Recent content by Degredado

The idea that Argentina is one of the whitest countries in the world is one of the greatest publicity stunts ever pulled by any country. Hell, many people even believe that most Argentines are descended from Germans who arrived after WW2. To be sure, Buenos Aires definitely has a distinct...

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/04/13/galician-genes-new-study-suggest-christopher-columbus-was-from-spanish-nobility

Alexander. He led an army from a relatively small kingdom and destroyed the superpower of the time; won massive battles, always outnumbered and on enemy ground, progressively farther from home; never lost a battle; always led from the front, almost irresponsibly; more innovative a tactician...

Alexander. He led an army from a relatively small kingdom and destroyed the superpower of the time; won massive battles, always outnumbered and on enemy ground, progressively farther from home; never lost a battle; always led from the front, almost irresponsibly; more innovative a tactician...

Nice map, saved it for future reference. A few things that caught my attention: - Mainland Greece being considered so “uninteresting” - Saxony and the Stockholm area being on par with the likes of Tuscany, Campania, Sicily and Brittany - the Madrid region as the most interesting in Spain, well...

This is so crazy to watch from the outside. Late 20th century Western and Northern Europe really reached the apex in quality of life in all of human experience, and then decided to self-implode - out of nihilistic boredom? The dread of being called a racist after WW2? Corporate greed and...

Empire of Brazil?

The way I see it, what you absolutely cannot do is drinking to the point of 1) slashing your life expectancy by decades, i.e., drinking to the point of developing, or being at a high risk of developing, cirrhosis, liver cancer, pancreas damage, brain damage etc. 2) becoming a nuisance and a...

Most overrated/least interesting for their size and international renown: Berlin, Milan Slightly overrated (considering their great touristic fame): Paris and Florence. Nice cities nevertheless Most underrated (in the sense that, although well known touristic centres, they receive much less...

Pulp Fiction and Donnie Darko

Very interesting. A few numbers that surprised me: 1) Paraguay with over 10% African ancestry; 2) Uruguay significantly whiter than Argentina (which gets all the fame for being European); 3) 17% native ancestry in Brazil (I didn’t think it would exceed 10%); 4) 3% African ancestry in Chile...

All controversies aside, is at least the J2 haplogroup conclusion legitimate? I’ve seen it mentioned a few times on websites and social media.

I get those same matches, mine being just slightly more recent.

Greetings. There’s a question (granted, it’s not the most original one) that has always puzzled me and to which I’ve never found a very convincing answer: how did the Normans subjugate England so quickly, so (relatively) easily, so thoroughly and with so few men? Of course Hastings was very...

Most likely a Northern Portuguese of Suebian patrilineal ancestry… or perhaps some Dutchman who ended up in Pernambuco in the 17th century.