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I think about this tweet often

Game in 2125 be like: "41,287 Al-Aqsa Floods Carried Out🪂"

Marshal of Poland Śmigły-Rydz was also a cadet in this regiment c.1910-1911; it's a pretty famous one cause it was stationed around Vienna.

Some hundred years later, this regiment went through the Brusilov offensive with 26 companies, being reduced to 300 men total by the end of it.

"A Rescript from the High War Council placed particular emphasis on target shooting; the regiment undertook this exercise in June, and the result is remarkable as out of 21,210 shots, there were 1,933 hits and 19,277 misses." Treuenfest. Geschichte des k. k. IR 4. p. 446

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I have never met an academic historian who was hostile to people reading primary sources. It’s a core component of undergraduate education in history. Academics ARE concerned when people don’t ever read secondary sources, because, sometimes, not always, reading secondary sources

Yugoslavia...?

most important poll of my time

one of the reasons bavaria and baden-württemberg's border is where it is today is because bavaria's diplomat had too much screentime with bonaparte after austerlitz and basically got to draw the border there according to an anecdote

i love my chud editors you need real ball knowledge to understand what this is

i have exam tomorrow but THERES NO MORE MEAT AND VEGETABLES AT HOME

dude its a TUESDAY wdym all you people can do groceries man works not over yet

see when i am asking for random numbers from oomfs. it is because im doing a lottery of "which unit's book do i want to read today"

the saxon janissary corps is one such unit, i remember there being some other saxon one that had a spontoon in the shape of the seljuk double-headed eagle, but i skimmed that source some 5 odd years ago and cant remember details

the transition from "the order of the monarch to count nobilitytitle to form a corps of men from ..." to "this regiment is numbered X and is assigned to this place permanently" is incredibly funny because some units used to be some larp shit before being linearized

anecdote 2: upper rhine kreis (mostly swabian probably) then recruitment to bohemia, got a polish-ukrainian district (stryj) to supplement manpower

phi and beta are my go-to tbh, if i need to i'll use small omega even if it looks like w

feels like larp to use greek letters to invent constants but also my handwriting will turn u, v, and w indistinguishable when backreading my solution

the average habsburg regiment: formed in swabia, got destroyed 1690 and reestablished by moravian recruits, from 1781 recruited germans with a supplementary recruiting district of mostly poles; disbanded 1809 and in 1814 reestablished by italians