"If you look around eyes of some people you see a kind of demented energy. It’s pure anger or lust for power with nothing more. There is crease around the eye that tells it, it looks like cyborg gone off-script, these people have inhuman gaze and are vehicles for something else"
Imagine this: you are a general, your army is outnumbered and outsupplied, deep in enemy territory. You lost a previous engagement by having your supply lines cut and acting rashly.
What would you do?
This was Caesar position in 52BC at the Battle of Alesia.
This was the last major engagement between the Romans and Gauls, and one of Caesars greatest military achievements. His enemy was Vercingetorix, a chieftain who managed to unite the Gauls into opposition against Rome. His army was positioned in a defensible hilltop fort.
Vercingetorix sent messages to all of his allies, asking for reinforcements. His reasoning was, if Caesar attacked now, he would be fighting outnumbered uphill against a fortified position.
If he waited, he would be facing a much larger force with dwindling supplies.
Would you believe me if I told you he was the second only European in history, after Alexander the Great, to establish a city in Asia?
Or that he was the first Portuguese duke born outside the royal family?
Or that he took the stronghold of Ormuz containing 9000 men with only 500 soldiers and zero casualties?
This is the story of the Caesar of the East, the Lion of the Seas, whose military, religious and political actions cemented the Portuguese Empire in the Indian Ocean.
Born a nobleman around 1460, he had from a young age access to a classical education at the court of Afonso V, becoming versed in mathematics and classical Latin, with extensive knowledge of ancient history & philosophy.
This is the story of a great man of power, the Great Dom Francisco de Almeida, who against the King's will embarked on a manic journey to avenge his son's murderers.
A Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer, Almeida came to prominence for his exploits during the Catholics King's conquest of Granada in the late 14th century.
[The Capitulation of Granada by F. Pradilla]
By 1505 King Manuel I had made Almeida the first viceroy of Portuguese India, his mission to bring the spice trade under Portuguese control. For 3 years they fought, many times against overwhelming odds. By 1508 hey had established several towns and forts along the coast.
Knowledge of the americas was much prevalent than historians like to claim.
The statue is one of the clues, but carthaginian and cyrenai coins from the 3rd century BC were also found close to Corvo Island.
@RolandGunnTN@KhalkeionGenos It is certain ancient Greeks knew about the isles but also many after them. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the decline of Western Europe during the middle ages and the closure of the Mediterranean during the Islamic expansion, knowledge of the lands west of Europe became myth
@RolandGunnTN@KhalkeionGenos The medieval legends of Atlantis, the Seven Islands (Antillia), the lands of St. Brendon, the Fortunate Isles in Greek and Celt mythology, and many other are just connections to this ancient knowledge of the lands west of the Atlantic.
In 1997, the polish émigré filled with ethnic resentment Zbigniew Brzezinski, published "The Grand Chessboard" a book concerned with geostrategy in Central Asia. It explains why the west has been financing this pathetic little project called Ukraine uninterrupted since 1994.
The theory follows Mackinder's 1904 Geographical Pivot of History, which regards the landmass of Eurasia as the center of global power. It formulates a Eurasian geostrategy in which no Eurasian challenger should emerge that can dominate it and challenge US global pre-eminence.
The vital question is who secures control for the Heartland. This may seem pointless since in 1904 Russia had ruled the area from the Volga to Eastern Siberia for centuries. However European powers had combined a century before in the Great Game to prevent Russian expansion.
When I was young I got possess with crop circle, would spend hour looking at them, reading book but I forget many things and this revive so many memories, I show some archive of special examples and explanation
This was large, about 300 ft with 3 concentric part, central, middle and outer, with different structure, very complex elaborate design
The central pattern is inside a ten pointed star, containing a penteract inside
The penteract is also know as 5-D hypercube, and has forty separate straight lines, each subdivided into several parts.
Is incredibly difficult figure to understand and draw. Look at drawing for a few min and you might see several dimensional forms, squares, cubes, triangles..