Youtube hearted comments of João Rita (@jlvfr).

  1. Another unintended efect of these designs: the ships became perfect examples and inspiration for Steampunk and anime!
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  2. RN: U GO USN: NO, U GO Chileans: /grab popcorn, sit to watch
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  3. Again I'm stunned by the effect of radar, or more precisely, the lack of . It's 193x, navies have ships that, on their own, outmass and outgun on their own almost entire navies of centuries past, blowing up enemies at what would be considered "drunk dream" ranges only a few decades before. And yet we have a scene straight out of the napoleonic wars: a battleship pops out of a fog bank and proceeds to roflstomp the enemy. I was listening to the description and remembering the scene from Master and Commander ...
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  4. Portuguese here: the idea of landing in Peniche is so bad I can't even... apart from how far it is, the area is most rocks and cliffs... I'm surprised the idiot noble didn't loose most of his troops just trying to land...
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  5. "Zymotic disease" is an old term, used to describe infections diseases: typhus, typhoid, smallpox, diphtheria, etc.
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  6.  @vintagepipesnightmares  these are western translations of ancient texts. Inevitably something will be lost, or sound similar.
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  7. Congratulations! Well deserved.
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  8. That seal made me laugh way too much...
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  9. From a non-russian purely amateur historian, I see one very big issue with the russian people: they never stopped being oppressed, never had any freedom, never had a chance to see life on the "other side". They went from the repressive regine of the czar, the last feudal state in Europe, to the Soviet Union. Then in the late 90s they had a small taste of freedom and then boom, Putin. That's centuries of (mostly) knowing only one version of the facts. They might suspect diferent but if all you hear, from craddle to grave, is "over there are monsters" and have no other evidence, and if you try something you're labbeled a monster yourself... well... imagine if you're told that not only what you belive is a lie but what your parents belived was a life. Not easy to get around it. The worst part is that we have people outside of Russia still feeding this, for personal profit.
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