You can’t solve a courage problem with more intelligence.

Chinese are now making AI edits of MacArthur as vengeful horror movie antagonist, taking out his wrath on Emperor Hirohito

“‘History has a triumvirate of great men,’ Macnamara stated, ‘Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon.’ At this, Napoleon looked steadfastly at him without speaking, and Macnamara said ‘he thought he saw the Emperor’s eyes moisten.’ It is what he had wanted people to say ever since he

Plutarch’s Lives covers practically every important event of pre-Christian antiquity. And every single year, from the Persian wars onward. Best place to start in the study of the ancients.

cinesthetic. Wow

The meta-story of Baelor is that American boomers really really miss the idea of JFK.

The Black Prince's Grande Chevauchée of 1355 would've been an epic adventure. The English destroyed more than 500 villages, towns, and cities in France, and when they returned home the spoils they brought with them created an economic boom in England.

“Fear and uncertainty accelerate the fall of empires: they are a thousand times more fatal than the dangers and losses of an ill-fated war.” -Napoleon, statement in the Moniteur, December 1804

And the original cover of The Great Gatsby

This is an interesting quote about how two cannons were seized by a rush of infantry at the Battle of Formigny, 1450. The statement at the end is chilling, because this was the battle that wiped out England's last major army in Normandy near the end of the Hundred Years' War.

British historian Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

What a time to have been alive.

I see the vision…

"The hero of a tragedy, in order to interest us, should be neither wholly guilty nor wholly innocent… All weakness and all contradictions are unhappily in the heart of man, and present in colouring eminently tragic." -Napoleon, on Francois-Just-Marie Raynouard’s play The

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