Nov 8, 2020 · There are also other photos with strangely smiling Canadian soldiers, as if having a war wound was especially funny. The left one on the photo grins almost as crazy as the one in your photo, it even seems to me it´s the same guy. Maybe they have become a little balla balla from the horror of war, I don't know.

Having said that, I finally remembered the type of smile/ grin the guy in the WW1 photo is showing; a rictus. I'll put my money on shell shock or perhaps temporary hysteria after just seeing his best mate blown to bits in front of him (?) In this case especially, context is everything. From Merriam-Webster: rictus noun ric·tus ˈrik-təs

Feb 17, 2025 · ME: crypto is a scam, classic "pump and dump" scam YOU: but this crypto influencer tells me he made $1,000,000 yesterday, and look at his girlfriend, she is smiling, she probably is happy, you can't fake that Except you and I were discussing evidence of improvements in ploughing and horse tack...

Jun 12, 2024 · the problem with this my friend is that budhism was always extremely technical, from the very beginning. the noble eightfold path, the complementary tenfold path, the 4 jhanas, the 3 knowledges, the 5 excellent states, the 4 dhamma groups, the 7 good qualities, the 3 attainments... followed by an extremely long etcetera.

Mar 5, 2025 · Many people that have already been mentioned in this thread. There are others too for example in Chinese history like the guy that lost at Changping but greater experts than me can surely mention others(Liu Bei is also often considered one of the worst). Other WWI commanders that have not been mentioned like Potiorek.

Jan 11, 2022 · Short (or at least short-ish) haircuts were seen among East-Slavs since at least the X century. For instance, from the year 971 AD we have a Byzantine description of an East-Slav noble that says he had his whole head shaved except for one lock of hair on one side.

Apr 27, 2015 · Do you think Soviet Field Marshal Geogori Zhukov is a bit overrated as a WWII general? He is known to be a good organizer, a average operation strategist and mediocre tactician. He is a loved by Stalin and takes most credit from Soviet victories in …

Aug 15, 2013 · I voted bow. The sling is a direct fire only weapon, while the bow can fire indirectly. Hunting too, would be me much easier with a bow.

Feb 20, 2025 · The thing is, the only Aper-el I know of is that God’s Father (of Amemophis III, I think), who has a tomb at Saqqara. The one who has an Egyptian form of the Semitic name Abdiel = Aperel. If it’s the same guy, I wonder if it would help at all with chronology or personages.

Feb 14, 2025 · If a commander was already listed (for example, one list had a guy at 100 and another has him at 99, when I list the 99 ranked commanders, there will only be four and show which commander will not be examined (because we have already ranked him). In the end, I expect more than 100 commanders will be ranked.