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What was the most successful propaganda campaign in history?

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Depends which revolution you men , Ada Ferrer "An American History Cuba " is a Pulitzer prize winner.

I’m looking for a book that has a fair and balanced perspective on the Cuban revolution

Pretty much exactly what i thought they'd look like

Cosmetic grooming has been a thing in many cultures for thousands of years.

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Broken Spears sounds great. I wonder how it weighs up against Forest Kings and Fifth Sun.

These sound really interesting, thanks!

Hey everyone,

Just finished Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe by Levi Roach, and it's excellent. A bit short, but I enjoyed the author's analyses.

Och, such a lovely lass. 9/10, will ask her father for her hand if the pox doesn’t kill me first.

My such a fierce face on the priest. 7/10, would burn witches for.

Ah, a bishop with such a stern countenance to stand against the ungodly heathens! 10/10, would go forth to die on a crusade at his command.

Some recommendations:

1493 by Charles C. Mann - this sequel to the popular “1491” is about the Columbian Exchange and its impacts on the world. It focuses on things like mosquitos and malaria, potatoes, and Chinese pirates.

American Comics by Jeremy Dauber - a nice read about the history of comics in America. It looks at 20th century American history through the lens of comic books and talks about the themes that developed. Doesn’t focus on superheroes but includes them.

Hiroshima by John Hersey - this is a short read that premiered in the New Yorker right after the nuclear bombs were dropped. It follows the stories of three people right before, during, and after the bombs dropped.

The Broken Spears - this is a book of primary sources from the fall of the Aztec Empire written by its people. We rarely get to read this from their perspective and it gives a lot of extra details. It also goes into what their culture was like.

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston - not exactly a history book, but the author and a team of scientists trace a historical legend into the jungles of Honduras.

The River of Doubt by Candace Millard - this traces Theodoore Roosevelt’s journey through an unexplored part of the Amazon. Probably the most interesting thing a president has ever done.

Anything by Tony Horwitz, but I’ll go with Blue Latitudes. He is a journalist with a series of books involving him following historical paths on his travels and seeing their legacy. He also gives history of the areas. This one follows Captain Cook’s journeys, so the author revisits his travel path as according to his diary, says what Cook experienced and what the area was like at the time, and compares it to now. The author has a similar book for the exploration of the New World and a couple based on the Civil War.

Does anyone have any recommendations for books that give a general overview of the 80s in America?

The recently published Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda Podany is well worth a read for anyone interested in ancient Syro-Mesopotamian history. Though the usual kings and queens appear, she focuses on some of the less famous but equally fascinating people from the ancient Near East.

Podany’s earlier book, Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East, also combines excellent scholarship with an engaging writing style.

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yeah. still happening today.

That's a cleft lip, not a cleft palate. He may also have had a cleft palate, but we can't tell based on this picture.

Presumably, there is some minimal population that is a necessary condition for industrialization.

Thanks for all this information about their relative achievements. This is exactly what I was wondering about. Where did you learn all of this?

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Pretty sure I seen them in the pub last weekend

Eh? Nowhere in my post did I say I know what they looked like. I said I suspect, emphasis on suspect, these faces are often made to look better than they really were. I'm assuming here that hair upkeep was worse back in the day, same with skin and teeth care. Add a bit of tough physical labour & childbirth and you could have a very different specimen than we see in the image. Sure, this lady may really have had the handsome looks of a daytime TV soap opera actress we see portrayed but I suspect(that word again) she did not.

Edit: plus, it's Scotland. We ain't as a rule very good looking.

How do you know what they really looked like?

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