Comments by "Mighty One" (@mightyone3737) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. It's incredibly hard to justify killing an otter, but protecting your family seems like it'd be on the list.
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  2. It should be noted that people hated lobster when they arrived in North America, their were laws about how often it could be fed to prisoners before it became cruel.
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  3. I love how Tolstoy served in Crimea and learned only wrong lessons/got off on other people dying, while Dostoevsky was imprisoned for fighting for the people and learned more truth than Tolstoy ever new. Maybe I'm biased, but of the great Russian authors, I think I least enjoyed Tolstoy, he seemed entirely a part of the elite, which he literally was. Maybe this is too harsh, but I didn't say he was a terrible artist, I more said that his art taught wrong things.
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  4. I was that weird kid that literally went to the library every day to get new history books. Eventually I was allowed to take an extra book! Hooray!
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  5. I've heard the 'French and Indian War' called the first 'world war', I think it's obviously more global in scope than the Crimean War, and happened sooner, were you guys buzzed or smthg?
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  6. The residential schools existed past the 80s in Canada AFAIK, it ended in the 90s. This was genocide, plain and simple, not sure how else you could see it. This wasn't an attempt at assimilation so much as an attempt at annihilating many cultures that were deemed 'inferior' by the conquerors. It's shocking when a story can present 'living on reservations' as the better outcome, when most of these were far from their territory of their ancestors, and were often on extremely poor land, such that the locals, who may have few skills to survive in the new terrain, also cannot use traditional agriculture as their crops are no longer suitable. The treatment of the Native Americans has essentially no equal in history, and the horrors continue today.
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  7. The 'head blown off by a cannon' makes me think of Berserk, the manga and the anime. Fond memories of some of the weirdest stuff imaginable!
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  8. It's like you never heard of the Beothuk or something? Those were the people the Norse likely met in Vineland. They were more widespread, and they were displaced very quickly by the Inuit, and were exterminated by the whites. Apparently they were quite tall and very good tempered, an unfortunate combination.
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  9. ...So it was the booze from Kentucky (and not the French!) that was involved in this war??? Who knew!
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  10. I read about this when I was about 8, in a gigantic (to me at the time at least, now still quite big) book on the animal kingdom, listing a huge range of animals in order of complexity (evolutionarily speaking), very interesting reading for a super-religious Christian child. Finally, more information on this incredible historical event!
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  11. Like all allies and servants of The Hero We Deserve, the porcine amongst us are both exceptionally tough, intelligent, and devoted to their God, Ilharg! Without intervention, sounders of mighty pigs will dominate many ecosystems, so it's probably a good idea to work to protect the embattled species of all sorts. But seriously, how many wolves would you need in a pack of them to actually harass 20 pigs?? I ask because a boar can be many, many hundreds of pounds and literally run over a wolf, and it's not like the sows are small either.
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  12. I'd be interested in the 'one off' for the cavalry being bought off, mainly in reference to the idea of the British being able to 'buy' the locals out, despite the locals having objectively more wealth. I'm nurturing a pet theory that the poor treatment (and complete lack of advancement opportunities) of the non-elite classes lead to the British being successful.
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  13. Ha, radical egalitarian you say?? Somehow not surprised the earth itself shuddered.
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  14. I'm suspicious of the position that people wouldn't have been able to notice this trend... people had calendars, and if frost came earlier, or they couldn't plant as soon, they VERY MUCH NOTICED. Just saying, this sort of thing was WHY we developed calendars in the first place, so we could track planting better. Such observations would be so apparent that people might not even bother to write them down, since writing was an expensive act, and you didn't write down common knowledge back then (which is why we have to infer it from texts that still exist).
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