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Literacy is a Damyankee conspiracy
  • The South Carolina link was a separate document - the Declaration of Immediate Causes.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20040404171724/http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/ordnces.html

    South Carolina's ordinance of secession is pretty boilerplate

    AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."

    We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.

    Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

    ... while Virginia's cites slavery specifically in its ordinance.

    AN ORDINANCE to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United State of America by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution.

    The people of Virginia in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under said Constitition were derived from the people of the United States and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression, and the Federal Government having perverted said powers not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slave-holding States:

    Now, therefore, we, the people of Virginia, do declare and ordain, That the ordinance adopted by the people of this State in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and all acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying and adopting amendments to said Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.

    And they do further declare, That said Constitution of the United States of America is no longer binding on any of the citizens of this State.

    This ordinance shall take effect and be an act of this day, when ratified by a majority of the voter of the people of this State cast at a poll to be taken thereon on the fourth Thursday in May next, in pursuance of a schedule hereafter to be enacted.

    Adopted by the convention of Virginia April 17,1861.

  • Literacy is a Damyankee conspiracy
  • The ordinances of secession are the legal instruments for secession - the actual formal bills - so while some are clear about the causes, some of them are just boilerplate "We out" kind of stuff. You can find other explanations from the seceding states, but the rest aren't so neatly grouped together, unfortunately.

  • Ever get so angry you felt like you were going to die? Valentinian knows that feeling
  • Best part is, old age isn't even certain - there were assassination rumors swirling around Augustus's death too. Never a dull moment as the most powerful autocrat in the Classical world!

  • Chaos in France after Macron refuses to name prime minister from leftwing coalition
  • Macron was bailed out by cooperation from the left-wing, and now he wants to play fuckwad games. How predictable. I hope they ream his ass out for trying this.

  • Maryland regional political compass!
  • I mean, you aren't wrong.

  • ADHD Rule
  • Ah, is that where my anger problems come from?

  • Maryland regional political compass!
  • I'll fuckin' fight you, that sounds like West Virginian talk

  • Maryland regional political compass!

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    Farmers planting a tree, Nablus, Palestine, ~1930

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    Ever get so angry you felt like you were going to die? Valentinian knows that feeling
  • Explanation: The Roman Emperor Valentinian I died during negotiations with some Germanic tribes because the famously hot-tempered Emperor finally blew one fuse too many! When the Quadi tribe insisted that the conflict was the fault of the Romans, and that the Quadi were not bound by any treaties they made, Valentinian had a stroke while shouting at their envoys.

    Man Literally Too Mad To Live

  • Ever get so angry you felt like you were going to die? Valentinian knows that feeling

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    Ever get so angry you felt like you were going to die? Valentinian knows that feeling
  • Explanation: The Roman Emperor Valentinian I died during negotiations with some Germanic tribes because the famously hot-tempered Emperor finally blew one fuse too many! When the Quadi tribe insisted that the conflict was the fault of the Romans, and that the Quadi were not bound by any treaties they made, Valentinian had a stroke while shouting at their envoys.

    Man Literally Too Mad To Live

  • Ever get so angry you felt like you were going to die? Valentinian knows that feeling

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    -1 Casualties!

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    Remains of Acatitlan temple, Mexico

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    Skating Manchu archer shooting behind his back (from a Qing era painting, Bing Xi Tu)

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    Etruscan bronze warrior statuettes, 5th century BCE

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  • Noble hound

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    Bar Cat

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    "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"
  • American here - we didn't have to memorize it. All we had to do was know the groupings (Noble gas, metalloids, etc)

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  • Europa 1400: The Guild

    Ignore that heretical work of The Guild 2/3 et co. Only the ORIGINAL is truly worthy.

  • How's it going?

    https://lemmy.world/post/19085147

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    How's it going?
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  • Gallic Warriors of the 3rd-2nd century BCE
  • Fun fact: the Bantu king Shaka Zulu in the 19th century ordered his own troops to stomp on thorns in their bare feet to harden their soles.

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  • We didn't appreciate Bill Nye enough as kids.

  • Gallic Warriors of the 3rd-2nd century BCE
  • The Insubres and Boii were clothed in their breeches and light cloaks; but the Gaesatae from vanity and bravado threw these garments away, and fell in in front of the army naked, with nothing but their arms; believing that, as the ground was in parts encumbered with brambles, which might possibly catch in their clothes and impede the use of their weapons, they would be more effective in this state.

    Polybius’s Histories

    I'd be intimidated, ngl

  • Daggers from Sudan, early 19th century AD

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    Gallic Warriors of the 3rd-2nd century BCE

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    Behold, a man!
  • Explanation: The ancient Greek philosopher Plato once defined a man as a featherless biped. The ancient Greek philosopher/shitposter Diogenes later would burst into Plato's lecture with a plucked chicken, crying "BEHOLD, A MAN!" Plato would revise his definition to include flat, broad nails.

    The uniform is inaccurate, as that's a Roman toga, but w/e.

  • Behold, a man!

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    LEGIONARY TITUS PULLO IS WITH ME! ARE YOU WITH ME?

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    LEGIONARY TITUS PULLO IS WITH ME! ARE YOU WITH ME?

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    LEGIONARY TITUS PULLO IS WITH ME! ARE YOU WITH ME?

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    What gives undergrads feelings of power

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    Ruins of Whitby Abbey in the UK

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