Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
11th century bronze flail head, Novgorod
13th century Byzantine map of the world, based on now-lost 2nd century Graeco-Roman original
Artistic reconstruction of a Roman forum
For reference, this is a photo of Masada today. Absolute madmen made a ramp that still partially exists.
Sexists: "Girls can't be interested in history" Girls: "Literally slay queen"
19th century writers: "OMG! So manly! So heroic! Such devotion to duty!" 1st century actual soldier: "Fuck."
Damn. International exchange is hard...
You don't shit into an artificial river; your opinion is invalid
We all got a skeleton inside us telling us to chill
Illustration of a Mycenaean Greek panoply
Yet another drawing of the Siege of Masada
12th century leather Skomorokh (actor) mask, Novgorod
US Soldiers during the Korean Expedition (1871) standing next to a captured flag
"lol" said the CIA, "lmao"
Pick which stock wins
I support this Confederate statue
Neoconfeds try to discern the difference between property and human beings challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
Congolese Ilwoon sword
French cavalry auxiliaries in Mali, 1920s
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Heritage, not hate!