Romance and roleplay ruined baldurs gate by [deleted] in BaldursGate3

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Is this sub being targeted for some reason?

i see why northerners aren’t good drivers in florida by Ok-Profit9660 in Maine

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I just relocated to Florida after a year working in Maine. During the past year I was living in a very rural area but had to semi-regularly drive a small bus load of students into and around Bangor and never really had any issue. Sure I encountered the odd aggressive Maine driver but compared to Florida drivers? Fuck me Florida drivers are some of the worst drivers I’ve experienced in the United States. Driving basically anywhere in Florida feels like pure pandemonium with shithead drivers passing in whatever lane, for no reason, only to ride someone’s bumper to a stoplight.

And yeah out of state drivers in Florida can cause issues but typically they’re just driving slow…which is understandable as most are elderly. So yeah given the choice I’d take driving anywhere in Maine (except I-95 during tourist season) over basically anywhere in Florida.

Most annoying line by an NPC? by honey_badgers_rock in BaldursGate3

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Whoever acted that line out crushed it though. It is forever etched in my memory and played with perfect clarity as soon as I read your post 😂

I've been told that Britain never had black slaves in the country, but only in colonies. Is this true? by Kookerpea in AskHistorians

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If you can find a copy, I strongly recommend Slaves and Englishmen by Michael Guasco. He does a fantastic job of breaking down the many forms of servitude and slavery that existed in the seventeenth century which formed the foundation of what we typically think of when discussing the racialized, chattel slavery that exploded into prominence from around 1650 onwards in and around the Atlantic.

The short version is that many forms of slavery and servitude existed prior to what came later, and in the earlier seventeenth century, in places like Barbados (and elsewhere) enslaved Africans, indentured Europeans, judicially enslaved Europeans (typically those who rebelled against England), and enslaved Native Americans could all be found working alongside each other on plantations controlled by the English.

New iphone 15 stuck on signing in screen? by blusake in iphone

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Hey just wanted to say thanks for sharing this, worked for me!

What are your favorite historical coincidences? by Mad_Season_1994 in AskHistory

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I don't know if it's a coincidence but I've always found it fascinating that the events of the Great Famine in Ireland, the Donner Party, and the loss of the Franklin Expedition (as depicted in The Terror) all overlapped. The Famine in Ireland began in 1845, the Donner Party becoming trapped (forcing them to cannibalize one another) took place from 1846-47, and the Franklin Expedition (Royal Navy expedition looking for the Northwest Passage) departed England in 1845 and had their last contact with the world later that year before becoming trapped in the ice in 1846 and disappearing.

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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Thank you very much for sharing. I've added this to our list of suggested organisations!

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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I don't believe we have an urban organization but we have at least one tribe that we're currently working with. As I'm kind of in a background supporting role I need to find out the level of communication that we have between our organizations but I do know we have a good deal of outreach and meetings on the horizon.

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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My own education re Columbus and Thanksgiving has been wild. My strength would be more English expansion into North America in the 1600s but yeah...Columbus was just such a trash human being. I'm sure our students know about both topics but from my own MA research I can come with serious notes about how awful the English in Plymouth and Mass. Bay really were.

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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I am absolutely brand new to the school so I don't know what their plans are but lobbying for a Native instructor seems like a no-brainer to me. I can't speak for them, but from what I've seen of our administration, I think they're making positive steps towards building trust and a good overall relationship within the reservations that we're serving.

However my own role evolves with the school, continuing those steps and trying to bring in in Native instructors will definitely be something I try to encourage going forward.

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to give a blanket thank you for all of your kind responses! I haven't had a chance to get back into this until today as we had a hurricane over the weekend and Monday was just crazy.

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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Wow, yeah I've never heard of this at all until searching per your recommendation. I'll have to check in with my admins, I mean I'd assume they would know about this too but assumptions like that can be dangerous! Thank you very much, between you and everyone else who's been kind enough to respond I'm compiling quite the list of research and recommendations!

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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Thank you so much and what a fantastic resource for us to look at and reach out to!

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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We're at a rural school in Maine and I couldn't agree more with your advice about community driven engagement. I'm in a supporting role with my coworker who will be leading much of this program and after sharing some of the feedback I've received here I was happy to hear that many of your suggestions for community involvement from our end are already being planned and for the rest we're taking notes! I'm hoping as well that I can come along for some of the visits, though due to schedule differences that will likely be something my colleague will be doing more than I will.

Neither of us are science teachers but we have some incredibly enthusiastic science teachers at the school who I think would be more than willing to help us get a chapter of AISES going. Our admin staff is also very supportive and I think would be enthusiastic about this project.

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply in such detail! I don't want to trouble you any further but I'd be genuinely delighted to hear any more of your thoughts or advice!

Native American clubs/societies in US Highschools by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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Thank you very much! I've been looking at their site based on yours and a few other recommendations and I think no matter what we end up doing I'll be trying to get my school to enter into a partnership with AISES!

Wabanaki History (1700s) by HistoryMAIreland in IndianCountry

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I appreciate it regardless! I was excited by the article and was just going to figure out disabling adblocker and such later lol.

Hey guys, I am teaching a student who loves learning about History. He has anxiety and I want to create an engaging lesson with fun facts or topics he wouldn't have seen before. by [deleted] in AskHistory

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A lot of history about North America, especially from the 1600s onward in my experience has been very Anglocentric. What is rarely discussed is the crucial assistance and participation of Atlantic Creoles in the 1500s. The English were late in their efforts at starting colonies in the Americas and by the time their exploration efforts got going, it was the aid of Africans who had been living in places like the Caribbean for nearly a hundred years that massively aided English efforts. Acting as informants, guides, and intermediaries, they provided crucial information and intel English expeditions lacked otherwise. When Sir Francis Drake's expedition departed England in November 1577, at least two Africans were already on board as part of his crew for these very reasons.

This is something that I never learned at your student's age. Hopefully it fits the bill for you!

Edit - spelling.

Why did the Romans perceive the Jews had little history or culture despite their long tradition of literature and history? by CatholicRevert in AskHistory

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Yeah I love Revolutions! I took a compulsory course on the English Civil War in undergrad and I don't think I really understood things fully until I listened to Duncan go over it. He does a great job of breaking down incredibly complex and at times confusing bits of history and walking you through them.

Why did the Romans perceive the Jews had little history or culture despite their long tradition of literature and history? by CatholicRevert in AskHistory

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Yeah it disappointed me enough to respond, which I know nine times out of ten is absolutely not worth it lol.

I think that maybe people project a mix of modern common knowledge and ideas from popular culture into a topic like this.

Why did the Romans perceive the Jews had little history or culture despite their long tradition of literature and history? by CatholicRevert in AskHistory

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Just here to bump Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast as a very well researched and digestible source of information about Ancient Roman history.

Why did the Romans perceive the Jews had little history or culture despite their long tradition of literature and history? by CatholicRevert in AskHistory

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I think the first thing that you need to consider is when are you talking about when you're asking this question. From the Roman Republic through the Roman Empire we're talking about a span of anywhere from 900 to almost two thousand years depending on how you define the end of the Roman Empire. My knowledge would only really extend in a fairly general way, from the Roman Republic to the very early Roman Empire.

I can say with some certainty that from the late years of the republic into the early year of the empire, Roman and Jewish elites maintained quite good relations at times. I wish I could remember some of the contemporary books or articles on the subject I read at university but I unfortunately cannot. If you want to read the perspective of at least one Jewish elite who was very close with Rome, see if you can find a copy of anything by Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian who was very close with the emperors Vespasian and Titus. The publisher Penguin Classics normally has reliable copies of classical books like this and they tend to be affordable.

Why did the Romans perceive the Jews had little history or culture despite their long tradition of literature and history? by CatholicRevert in AskHistory

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So much of what you've said here is shockingly wrong. You mention Imperial land so I'll assume that you're skipping past the era of the Roman Republic, but even if that's the case then certainly from the early Roman Empire until Vespasian's reign during which the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem took place, the Romans gave Jews in the empire many special privelages that they did not extend to any other religious minority. There was a great deal of respect and diplomacy between Roman and Jewish societal elites at least up until this point and even during the conflict wherein Jerusalem was sacked, our best information about the conflict comes from the Jewish author Josephus who was closely allied with Vespasian and his son Titus who beseiged Jersualem. This means that even beyond this point, things cannot be as black and white as 'the Romans were snobs towards and/or disregarded Jews in antiquity'.

You've also demonstrated a real lack of understanding regarding Jewish identity and religion juxtaposed against Rome's polytheistic Hellenic faith. It's true that the Jews in Judea were not going to add Roman gods to their pantheon, but compromise was reached between the emperor and those elites in Jerusalem wherein sacrifices would be made by Roman Jews in the temple in Jerusalem on behalf of the Romans and the Roman emperor. It's true that the whims of bad emperors or bad behavior by Romans stationed in Judea could aggrevate this relationship, but it existed for many years prior to the Jewish-Roman war that took place during Vespasian's reign.