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50 ‘Weird History’ Pics That May Rewrite The Narrative Of How You Think The Past Went (Best Of All Time)
Historians will tell you that it's important to study the past because it helps us understand why things are the way they are in the present. And, as we know, the world can be a very strange place at the best of times. The halls of history are decked with all sorts of weird and wacky moments. Some might make you cry with laughter, while others could leave your jaw on the floor. There are historical accounts that make us wonder, "What were they thinking?" And there are those we wish had never happened.
To better understand how things got so wild, we turned to an X account called Weird History. Located "somewhere between space and time," it shares interesting, odd, and funny things that have happened throughout history. It's amassed more than 176,000 followers, getting their daily dose of our "never a dull moment" past. Keep scrolling for Bored Panda's best-of-all-time posts from the page. And don't forget to upvote your favorites.
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Yehuda Zimmerman 1 year ago
Yes. He was certainly a hero. They were transit visas that allowed Jews who had them to pass through Japan. They were in Kyoto for about a year, but then the Japanese forced then to move on. They wound up in Shanghai until the end of the war.
Ilan Elron 1 year ago
NAMED Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara 杉原 千畝, HE WAS INDEED A HERO OF HUMANISM LATE [BECAUSE OF MISREADING HIS NAME IN KANJI] ISRAEL DECLARED HIM "Righteous Among the Nations" REMEBERED BY THOUSANDS OF PROGENY OF THE JEWS HE SAVED FROM CERTAIN DEATH
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Interestingly Japan was quite welcoming to jews during that time since they wanted to be on good terms with "the people that rule the world" despite heavy protest from Germany
David 1 year ago
actually they were not welcoming of the Jews. Sugihara was fired and his career ended in disgrace. At one point at the request of Germany, the Japanese govt was going to deport all Jews there, and in Japan controlled China (like Shanghai) to Germany, and it was the Emperors Cousin, Setsuzo Kotsuji (who also was from a prominent and well connected Shinto priest family) , who protected the Jews and convinced the govt to just keep them in restricted Ghettos in Shanghai and Hong Kong, which they agreed to (in 1963 he converted to Judaism and moved to Israel). Later Prince Mikasa, younger brother of the Emperor, in 1943, serving as an officer in China in the Imperial Army, became a semitophile from his interactions with Jews and used his royal position to protect them from pro-Nazi officers. When some German sailors in Shanghai in 1944 tried to attack the Jewish restricted zone, Prince Mikasa got the commanding general to use Japanese troops to protect the Jews.
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Kamal Hasan 1 year ago
Talk about turning survival into style! This 1947 wedding dress is not just beautiful, it’s a silk-spun testament to love, resilience, and ingenuity. What a breathtaking way to weave history into happily ever after!
Terri Rowland 1 year ago
If this isn't true love I don't know what is.. romantic to the end 😘🤵🏻👰🏻♀️💞
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Panda Kicki 1 year ago
This was a very sucessful campaign by RFSL, where 30-40 activists sat on the stairs to the Socialstyrelsen head office, calling "You better decide if love is sick or not" while at the same time swedes all over the country repeatedly called in sick, feeling a bit gay today. The handling of all this gay-sick persons took a lot of resources and the autorites
Rowan Godet 1 year ago
Finally bigoted nonsense worked in my favor. I’d file Swedish disability lol
CC McSniggles 1 year ago
HHeeeyyyy boss man. I'm (cough, couch) too gay to "come" in today, but you can "come" here.....
Linda Robinett 1 year ago
My country was really in an awful state when I went to Scandinavia (2017) and I loved seeing the gay pride flags everywhere. Evidently the month I went was Gay Pride Month or something. I mean I entered a hotel and a bunch were on the wall behind the front desk.
A quick google search reveals that there’s no shortage of “Bizarre Historical Events” that have taken place throughout the days that came before us. Go ahead, and try it yourself. But be warned: you might end up down a long rabbit hole with many crazy twists and turns.
One of the search results that caught our eye involved people dancing themselves to death. Better known as The Dancing Plague of 1518, it was an actual "event" that happened in once upon a time in France. And it was anything but fun.
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
The first Portuguese to be honored as Righteous Among the Nations, in 1966
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
As comendable and admirable as this is, there are several more compelling stories about people who did more. Mexican diplomat Gilberto Bosques Saldivar saved 40,000 Jews and republican Spanish while being a consul to Vichy France, renting several castles and putting them under diplomatic immunity, and then issued diplomatic visas. He was taken by the Gestapo when Mexico declared war to the Axis powers, and after his release in 1944 he continued to work as a diplomat, playing also a role during the Cuban Missile Crisis as a communication facilitator, as representative of a neutral country that Cuba, United States and USSR respected. He was awarded the Courage to Care Award by the Anti-Difamation League in 1987.
Limey 1 year ago
This is like the Japanese one above. Why on earth would you “order” someone not to help people? We aren’t getting any better but honestly we probably aren’t getting any worse either. Seems like officialdom have always been sh!ts and there are always decent human beings willing to defy orders to try and help.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Portugal's leader dictator António de Oliveira Salazar was a fan of Benito Mussolini and supporter of Franco (just like Adolf). All round great guy (/S). Aristides de Sousa Mendes was the Portuguese embassador in France, and Portugal was seen as safe - but you had to get a visum to cross Franco's (fascist and Hítler friendly) Spain to get there.
Load More Replies... Ilan Elron 1 year ago
He, too, was DECLARED by ISRAEL "Righteous Among the Nations" . that means he wasn't only courageous, but that he actually put his life in peril for hus humanistic actions.
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Ace 1 year ago
He was pretending to be one of the palace guards. You could always see the humour and love between them.
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
When this photo first started circulating, I read somewhere that he was making sassy comments to her as she walked by and that was what made her laugh. She was used to seeing him in ceremonial garb.
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martymcmatrix 1 year ago
Their hearts must have beaten like a jungle drum...karungkukukukugung...🥁 🫀 🥁 🫀
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
I think I would have pulled a Juliana the Great Dane move lol
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Rosalind Jana described it best, when they wrote the following for the BBC: “On a sweltering summer's day in July 1518 a woman called Frau Troffea steps into a square in Strasbourg and begins to dance. At first those around her only watch, curiosity piqued by this unusual public display. They watch a woman who will not, cannot, stop."
"She dances for nearly a week, felled occasionally by exhaustion but largely undaunted by the body's other warning signs: pain, hunger, shame. There is no music. Her heart keeps the tempo, working hard to make the motion continue,” added Jana.
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Ellie Ahmed 1 year ago
Smart girl. My doggo would 100% pick it up and bring it to me to play fetch with
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David 1 year ago
Twain went from a anti-black antisemitic racist to a pro-civil liberties, pro-equal rights, pro-black and pro-Jewish activist. Twain is proof how much people can change
Jaaawn 1 year ago
I wish more people would become pro-Jewish in this day and age.
Load More Replies... n75mk9nk2n 1 year ago
If only it actually was. It's alive and well today, just under different names and different legalities. The entire US prison system is modern, legal slavery. Employers being allowed to pay below the minimum wage so that employees have to depend on tips, is slavery. Republicans trying to deny basic human rights to women, trans people, and immigrants? Slavery. We must continue to stand against it, because it will never, ever truly go away.
Jaaawn 1 year ago
I think because there are certain demographics that feel the need to label themselves and everything they do. They self-segregate and live in their little online echo chambers, so far removed from reality and common sense and reason that when confronted with real life they don't know what to do.
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Elle Roque 1 year ago
Twain was saved from going bankrupt by a robber baron, HH Rogers, who was friends with Booker T Washington and paid for Helen Keller’s education.
Seán Baron 1 year ago
I would have loved to have been able to spend some time with Samuel Clements.
Within a week, more than 30 people had joined the ”silent disco.” And by the end of the month, there was a crowd of around 400. Some died. Some survived. But the incident left "experts" puzzled. Back then, there were several theories around what could have caused the dancing plague. They ranged from demonic possession to overheated blood.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Cats. Walking all over our s**t since 2000 B.C. clay-paw-p...250565.jpg 
StPaul9 1 year ago
Irish poem by a monk to his pet cat: Mise agus Pangur Bán, Beirt ar bhreá linn bearta dán, Mise ag dréam le deacair theacht, Pangur sleamhain ag súil le creach, Clú nó cáill ní iarraim fhéin, Ag iompú dúch go solas glé, Beag le Pangur friotail fáidh, B'fhearr leis luch nó leabhar a fáil, (Speaking) Pangur, bhfeiceann tú ansin sa gcúinne? (laughter) Roughly translates as Me and Pangur Bán, Two who love parcels of poetry, Me searching that which comes difficult, Slippery Pangur hoping for prey Fame or fortune I seek not, Turning ink to a shining light Little does Pangur care for a prophet's words, He'd prefer to get a mouse than a book (Speaking) Pangur, see that in the corner? (laughter)
Jay Cee 1 year ago
There are some roof tiles at a Roman villa in Lullingstone in Kent, UK that bear the paw marks of a cat walking across them. When she saw them my elder daughter said "Look, just like Willow's pads at home!" - We'd had our driveway widened and her cat, Willow, had marched across the curing concrete.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
The book was The Education of a Christian Woman, by Juan Luis Vives, published in 1523. Catherine was highly intelligent, a humanist who counted the great Renaissance scholars, Erasmus of Rotterdam and Thomas More, among her friends and was the driving force behind a programme to give assistance to the poor. She was also Henry VIII's sister-in-law before she was his wife, and it was Henry's divorce from her that caused the split from Catholicism and the creation of the Anglican church.
Secret Squirrel 1 year ago
This isn't worded correctly. She didn't advocate for a right to education, she argued women shouldn't be excluded from education based on gender, but the right to education didn't reach the UK until more than three hundred years later.
Ash 1 year ago (edited)
And Henry VIII's last wife, Katherine Parr, wrote 3 books. Her Prayers or Meditations, written in 1545, was the first book published in England by a woman under her own name and in the English language. The education of women was very popular in that era of English history, especially with Protestants. Gotta be able to read so you can read your Bible for yourself in your own language!
Earonn - 1 year ago
Imagine to think it's controversial that Human beings should get education. And just because some weak men invented a god and religion - to enslave women as they themselves were too worthless to get a partner.
Secret Squirrel 1 year ago
She didn't think human being should get an education, she thought landed gentry should. She thought intelligence and worthiness wasn't based on gender but class.
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Au contraire. We learned the geography of the oil producing countries.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Sometimes attributed to Twain, but no one can find the source.. More likely - “War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.” - Ambrose Bierce Twain often quoted fellow humorists, but he always gave credit. When retold by others, sometimes the credit dropped away. For instance, "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it." is frequently attributed to Twain. He did say it, but always gave credit to the actual author, George Ade, a contemporary humorist.
Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
Trump never did figure out Puerto Rico is an American territory..idiot
Linda Robinett 1 year ago
I do know where Ukraine and Iraq are. (Also all the countries in South East Asia)
But some modern historians say the probable cause was something called ergotism, meaning the dancers had possibly ingested ergot, a psychotropic mold that grows on stalks of rye. "Ergotism is known to trigger delusions and spasms, but results to hardships in coordinated movements therefore disqualifying it as a substantial cause for the phenomenon," notes the World Atlas.
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roddy 1 year ago
Any news source. They all have agendas, so your favorite one is no better.
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tuzdayschild 1 year ago
Stop trying to minimize Fox. Give credit where it's due. How many other news agencies have been sued and lost for just plain making stuff up? They really are in a class by themselves.
wbcjwh6j6y 4 months ago
If you don't count CBS, I guess. Apparently it has been recently found that they not only doctored Kamala Harris unintelligible rambling but they've been doing it for leftists all the way back to Al Gore - but go ahead and think you're side is pure - I know it make you feel better doing that.
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
Gentle Pandas. For everyone who wants to rail against one particular news outlet or another, many many Pandas spend time on this webpage as a refuge from all the high pitch screeching we are inundated with elsewhere all the time. All. The. Time. We need a break. Please keep BP as a refuge from all the noise.
ArtistinResidence 1 year ago
No. What I most enjoy about board panda is the fact that many people are from different countries and need to know that many Americans do not support what’s going on right now and the only way to do that is by having discourse. If you need to escape, go get a cartoon or a movie because quite honestly putting your head in the sand does not really work.
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hinspect 1 year ago
For some reason, liberals don't like Fox news because they usually report the truth, they seem to prefer garbage like CNN
Lorraine R 1 year ago
Sorry, but Fox's connection to truth/facts is essentially nonexistent.
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PFD 1 year ago
Not a Mark Twain quote, and in this form hasn't been antedated beyond the early 2000s. Which makes it a bit meta as a line about misinformation. Nice photo though. (Quote Investigator found this similar but less pithy version from Thomas Jefferson, if you want an authentic quote: "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors.")
wbcjwh6j6y 4 months ago
Let me see if I get what you're saying, Bored Panda published misinformation? This paragon of virtue has a blemish ..... I'm shocked (/sarc). I included a link to your favorite leftist "fact checker": https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-read-newspaper-misinformed/
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Jeff White 1 year ago
Yes it is. Have seen something similar at the Mount St Helens Visitor Center. Worth a visit.
Patricia Maxfield 1 year ago
I have a book bought in Rome that has clear sheets over the top of every photo of a ruin…..showing what the actual building originally looked like…..brilliant
mrtmxxzgy9 1 year ago
Sounds wonderful! Could you give a name/ author please? Better still an ISBN number? Many thanks.
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Bedda Rigger 1 year ago
Ah, it´s the Heidentor (pagans´ gate) of the former roman city of Carnuntum
Bedda Rigger 1 year ago
Ah it´s the Heidentor (pagans` gate) of the former roman city ofCarnuntum
CT 1 year ago
This is what they should have done for Notre Dame and used the funds to actually help people
Jaaawn 1 year ago
Some of the money tourism brings in does go to help people.
Load More Replies... Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Wow...! Do they build what they looked like using steel rods and then fix it onto the remaining building parts.?
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
My gran was involved with the movement and, unusually for the time, my grandad supported her wholeheartedly.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 1 year ago
Thank you to every single one of them. I wonder what our world would be like today without them.
Kaedyn Walsh 10 months ago
USA is finding out pretty quickly :(. The 'president' has signed orders that is making most all companies delete all recognition of women's accomplishments in said field. NASA is just one who scrambled to do so the other day. Successful women are put in with DEI and Dei is banned now. I wish I was joking. The 'vice president' jd Vance said he wants more babies in the usa. Basically educated and working women have no time to raise babies so the reversal of women's rights and equality is going away. First cover the "problem" (banning of Dei for one) then put more bans over time. Hell, Trump passed an order that all colleges and schools stop sexual harassment aid. AND military & colleges stopped groups for minorities - and women's groups - due to trumps orders.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
And Paul McCarthy - "And Jet, I thought the Major was a little Lady Suffragette - Jet!"
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Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Well it ain't our fault y'all don't speak English right! 😁
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Gen X Feral 1 year ago
Stfu these women were ostracized, jailed and tortured just because they wanted the right to vote.
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According to Britannica, the most widely accepted theory comes from a medical historian called John Waller. He believed the dancing plague was a form of mass mental disorder, known as a psychogenic or conversion disorder. "Such outbreaks take place under circumstances of extreme stress and generally take form based on local fears," reads the Britannica site.
When presenting his evidence, Waller cited a series of stressors that were affecting residents at the time of dancing plague of 1518. Famines, smallpox and syphilis being the main reasons that hundreds might have felt overwhelmed with life.
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wbcjwh6j6y 4 months ago
Are they down on their knees in a puddle like Anderson Cooper did? From your "Trusted News Source, CNN"
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Jesse 1 year ago
It's still going strong today! Of course with a more modern look to the items, but the box still has a mattress at the bottom and is used as a sleeping spot for the baby.
EJN 1 year ago
Pro-lifers should be handing out these if they really mean what they say about babies being important.
Jennifer Potter 10 months ago
Well, many of us do, and/or direct mothers to groups that give the same, plus more
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Caroline Fraser 1 year ago
Mine in Australia came with a variety of useful things and some condoms: like I was going to let my husband near me anytime soon!
Jay Cee 1 year ago
On the birth of my niece my sister apparently said to my BIL "Come near me with that thing again and I'll cut it off!" She swears it was the drügs.
Load More Replies... Gypsy Lee 1 year ago
Here in the US we get an emesis basin, but we still have to pay for it. Seems weirdly appropriate.
Valerie Page 1 year ago
Well, your government doesn't have unlimited resourses and there are more important priorities no doubt. Be very careful who you vote for x
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Jennifer Wilson 1 year ago
My grandmother was Finish. I wonder if she received thus. To bad I can't ask since she passed in 2006
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John Dilligaf 1 year ago
The US Navy maintains "Constitution Grove", a forest of white oaks in Indiana, grown for the sole purpose of having plenty of material to repair, restore and refit the USS Constitution.
Lorraine R 1 year ago
White Oaks? The original six frigates were built with Live Oak, which is denser and more resilient (hence USS Constitution's nickname, "Old Ironsides", because the British shot would bounce harmlessly off her sides).
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
Didn't some German ruler did this to and now the area is a national park? Or am getting this wrong?
Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Absolutely love this, they are still doing things to help the environment to this day...
Rich Black 1 year ago
Britain attacked neutral Denmark to capture its fleet and add to the royal navy, to help defeat France, with whom they were also at war. Britain also attacked the USA in 1812 and tried to destroy ITS capitol.
There was another Google search result that caught our attention during the hunt for strange historical events… Nowadays, it’s pretty much accepted that you’d have to be alive to be able to appear in court, and defend yourself against any allegations. But apparently that wasn’t a requirement in 897, when the Vatican put on a display that could have drawn millions of viewers had live court reality shows been a thing back then.
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Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Indeed, cats have been amusing for as long as the great cats of Egypt..
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Jnausicaa 1 year ago
My grandmother was a WASP. SHE taught me how to fly. Happy Landings Granmama..
Jay Cee 1 year ago
There was a documentary on British TV about the ATA who transported warplanes in wartime Britain - everything from Hurricanes and Spitfires to two and four engine bombers like Wellingtons and Lancasters (on their OWN) - and they said that one of the "Spitfire Girls" would pull out her lipstick and powder before she climbed out of the plane she was delivering because "Just because there was a war on it didn't mean one had to lower one's standards".
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Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Don't they mean he is a bastet, I think that's what they called the God of the cats..
Richard Pennington 1 year ago
I've heard a similar line about the rules of the Oxford Union (perhaps an Oxonian can confirm or deny [I am from the Other Place]): "Dogs are not permitted in the Oxford Union. Any animal leading a blid person shall be deemed to be a cat."
Pope Formosus had been dead for a few months. But one Pope, Stephen VI, was not going to let him rest without paying for his sins. In what's now known as the Cadaver Synod—or Cadaver Trial—Formosus' corpse was summoned to court to, quite literally, sit in on his own trial.
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Peppy 1 year ago
He definitely looks less grey in the second picture, must have been a bit under the weather in the first one
Terri Rowland 1 year ago
I have heard that they have placed a lonely hearts ad in the local zoo times, apparently Jonathan has been getting rather too friendly with the rocks in his enclosure, and he's been keeping the other animals awake at night with his sounds of love... He would like to meet a lady who enjoys walks along the edge of the enclosure, sunbathing by the trees and eating lettuce, apples, carrots and occasionally watermelon...age is not important..
°CORLEONE° 1 year ago
102 years old in the first picture and 103 years old in the second picture.
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
And yet he still had a hand in it. It was Franklin who amended the original draft to create what is probably the most famous sentence in the Declaration: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Lynda Nesbitt 1 year ago
Amazing how equipment doesn't realize the gender of the operator, huh? LOL! Female ATP pilot here, btw.
Kamal Hasan 1 year ago
Saluting a true pioneer of the skies! In 1937, Sabiha Gökçen shattered norms and took control of the cockpit with unmatched grace and determination. This trailblazing aviatrix didn’t just fly—she soared, making history as one of the first female fighter pilots. Talk about high-flying empowerment!
nm (he/him) 10 months ago
Her best achievement was gas-poisoning civilians during the Dersim massacre.
Load More Replies... bernie bulk 1 year ago
i reckon it would be harder to pronounce her name than fly the plane, joking, boadacious babe
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
What!!??There were women fighting pilots!?!?!? Omg this whole post has me so in awe of these amazing courageous women 🙌
Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
The Soviet 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment was all female and yielded two flying aces. They also had two bomber regiments both eventually earning the Guards designation indicating an elite unit.
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Jay Cee 1 year ago
Easier to fly a 2 seater bi-plane from the back seat especially if flying solo - a matter of balancing out the engine weight.
Load More Replies...His body was removed from its tomb, dressed in its ecclesiastical robes, and propped up on the papal throne to stand trial. Knowing that the dead man couldn't speak, Pope Stephen VI appointed a deacon to speak on the corpse’s behalf. Pope Formosus might have appointed a different spokesperson if he'd had a choice. The dead pope ended up being found guilty of "usurping the papacy." But we will probably never know how he felt about the verdict.
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Janissary35680 1 year ago (edited)
There was nothing "accidental" about the discovery. This picture is from Zeugma and formal excavations have been in progress there since 2000.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Turkiye is one of those places where building a house is a crapshoot because of the high chance you'll hit something archeologically interesting
Janissary35680 1 year ago (edited)
And then all work stops while a team of ministry archaeologists investigate and it doesn't resume unless they give the OK. There's an example about 50-100 meters from my house right now and the investigation's been going on for nearly a year. Approval probably won't be given because part of a Late Roman or Byzantine necropolis has been found.
Load More Replies... Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Goodness, that's amazing, like it was just made yesterday.. Colours are really vibrant and clear, a real work of art and love..
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Terri Rowland 1 year ago
I'd like to see this dog 🐕 I'm sure he would be easy to win the affections of him 😉
Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
I love this one. Wish someone would make a modern sign like it, except most people wouldn't understand it.
Jay Cee 1 year ago
Yes he has, cos he's a hot dog . . . Screenshot...8f-png.jpg 
Janissary35680 1 year ago
I've seen that mosaic in situ. (I think the original's been removed to a museum and replaced with a copy.) It's always bothered me that the dog is leashed. "What good is a chained up guard dog?" says Jerry as he fetches a screwdriver from Hammerspace.
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n75mk9nk2n 1 year ago
Iran in 1978 was a modern, progressive, first-world nation. A year later, thanks to the US' direct involvement, it was a brutal religious theo-fascist hellscape. We do not teach this in schools here in the US. And that is why the same thing is happening again here and now. We must not let it. Period.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
The Shah of Iran was a US ally. His torturers learned techniques from the CIA. He was pushing his country towards being a modern, westernized culture, but he was doing it by suppressing dissent, by arresting, torturing, & killing his subjects. The people revolted because they had a horrific dictator in chatge. The result is in many ways worse, but you don't know that before you revolt. Please explain exactly what "direct involvement" the US had in overthrowing their ally.
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Winnie the Moo 1 year ago
As a wife of an Iranian man this always makes me so sad. Most of the young people their are so openminded and so ready for the way thing were before 1979; but unfortunately the brainwashing continues.0
Michael Lovett 1 year ago
Yeah, the women and girls before 1977? Or whenever it was, looked like American or UK girls.
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Tiger 1 year ago
“There were two kinds of onna-bugeisha - those that defended the household, and those who took part in an offensive battle - those women were known as onna-musha.” That’s what I was always taught!
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Angelshark 1 year ago
Didn't they recently discover a battlefield where like 60% of the fallen warriors were women or something? I'd call that considerably more than a 'few.'
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Diane H 1 year ago
Yes, I was there. They said they have to make their own parts to keep them running.
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Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Don't know why Ionescu Popa got downvoted, a lot of the Yank tanks look like hell up close. What would you expect for cars that have been kept running for 70 years in a country where you can't get most of what you need?
Load More Replies... Ash 1 year ago
And they're able to do that because 1950s cars weren't designed for planned obsolescence... Also, I bet a lot of Cubans can fix their own cars, because they're not full of computer parts designed so that only the dealership can fix them!
cj be like 10 months ago
almost looks like a holographic of some sort at first glance. the light blue ones are definitely my favorite
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Ece Cenker 1 year ago
We used to have some here in Istanbul as well, used for public transport up until 1996.
Ian Cryar 1 year ago
Rolling death traps pretty rolling death traps but rolling death traps all the same
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I'd like to see the traffic fatality stats between Cuba and the US
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LuisSD stuff 1 year ago
But the cars are held together with chewing gum and toilet paper. They look great on the outside; but the inside is a mechanical mess.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 1 year ago (edited)
That doesn't make sense. There are a lot of other countries they could buy cars from. China sells cheap cars and has a good relationship with Cuba.
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
She's depicted exactly how the artist wanted to depict her. If the artist was aiming for realism, she would have curly hair in the painting rather than straight hair pulled back in a severe fashion.
Rich Black 1 year ago
Did they understand the picture they posed for was a poking fun at simple rural folk? He was a dentist in real life, actually.
Calvin Smelliott 1 year ago
Why does she look so homely? She’s not a bad looking woman…. His painting is almost a photograph. 🤷🏼♂️
Kathi Coyle 1 year ago
The figures were modeled by Wood's sister Nan Wood Graham and their dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby
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Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 10 months ago
Or even more scandalous for "Allowing his wife to wear a sleeveless dress, showing here bare upper arms." Oh, the horror. S/
Load More Replies... Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Sometimes people take pictures in black and white. See Ansel Adams
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David Bois 1 year ago
i am a 1988 boston-area college grad ... i remember the boston globe profiled him when he was selected as editor of the HLS law review. this *might* be the image used for that piece [?]
HappyShannon 4 months ago
I just want some "precedent times" I am so over these "Unprecedented times". Give me my Precedented times back!
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Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
Not the same memory. That is comparing an Elliott 405 (1957) to a Raspberry Pi Zero. The memory of the Elliott is 16KB, the Raspberry Pi Zero 512MB.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Oh those of us who only know it is computer stuff understand what they were saying. I enjoyed this, very interesting juxtaposition.
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Mike F 1 year ago
But that 16k probably held as much as the Raspberry since the OS wasn't a resource hog. Remember when a 4gb hdd was enormous?
John Ambrose-Hemmingway 1 year ago
I remember when I'd NEVER be able to fill my 800mb drive.
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B Hobbs 1 year ago
Consider that most of us today each have a mobile with more memory, storage, and mega flops than what NASA had to take men to the moon and back. And what do we use it for? Watching cat videos, sending emojis, scrolling BP, etc., and wondering if we will return to the moon. Not the progress I was dreaming of back then.
Jay Cee 1 year ago
A cell phone is essentially a very large computer squeezed into a small case.
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My Mom got into computers right at the beginning. I went to work with her a couple times and she showed me the computer which had it's own room that was kept at around 60 or so it felt like. She was a keypunch operator at the time for a bank; it must have been around 1968 or 1969.
April Pickett 1 year ago
We can move fast when we want to. Too bad our people policies don't move as fast.
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Lynda Nesbitt 1 year ago
Can we never simply look at a picture and not get into stupid political opinions?
Fuket 10 months ago
Right. We are all here to enjoy the imagery. Let's leave the politics for an unhappy place.
Load More Replies... LuisSD stuff 1 year ago
Trump doesn't believe in fun if he doesn't win everything. God help America in the next four years.
Tabitha 1 year ago
No. The leaders of the countries, political parties, or whatever groups are in conflict should do their own fighting. In a stadium. With nothing but 10lb sacks of horseshit to fight with. Whoever is still standing and/or has the least amount to s**t on them after a set period of time is declared the winner. Period. No endless rematches, no do overs. Done. Next!
Jennifer Potter 10 months ago
I think it would be better if they competed in sports matches. Broken up by some trivia and cooking battles.
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Greg Gates 1 year ago (edited)
Crazy to think how many great great great etc...grand kitties could be running around today, if any of them had kittens
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Ash 1 year ago
"In the Middle Ages, it is unusual to see women represented as teachers, in particular when the students appear to be monks. She is most likely the personification of Geometry, based on Martianus Capella's famous book De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, [5th c.] a standard source for allegorical imagery of the seven liberal arts. Illustration at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath."
Mary Tonningsen 1 year ago
And they all look about as thrilled with the subject as I was when I was learning it.
SarCaustic 1 year ago
And she looks as though she's already heard their 'Youre a woman: what would you know?' far too many times!
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Data1001 1 year ago
I know -- I can hear those SFX in my head just looking at those sketches.
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Karina 1 year ago (edited)
My dad is a nerd supreme, (and a psycopath, but thats not so relevant) so we had the Atari game system when I grew up. And because he did game-play experiments on me and my brother- we ended up with an Atari that he coded to pause.. He found out that when im not overstimutated, i could easily beat my big brother. Its one of the few things that benefited my life. Eating boys faces in games because pacman taught me well 🥰
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HardBoiledBlonde 1 year ago (edited)
"And I said to myself: What a wonderful world." Louis Armstrong.
Erika 1 year ago (edited)
You can see in her eyes and they way she looks at him that she really loves him
Arenite 1 year ago
And yet he cheated in all of his wives. 4 of them, I think.
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Kalikima 1 year ago
Until I read your comment, I was imagining some kind of toilet paper holder.. lol it's too early for this, I need to go back to bed..
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Storm Rise 1 year ago
Lovelovelove. I carve gemstones and would adore this ring! (Who can afford the gold these days though?!)
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
It wasn't hand-crafted by an admirer, it was commissioned by an admirer and designed and built by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. It took 19 years to complete, including a break of around seven years while Breguet was in exile during the revolution, and was finally finished nine years after Antoinette's execution. In 2013 it was valued at $30,000,000.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
Her people, starving. Her country, in ruins. Her economy, in shambles. Her husband, playing locksmith. She had the power to help and influence and instead she did things like this. And now people wonder why she was guillotined...
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Jay Cee 1 year ago
Give Netanyahu a chance, it's probably on the target list for January after Trump gets coronated - I mean inaugurated.
Load More Replies... Terri Rowland 1 year ago
It's a shame that most of these amazing buildings have been destroyed by the fighting and bombing of recent disagreements between factions
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Hellebore 1 year ago
These were actually built in 2010, long after the 6 first Star Wars, they are Medina Haram Piazza shading umbrellas, they are closed on this picture and are quite beautiful open, check it out! 🙂
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 1 year ago
I have never seen a picture of Medina before, even though I have often read about it.
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Jane Hower 1 year ago
OMG!! How did they get it up there, and then how the hell did they dismantle it?
Linda Robinett 1 year ago
I have seen small versions of this in front of housing complexes hidden in a green cabinet But as I was walking by a technician was working on it. (Resembles memory core in an old IBM 360)
JuniorCJ82 1 year ago
Well, it had only been around for 14 years at that point. Perfectly understandable.
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Terri Rowland 1 year ago
People still live in these, when you think about it they are possibly the safest place to live with the wars that seem to be never ending in the middle east and Asia...
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
probably literally because the rock works as a natural air conditioner
Load More Replies... Broadredpanda 1 year ago
You're definitely stoned lol! I laughed way too hard at your comment.
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Rich Black 1 year ago
Rrshevsky refused to play for the US chess team because Bobby Fisher had been ranked ahead of him. Still childish, even as an adult.
SarCaustic 1 year ago
Or "How am I going to convince people I was beaten by an 8 year old?!'
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Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Absolutely gorgeous... I would like to know how much it would be worth in today's monetary values?
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Tiger 1 year ago
It’s so fascinating how intricate and detailed people in the past could make things. The amount of work and effort they had to put into their work, compared to today where we just pump out cheap mass-manufactured Knick knacks from factories….
Rodney McKay 1 year ago
Seriously. What's more fun about creating, the process or the result?
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Valerie Page 1 year ago
I hardly dare ask but ... is there somewhere I can buy a modern , reasonably priced version of this game ?
Doug Mason 1 year ago
I wonder how many $1,000s a Monopoly game would cost done the good old fashioned way?
Michael Wilburn 1 year ago
It is amazing to think of all the lifetimes that this game has existed. I wonder how you could calculate your family link going directly back to the family member who lived at that time.
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Wingsofwrath 1 year ago (edited)
In case you're wondering why the streets are empty, they're not. Early photography required insane exposure times of 20m or more in broad daylight, so they would only capture things which weren't moving, like buildings.
Ryn 1 year ago
Thanks for that; I never knew that and find it fascinating! ❤️
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Olivia Anne 1 year ago
it is the music of the people who will not be slaves again <3
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Hljott Anne 1 year ago
This picture and the oldest record ever made (Au Claire De La Lune, 1890) are the very first records of the France of that epoch.
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Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
And in modern USA, the right is working on getting rid of no fault divorce. e.g. LA, TX, NB, OK.
Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
My dad is very lucky my half-Welsh mother didn't know about this.
Dudley2348 1 year ago
She could've known immediately with her boyfriend and saved themselves the paperwork.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Taxes are voluntary for the wealthy in America as well. They only pay them if they want to.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Public pressure? What's that? You mean to say their rich didn't just ignore the lower classes?
Ash 1 year ago
It already is. Have you SEEN the food they sell at McDonald's? /bad pun
Load More Replies... Ash 1 year ago
Recently heard a great story from ancient Athens: Phryne, a famous and extremely wealthy Athenian hetaira (courtesan) offered the enormous amount of money it would have cost to rebuild the walls of Thebes, on condition that the words “destroyed by Alexander, restored by Phryne the courtesan” were inscribed upon the walls. The Thebans said no.
Christopher Crockett 1 year ago
Pikers. I would have agreed to the terms, and then had it carved in a tiny script, or perhaps something unreadable to most literate Greeks, like Hebrew or Cuneiform. Most ancients couldn't read anyway.
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MIHAELA ČVORAK 1 year ago
it's on a coin of 1 euro made in Greece. I had it a while ago, it made way from Greece to Croatia.
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Trish Christoffersen 1 year ago
Too bad the wealthy get away with no many write-offs nowadays and the middle class pay the brunt of the taxes. (At least in America!)
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roddy 1 year ago
It was bad, though. The fog came right into the homes. My grandmother's living room was half filled with fog. Many people witnessed this.
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
I walked into a lamp post on my way home from school during one of the last smogs in '57, and hurt my nose. It wasn't just the lack of visibility it was the taste - like chewing sulphur.
Vincent-Oliviér Desmet-Demeyer 1 year ago
Can recommend Midnight Lace with Doris Day and Rex Harrison. Thriller in foggy London, quite good for an evening with cocoa and cookies.
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Jnausicaa 1 year ago
A man went into a coma right around the time of Eisenhower's first heart attack. He awoke in 1970. He asked his doctor, "How is President Eisenhower?" "I'm sorry to say". replied the doctor, "that President Eisenhower has passed away." "Oh my God" the man exclaimed, "We're doomed, Nixon is President."
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Bill Underwood 1 year ago
Recent artistic representation of Batman as Camazotz.
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Hile Troy 1 year ago
Just needs a few truffle pigs in the scene. For the ungulates
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Ron Man 1 year ago
There were toy watches exactly like this in the 60s and 70s. They'd have comics you would scroll through a panel at a time
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I had one in the 80s. It was made by bazooka gum, you could load the little bazooka comics into it
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Rogers was born too late to know Dostoevsky. Willie Nelson, on the other hand, ...
Load More Replies... Ash 1 year ago
"The Gambler (Russian: Игрокъ, romanized: Igrok; modern spelling Игрок) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. Set in a hotel and casino in a German city, the theme of gambling reflects Dostoevsky's own experience of addiction to roulette. Dostoevsky completed the novel in 1866 under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts." Hey, when you don't have access to psychotherapy, writing an extremely psychological examination of the experience of gambling addiction sounds like a really good replacement medical treatment....
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Rafael 1 year ago (edited)
Theres one that's even older, found in a place called Dolní Věstonice, and not only that, it could be matched to a body buried nearby, meaning that it was a representation of a specific individual. Maybe this one is a representation too?
PFD 1 year ago
It's a remarkable little sculpture - really seems expressive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doln%C3%AD_V%C4%9Bstonice_(archaeological_site)
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Dragon mama 1 year ago
I'd have that many pets too if I didn't have to do all the feeding, walking and poop scooping.
HardBoiledBlonde 1 year ago (edited)
Also, I was in a c**p mood the other day out shopping and a young woman walked in with a puppy which she let me hold and coo over. Puppy breath, for me, is an effective antidepressant.
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Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
The ring on rhe end suggests it originally had a strap, probably of leather or fabric that hasn't survived.
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Elladine DesIsles 1 year ago
I always want cake. And salad. My top two cravings are diametrically opposed. But I feel like I might take traditional British cake over traditional British salad.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Apparently that was the scaled down version as requested by the Queen due to the country being in austerity measures and post war rationing….
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Actually, the first bad contractor. The letter complains about low quality copper for a temple, the supplier being rude to the servant who was sent to pick it up and lists a series of similar events in the past....
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Kaeda 1 year ago
Geez. They had to have been really upset to go through all the work of chiseling a letter in stone. 😂
Kira Okah 1 year ago
Pressed the corner of a tool into wet clay and let it dry, iirc
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 1 year ago
I think this one is, but it's not the only one that Ea Nasir kept in his house.
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
SInce they are way smarter than humans they should run the world. Elephants for Earth President Minister Queen..
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Ash 1 year ago
So, I had this great-great uncle named Lorin. If that seems like an odd name, his mother got it from one of their old neighbors: he was a United Brethren bishop, and he named all of his sons weird things: Reuchlin, Lorin, Otis, Wilbur, and Orville. ....My great great-great- uncle Lorin was named for the wrong Wright.
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Novlette Williams 1 year ago
They all did. No one knew it was bad back then.
Load More Replies... Ian Cryar 1 year ago
Fingerprint “science” isn’t science thus the air quotes. My brother had a job where he had to use a biometric device to clock in. I could clock him in eight out of ten tries. We’re identical twins
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Being exact 100% of the time is not a requirement for being a science. In any science there is room to improve accuracy.
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Tropical Tarot 1 year ago (edited)
They were decades apart. The first was to distance himself from the role and the second was embracing the impact he had on popular culture.
Ash 1 year ago
I Am Not Spock was published in 1975 and was based on looking at the differences between himself and his character. However, fans were upset that it sounded like he was rejecting the beloved character. His 1995 book "I Am Spock" was titled that way to address the misconception. I haven't read the first one, but I've read the second one, and it was very interesting!
Sparkle Bean 1 year ago
Based on the picture, I think Zachary Quinto looks more like Leonard Nemoy's Spock than any other actor who has portrayed him has. But Ethan Peck is pretty entertaining in this role.
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Go check out "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" by Leonard Nimoy btw. It's very groovy 😂
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The third installment - "Call Me What You Like, Just Buy This Book" - will be out for Christmas.
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sofacushionfort 1 year ago
The crown prince of the German Empire thought he should have precedence over him because he wasn’t white. The king of Great Britain overruled that because any king outranks any prince
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Glix Drap 1 year ago
Remind me of the Monty Python sketch about the 4 Yorkshiremen. You had it lucky, I had to dig the the District line with a spoon.
AtMostAFabulist 1 year ago
Luxury! I had to dig the District line with a paper cutout of a spoon.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Totally. Imagine riding that the hole day...
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
These were known as sword breakers. Instead of merely blocking the sword they were designed to trap the blade and then snap it with a sharp twist of the knife.
Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago
UKGrandad, thank you for always dropping knowledge up in here. You're always posting nuggets of wisdom around science and history, I appreciate it.
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 year ago
There is a show called forge in Fire. Itis about forging knives and other weapons. This was featured on this show.
Don't listen to me 1 year ago
If it's made to block a sword blow its going to be very strong
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I thought I read here on BP that there was a fire of some kind and the last four letters got caught on fire and they never replaced them. That is why we just have Hollywood.
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Ian Cryar 1 year ago
Our pediatrician gave us lollipops at the end of the appointment. His practice was in the same building as our dentist
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John Yaskowich 1 year ago
The Golden Gate Bridge was the first big project to use safety nets. The workers who fell but were saved by the nets organized the “Half Way to Hell” club to celebrate their survival. 19 members “joined” the club.
Eric Williams 1 year ago
He was wondering what would happen if he started bouncing up and down.
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Glix Drap 1 year ago
There are still cows wandering around some of the green spaces in Cambridge, UK.
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
I sow some cows (all white) at a some place in Bruxelles. Our rider does not know the right way, so we sow them 4v. No wase,
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
I've ridden next to people where such gear would have been awfully handy.
sofacushionfort 1 year ago
The drop in pressure also caused flatulence. Air travelers learned to evacuate their bowels before takeoff
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Eunice Probert 1 year ago
And here we go again. He was more than a pretty face.
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John O'Donnell 1 year ago
He suffered from hand tremors, and his doctor prescribed consuming alcohol to alleviate the symptoms.
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Tiger 1 year ago
I’ve been here!! It’s creepy as heck, and a lot smaller than you’d think from looking at photos. The amusement park opened a day before the Chernobyl reactor accident (iirc) so very few people ever got a chance to ride on the Ferris wheel or other little rides (I think there’s only 3 or 4 of them)
Hellebore 1 year ago
In France there is a popular confusion that says that right after Chernobyl the authorities said that the radioactive clouds luckily stopped at the border… famous old joke
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Cartoonists in Turkey had fun with that too, when the govt at the time tried to deny that there was any risk to the country.
Load More Replies... Bill 1 year ago
I dont undertand this. Hiroshima is populated again. Is there a difference in fallout from a bomb and a power plant meltdown?
Daniel German 1 year ago
The main difference between these cases is the nature of the disasters themselves – or, more specifically, how a nuclear explosion can differ from a nuclear reactor explosion. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were detonated far above ground level. This maximized the explosions’ yields, causing greater immediate damage, but it also reduced the levels of radiation. In contrast, the explosion at Chernobyl, which was much smaller and occurred at ground-level, threw over 400 times as much radioactive material into the atmosphere as well as leaving large chunks of nuclear fallout debris (parts of the reactor contaminated by radiation) in the local area
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 1 year ago
But there are still so many people who are trying to convince everyone that nuclear energy is a green source?
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
It was human incompetence that lead to the accident though, without the massive man made f**k up it probably still would run safely
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Andrew Read 1 year ago
It took so long to take a photo that smiling was not really an option.
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Janissary35680 1 year ago
"I'll have three five by eights but do something with the cheeks, will you?"
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Nizumi 1 year ago
Um - no. Until the early 20th century, babies' clothing just wasn't gender specific, and it seems that the whole pink for girls / blue for boys thing started after WWII. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/
UKGrandad 1 year ago
Depends which country you're talking about. In the US there were two traditions, one with blue for boys and pink for girls and the other the opposite, throughout the 19th. and early 20th. Centuries. In much of Europe from around the 1600s the wealthy classes - royalty, the aristocracy and wealthy merchant classes, considered red and pink to be masculine colours and blue as feminine. That's why red was a common colour for military uniforms.
Load More Replies... Asher Tye 1 year ago
This was because blue was the color of the virgin Mary. Not sure where pink came from
UKGrandad 1 year ago
Red was seen as a symbol of strength, associated with the fire and blood of warfare. Pink is a softer form of red so was seen as more suited for younger males.
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Eppe 1 year ago
Very cool post. But why call it 'best of all time'? After a few dozen times that phrase loses it's meaning...
Raquel Mencke 1 year ago
It should read Best of All Time Until the Next Time
Load More Replies... Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Loved reading these, particularly the one with the queen trying not to laugh 😆
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Eppe 1 year ago
Very cool post. But why call it 'best of all time'? After a few dozen times that phrase loses it's meaning...
Raquel Mencke 1 year ago
It should read Best of All Time Until the Next Time
Load More Replies... Terri Rowland 1 year ago
Loved reading these, particularly the one with the queen trying not to laugh 😆
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