Mannerheims sovrum i den vita villan i Brunsparken i Helsingfors, som var hans hem åren 1924 - 1951. De hopfällbara möblerna följde med honom på hans många resor. Helheten är i ögonfallande enkel. I huset finns numera Mannerheimmuséet, där dock 2024 pågår omfattande renovering...

Jünger from 'The Forest Passage' (I often find myself coming back to this):

Christian Prouteau of GIGN:

Coming up with ever more elaborate life-threatening punishments for the wifejak posters - friends will not be spared.

The seethe in the replies is something to behold

Officers of the volunteer German Corp during the Second Boer War (January, 1900)

Can you recommend me interesting historically 'revisionist' works? Gems that are well researched or even accidentally 'Keyed' but still written by leftists? Looking for mostly 19-20th century

'Obama out.'

The American left pivot away from holding up Nordic social democracy as emulative ideal to justifying black intervenous drug use on the subway as 'part of living in the big city' largely tells why Bernie and his soylennials lost relevance

In the very distant past a person could sail from the Mediterranean to the very heart of Siberia
The Black Sea was connected to the Caspian by the Manych River, Caspian was connected to the Aral via the Uzboy & Aral was connected to the Western Siberian Sea by the Turgay River

Is this not one of the greatest posts of all time?

Funny to look back and realize that large swathes of the American electorate thought this guy was 'cool' and a great charismatic speaker because he was a black who knew how to say 'ask' and not 'axe'

'Obama was the most charismatic speaker of our generation; no I can't list off anything specific he said, why do you even ask?'

Last one: finally getting better rice/fish ratio here

Getting the hang of this

He's still going