So it's less a case of having children. Which a lot of Emperors did have. It was a case of having children survive to adulthood in a political world where murdering your enemy was a viable tactic for getting ahead. Augustus had his daughter Julia, who gave him loads of grandchildren, in fact she seemed to have problems not being pregnant. Tiberius also had a son, who died due to interference from the Praetorian Prefect Sejanus. Caligula, his successor, had a daughter who was murdered. Claudius had four and all of them were murdered. And Nero also had a daughter, who died in early childhood.

So it was a very hard environment for children to actually survive. Especially when blood relation to the ruling Emperor and Augustus was very important for maintaining power. But you had the low survival rates combined with the seemingly deadly game of politics combined with various other dangers that come from ruling a state, such as death in warfare or on campaign. It's one of the reasons why adoption was seen as being as legitimate as being blood related, because sometimes you just have bad luck.

Imagine being a teetotaler and siring a ton of heirs, and people crediting your virtuous abstention from alcohol while not realizing the poisonous lead was the culprit for others.

I would guess they often just did not have acknowledged children.

Which might be the only way they'd have living descendants at all since wiping out all your family is a pretty common theme. It makes it a selection advantage.

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What's obscure to one person won't be to another. What sort of topics have you already enjoyed?

Japan was very interested in a peace deal - even Tojo, once he became PM - but with a whole lot of conditions that involved Japan keeping a lot of China.

Meanwhile, Japan also was preparing for conflict with the US in case a deal couldn't be worked out and had set an internal 'final diplomacy date.' The US saw the preparations for conflict and it led to a loss of trust in the process, and it also assumed it had more time to work something out.

There were a number of miscommunications and missed opportunities for a deal in 1941.

Many have been coming up for auction recently at Christie's, the same auction house trying to sell that knowingly fake T-Rex 🦖

For some reason once I saw "available online" I also thought it meant available for purchase lol

Finished The Last Corsair: The Story of the Emden by Dan van der Dat

>3.5/5 being generous I'm rounding up for goodreads.

>Not that much to say about it. Just under 200 pages. An old blow by blow story of the German cruiser Emden's commerce raiding in the Indian Ocean during the early months of WWI as well as the story of the crew after the Emden was defeated. Decently well written and enjoyable to read. Overall I'd say it is worth a read if you are interested in naval history or WWI outside Europe.

On kindle I'm still reading The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd which I am really enjoying but only reading a little bit a day (20% done). For physical books I've switched away from WWI for a week or two to British crime and punishment or law and order history.

Finished Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain by Simon Webb

>3.5/5 rounding up for goodreads. Worth reading if you want a quick book about historical law and order.

>Well written and enjoyable to read despite the subject. Very short at 160 pages, and the bibliography is only 1 page. Each chapter covers a different kind of execution including the main ones, beheadings and hangings (there are several chapters on the different types of hanging) as well as the more unusual ones like boiling or crushing. There is also a chapter on things that weren't intended to kill but could be deadly, like the stocks and pillories or flogging. And a final chapter on the decline and abolition of the death penalty plus a short extra biographical section of all the main executioners/hangmen. Lots of interesting info and trivia despite the short length as the crimes of the executed are also mentioned.

Gave up on Murderous Tyneside: The Executed of the Twentieth Century by John J. Eddleston as while the stories are told in a matter of fact way it was just a boring read and as someone not normally into true crime stories I felt like I wasn't remembering anything from it.

Now reading Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy by Malcom Gaskill. Focused on Essex around 1645. Enjoying it so far.

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I mean, it’s awesome in terms of it being fun, but it wasn’t a yacht club in any real sense of the world. The name of the club was intended as a joke.

The way I see it is that they had to start somewhere, and I’m glad they didn’t wait until everything was 100% perfect so we can access things in the mean time. Not every small collection has the budget of the British museum or the MET to take super high res pics of their entire collection. It’s not perfect but it’s more access than we’ve had before.

Ask him where he got them from! That's exactly what I want.

Does anyone know of any books about the story behind 'The Burghers of Calais'?

In other words, the six men who sacrificed themselves to help end The Hundred Years war, not the statue itself?

Ikr? Would be pretty awesome. My friend's dad has a legitimate suit of armor and a few coat of arms with actual swords and shields and they are pretty badass.

You jest but it would be pretty cool to own a piece of medieval history.

yes!!!! I sold my soul to the company store!

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Not much to say when the player is flying the ship - do they have any effect at all - just pointing out that you're going to refer someone to the documentation (or a specific part of it), you MUST provide a link?

https://arethebritsatitagain.org/

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this

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Man, you faked me out. I thought the items were going to be for sale.

Yeah I've been wondering the same and curious if there are auction houses that focus on medieval items

The Archive Atlanta podcast has an episode on the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, the history of Cabbagetown and the strike of 1897. There was another strike in 1914-15 in which the company evicted the strikers who lived in company-owned housing.