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Olli Bäckström
@ollibackstrom.bsky.social
Researcher of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 and Seventeenth Century Europe. Docent (General History) associated with the University of Eastern Finland. Author Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War: https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-21/
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Some event on 7 December 1941 that was potentially divisive.
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ja mikäs maa se olikaan, joka aloitti Hitlerin liittolaisena toisen maailmansodan syksyllä 1939?
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Captured German Tiger tank.
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Miten voi olla edes mahdollista ymmärtää Sormusten herran juoni täysin väärin?

Aivan kolossaalinen idiootti.
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Well fuck, as I suspected @pauldlockhart.bsky.social book with similar subject and similar name isn't mentioned in the bibliography at all. Douche move.

(Lockhart btw is a doyen in the field of Denmark and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648.)
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Borderline copyright infringement.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Well if I'm gonna try and tackle this book, I'm gonna need a frikkin drink. Or several.
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"If it grew too rich and tired of the risks inherent in commercial life, the bourgeoisie would buy offices, government bonds, titles or fiefs, succumb to the temptations, the prestige and carefree indolence of the aristocratic life."

Braudel, The Mediterranean.
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Kirjoitin blogin rakuunoiden varhaishistoriasta.
skeptinenalkemisti.blogspot.com/2025/11/raku...

Kuvassa kaksi rakuunaa hevosen selässä. Detalji Johann Jacobi von Wallhausenin kirjasta Kriegskunst zu Pferdt (1616).
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Cromwell cruiser tank and Stuart light tank of the British army's Guards Armoured Division enter Brussels in September 1944.
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
America, the ice cream cone that licks itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Itsenäisyyspäivä ja uusnatsien marssit lähestyvät, joten perussuomalaisten kellokkaiden on aika laittaa itsensä juhlakuntoon. Edustaja Rydman on ahkerana poikana näemmä ehtinyt jo laatia itsenäisyyspäivän juhlapuheensakin.
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"The fundamental characteristic of Philip II's empire was its Spanishness - or rather Castilianism - a fact which did not escape the contemporaries of the Prudent King, whether friend or foe: they saw him as a spider sitting motionless at the centre of his web."

Braudel, Mediterranean.
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Kirjoitin blogin Jussi Talven sotaromaanista, joka ilmestyi alun perin jo vuonna 1954, vain puolitoista kuukautta ennen Väinö Linnan Tuntematonta sotilasta.
skeptinenalkemisti.blogspot.com/2025/11/tunt...
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM