45 Hilarious Memes That Are Based On Accurate Events That Might Satisfy Your Inner Historian
I graduated high school before Instagram was created, and maybe that’s a good thing. Otherwise, I could've spent entire classes scrolling through accounts like The Historical Meme, laughing at the ineffectiveness of the Maginot Line instead of reading about it in my textbooks. Luckily, today I can indulge in this at 3 AM, so it doesn’t interfere with my life—yay! I invite you to join me, preferably at a more reasonable hour, to revisit what you've learned about our past (or discover it for the first time) in a refreshingly unconventional way.
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If they thread some silver wire through, also protects against vampires and ghosts.
Load More Replies...OP, you're a life saver. I use a weighted blanket, which is great in cooler weather, but very impractical in hot weather. This is the answer to my conundrum. It would still provide the weight I crave, but I won't overheat.
I adore sleeping with my two 20lh weighted blankets in winter...I'd love to make a chainmail summer version!
Load More Replies...Until that fateful winter night when the frayed cord on the electric blanket came in contact with the metal blanket. /j
Only a couple of years after Berlin Wall came down, but it feels ages apart.
Load More Replies...My parents had a fridge since 1958. It was still working when they sold their house in 2011
My grandma has a standing fan that USED to be bright green. USED to have 4 blades. USED to not make struggling noises when it turned on. USED to only squeak a little when it oscillated. It was there when my dad was a baby, and it will outlive every single member of our family for eons, I'm sure of it.
I need a fan to sleep and when I visit home, my mom has no comprehension when I explain why the ancient decrepit fan is worse than no fan. I have to fly to go home or I would buy one and drive it home. I offer to replace it and that's nonsense to her. I would have to steal my mom's car to buy another and that's a no-go. I had one delivered and it was put away until the old one breaks. The good news is that enough people (single daughter and grandchildren) live with her that she ok'd me staying in a hotel (she brought it up, not me, and I didn't fight her).
Load More Replies...To learn more about history, we contacted Howard Dorre, writer and co-host of the presidential history blog and podcast Plodding Through The Presidents, which he creates with his wife.
"History can offer the average person a better understanding of their world, through real-life stories of conflict and triumph," Howard told Bored Panda.
Indeed, these memes can ignite your curiosity, and that spark can continue to burn even after you're done scrolling through the list. Don't worry—you can continue your studies elsewhere.
Some things, however, may offer the most value for your time and effort, depending on your interests and background, and provide valuable context that will help you get the bigger picture.
Interesting that they show Cleveland Browns stadium... the fans are revolting because the owners are threatening to move the stadium out of downtown Cleveland. That and they're long-suffering Browns fans...
The long-suffering part is understood hen referring to Browns fans. No need to repeat yourself.
Load More Replies...And now you have to pay through your teeth to get both too
Oh, we're gonna revolt. They gave us the circuses, but we're still lined up for the promised bread. And, with the distinct likelihood that Trump wins, I guarantee we will revolt.
I’m scared, Riley. I voted early today. I really don’t understand how (according to the polls) it’s this close. Remember when Trump said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and people would still support him? Arghhhhhh…
Load More Replies...It is said that if people aren't fed in 72 hours, they will revolt, but I don't want to be the one who has to test this theory.
I wonder if, in 2000 years, people will look at our modern arenas and tell everyone that two teams of gladiators fought to the death.
Actually, the British are just one of the most recent of hundreds of civilisations who took things from other cultures. Everyone just hates on the British because they're still around.
They hate on the British because they are still around and still not doing enough to rectify this.
Load More Replies...Did we slap a fake moustache on it? "Did we stal your statue? No this one is clearly different to your ones; it has a moustache"
" Oh, I say my good man, please put this into the Rolls ..... just a little trinket I picked up on my holiday to Easter Island ".
Yes. This is a project from AAFES (Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the agency behind consumer goods logistics in the various military branches). They had a collaboration with major fast food brands and have three "Burger Kings Bus" and two Pizza Huts trucks deployed, as a mean for making the troops feel more at home. The trucks were deployed to Iraq in the mid-2000s during Enduring Freedom, and for a while their bus in Baghdad was the 10th best selling location for Burger King worldwide. Except that the trucks are run by volunteers, the trucks operate as any other location: burgers are paid by the consumer, the offering is a stripped down version of the usual menu, graphics and packaging are the same.
Load More Replies...Oh so something similar as with the Estonian military and our tactical saunas?
We should hold a tactical sauna exercises now us Finns are in nato too :)
Load More Replies...But still fights veterans over service connected disabilities like toxic burn pits in SC, Gulf War syndrome, and Agent Orange effects.
Why do you think it took so long to find bin Laden? Nobody thought to look for him in Burger King.
Load More Replies...Better than McDonald's, but they probably have them, too. I'd prefer a Wendy's...love their Frosty's.
This is true but they're in the Rear far away from combat operations. I've seen portable Taco Bell also.
Reminds me, when I went to Washington DC we stayed in a military base because my mom had an id from when her husband was alive, near our hotel were two stores, a Burger King and a gas station sized Exchange (any military families will know what I'm talking about, those really cool malls) we survived on Burger King and Hot Pockets on that trip
"For Americans, I think it's important to understand the Revolutionary period and the formation of our Constitutional government, the history of slavery in the United States and the events leading up to the Civil War, the Reconstruction period, and the gains for African Americans that were erased with Jim Crow, the fight against fascism during World War II, and the Civil Rights era in the 1960s," Howard Dorre said.
"Together these periods tell the story of America's promise of equality and freedom in a way that makes it clear that we're not on some automatic steady path toward a better world."
Imagine being the doctor who had to tell her she was out of a job when anesthesia was invented...
she looks like she'd probably just eat the patient if there were too many complications
Load More Replies...This is the Treaty of Windsor, which creates a code of mutual protection between the two nations, and is the oldest military alliance in the world. It was born out of a similar treaty signed between France and Castile. The French wanted access to Castile's large naval fleet in their never ending wars with England, and the Castilians were interested in expanding their growing kingdom into Lusitania and the Islamic Caliphates. Basically, the Treaty of Windsor was born out of mutual fear of a common enemy. It was not actually the first or last treaty between the two nations, but the guarantees in the treaty helped solidify Portuguese independence, and established a long history of mutual defense, that still holds today. This included England's assistance to Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars, and the joint Anglo-Portuguese army that drove the French out of the Iberian Peninsula.
England also helped remove Napoleon from Spanish and Portuguese lands after they French invaded in the early 1800s. Reference "The Peninsula Wars"
English speakers: the child of the homeland
Load More Replies...Do yourself a favor, either open a book, or a reputable website, and look up General Lafayette and how he and his French military were instrumental in winning the American Revolution...the U.S.A. would not exist without the aid sent to us by the French, even as they were facing their own unrest and Revolution. There is a reason cities and towns named Lafayette, Fayetteville and Fayetteton litter the U.S. The French military were a formidable fighting force for longer than the United States has been a country. There were several reasons they surrendered, starting with they had reduced their military, because of the agreement made after WWI. Another was the tank tactics employed by the Germans. Making such silly, uninformed statements as you have just made make you look foolish and Bored Panda deserves better.
Load More Replies...And we didn't even mention Mao and his war against sparrows...
Load More Replies...To be fair, most historians don't care that much for Thermopylae. That's more a media thing.
its more about the romanticization of the Greeks and Roman culture and mythology by the western cultures. its heavily taught in our schools and the major citiy states are talk about almost longer than a lot of the early European ones in the US. The US likes to say we adopted our government from them.... However a lot of the nitty gritty details arent always right
Load More Replies...They didn't win but fighting in such an outnumbered scenario is epitome of bravery
Load More Replies...What, you mean people read more about their history than others people's history? SHOCKING!!!
historians don't care so much for the "300" story because it is highly doubtful that it is true. only pop culture cares for it...
You can choose from a variety of sources to deepen your understanding of history!
In the fall of 2020, a US survey of 1,816 people revealed that the top three were all in video format:
- Documentary film/TV — 69%;
- Fictional film/TV — 66%;
- TV news — 62%.
Interestingly, more traditional sources, such as museums (35%), nonfiction books (32%), and lectures (12%) filled out the middle to lower ranks of this hierarchy.
nah bro Valhalla has a giant cow creature to be slaughtered and resurrect every day. do you see a giant cow creature? WELL DO YA
Load More Replies...When you ask for a charcuterie plate and the best man says he knows a guy.
For a second I thought it was talking about some ship the Vikings brought into battle to have meat for the warriors
SO MANY opportunities for ship related puns, and instead of warship, friendship, hardship etc we get a wedding cake diss. *sigh*
That's a sketch from "Mitchell and Webb Look" and he's playing a German soldier. 😬
Load More Replies...Every western European power was trying to do the same thing. We were just better at it, that's all.
I think it's mostly that Britain industrialised first
Load More Replies...america: come live here and be free! also America: but if you are any color other than white you r slave -usa, 1920
Until yesterday anyway...not even an illusions of freedom now. Why would a democratic country voluntarily choose a dictator? Is Kamala really THAT bad?
Load More Replies...Well, if you study history hard enough, you will probably find that every nation has done something not very nice
Every hero is someone's villain, and vice-versa. No one's perfectly good or perfectly evil.
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Load More Replies...Has anyone ever heard of a benevolent superpower? It’s like looking for a billionaire that makes it their mission to end poverty and actually puts their money where their mouth is.
I recently saw someone doing this on the lake where I live. He was on a paddleboard holding what looked like bat wings. It was a windy day, so he was getting some good air I guess. :)
I'm pretty sure when it comes to Axis powers, you can definitely be mad at them for trying
Load More Replies...He got the trains running on time. And gave Prada inspiration for a few collections every now and then.
And the people of Italy loved it. Just as the people of Germany loved their guy. Fascism was new and exciting and the thought of never having to worry about choice again seemed enticing.
Tell me you've never met an Italian without telling me you've never met an Italian....
Load More Replies...Americans be like: but he's white? (Mention 1936 Olympics to an American, and we all immediately think of Jesse Owens.)
Load More Replies...As one memelord once said: Hitler would 100% make out with this guy if Hitler was still alive. (Don't downvote me please...)
Hopefully his reincarnation loses tomorrow. And he would make out with him too, then give him 130,00 Deutsche Marks to keep quiet.
Load More Replies...Germans have this annoying habit of marching into Paris, you know?
Like the old joke went, “Why did they plant trees on the Champs-Elysee? So the Germans could march in the shade. “
Load More Replies...It's kind of unfair to associate him with that, just because he is blonde and fit.
"Tonight I have beaten a great champion. If he dies, he dies".
He is obviously a time traveller. The sticker on his boat gives him away.
Some much-welcome news is that the public sees clear value in studying history, even relative to other fields.
Rather than asking whether respondents thought learning history was important—a costless choice—the researchers asked instead how essential history education is, relative to such fields as engineering and business. The results were encouraging: 84 percent of respondents felt history was just as valuable as the professional programs.
Not until Horatio Nelson took it to a whole new level & turned a blind eye to go for a straight on attack
The British would never dain to lower themselves to say "they be".
Tea drinking came to England in 1650, but because it was expensive, didn't become the most popular drink in England until the early 19th century. It took oolong time.
Yep, when I think tea I think Britain but then I forget about the entirety of Asia who invented the damg drink
But are Brits really tea drinkers? Considering the amount of milk and sugar they add, they could be drinking puddle water and wouldn't know the difference. That's like someone saying they're going to Starbucks for a coffee and walking out with a Java Chip Frappuccino or a Pumpkin Spice Latte.
Depends who you've drunk tea with. My experience is no sugar and a drop of milk, then another friend likes milky sweet tea. You can't really generalise. Same as American beer. Some of it is like having sex in a canoe because it's fücking close to water. Other beers are absolutely wonderful.
Load More Replies...Tea was very expensive when it first came to the UK and for many, many years after, that's why most of the early tea caddies had locks on them so servants and the such couldn't steal the tea. Tea has always been popular here in the UK, I'm a coffee drinker myself but I swear my 77 year old mum drinks my share! Lol! 😂
At least this time, when the Brits stole it, they shared it with everyone.
She didn't know at the time... and when she started to know, it was way too late.
Her notebooks are still radioactive, and if you want to examine them you have to sign a disclaimer stating you understand all the risks.
Since the Reply button is missing due to all the downvotes, I'll put my response to Irene here. Wow Irene, pulling the maternal card on Curie. Notice you didn't mention Pierre, the other parent. Ironically, THEIR daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie followed her mother's scientific interests and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
Yes let's remember she was born in Poland... Where she couldn't go to university and would have never won her two Nobels if she didn't emigrate to France!
Load More Replies...Only mother and daughter to both win a Nobel. Both in Chemistry, 1911 and 1935.
I recommend you to read "The radium girls". Everyone knew by then and these poor girls died horribly.
He was killed, it was the war that ended the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
Load More Replies...Why is no one talking about specifically the last one 😂 someone might feel that... someone we know
What’s that game where you have to guess the most searched Google results? Because my guess for this one is ‘Help I accidentally invaded Liechtenstein’. (:D)
Ok this is so dang good! also Help I accidently joined the Liechtenstein army.
Load More Replies...Don't you just hate it when this happens? I did it just the other week, it was such a bother.
Donald Trump: “wimp! I’m not even trying to make it look like an accident!”
More like: ‘Mom, can you CALL the doctor’s office to make an appointment for me?’ 🤣
You're a disgrace and always will be, but your helicopter mommy forever has faith that you'll blossom soon - but only if she carries you there.
Damn. I had hoped he died of advanced venereal disease.
Load More Replies...Now that it's been revealed that Columbus was Sephardic Jew, maybe the American Italians will stop whinging about his statues being removed.
Didn't Russia and Germany have a plan to split Poland between them like Russia and america did to Germany?
Load More Replies...Glow sticks. Spaghetti, when you have a small pot.
Load More Replies...All of the treaties signed between the Native Americans and the various colonists... British, French, United States...
Everyone: "Tanks can't cross the Ardennes!" - Heinz Guderian: "Halt mal kurz mein Bier"
I don't even speak German and I know what that means. LOL
Load More Replies...Astonishing quantities of drúgs were involved in the Blitzkrieg. In fact, the German forces and Hitler consumed vast amounts of 'substances' throughout WWII.
Hahaha, Duning Krueger of history!! They are so convince this make sense!
I'm pretty sure that the problem here is that you don't understand what you're responding to.
Load More Replies...Every 1890s-1910s bathroom floor tile be like
Load More Replies..."When ze rockets go up, vho cares vhere zey come down...That's not mein department!"
He probably would have been severely punished for war crimes if he wasn't useful for america.
Heh heh heh, good one, Wernher! It's funny because you were a murderer.
For those who don't know: after WW1, Germany started to design new tanks, which they weren't allowed to because of the Versailles treaty. To disguise that, they stated that they were building tractors ( don't ask me why that worked)
Their first tanks were not good but they were not intended for actual combat. They were made provide training for the factory workers and the troops.
Load More Replies..."Wow, flying gliders really became popular after we banned you from having any air force"
We celts are known for our self deprecating sense of humour
They do agree on the chin, the magnificent brow ridge and even more magnificent mustache. Not to mention the cool necklace! ☝️
One of the hardest things about English is that Celts is pronounced with k. That's so hard to accept.
Hitler tried as well. He looked up to Napoleon, and made exactly the same mistake. The Russian winter is not something easily beaten.
In terms of total air power, the US Navy is second in power to the US Air Force. 3rd is Russia, with the US Army and the US Marine Corp rounding out the top 5.
US Military spending has been out of control for decades. One less aircraft carrier and we could give free school lunch for every kid in the country for over a decade.
Load More Replies...Too bad the world can't live in peace then we wouldn't have to waste money on all this shift.
When a significant percentage of your country's population are poor and homeless while your government rules the world with the highest defense budget in human history, I would consider that overpowered.
Load More Replies...So cruel! Ironically it was apparently Canada that passed laws to ban liquor first, then USA followed while Canada repealed decision. Canadian bootleggers got rich after that. 😁
So you only care about things that affect you personally at this point in time? That’s a bit myopic, no?
Load More Replies...Finland was part of Russia for over a century.... but ironically NOT during the Soviet era.
Load More Replies...The British colonialists were like that - pretending to be friends with the damned natives while taking over their lands.
On a personal note: a good acquaintance told me to stop talking while he was in my flat! He's now dead to me.
This did an excellent job of fooling aerial reconnaissance at the time. A lot of vehicle identification comes from looking at the shadows a vehicle casts on the ground.
Ah yes, I knew a girl in college who admired Stalin. Told her that if he were in power, she'd very likely be designated an enemy of the state due to being in college.
Same people that say the US should be communist or hardcore socialist. Go speak with people that escaped those oppresive countries or better yet, go live there for a few years and tell me how you like it.
Load More Replies...As someone that read the book Animal Farm last year and rereading it this year, yeah no stop loving him, he was just like Hitler, pretended to be good at first and then became one of the worst dictators in history
Not quite. There's a lot less evidence he was trying to destroy a people group. Horrible person, absolutely. Genocidal - as hitler implies - is a subject of much dispute, unlike Hitler, which is a subject of much dispute if you're arguing with a nazi.
Load More Replies...Stalin was a tyrant. He sacrifised millions and sent his own son to be tortured in one of his gulags.
What he wasn’t was a communist. He simply leveraged it to seize power. If the path to absolute power was to become a priest, he would have done that.
Load More Replies...The people who admire Che Guevara. They should really look into all he did.
All the same today as Trump was elected by a very large group of people who have no idea what he plans to do to them.
I was once a college student...I did not like Stalin...piled him in with Hitler, Mussolini, and Pol Pot. However, I feel like perhaps not all students' intelligence is "created" equal. There will always be stupid students....only now they have megaphones called social media.
Stalin is the sort of bloke it's easy to admire untill you learn anything about him. Anything at all. He was very handsome in his youth. Google images Joseph Stalin 1902. Still a wrong 'un but a good looking one.
Belgium: "I had one colony but I did some of the worst things out of all of you."
Images of Leopold II and his victims appear on twitter regularly and deeply hurt every time I see them. Other barbarians are available.
Load More Replies...The Brits did give the most new countries opportunities to have independence days.
Britain followed the Roman system of colonization. US follows the Athenian model. One requires direct control and invasion, the other requires tribute and co-option. In actuality UK and most of Western World are US colonies in the Athenian model
ask the people of the Philippines how they felt about America's beneficent enlightened "Athenian" colonial policy. ask the Navajo or the Apache about the same thing.
Load More Replies...Boomers had to deal with all of the sh*t that happened afterwards so cut them some f*c*i*g slack modern hate culture!
If by "deal with" you mean "take everything worth having and close all the doors behind them" and "ruined the environment" then sure, you're right.
Load More Replies...Ah boomers, what have they done for us, apart from legalising homosexuality, women's rights, equal pay, abortion and the pill, overturning mortgage rules so women can own houses without a mans guarantee, rock and roll, social protest, festivals, employment rights and a relaxation of social conventions and the acceptance of individuality; apart from that nothing.... ok so there are still issues but they started the whole thing.
I'm a boomer. I was 19 when the Falklands happened and 29 when the first Gulf War happened. Okay, so I didn't go - too cold, then too hot. We also had to live with constant IRA threats, a 3 day week, miners' strikes, punk rock and a lot of other hassle. It's been far from peaceful.
GenX here. Real threat of nuclear war was kinda a bummer. Seventies had record inflation ( mortgages were double digits ). Women could not get credit cards in their name. Environment was effed ( ozone, love canal ). Every generation can point to struggles. I do agree that economically , this genetation is getting a raw desl, but i am hoping its gets rectified like it was in the past . I am also hoping that climate change is realised as the threat that it is and fixed, like the ozone.
Load More Replies...I'm a baby boomer; been involved in four different wars, lived through impending nuclear threats, done good things, been through two global depressions....
Personally I feel as if the word "boomer" lost it's original meaning (nameing the generation) and just switched to be used as a slur against everybody older than 30y - I can't remember how often I myself and others were called "boomer" (once b/c I asked if the seat, with the backpack on it, is taken‽). My parents are late "boomers", born 1964 & 1965. They worked their asṣes off to provide for us and, yes, they managed to buy a house. Which is payed fully next year, after 25 years. No, it wasn't easy for most the ones in that generation. Everyone from every generation deserves some respect (as long as they are respectfull), even without a war, a depression or whatever disgusting/tragic situations they lived in - one may exclude the ones who caused said situation.
Lighten up and stop the name calling and ageism. None of us gets out of this alive 😟
All boomers were and are not the same. So, do all of the younger millennials who voted for the cheetolini this time round (a most destructive, unsavory boomer, to be sure) represent that generation? If so, wait and see how much that orange menace is going to f*ck things up and congratulate yourselves for enabling it to happen.
Too true. My parents lived through the Depression and served in WWII. My father especially suffered life in a POW camp for most of it. I'm still trying to fix their mistakes as PTSD-driven parents.
Istanbul not Constantinople, yeah it's Istanbul not Byzantium
Why'd they change it? I can't say. People just liked it better that way.
Load More Replies...Constantinople was the main centre of the Byzantine empire, aka Roman empire, Eastern division.
Think the only people that call it different things are history professors when referring to different times.
Are you applying for a position that involves two lanterns, a horse and a loud voice?
Better dress like the occupant of the next step up in the hierchary.
Load More Replies...Yes, the boots are wrong, wear white stockings and low pumps instead.
Hawaii was unified in 1795 but it was independent for 800 years or so before that. By culture, language and customs, Hawaii was a country long before European maps designated it as such. If we applied the same metrics to Hawaii as contemporary European "countries" , Hawaii was a country a lot longer than. 103 years.
not 800 years, while around 800 the first settlements were built there, the first signs of an independent culture and self rule there by the Kanak people was around 1450 or so.
Load More Replies...In the case of Texas, the belief they are still an "Independant Country" persists today.
Let's see then, North America was a collection of independent indigenous nations for how many thousand years until the European white folks came, "discovered America", and then decided it was theirs. As for Texas (BTW I am a born Texan), it might be optimal to let them secede from the US because with global warming continuing and thoroughly rejected by most Texans as a theory because it threatens the oil industry, that property will be a literal hell in years to come so let them have total responsibility for it.
Don't let the door hit you in the a*s on the way out...
Load More Replies...Wyoming and Utah always look like two rectangles that overlapped and Wyoming won the overlapping corner
You can't fool me! Wyoming isn't a REAL state. Think about it. Have you ever met anyone from Wyoming? Has there ever been a movie or TV show set in Wyoming? Have you ever heard of a band from Wyoming? Nah. Wyoming isn't real and neither are the birds.
Load More Replies...Fun fact, in 2018 Utah Governor Herbert had minor surgery and needed to be put under anesthesia, so the lt governor was governor for two hours. In those two hours he issued several joking declarations, like making his hometown the (honorary) state capital. The best of these was a declaration request-demanding the missing corner be returned by Wyoming, so Utah could finally be part of the rectangle state club. It was a funny, and lighthearted moment. https://x.com/SpencerJCox/status/957059029704085506?t=EmnvTHx6gPwUfkuqHyK7Og&s=19
Math teachers: for the purposes of this exercise assume that the cat is cubicle
Obscure fun fact(s): 49 states have at least one straight line segment along their border. I think that Hawaii has no straight line segments since it has no borders with other states. The distances between some of the islands is enough that those islands should be separated by international waters, but I can't find a source about it and I'm skeptical about the US government's adherence to accepted rules on the limits of territorial limits. There are exactly zero states that are rectangular. Untitled-6...585c6d.jpg
I think it alludes to the fact that many nazis fled to Argentina (and other South-American countries) when the 3rd Reich fell. There are quite à few people there with blond hair and German-sounding names.
Load More Replies...the explanation is that after world war II many nazis fled to South America particularly Argentina. So that's where many of the white/german people in Argentina come from
Its complicated but the comic book character being shown has a alien background story that was meant to be a analogy of Nazi xenophobia and supremacy. He then hid on earth and doesn't tell his son about his past until the boy comes of age.
Load More Replies...There is a mountain town in Patagonia - San Carlos de Bariloche - build in Swiss alpine style and full of German residents...
You forgot South Africa. The 50 000 white women and children that died under terrible conditions in concentration camps. And the 100 000's more African natives that also died in similar camps that no record was kept off, except for the skeletons in the mass Graves....
And the land the Brits gave the Jews, that was not theirs in the first place and is the root of all the massacres that has been taking place in the middle east since 1948 till today
Historical Fact: When FDR passed away, Truman had no idea the Manhattan Project existed. He was told the next day and it was a week later before he was fully briefed about it. The secrecy of the Manhattan Project was so good, even the VP didn't know. Somehow thanks to Klaus Fuchs, Stalin already knew though.
And the whole world can still hear the sound of that Kaboom in their nightmares
pardon speech to text. this is moronically short-sighted. the decision to use the bomb was anguished over in the highest levels of government. you think the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki thought it was funny to use the word kaboom? for shame on you.
Dark Humor: Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.
Load More Replies...This happens frequently to very flat countries with no natural geographical borders.
To be correct, France did not invade Poland; Polish lands were ruled by Russia at that time and Napoleon actually created the Duchy of Warsaw for the Poles who supported him.
History meme are mostly false, they rarely have something useful to convey.
Load More Replies...I don't remember France invading Poland? unless you are referring to the Henri who was elected king of Poland and who fled to become Henri II of France instead?
Poland was pretty much the lawn to cross before knocking on Russia's door, back when Napoleon was doing the knocking (I'm guessing). The technicalities are debatable (conquering vs. liberating) but I think since the lawn in question was definitely not French at the time and he was coming uninvited and with an army in tow the "invading" part does stand.
Load More Replies...Sacha Baron Cohen. He will always get an upvote from me. One of the best satirists of all time.
When he got an entire bar singing "Throw the Jew down the well", I almost died. Good white x-tians of the American heartland have ZERO self awareness.
Load More Replies...Well, because Poland during the centuries ruled over the northern parts of Slovakia. But we like each other despite the language jokes. Or maybe because of them.
But before the end of WW II re-joined Czech Republic to make Czechoslovakia again.
Load More Replies...Being well-fed is evil capitalism. Therefore, we shall stay hungry, comrades!
I think the point of this one is that they store missiles in silos.
Load More Replies...That will come as a huge shock to the people that store grain in silos all over the Midwest USA.
Load More Replies...My great-grandfather was living in the region of Lorraine during WW2. History class became really weird when my teacher asked us to talk about our families' experiences in the war...
Serbia committed genocide in the former Yugoslavia in the 90s against muslims in the Balkans. See Srebrenica massacre. Many Serbians today still stand by the actions of Serbia at the time. Its a complicated situation that I am heavily simplifying (so people don't get mad).
Load More Replies...It was an odd feeling to me when I had a ww2-class at uni because during the introducing round so the teacher had a teeny tiny chance of atarting to learn our names we also had to say why we were interested in this topic. There were MANY whose great grandparent(s) had been in the resistance. And then there was me with a great grandparent who volunteered to the German Army in 1941. 😬 I felt a bit alone with that. lol.
Yeah what about France? We literally have a friendship bracelet with France, they have the Eiffel tower and they gave us the Statue of Liberty
Part of what caused the French revolution was France funding the American revolution to get back at Britain, expecting to be rewarded for it, then getting ignored
We've been at war with France once, and only because we were British at the time. As long as America has been America, we've been to war with Britain twice and France never. In fact, we wouldn't exist if not for France.
Load More Replies...The French helped pay for the Revolution in the US. Figured it would keep the British busy for a while.
The Portuguese end-ran the Ottoman Empire by methodically discovering the route around Africa into the Indian Ocean. The Spanish tried to one-up them by heading west around the globe instead. They didn't appreciate how far it was at the time or know that there was a whole other continent in the way.
It's the Ottoman flag. Europe pretty much lost access to the Silk Road after 1453 when the Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire
Load More Replies...I wish people would step away from the idea that the U.S. president is the cause of all good or bad that happens during their tenure.
Exactly. They don't have nearly the overwhelming power some would like you to believe.
Load More Replies...its a myth he did nothing. He did no new regulations, but also removed many bad regulations, lowered tariffs and slashed taxes on those lowest income brackets by 50-75% leading to a consumer spending binge (also reduced the highest income brackets by 30-50%, and removed govt fees around investment to encourage them to put their wealth in the economy, creating a manufacturing and farming boom), and much more. He is considered "do nothing" because he removed a lot of bad regulations, old WW1 restrictions still on the books, and more, but didnt put in new regulations or taxes.
If I try to run right now a 1% of a marathon distance I would die.For sure.
Load More Replies...Kind of funny that this guy died running a distance and then we named a sport where we run that distance after the event and celebrate him by flexing that we can do it without dying.
Way more men run marathons run now than just one messenger 1500 years ago. Silly comment.
It was only two marathons, separated by a rest period. Modern people, including me run ultra marathons of 75 miles or more
Not quite, "He ran about 240 km (150 mi) in two days, and then ran back. He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens" , would have been very tricky terrain too. Probably fought in the battle before hand also.
Load More Replies...I always thought this was the reference for "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" because if they had looked in the Trojan horse's mouth they would've seen the soldiers inside? Later (far later than I would like to admit, really) I learned that it has more to do with horse teeth than the Trojan horse 🤣🤣
"We will steal all of your pagan celebrations and traditions, even the dates of your pagan holidays, since the masses cannot read the Bible to see there is no Easter bunny or yule traditions mentioned in there! Then we will tell them that pagans are evil, even though they are celebrating the cycles of the seasons and nature! Mwahaha!" (Ex: the spring equinox is called Ostara, a goddess of fertility, whose representative animal is the quickly reproducing rabbit and her symbol is the egg, all to ask the earth to bless them with bountiful crops in the spring, an animals they can raise, so their families will not starve . There's obviously more detailed nuances to the pagan celebrations and offerings to the gods and goddesses and their reasons for celebrating the seasons, but that's the most simplistic version...however, this is why the traditions of our holidays that religion has falsely claimed are linked to their God, isn't mentioned in any Bible.)
I kinda wish more Christians acted like Catholics back then, they didn't force religion but instead mixed traditions, Halloween is All Saints day eve, Christmas literally has Christ in it but Jesus was born in the spring, Easter pretty self explanatory, these holidays aren't just Christian holidays nor just pagan holidays but mixes of both, nowadays it's "accept Jesus or else" (saying this as a Christian)
Well, kind of. We can call it that looking with 2024 eyes. However, it was the appropriation and distortion of pagan traditions into Christian traditions that was used to erase paganism as a valid religion.
Load More Replies...Some historians have suggested that there were actually several world wars before the Great War, which later received the retronym World War I.
Try to define a 'World War', and you'll soon realize it might already be happening. The West has simply outsourced it to the Global South, much like we did with manufacturing and pollution.
Load More Replies...The US wasn't the only country in the Roaring 20s
Load More Replies...The failure of the Maginot line was political, not military. If it had been feasible to extend it along the Belgian border to the coast, things might have turned out very differently. Or if Belgium and the Netherlands had built their own legs. I don’t know where Luxembourg would have fit.
this is astonishingly short-sighted. let me suggest strongly that whoever comes up with nonsense like this actually try reading a few history books.
The downvote prove these kind of people are many... Unfortunately, that's when you get when you base your whole history knowledge on memes... This Maginot line critic is sooooo oversimplified and wrong.
Load More Replies...Did Constantine drink beer because I am fairly sure that Mehmet II didn't. ;-)
Load More Replies...See, that's the problem, you must have gotten confused, that's not your bae, that's the Byzantine empire circa 1250...
What's LEFT of the Byzantine empire after the Venetians sacked Constantinople and before the Palaiologos restoration.
Load More Replies...The German armed forces were the most technologically advanced for the entire of the 2nd world war. They just couldn't compete with the allies' production capacity
This is a common false concept. The French had the most technically advanced tanks at the start of the war, but for to political mismanagement, they were used incorrectly or not at all. The US and Britain both developed tanks as or more advanced than the Germans, but scrapped them for being impractical. Had Germany stuck with the panzer IV and StuG, they would have lasted a lot longer. Hitler's insistence on larger tanks cost them too much operationally to field and maintain, nevermind the fact that they had lost too much manufacturing by the end of the war too support them.
Load More Replies...We didn't prepare for a war, so when the German soldiers crossed the border it came as a shock to most. A few border guards (iirc) started to fight the Germans but found it to be impossible and soon after, the Danish army was told to just let the Germans pass. And that is the beginning of the debate if Denmark cooporated with Nazi Germany or if we were actually occupied. In my personal opinion we were occupied but had to do some degree of cooporation with the Germans because we had basically zero military force. But I cannot be 100% sure as it has been decades since I was acyually interested in 2ww.
Load More Replies...As long as they had William H. Macy from Wild Hogs, they'd be all right. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
say the f-word a lot? doesn't seem very polite to me.
Load More Replies...The running joke about the Holy Roman Empire is it was not an empire, nor Roman, nor Holy.
1939, not 1940. Do Americans really thin the war in Europe only started when they were forced to join in?
Not exactly showing your historical prowess either. The US wasn't in the war until 1941.
Load More Replies...Spain being neutral in the 20th Century always makes me laugh considering what they were up to in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries.
It wasn't fictional either, what is this c**p
Load More Replies...Why bother commenting on any of these BP posts these days? Ever since they started collapsing the comments again (did this a couple of years ago with the exact same results) they're useless. I click on the notification that someone has commented on my comment and the page just loads like normal. Doesn't move to my comment, doesn't show me anyone else's comments, what's the point? Nowhere else to post this, just sharing my frustration. And now they want me to pay them? Will Premium include the ability to SEE MY COMMENTS AGAIN?! Maybe then we'll talk.
This! And the increased amount of ads that just won't go away.
Load More Replies...This is an entertaining thread so long as you stay out of the comments. Otherwise you get sucked into the cultural blame game
Agreed! This is all [insert nation with differing philosophy than mine here]'s fault!
Load More Replies...Why bother commenting on any of these BP posts these days? Ever since they started collapsing the comments again (did this a couple of years ago with the exact same results) they're useless. I click on the notification that someone has commented on my comment and the page just loads like normal. Doesn't move to my comment, doesn't show me anyone else's comments, what's the point? Nowhere else to post this, just sharing my frustration. And now they want me to pay them? Will Premium include the ability to SEE MY COMMENTS AGAIN?! Maybe then we'll talk.
This! And the increased amount of ads that just won't go away.
Load More Replies...This is an entertaining thread so long as you stay out of the comments. Otherwise you get sucked into the cultural blame game
Agreed! This is all [insert nation with differing philosophy than mine here]'s fault!
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