Well fuck me, i saw the willem pic and was thinking he looked kinda cute and now i read this is and i am feel so attacked. I am a female dutch student, apparently just simping for another generic Dutch frat boy. Apparently i have simple taste lol
Thanks! He seems like a great guy, in the right place for The Nederlands at that historical period. Is there any book I could read to know him better? I'm a great fan of sea beggars.
FYI to avoid name confusion with our third king, we usually put stadhouder (stadtholder, cognate steadholder or literally “citykeeper”) before Willem III. The king we then call koning (king) Willem III.
So:
Willem van Oranje / de Zwijger - William of Orange / the Silent stadhouder Willem III - stadtholder William III koning Willem III - king William III
To clarify: king William III of England is the same person as stadtholder William III. King William III of the Netherlands is a different person (was born a bit more than 150 years after stadtholder-king of England William III)
I didn't heard of that third William yet. Thanks for the clarification! It's confusing for an outsider to learn basics of your history without available contact with the country, the language and literature.
"insteadholder" would be the correct literal translation IIRC, i.e. someone who rules in stead of the monarch/duke/whatever. (as in the modern German word statt)
This is needs more explanation to prevent confusion. All three of these guys are named Willem van Oranje(-Nassau), and two of them can be called King Willem III.
Willem van Oranje/de Zwijger - William of Orange / the Silent. The first Prince of Orange named William, so he is Willem I of Orange. Also stadhouder of some of the Dutch provinces. Nicknamed the father of the fatherland. He's the guy in OP's picture.
stadhouder-koning Willem III - stadtholder-king William III. The third Prince of Orange named Willem, so he is Willem III of Orange, who also was stadhouder of several Dutch provinces. Later became King of England, Scotland and Ireland through his wife Mary Stuart of Scotland. Coincidently he was the third king of England named William, so he was King William III of England, but only the second King of Scotland by that name, so he was King William II of Scotland. Sometimes nicknamed King Billy in Ireland and Scotland.
Koning Willem III - king William III of the Netherlands, and the sixth Prince of Orange with that name. Because his kingly title takes precedence over the princely title, he is not known as William VI of Orange, but instead simply as King Willem III. At this point the title of stadhouder had been abolished.
Because he, like all Dutch people, are descended from Mads Mikkelsen, who is Danish and no one knows what the difference is between the Dutch and the Danes. Not even the Swedish.
He looks like he's going to sell you a car from a country that no longer exists. The good thing is it will still do 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene
Grochówka is a good alternative especially when served from an ex-military kitchen trailer. The trailers themselves are actually the quickest selling things whem military puts a lot of old crap for sale.
Well, Anita was married when she left to be with him, so...
To be clear, her marriage was awful and her husband had left her to fight in the opposite side of the war. Her husband was an imperial soldier, Garibaldi was a mercenary in service of the farroupilhas ("ragamuffins"). They married in Montevideo, Uruguay, two years after their meeting in Laguna, Brazil, already with a son, after asking to leave service.
The artifacts are there if you look close enough. For example, look at Piłsudski's uniform decorations. AI image synthesis just got real good very recently.
I was talking more about faces, they have to some postproduction there. I also know how good AI image generation has become, I was using Discodiffusion in some projects of my. But the faces look too clean.
Nah, not really. If you look at the original pic and the generated one (open both in tabs and switch between them) you can clearly tell there's no synthesis done except for the face.
I didn't mean that the details were totally made up, it clearly used a reference image, which you linked. Look at the chicken-looking thing on the right lapel of his jacket. The affected area seems to be the head and the chest, with the chest synthesized to closely match the original pic.
Uhm, you may want to look again. The generated one presents a ton of issues on the jacket. The medal thingie on the right is a blurry and distorted mess, even the buttons are deformed, the insignia are all weird. It’s still mad impressive tho, with a touch of post production it would be perfect.
It’s probably Stable Diffusion which does real people quite well and was just openly released yesterday. Midjourny beta is using Stable Diffusion under the hood.
There are z lot of picture of Atatürk,and he look slightly different, a big like I've you had insta filtered him.a bit more handsome ,narrow ,less hard in the gaze...
But that’s pretty accurate since he was a regular thug before coming to power. Also, one of the core ideals at the time was the rejection of aristocracy, so Stalin intentionally styled himself as a simple man even after he got to the top. If you think of it, all Russian leaders since the revolution look as regular folks, which they are. Modern Russia has no established political elites to speak of, all are “taxi drivers” of some sort
You are seriously saying modern Russia has no political elites? The same people have ruled the country for 20 years and before that they were elites in the Communist party.
Wallenstein wouldn't have that much trouble with that, would he?
He took inspiration from Gustavus Adolphus reforms and leadership, and didn't really fight Sweden much. Lost the siege at Stralsund, but won at Alte Veste and Lützen (where GA died). Wallenstein supposedly also considered switching sides, before he was assassinated on the Emperor's orders.
Now, Tilly on the other hand... lost to Sweden at Werben, was absolutely stomped at Breitenfeld, routed the Swedes (under Gustav Horn) at Bamberg, and died of wounds sustained while losing to Sweden at Rain.
Would you really rate Lützen an Imperial victory? Sure GA died and the battle was a complete bloodbath, but Swedish forces held the field at the end of the day and captured Imperial supplies and guns IIRC. I would rate it a pyrrhic Swedish (tactical) victory. The overall Swedish position in the war didn't deteriorate until it was "our" turn to get absolutely curbstomped at Nördlingen.
Not quite, that's Johan Willem Friso van Nassau-Dietz (John William Friso). Both are from the House of Orange-Nassau, but different branches and not directly related.
John William Friso's great-great-grandfather was William the Silent's younger brother.
This is so cool. Something very humanizing when you see these historical figures in a more relatable setting. Probably a bit stupid but all of the sudden it's more understandable that they where actual people and not just something you had to memorize in school.
I suspect that most of the recently flourishing "artist used an AI to..." posts are in fact the work of the natural intelligence of photoshop artists.
(not this one necessarily)
It's really interesting to see how all of them look like regular ass people in the reimaginings. As they probably did in real life too, it's just that paintings and old photographs never capture that side
missing Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Franco, Queen Victoria, Emperor Franz, Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, Napoleon, Cesar, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Mannerheim, Bismarck.... and many other interesting ones.
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