It is a good film. There are parts of it that are extremely depressing, which underlines the former.
trivia: the woman 02:16 speaks *severe* Berliner accent:
"Sachense doch, ik meine... wie soll man denn... wie begrüßt man eijentlich d´n Führer?"
If we are talking about 1950s future history cliches, I would suggest a "Küchenautomat" ("kitchen automaton") that is capable of replicating food. Unfortunately, the creators of this device forgot one thing: program the god damn thing with any sort of creativity. As a result, the Küchenautomat...
There are a few PODs I can think of, especially battles, where the outcome of the battle itself would have massive butterflies. The perhaps most obvious one is this:
- Different outcome of the Battle of Yarmouk: Byzantine forces defeat the Arabs, thus bringing the fast expansion of Islam to a...
This was actually posted forth several years ago, but has actually been thoroughly debunked. In fact, finer resolution of genetic markers has shown that a sizable quantity of the population is actually descended from the Anglo-Saxons.
The main reason this did not happen, and why the...
That is one problem. The statement "it was not written down" not only includes what the people themselves wrote, but also that there are no samples of a language in question in other sources (for instance personal names, place names or deity names recorded by other people such as the Greeks or...
As I said, in that case we should have some evidence for such a language in Antiquity. There is, of course, the Ligurian language which was also spoken in southeastern France. But unless you consider Ligurian to be Italic (which is generally agreed that it was not the case) there is no ancient...
Now here is actually where the whole thing takes an interesting turn: is he just considering modern-day toponyms, or ancient ones as well? Because for instance calques (loan translations) would completely screw things up here and create a false image.
Well, I'm with Carl Sagan here: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (and, to add, this is one of the claims where I find the evidence extraordinarily lacking... :p )
Wow. :eek:
Well, let me say this in a nutshell: unless everything we think to know about language evolution and in particular about the Indo-European language family, that is completely impossible. There is the extra-added problem that for instance the Gaulish language, written in a variant...
Let me say this: large-scale invasions were possible in the Neolithic and in the Copper Age, and apparently DID happen (there's significant genetic evidence for this, especially the transition from Neolithic to Copper Age to Bronze Age seems to have brought tremendous changes in the makeup of...
Well, yes, de-facto you are absolutely right: from the German perspective, any discussion of territories beyond the Oder-Neisse line were completely impossible and delusional, but you have to consider the legal situation back in 1990, which did look a tad different:
Both East Germany (Treaty...
In a nutshell, no. Austria had a separate identity, in part because it used to be a major power on it's own, and after WWII, the Austrians reinforced that distinct identity to distance themselves from the Nazis as much as possible. The will for Austria to unify with Germany existed after WWI...