I’ve read in many places that Mary was closely associated with the order. How did this come to be? They seem like pretty nasty fellows and I don’t understand how the cult of the mother of god comes to be part of a military order’s symbology.

So, I've searched the internet and i feel kinda lost since the amount of books that cover this Topic seems to be very small. That's why I'm reaching out to you in hope of getting some advice here.

I'm looking for good books depicting history of the Teutonic Order, from it's birth in the Middle East, through episode in Hungary, conquest of Prussia to it's secularisation.

Subsequently, I am also interested in any sources on Baltic Prussians and Balts in general. That includes Livonian crusades as well. Basically, everything related to the Teutons in any way.

As I'm Polish, and Teutonic Order's history is known to me a little bit due to focus on it in history class, but I'm looking for something more comprehensive, not a easy read for a layman.

I realize that there is a scarcity of literature about the Northern Crusades in English language (at least I always presumed as much), so any books in different languages could be mentioned as well. Many thanks.

For the various elements of the Northern Crusades, material seems a bit thin on the ground -- there's Christiansen's book, and then a bunch of maddeningly tantalizing, out-of-print stuff (William Urban's books in particular).

For the Old Prussians, stuff about "the other Prussia" tends to get in the way of my searching...

Samogitia, on the other hand, just doesn't seem to feature much at all -- at least, in popular works. Wider Lithuanian history has the opposite problem: there's material there, but I'm mainly interested in Lithuanians before ~1500, and I'm not sure what title will focus best on the Lithuania of the Crusade(s) and those centuries between prehistory and the creation of the Commonwealth.

(Finding English translations of primary sources is something I've almost given up on -- there's Henry's Livonian Chronicle, but the only English version of Balthasar's, or of the Rhyming Chronicle, seems to be in an again out-of-print compilation. So close, and yet so far...)

Thank you very much for any reading (or browsing) recommendations on any of these topics!

Geographically I am always so surprised that Koenigsberg Prussia was so different in National character from the 3 Baltic nations. What are some theories as to why?

Here is all the penis slang I could find, courtesy of the internet

1. A

2. Ace in the hole

3. Acorn Andy

4. Action Jackson

5. Adam Halfpint

6. Admiral Winky

7. African black snake

8. Afro man

9. AIDS baster

10. AIDS grenade, The

11. Alabama blacksnake

12. Albino cave dweller

13. All-day sucker

14. Anaconda

15. Anal impaler

16. Anal intruder

17. Anal Spear

18. Ankle spanker

19. Apple-headed monster

20. Ass blaster

21. Ass pirate

22. Ass wedge

23. Astralgod

24. Auger-headed gut wrench

25. B

26. Ba-donk-a-donk

27. Baby maker

28. Baby's arm holding an apple

29. Baby's arm in a boxing glove

30. Bacon bazooker

31. Bacon rod

32. Badboy

33. Bagpipe

34. Bald Avenger, The

35. Bald butler

36. Bald-headed beauty

37. Bald-headed giggle stick

38. Bald-headed hermit

39. Bald-headed Jesus

40. Bald-headed yogurt slinger

41. Baldy-headed spunk-juice dispenser

42. Ball buddy

43. Baloney pony

44. Banana

45. Bat and balls

46. Battering ram

47. Bayonet

48. Bavarian Beefstick

49. Beard splitter

50. Bearded burglar

51. Beastus maximus

52. Beaver buster

53. Beaver Cleaver

54. Bed snake

55. Beef baton

56. Beef bayonet

57. Beef belt buckle

58. Beef bugle

59. Beef bus

60. Beef missile

61. Beef soldier

62. Beef stick

63. Beefy McManstick

64. Bell rope

65. Belly stick

66. Best leg of three

67. (Big) Beanpole

68. Big Dick & the twins

69. Big Dickus

70. Big Jake the ene-eyed snake

71. Big Jim and the Twins

72. Big Johnson

73. Big Lebowski

74. Big number one

75. Big Mac

76. Big red

77. Big rod

78. Big Uncle

79. Biggus Dickus

80. Bilbo Baggins

81. Bishop, The

82. Bishop with his nice red hat

83. Bitch blaster

84. Bitch stick

85. Bits and pieces

86. Blind butler

87. Blind snake

88. Blood blunt

89. Blood slug

90. Blood sword

91. Blow pop

92. Blowtorch

93. Blue steel

94. Blue-veined jackhammer

95. Blue-veined junket pumper

96. Blue-veined piccolo

97. Blue-veined puss chucker

98. Blue-veiner

99. Blunt

100. Bob

101. Bob Dole

102. Bob Johnson

103. Bobo

104. Bone

105. Bone phone

106. Bone rollercoaster

107. Boneless beef

108. Boneless fish

109. Boner

110. Boney cannelloni

111. Bone-her

112. Bop gun

113. Bottle rocket

114. Bow-legged swamp donkey

115. Box buster

116. Boybrush

117. Bradford and the pair

118. Bratwurst

119. Breakfast burrito

120. Breakfast wood

121. Broom

122. Brutus

123. Bubba

124. Bulbulous big-knob

125. Bumtickler

126. Bush beater

127. Bush rusher

128. Bushwhacker

129. Buster Hymen

130. Buster McThunderstick

131. Butt blaster

132. Butt pirate

133. Butter churn

134. Butt

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Why does history reject the idea that Nietzsche is polish when he claims many times to not have a single drop of German blood and looks down upon the German race in his writing?

Is it because of the racial politics of the nazis and the extreme importance of race that Germans view the world through today?

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

Franco Prussian War

Spanish American War

Mexican American war

Vietnam War

Seven Years War

Crusades

Let me Know if you have any Ideas

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

The doctor says it terminal.

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

History of Prussia:

In 1190, a religious order known as the Teutonic Knights had formed as a result of the Holy Land’s crusades, and the siege of Jerusalem 1099. The Teutonic Knights were charged with controlled Acre’s portholes, however they didn’t stay

In 1211, they relocated to Transylvania to assist the Hungarians against the ever encroaching Cumans, for the latter half of the 12th and 13th century the Teutonians wounded up fighting side by side with the Polish against the Pagans at the Baltic Coast, this is when the Teutonians established the reputation for invading anywhere where riches were to be won

But peculiarly enough thanks to men like King Andrew who encouraged rapid Christianization of Pagans, the Baltic coast and North Germany became a huge part of the Teutonians focuses, as well as for its valuable trade routes

Colonizing Prussia however became a frustrating task, significantly more brutal than any of the Teutonians latter endeavors

Which involved the near total extermination of the native peoples known as the Old Prussians

Consequently little information about the original Prussians survives to this day

It would take hundreds of years until there were no more pagans to take the sword and cross to and by 1450 the Order became embroiled in a sequence of wars with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

At this point the Teutonic Order had conquered modern day Kaliningrad and the Baltic Peninsula

Hostilities ceased after the second Peace of Thorne in 1466 and the Order lost its independence to Poland, West Prussia was taken over entirely and East Prussia remained under the Order’s jurisdiction, but was officially recognized as Polands.

In 1525 Grand Master Albrecht von Prieston, known as Albert of Prussia wrote about an end to the order he led converting to protestantism and installing himself as Duke of Prussia in order to elevate himself to the status of a futile ruler, which would be an easy transition as Albrecht already had Kinsmen in power and was part of the House Hohenzollern, the ruling family of Brandenburg a small royal family based around Berlin.

A union between the two states seemed inevitable but it would take almost a century for the Hohenzollern Brandenburgs to inherit Prussia. This was because Brandenburg was an electorate within the Holy Roman Empire. Which was important because it gave an outside country the chance of obtaining the title Holy Roman Emperor, which was no good and could allow inner political struggl

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

>“ The boy has exceptional skills.”
>
>“ But he still has much to learn, Master. His abilities have made him... well arrogant.”
>
>“ Yes. Yes. A flaw more and more common among Jedi. Too sure of themselves they are. Even the older, more experienced ones.”
>
>― Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda; Attack of the Clones ^(22 BBY)

Hypocrisy. In all of the great virtual sea that is the internet, there is seldom a term more heavily, more arbitrarily, and more misapplied to such a wide extent as the term "hypocrisy". In many ways, the term has, alongside "hubris" and "corruption", become something of a rallying cry to condemn the Jedi, their Order, their practices and their philosophy. But much like the word "inconceivable", the decriers who consistently cling to the term just as frequently make it clear that the word does not mean what they seem to think it means.

In a collision between a world of moral relativism and absolutism, intrinsically bound to the foundation of cynicism, there is probably no criticism more common to the Jedi Order as a whole than the claim that the Jedi were hypocrites, blinded by hubris, and corrupt (if not to the core, then at the top). Indeed, at face value, such claims can appear to have some validity. But do they, really? What really is hypocrisy? What does it mean to be corrupt? And what about hubris? Were the Jedi really any of these things? If so, in what way? If not, then why are these term so frequently attached to them?

Thank you for joining me in the third episode of my taking-way-too-long-to-get-these-out essays, because today we're going to climb the great mountain of accusation and see whether or not the claims against the Jedi's integrity truly is a valid denouncement, or a thinly-veiled façade. But of course, before we can address anything one way or the other, it's vital to get a clear understanding of the definitions of these accusations.

“ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Unfortunately (for the English language as a whole) the word "hypocrite" has gotten, what I'll call at least, some grammatical abuse. What do I mean? I mean that, much like many other words in recent decades, the word has been misapplied and misused, seemingly utilized as a bludgeon to condemn something or someone that a person happens to dislike or fails to properly understand.

But what is hypocrisy?

• If you were to check the Google definition, it is

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments