
So in a similar vein, with "technically" doing a lot of heavy lifting :-)
Nunca. O título desse mapa está errado.
A fonte é este livro, e a frase certa é "Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171".
Lucas is a petty, jealous, bitter person, but Marcia must have the best PR team of all time for this myth of her “saving Star Wars” to have spread so far and wide.
She did do a small amount of editing work on the initial cut of Star Wars, but left the project altogether after a disastrous test screening. It was GL who then personally put thousands of hours in the editing room—all uncredited because he didn’t officially belong to the professional editors guild—and saved his film.
The academy awarded Oscars to the editing team, but left out GL—again, not a member of the guild—which I believe Lucas took as a huge slap in the face after putting in more work cutting and splicing celluloid than virtually the entire editing staff combined.
Should mention that despite GL’s resentment of her work and recognition, some of her influence on Star Wars persists. Most notably, Leia kissing Luke “for luck” as they make a daring escape from the Death Star was 100% Marcia’s suggestion and exists in all cuts of the film today.
source: film historian J.W. Rinzler’s excellent The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
A couple of months ago I read The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf.
I liked it a lot, and it does exactly what the title promises: using almost entirely non-European sources, it tells the story of the Crusades from the perspectives of the Arabs (and Turks and Mamluks etc etc) who got invaded. As a history of the Crusades it's incomplete because it doesn't tell the whole story, but it's not supposed to. It's supposed to give you a picture of the situation in the Middle East for the two hundred years or so that the Crusades lasted, and doesn't really care too much about European politics, other than to explain why things happened in Syria and Anatolia and Egypt the way that they did.
Get the book "A Distant Mirror", it's exactly what you're looking for. It's all about the 14th century, the 100 Years War, and France in particular. VERY good book
https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirror-Calamitous-14th-Century/dp/0345349571
You mean research like this?
https://www.amazon.es/Capitalism-Slavery-Eric-Williams/dp/0807844888 Or how Adam smith wrote capitalism on seeing how the Royal company was selling and trading humans for profit?
You do get that we are still bouth and sold, now we just decide our master!
For those that want to dig into John Snow & the London Cholera epidemic, I highly recommend the book The Ghost Map, it's fascinating.
i would note that she was the "saviour" of the trench run mainly becuse that was her part of the movie, and the edits to the trench run was made during a time post the first cut (not to be confused with the john jympson rough draft) which the three editors and george was working together.
>EDITING, THE SPIRIT OF ’76
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>Following the first cut, there was a new temp cut every couple of weeks, which only the same small group would review. After the first major structural changes, other adjustments were made to the successive cuts...
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>The end battle was also running too long, so Luke’s two trench runs were combined into one. This created tighter storytelling, but also several editorial challenges. Within one trench run, the following would now have to be conveyed either visually or verbally: Luke’s initial intention to use the computer, Ben’s dialogue, Vader’s actions, R2-D2’s drama, Han’s arrival, the fate of the other pilots, Leia’s feelings—all within the believable length of physical space along the trench. To draw out the suspense, Lucas had decided to shoot second-unit footage at ILM of the Death Star preparing to fire, some of which would be added to this sequence, along with coverage taken of Peter Cushing, stolen from an earlier scene that had been shortened. “It was all editorially manufactured,” says Marcia Lucas, who, just after Thanksgiving, left the picture to help Martin Scorsese on New York, New York.
source: The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
He had several different story lines. I love this book even though it was long winded at times: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Star-Wars-Definitive-Original/dp/0345494768
He absolutely did NOT write Episodes 1 -6 before releasing Star Wars. That is wrong. Many many many ideas were there but he barely wrote Star Wars before he finalized the screenplay and ESB wasn't even started.
The movie was indeed just Star Wars (at one time it was filed under "The Star Wars") and there was no other screenplay at the time for a sequel.
I would think saving it should count.
How the Irish Saved Civilization
>The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.
>Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians.
>In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task.
>As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated.
If any of you have read A Canticle for Liebowitz you should read this.
"By 1913 the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23% of the world population at the time, and by 1925 it covered 35,000,000 km2 (13,500,000 sq mi), 24% of the Earth's total land area.: - Source
"Out of 200 of the world's countries, Britain has invaded all but 22 of them, in one shape or form, That amounts to about 90 percent of the world's countries." - Source/ Book: <em>All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To</em>.
You don't think they were just going to these places for Tea and toothbrushes, do you?
I can't rule out the possibility that the Aboriginal fella who used to own the land I currently live on could have just tripped over a kangaroo one day, smacked his head against a didgeridoo, and seen an enchanting vision of white baby Jesus who then told him to "be a good Christian and give up his land" for my sake, but I wouldn't bet on it being the case.
>1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
There's a really fascinating book about this, if anyone is interested: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.
This is a now-timely book by Stephen Johnson about the plague that hit London in the 19th century. He's an excellent writer, I like all his work.
Hey now, Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy? The Scots.
Jihad is consistent with the many Arabic influences in the book... but yeah, I get that term has a negative connotation in much of the Western world
As a noteworthy paradigm-shift, it's interesting that the term crusade has an equally negative connotation in much of the Muslim world. Excellent book on the topic here
Here's some support for this:
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.
Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians.