History With Hilbert 🇳🇱🇺🇦

Frisian/Dutch/Geordie - Education: MA in Viking and Early Medieval Studies. Currently interning at the Fryske Akademy. NUFC fan. Frysk.

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New research shows more young parents are raising their children in Frisian than parents of previous generations 🔥🔥🔥

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@Gerardeaus2 A fine performance, at least the Mackems didn’t score 😂😉

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Howay the lads

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@LandsknechtPike That’s a Medieval Frisian infantry tactic.

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@huhlakat I love all the facts you share. Really interesting stuff. Please continue.

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In WW2 4,000,000 Indonesians perished. Indonesia lost the most people in the conflict after the USSR, China, Germany, and Poland. 99.7% of its casualties were civilians.

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This is a very good cause. The vast majority of Western countries teach history to all children until the age of 16, but not Britain. We should do better!

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What do we know about the Gaulish year? Find out more about the Coligny Calendar, LIVE NOW:

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@ChrisO_wiki Norway as well

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@SonicHeroXD I see no issue here.

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@Friespunt Ja hie ik net ferwachte! Neffens my is it Plautdietsch, de Leechdútske fariant dy't yn Poalen sprutsen waard en dêr't in soad fan 'e sprekkers letter nei sawol Noard en Súd-Amearika gienen.

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Ever heard of Frisian-Irish fusion music? De Griene Wâlden are doing just that, mixing traditional music with beautiful lyrics about the Frisian landscape and past.

https://t.co/kWDBBzB4Rp

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Celtic mercenaries carving graffiti in the tomb of Seti I, at the Temple of Karnak.

"Of the Galatians, we, Thaos Callistratos, Acannon Apollonios, came, and a fox we caught here."

The Celts served in the army of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, during civil unrest of 186 BC

🖼️ Jarek Nocon

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@FortressLugh You'll find this interesting:

https://t.co/RcQ73KqqVA

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Tha tighin fodham

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Shocked to discover a slew of Gaulish (that is the now-extinct Celtic language of Gaul) words carried over into English via Norman French (often via Latin):

EMBASSY > Gl. AMBACTUS
MUTTON > Gl. *MOLTON
BEAK > Gl. *BECCOS
EXCHANGE > Gl. CAMBION

(flag by Reddit user CaptainLenin)

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Great description of Jacobite entrance into Carlisle, 1745:

"[Bonnie Prince Charlie] entered Carlisle on a white horse, with a hundred pipers playing before him, whose shrill music was not calculated to inspire the citizens with confidence in their grotesque conquerors."

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It's important to learn many languages so that you can better communicate with the mercenaries you hired!

King Gustavus Adolphus spoke Latin, German, Dutch, French and Italian like a native, understood Spanish, English and Scots, had some basic knowledge of Polish and Russian.

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@CeriJPhillips1 I suggest the English translation for this item should be: "Owain Glyndŵr's tin opener."

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"Welsh-Gaelic speakers" was an interesting phrase to hear used by a modern historian for the seventeenth century...

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I think the Royalists have been at the roadsigns again…