Modern ammunition is composed of a cartridge which contains gunpowder and a bullet.

Technically, a bullet was and still is just the solid projectile. The proper way to refer to modern ammunition is "cartridge".

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It baffles me that Lawrence is required reading more often in the west given his story can directly be tied to the current geopolitics of the Middle East. I’d always wondered growing up why some Muslim people hated the west so fiercely and there it is.

What film?

I was gonna say anyone who knows anything about the man wouldn’t be surprised by this.

Rome is still Rome today, filled with Romans, even though it’s “height of civilization” was two thousand years ago. Of course it was still Mayan, Greeks are still Greeks even after Ottoman conquest for centuries. They are still Mayan even after some fights with their old neighbours and new.

My bad, I thought I read that. I stand corrected.

Such a great podcast, Paul Cooper is a God!

Advanced how?

The last stronghold of the Maya in Guatemala was an island in a lake. Check out the article for pictures!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nojpet%C3%A9n

Thanks for the correction. Hindsight is everything but trusting one of the world's largest colonial empires at the time who had a habit of colonizing non-Whites through coercion was not a smart decision.

At least 82 other people turned down the knighthood that Lawrence also turned down. See here: List_of_people_who_have_declined_a_British_honour#Knighthood_(Knight_Bachelor)

Would you be able to recommend a general history for some accurate background? I want to place personal accounts and autobiographies in context, and I loved the film and want to dig into this

A really good nonfiction book for anyone interested in this period: Lawrence In Arabia. Covers his story as well as the dazzling array of other operatives active in the area during the war: oilmen, Zionists, German agents…. Really fascinating.

Well yes, that's a pretty big part of this whole "war" thing: people getting shot.

Totally read that as “Tight End - Lawrence” at first and was trying to figure out what the rest of the title had to do with football.

Wasn't that pretty much the whole point of Lawrence oglf Arabia?

I have the 1926 edition. He describes his sense of duplicity in detail.

Insider Joke. He died riding his motorcycle, a Brought Superior

How the hell did you get the frank above the beans????

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Yes, and Mayan people still exist in that region today.

Yes advanced government and architecture as well as a history spanning possibly thousands of years what dirty dumb savages

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It’s maybe a bit late to ask but how stained glass in churches were cleaned ? Did they just throw a bucket of water on it ? I know it’s very specific