this philosophy thing is freaky. i mean, maybe i'm easily amused and i understand 'why' it would eventually get to philosophy, but it's still interesting.

Joe Montana

33 steps.

I went to private school in San Diego and I don't recall a history class ever going over the Japanese Internment camps, if we did, it was ridiculously brief. I only knew about it because in 7th grade my teacher suggested I do my report on it.

what's even more mindblowing is the Japanese gov't to my knowledge has not apologized for their war crimes nor do they acknowledge those crimes in their books nor formal education.

Just a small preview, but they make the Holocaust look pretty civil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanking


"Japan officially maintains that no international law or treaties were violated. Many leaders in the Japanese government, including former prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe, have prayed at the Yasukuni Shrine, which includes convicted Class A war criminals in its honored war dead. Some Japanese history textbooks controversially downplay Japanese actions in World War II,[11] and Japanese officials as high as prime minister Shinzo Abe have denied that atrocities occurred.[12][13]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

This doesn't seem to be working as intended. First one I tried was Brett Favre in response to the Joe Montana one) and it's not following the first link. Every step is wrong (not taking the first link outside of parentheses or italics), and at the end it says that it gets stuck in a loop for clinical neuropsychology, which is incorrect.

you got peanut butter on my bacon. you got bacon on my peanut butter!

So ****ing depressing. What happened and the fact that some people will basically deny anything that they don't want to believe. Thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers should have been executed and instead only 2 are tried for the whole incident. Then again all the Mai Lai massacre guys got off too.

Kind of like how kids in the south often learn a skewed history of the Civil War

Cept for the systematic rape and murder of tens of thousands of people.

Exactly. Although I'm sure slave owners raped and murdered many, it wasn't "systematic," and I have no idea what the numbers would be.

"It was about states' rights!" is similarly offensive imo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tamarisk

something involving spying on soviets and poop and toilet paper, it almost seems like a level

rofl the last line in comedy..apparently the most successful spy tactics in the cold war...

I'd heard of this but had never taken the time to read about it. Brutal.

turn people into killing machines. get mad when they kill wrong people.

Kind of like any historical account of any event ever

If you're making a point about how brainwashed the Japanese soldiers and populace in general were at the time to accept anything the Emperor told them, then yeah.

If you're trying to make some point that this kind if stuff is inevitable from each side in all wars, then no.

actually to a small degree it is probably inevitable. maybe not widespread, tho.

I read a fun historical thriller that postulated that if Russia wanted to bring back the Czar, the person with the greatest claim to the throne would be....Prince Charles of England.

I have no idea if that's true, but it'd be awesome if it was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

The most prolific sniper in any war to date

The man who wrote the novel The Treasure of Sierra Madre on which the 1948 movie with Humphrey Bogart is based on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven

Roald Dahl, author of such classics as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach" was a huge badass.

I remember learning that roald dahl was a dude but for some reason I always think of a woman when I see the name

didn't realize he was such a badass, nice

It's been quite a while, but I remember enjoying Going Solo when I read it in 6th or 7th grade.

Not sure about that last comment, given that he was a virulent anti-Semite.