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50 Of The Funniest And Most Accurate History Memes That People Shared On This Page
History teaches us to analyze and explain past challenges. It allows us to see patterns that might've been invisible in the present otherwise, thus providing a crucial perspective for understanding (and solving!) current and future problems.
However, distant times, full of people that have been long dead might often seem like exactly that — distant. So let's make everything a little bit more relatable and take a look at a Facebook page called History Memes.
Offering what the name promises, it shows historic figures and the events they've been part of through well-known popular culture motifs, reminding us that we can always find common ground with another person, no matter if they're a peasant from the Middle Ages or an ancient Greek aristocrat.
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Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
I can hear forensic anthropologists everywhere muttering under their breath
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I'm Australian and the first two members of my family to come here were - yes - convicts. Two petty thieves who were deported to a colony in Tasmania. ...oh hey, that's a nice wallet. Can I hold it for you?
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AceOfChaos317 4 years ago
Hey Disney censored the owl house, this seems like another thing they will pull out of their rear
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flutterbyy 4 years ago
Right, just keep nodding and slowly back off, and nothing will happen to you.
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Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Me during literally any football match, but especially when it comes down to penalties. I like to annoy my husband by saying that they could have saved a lot of match time if they’d just done the penalty shoot out at the start and not bothered with the rest.
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Navindu Wijewardena 4 years ago
For those who want the list - Afghanistan, Antigua, Barbuda, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barabados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cyprus, Dominica, Egypt, Eswatini, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jorda, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nauru, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sain Vincent and Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somaliland, South Yemen, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanganyika, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, UAE, US, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe. And those are just the colonies, protectorates (I havent the slightest idea what that means)and mandates that are now independent (according to Wikipedia)
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Gemma jones 4 years ago
like i know thats photoshop but i so wanna get dungarees for my cats lol
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Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
Didn’t he impregnate Danaë by turning into a shower of gold? How does that work?
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AceOfChaos317 4 years ago
How it started: blows up a naval harbor. How it ended: we drop the sun on them twice
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Dani M 4 years ago
Un-fun fact: because of not having the ressources to either feed a family or to have a dowry, usually only the oldest son got married (the one that inherits after the parents) and sometimes daughters could not marry without dowry. So peasant and nobles alike often did not get married until their parents died and they were in their 30ies +. OR girls without dowries ended up living with their brothers family, or if noble, joined a convent.----
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Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
And making lame jokes about how hilariously short you were, even though you were actually of perfectly average height for an adult man at that time period.
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Scotira 4 years ago
@ Ellie McGrath that'll be a big fat NOPE. In case of an invasion in Switzerland, the entirety of Europe would burn already since we are kind of in the middle. And being neutral doesn't mean, we'll just roll over. We can and will defend ourselves, just like we did in the Middle Ages.
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DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
That seems to be the answer to anything we can't readily explain. Aliens dude, it was the aliens.
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Random Anon 4 years ago
Imagine what kind of civilization we would've been today if we hadn't gone through the dark ages in history. Actually some people's minds are still stuck there despite being born centuries later.
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Cara G 4 years ago
It was mostly because Benjamin Franklin sailed over and negotiated a bomb a$$ treaty using his spectacular social skills. Guy was a laugh riot, a storyteller, not one to say no to a drink or seven at a party, and brought with him tales of the American wilderness and newly minted customs and demonstrations of songs and dances that made French gentlemen roll on the floor laughing and women heave their corseted bosoms in lust at the exotic stranger. He got off the ship wearing a coonskin hat, you guys.
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Chewie Baron 4 years ago
Why did they plant trees down the Champs D’Elyse? So the Germans could march in the shade.
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Katinka Min 4 years ago
I have given up on trying to understand WWI. It was about money and power and Germany lost.
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DennyS (denzoren) 4 years ago
Annabelle Timsit needs to timsitdown and do a little more research.
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François Carré 4 years ago
I don't know if I'm happy for the classy French weapon or unhappy for the waste of baguette.
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Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
Hahaha I love the nod to accuracy fellow pandas. Anything from a lot to bazillion. (Bazillion is my favourite).
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Sylvia Schmitz 4 years ago
Do people nowadays not know about MASH? Apart from all the jokes it's actually very informative abot the Korean War.
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54 4 years ago
Germany had war declared on it by Britain, because Britain was friends with Belgium, who was being trespassed by Germany in order to get to France to kick France's a*s, because France was friends with Russia who was getting ready to kick Austria's a*s because Austria was getting ready to kick Serbia's a*s because someone from Serbia shot the leader of Austria's a*s. Or, actually shot him in the head... and Britain is currently friends with japan
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Stephen Walsh 4 years ago
I see Ireland is caught up in the melee. We should be like Switzerland. We're neutral. But still funny.
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JoyfulZebra 4 years ago
Of course, his rave pales in comparison to the perfect idea of his rave
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Petra Moon 4 years ago
In Killing Eve, Constantine was murdered with a pizza cutter. Very effective weapon.
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The lesbian knitting panda 4 years ago (edited)
do you know what happened at the communist school? Lenin teaches and Karl Marx! (I have no regrets)
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Donkey boi 4 years ago
No knowledge was lost. At the time of the fire, the Great Library, well... it wasn't so great. Knowledge was always copied and shared and the library was already falling out of favour. There were better things to learn in the land to the East. Arabia was the centre of excellence when it came to knowledge at that time.
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Random Anon 4 years ago
Now wouldn't that make it The Pervert Union instead? In which case, the logo is wrong too. Should've been a dildo and whip. The star is fine I guess.
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pelemele 4 years ago (edited)
@Mohammad Omar, @Da Dragon Queen, @AsexualShrimp : The French state is very attached to secularism and considers that religion should remain in the private sphere and should not extend into public life, but a few months ago a mayor authorized the wearing of the burkini in swimming pools of his municipality. The wearing of this particular garment is understood by many in France as an ostentatious sign of belonging to a religion, which is why the decree of this mayor was canceled by the Council of State and the wearing of the burkini prohibited.
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Falcon dimi 4 years ago
English is still a strange language. Remove 1 letter and the sound changes totally.
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François Carré 4 years ago
The longer he stays in power, the more he starts looking like Napoleon, and that's worrying to say the least.
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