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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Sirhr
 
Very little-known improvised weapon of the Syrian War This is a craftmade grenade called "Hanifka" - similar to the famous "Hattabka" (pic 2) from the Chechen Wars. A cut-down case from a 23mm cartridge is used as a shell. It is usually filled with TNT or any other explosives.

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If the A-rab types Put half the brainpower and energy they put into killing and maiming each other... into science, technology and math, they would make Silicon Valley look like the Congo.

Once they led the world in everything from math to ceramics to art. Then along came Muhammad and ignorance and a belief that “it is written” overcame initiative and inventiveness. Ignorance and servility became the norm.

Well, the way things are going these may become de-rigeur everywhere.

Sirhr
 
6 for me. Can't pop out babies, been snorkeling but never scuba'd, skydiving and cruises don't interest me, I'll get ink but don't want any piercings, and did other shit besides dye my hair to piss off my parents.

The braces one seems kinda odd for the list as well, even though I had them growing up.
 
If the A-rab types Put half the brainpower and energy they put into killing and maiming each other... into science, technology and math, they would make Silicon Valley look like the Congo.

Once they led the world in everything from math to ceramics to art. Then along came Muhammad and ignorance and a belief that “it is written” overcame initiative and inventiveness. Ignorance and servility became the norm.

Well, the way things are going these may become de-rigeur everywhere.

Sirhr

Math was a lot easier back then...just sayin'.
 
Big 10 for me...got kids-never gave birth, no plane jumps, no limo-but wife did during 9/11 (Government supplied), no braces, no tats yet, dye my hair-WHY (kids thought that I peroxided my hair from being in the ocean surfing and on the beach all day&night), karaoke-nope, no sushi, no skinny dipping, no ambulance or TV or piercings. Makes 10, got me feelin’downright kinda’little peekid. ?????
 
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Math was a lot easier back then...just sayin'.
Math was easier back then???

Someone sat around and looked at the stars... and then developed math to prove that the earth orbited the sun..... Zero starting point.. zero books and wikipedia...

The Dark Ages- probably delayed satellites by 1000 years

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This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Eleanor Robson offers a history like no other, examining ancient mathematics within its broader social, political, economic, and religious contexts, and showing that mathematics was not just an abstract discipline for elites but a key component in ordering society and understanding the world.


The region of modern-day Iraq is uniquely rich in evidence for ancient mathematics because its prehistoric inhabitants wrote on clay tablets, many hundreds of thousands of which have been archaeologically excavated, deciphered, and translated. Drawing from these and a wealth of other textual and archaeological evidence, Robson gives an extraordinarily detailed picture of how mathematical ideas and practices were conceived, used, and taught during this period. She challenges the prevailing view that they were merely the simplistic precursors of classical Greek mathematics, and explains how the prevailing view came to be. Robson reveals the true sophistication and beauty of ancient Middle Eastern mathematics as it evolved over three thousand years, from the earliest beginnings of recorded accounting to complex mathematical astronomy. Every chapter provides detailed information on sources, and the book includes an appendix on all mathematical cuneiform tablets published before 2007.
 
Between Babilonian math, Christian crusaders wrecking ME for 1ky+, viruses and what not i go for....

HUman history for 200.... err strike that

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