This was on the History Channel, "Band Of Brothers", etc.
The latest generation needs their chance to learn it, just as my generation did.
This needs to be modded to 5.
Just because some guy on Slashdot has heard of this doesn't mean that it doesn't need repeated.
It reminds me of people who get pissed off at Thanksgiving when the media gives out advice on how to cook Turkey so that we don't get sick. There's always some asshat that might have heard it for the first time a couple years ago, and is angry that everyone didn't hear it when they did.
News for history nerds... (Score:5, Funny)
Stuff that mattered 70 years ago, and is mildly interesting today :)
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Mind you, I find military history fascinating - I'm just surprised this is on /.
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This was on the History Channel, "Band Of Brothers", etc.
The latest generation needs their chance to learn it, just as my generation did.
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This was on the History Channel, "Band Of Brothers", etc.
The latest generation needs their chance to learn it, just as my generation did.
This needs to be modded to 5.
Just because some guy on Slashdot has heard of this doesn't mean that it doesn't need repeated.
It reminds me of people who get pissed off at Thanksgiving when the media gives out advice on how to cook Turkey so that we don't get sick. There's always some asshat that might have heard it for the first time a couple years ago, and is angry that everyone didn't hear it when they did.
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Sure. But it's not really news, is it?
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Sure. But it's not really news, is it?
Good thing we have the stuff that matters category too.
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I always thought it was intersection, not union.
Perhaps I should submit a story about Roman manipular tactics during the late republican period?
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I always thought it was intersection, not union.
Perhaps I should submit a story about Roman manipular tactics during the late republican period?
I had to chuckle reading the replies to this. Probably not what you expected.
But it was a trick wasn't it? the Maniple was replaced by the Cohort around that time.