24benson
24benson t1_iuceh4q wrote
Reply to comment by SirSassyCat in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_
The protestant reformation was more than a hundred years earlier. The countries that are predominantly protestant today are exactly the ones that were before the war. Where and how did this war kickstart anything?
24benson t1_itv18qc wrote
Reply to comment by smalltowngrappler in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_
Doesn't make it better for Gustav Adolf, does it?
24benson t1_ituljpg wrote
Reply to comment by binbaghan in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_
yes
24benson t1_itulio1 wrote
Reply to comment by TheRed_Knight in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_
yeah, burning and pillaging my home town, raping the girls and killing the men by force feeding them excrements. A true gentleman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwedentrunk
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Rest in peace my ass.
24benson t1_itukywq wrote
Reply to comment by TheRed_Knight in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_
It wasn't really about religion for the most part.
Sure, the event that started it was Bohemia offering their crown to a protestant prince and pissing of the catholic emperor. But after that it was all just a big lootfest where every European power just had their way with the peasants of the HRE.
Nothing makes this more clear than catholic France and protestant Sweden teaming up against the empire.
24benson t1_iuylv2v wrote
Reply to Apis Cor may be America's most advanced 3D printing construction company, yet it is shunned by traditional capital markets; 8 years after being founded, it still relies on crowdfunding websites. by lughnasadh
I never understood the appeal of 3d printing for construction, despite the occasional news article on how this will change everything.
Wasn't 3d printing intended for highly specialized intricated objects that have to be custom made in small quantities and without lengthy prototyping?
Houses have been made of bricks for centuries. Those are totally uniform and easy to mass produce and keep their design for decades. Exactly not what 3d printing should try to compete with.