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Olli Bäckström
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Researcher of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 and Seventeenth Century Europe. Docent (General History) associated with the University of Eastern Finland. Author Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War: https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-21/
Cromwell cruiser tank and Stuart light tank of the British army's Guards Armoured Division enter Brussels in September 1944.
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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America, the ice cream cone that licks itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Itsenäisyyspäivä ja uusnatsien marssit lähestyvät, joten perussuomalaisten kellokkaiden on aika laittaa itsensä juhlakuntoon. Edustaja Rydman on ahkerana poikana näemmä ehtinyt jo laatia itsenäisyyspäivän juhlapuheensakin.
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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"The fundamental characteristic of Philip II's empire was its Spanishness - or rather Castilianism - a fact which did not escape the contemporaries of the Prudent King, whether friend or foe: they saw him as a spider sitting motionless at the centre of his web."

Braudel, Mediterranean.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Kirjoitin blogin Jussi Talven sotaromaanista, joka ilmestyi alun perin jo vuonna 1954, vain puolitoista kuukautta ennen Väinö Linnan Tuntematonta sotilasta.
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Brauerin ja van Tuyllin kirjan pitäisi olla pakollista luettavaa puolustusministeriössä ja pääesikunnassa. Ainakin päättäjät oppisivat ymmärtämään vaihtoehtoiskustannusten, transaktiokulujen ja päämiesagentti-ongelmien merkityksen maanpuolustuksen asioissa.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Nobody loves you, you worthless piece of shit, not even your own creepy as fuck AI.
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Eden (2024) is a movie about wacky Germans and their delightful shenanigans on a deserted island.
I kept laughing throughout the whole film, it's one of the best comedies I've seen in a while.
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Kustaa II Aadolfin ja ruotsalaisuuden päivän kunniaksi kahden vuoden takainen kirjoitukseni siitä, mitä keisarillisella puolella tapahtui Lützenin kohtalokkaan taistelun jälkeen.

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November 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Today I have been reading, among other things, an Austrian military lexicon from the era of the Napoleonic Wars.
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Someone gets buried in a courtyard? Even when there would have been a graveyard just across the river?

Detail from Matthaeus Merian's drawing of Frankfurt am Main in 1650.
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"In the eighteenth as in the sixteenth century, there was a visible difference between the east, where bread was cheap, and the west where bread was expensive."

Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World.
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That fucking song...
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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