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40 Hilarious But Accurate History Memes That May Satisfy Your Inner Historian (New Pics)
History gets a bad reputation, mostly due to stuffy teachers and dense, bland textbooks. In reality, no pun intended, it’s a gold mine of interesting facts, fascinating personalities, and stories that can rival Hollywood. Screenwriters have tapped into real events for a long time, so it’s no surprise that meme creators have started to do the same.
Memes are a great way to share stories from our history and present them in an approachable and relatable way. So get comfortable, scroll down, and upvote your favorites. Should you feel like you want to see some more, Bored Panda has you covered, with other collections of history memes here, here, and here.
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#1
The One War I Don't Think Sabaton Ever Has Or Ever Will Write A Song About
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#2
Book Sais A Thing
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
Sort of true. Prior to Abrahamic religion wars were fought, though rarely on purely religious grounds. The Aztecs would go to war to capture prisoners for religious sacrifice. Groups were also known to fight to prove their gods were the strongest. The old testament also describes quite a few religious conflicts, though that was usually between an Abrahamic religion and a pagan one. There are other religious conflicts though, the Shogun of Japan felt threatened by the growing power of Buddhist monks, and happily invited Portuguese priests into Japan, before they realized the Catholics were even worse, and closed the country from all foreigners.
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
The crusades was literally a century long war over whose fanfic of Judaism was the better one.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Yes, we Christians only follow the stuff we like. Anything else, like "descendants of Ishmael will also be a great nation", seem to slip right by.
#3
Vietnam Was A Wild Time
Michael Largey 2 years ago
But it's in a meme and posted on the Internet. So it has to be true.
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Wyn Williams 2 years ago
Most were dual citizens, the rest went because they fell for the anti communist propaganda about 12,000 ended up being sent there and about 134 died
Wayne Gossman 2 years ago
Propaganda? Or maybe they looked at the information available and made a choice based on their values. We need to be more open to the fact that in a healthy society people can disagree on a variety of topics without either group being “crazy” or “idiots” or “evil”.
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Kioh81 2 years ago
This show was awesome though! Not Vietnam War but the actual TV series this is from! Umbrella Academy
Cpt. Robert Christian 2 years ago
My biological father served with the Army's LRRP 1st Cavalry Division. He was KIA in Vietnam. My dad with the Marine Corps 2nd Marine Recon Battalion/2nd Marine Division, he landed in Chu Lai, 3 days before the Tet Offensive in 1968. He was WIA in Vietnam. I was working as a Bar Manager during the 90's, when one day a regular customer was being more obnoxious then usual after finding out I had served in the Army, began bragging about how he ran away to Canada to evade the draft. Only came back to the States after President Carter signed Proclamation 4483, which pardoned everyone who did. I politely informed about my father and my dad, and asked him to please change the topic. He called both them "losers" and "baby killers". He was rather surprised, that though twice my size, I grabbed him by the (ironically enough) USN Pea Coat he was wearing and exited him from the bar onto the sidewalk. Owner now a hippie, had been a stateside Marine Corporal during Vietnam, permanently banned him.
Allan Miller 2 years ago
Too much violence, but I agree with the response.
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OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago
Guess we're not as passive as we like to think we are 🤷🏼♀️
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Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Thousands of Mexicans crossing the border to find a better life. Americans say WTF go home. Thousands of Europeans arrive in United States. Americans say. Welcome
Besides often being hilarious, memes also help tie us closer to other people. After all, they use some shared piece of information or context to communicate the idea or punchline. It is actually quite beautiful that we as humans have so much shared experience, or history, as some might call it, that groups of people can all enjoy the same images overlaid with text.
Most of the images here rely on two things, the reader understanding the frame of reference for the image, which are from general meme templates and media, while also understanding the text, which references some historical event or fact. Educators should pay attention since this mechanism actually promotes learning by connecting something new with something more familiar. At the very least, students won’t be falling asleep in class.
#4
Progressive May Be Relative But Still
Ruth Harper 2 years ago
I don't think Mexico wants Texas. Texas has been a problem right from the beginning. I mean, the reason the white settlers in Texas wanted to be free of Mexico is because they wanted to own slaves. Texas has issues.
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Cpt. Robert Christian 2 years ago
It is still baffling to me how the adjective/noun: progressive, derived from the noun/verb: progress, is now considered by some, to be tantamount to being; sacrilegious, treasonous, and heinous all at the same time. Especially by individuals who by their very own words and actions are basically advocates for an; undemocratic, unpatriotic, autocratic, theocratic, and Wealthy White Americentric republic. Which is essentially and esthetically the absolute complete opposite of what the United States of America is actually supposed to be about. At least in theory anyways.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
"progressive" meaning "stuff the rest of the world did in 1960-something."
Sunny Foxglove 2 years ago
As a transplant from the North to the South, I fully agree. It's like stepping back 100 years in time.
#5
Window Tax
Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago
The window tax didn't come into effect until the 18th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
Unproductive Pigeon 2 years ago
Dang bro is that four whole walls? Do you think I’m made of money or something?
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
Not covered up, removed and bricked in. Lota of old buildings in England still have the odd bricked-up window.
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#6
Mysterious Copper Object Goes Brr
Tharizin 🇺🇦 2 years ago
I believe that I read that it was used for making detailed woven/crocheted pieces. All these archaeologists were so confused but some grandma on the internet figured it out. Correct me if I’m wrong
Zia Barrett 2 years ago
I will correct you, because there is zero archaeological or historical evidence of this. Knitting wouldn't be invented for another thousand years after these were made, they would be a lot more common if they were used this way, and Roman wool textiles like socks and mitts were made on looms. The grandma even says that she doesn't believe that it's true, it's just one of multiple pieces of speculation.
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Caffeinated Hedgehog 2 years ago
Humans today: *makes a butt plug* Archaeologists tomorrow: "What did they use it for??"
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
LOL maybe they will assign it some "more respectable" purpose even if they really figure it out
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I know what these are. When I was a kid, my grandfather told me all about them. The most important pice of advice: no matter what you think these are used for, don't ever, EVER, EVER... oh, my pizza is finished cooking. I'll be back...
Robert T 2 years ago
Imma just gonna leave this right here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-64678612
Izzy Curer 2 years ago
I raise you: https://medium.com/actaeon-eros/the-18th-century-dildo-found-in-a-french-convent-3552ffebbe2a
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Zia Barrett 2 years ago
It could be used for that purpose, but there is no evidence aside from a grandma who only said it could be used for spool knitting. Spool knitting is not evidenced before the 1500s either so highly unlikely.
Load More Replies...In their defense, history teachers and professors have their work cut out for them. They need to convey huge amounts of facts and context to people who often don’t understand the point of the entire exercise. “Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it,” goes the adage by writer and philosopher George Santayana. This perfectly illustrates the issue of history, as the actual quote goes:” Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But most people don’t always even learn from their own life experiences, so it’s a pretty tall order.
#7
No One Attacks Our Buddy And Gets Away With It!!!! It's Go Time Motherf****r!!
Anna Andersen 2 years ago
Canada joined WWII in September 1939. You desperately need educated editors.
Tiramisu 2 years ago
Yes, but they helped the US respond after Pearl Harbor, and that is what this meme is referring to.
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Donkey boi 2 years ago
Canadians normally: Sorry. Canadians After Pearl Harbour: You'll be sorry!
Andrea Careless 2 years ago (edited)
I often hear Americans say proudly that they saved the day in World War II, when actually they came in two years after the war started and the rest of us had been fighting intensely.
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
One can come late into a conflict and still happen to be the one who saves the day. The British deserve the credit for there still being a day left to save.
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
The first things the US did after entering Afghanistan was call Canada to get our snipers. Hands down best in the world. Furthest confirmed shot was in 2017. 3 miles.
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)
We may have done so to help the US after Pearl Harbour, but as part of the British Empire we were already in Hong Kong and Singapore.
#8
Ofc It Takes Skilled Labor To Construct Complex Monuments
The Scout 2 years ago
The "poor" pyramid workers as well as the later tomb architects had communal housing, free food and entertainment, socialised healthcare... What they did NOT have is money, as Egypt did not introduce money until the arrival of the Greeks. Before that, they had some kind of standardised barter economy with partly fixed exchange rates, like "three loafs of bread equal one pair of sandals" and so on - quite an interesting system, actually. They were mostly paid in bread and beer. The former could be exchanged against other goods and services.
Drew 2 years ago
So they exchanged useful things instead of shiny things and numbers
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
There's a 20th century song by Tennessee Ernie Williams called "16 tons". Its about living in the "free" housing of the mine owner while you work in the coal mine. To sum up, the guy moves 16 tons of coal every day but he's poorer than the day before because the only place to get the raw basics to survive was the store owned by the mine. When there's only one place in 30 miles to feed and clothe your family, be it the Nile River or the Appalachian Mountains, and your landlord owns it, you're a slave.
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
They have learned so much from the Villages nearby the Pyramids.Just think, If slaves had built them.There would've been more slaves than Egyptians
#9
A Surprise To Be Sure But A Welcome One!
rodger coghlan 2 years ago
Weni, widi wici - veni, vidi, vici (I was 19 before I found out that the Catholic church said it wrong
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
The only reason I can get a basic understanding of written Italian, is that I studied (classic) Latin in school.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Unfortunately I still remember how to decline the noun “Puella”. Catholic school can leave scars.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
didn't even go to a catholic school and watch: puella, puellae, puellae, puellam, puella, puella
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Ga Di 2 years ago
nah - had latin in school and recently started to learn a bit of italian - easy, i thougth, they are pretty much the same. Boy, was i wrong..... seems closer to french. well, 2000 years make a difference
Maria Maria 2 years ago
There is a popular YouTube video where a guy walks around in ltaly asking people questions in Latin. What surprised me the most was to see how many ltalians speak English. They barely understood a word.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
there's a video on this, check it on the youtubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYpTfx1ey8
We can think of history as trying to put together multiple jigsaw puzzles, with an unknown number of missing pieces and boxes that may or may not be lying about what the actual image looks like. Anything older than a few decades has already lost its primary sources and older history might cover periods where the language has died out or perhaps writing didn’t exist yet. Some historians go as far as to say that our history really is just a history of civilizations that developed writing.
#10
You Guys Know You Lost Right?
Corvus 2 years ago
I always laugh when they say they are proud of their "heritage"... a heritage of losing a war and being altogether dissolved after 4-5 years of existence, LMAO.
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
That proud Southern heritage is composed of slavery, lynch law, and cousins marrying.
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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)
My best friend kept going on about how it was wrong to take confederate statues down. Kids could learn about the civil war. And the rebel flag, same thing. I shut her up by comparing Jews in Germany having to look at statues of Nazi leaders if they had been put up because Germany wanted to leave them up after the war. And of course, let’s have Nazi flags on display. In the south , or anywhere else in the US, having to look at those statues and see that flag is an equivalent for African Americans. No, no gas chambers, but the truth needs to come out. What really happened, deal with it and the subsequent generations do everything in their power to change things. ( Looking at you Desantis and your whole “woke” BS”)
Marie Dahme 2 years ago
Yup. Welcome to Florida. Where you need a passport to just to go to the South.
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Thank the United Daughters of the Confederacy for their incredibly effective "Lost Cause/heritage/states rights" propaganda that was in all of the history text books up to the 1960s.
Ruth Harper 2 years ago
Yup. Many ignorant southerners (and some up north too) still believe the Civil War was about states' rights. Sure, yes, it was about states' rights to own slaves.
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CP 2 years ago
That is the sad truth and we are still paying for it today.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
well they still managed to get their racist flag into the Capitol on Jan 6... just saying.
#11
How Screwed Would You Be If You Had To Live In Your Favorite Time Period As A Common Woman
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Sadly being a woman still means you're screwed in most non-western societies. Even in western ones you're worse off being female...
thepinkrobot 2 years ago
that's sadly not the case, bro. In most "non western societies" PRE colonial times, women were seen as far more valuable than they are seen now. Especially in Africa and the Americas.
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Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Mmmm… while definitely true for the past 4,000-ish years, there’s actually good evidence that earlier human societies were much more egalitarian. Genetically retested skeletons of Neolithic hunters show that female hunters were actually fairly common. Harder to oppress half your population when everyone hands are needed to survive. Feminine religious iconography also very common. We’re not taught that very ancient history though because the patriarchy won and history is worn by the victors. Thankfully the archeological record shows us that it has not always been this way
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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I once said the 60s sounded like a fun time to be alive, and a black friend said "hell no".
Kitty 🥀 2 years ago
I sure as hėll wouldn’t wanna be Catherine the Great. OUCH. (And also ew.)
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Tuna Beach 2 years ago
Ancient Egypt had virtual equality, albeit a glass ceiling. Glass cutters included: Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra.
No Name 2 years ago
I don't have a favorite historical time period. I literally could not have survived earlier than the 50s and arguably could have been much healthier had I been born later when the importance of the microbiome was better understood and accounted for at birth.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
yep, I am grateful I was born when I was, like, when they had surgery, lasers and anaesthetic. Anything prior to the 1970s and I'd have probably died.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 2 years ago
I suppose it depends on when your favourite historical period is and where...
#12
How Are You Supposed To Answer This One..?
Zia Barrett 2 years ago
Which Roman Empire? These are technically all correct: 1943 was the surrender of Italy in WW2 followed by Rome's occupation by Nazi Germany, 476 was the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, 1806 was the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, 1453 was the Fall of Constantinople and fall of the Byzantine Empire.
Donkey boi 2 years ago (edited)
B. The key words are 'Roman Empire'. After, there was the Byzantine empire, and that collapsed in 1453 (Answer 'D'). Answer 'C' was the dissolution of the 'HOLY Roman empire', which was a Frankish empire. And Answer 'A' was the bombing of the city Rome in WWII, when it was not an empire.
CP 2 years ago
The Byzantine empire was just the Eastern Roman Empire rebranded.
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Marie Dahme 2 years ago
B. The answer is B. And I think the Byzantine era came afterwards, right pandas ?
Even worse, people have short memories, and certain ideas and facts often just lose their relevance. The term “ash heap of history” or “dustbin of history” reflects the reality that as ideas and artifacts lose their importance, they end up forgotten, to the detriment of future historians. The same can be said of language and texts, particularly for works that have yet to be digitalized. In his arguably most famous work, The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, said “manuscripts don’t burn.” While that may be true, they can still be simply forgotten.
#13
The More You Know
Samuel Pelatan 2 years ago
Yeah, and that's 2 kind of slavery completely different. It's like comparing the roman slavery to the viking one. They are both horrible but it's stupid to try and compare them to say "this one is better".
CP 2 years ago
Thank you! I was about to say the same thing. However, I would argue that some forms of slavery were better than others. All are wrong, but some were clearly better.
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Dodomaster 2 years ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Niki A 2 years ago
I cannot express enough that slavery is slavery, we can't justify any of it or make it better. Slavery has many different faces across history, and it wears the face that best fits it at the moment according to the powers that be.
L.A. Trefry 2 years ago
Slavery does not have different "faces" -- it has existed in different forms in different places. We cannot make what was done in the past better but we CAN ensure that everyone knows the details of how slavery existed in their own country and ensure that such things never happen again.
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FlatEarf 2 years ago
We all do have to realize slavery was everywhere. It's recognized as wrong in a majority of places now (it still exists some places) but everywhere had slaves, Africans were selling their own people for goods from Europe. And white slaves were common. Little knowledge for you all and I am not justifying it I know it's wrong
L.A. Trefry 2 years ago
White slaves were not common (and did not exist) in the US. (No, the Irish weren't slaves there.) And Africans weren't selling "their own people" -- they sold war captives and their enemies -- but it's been said that they had assumed that the slavery they were selling their enemies into was like that of Africa -- not the hell on earth that was British Caribbean and US deep south slavery.
Load More Replies... Andrewsarchus42 2 years ago
Slavery has existed in many places over time. All of it was morally wrong, though some were slightly more horrific than others.
#14
Turns Out A Lot Of Historical Figures Who Dreamed Of World Domination Were A Bit Freaked Out By Cats
scag$y 2 years ago (edited)
Agreed. Though I hear that there is no such fear in the Middle East because Iraq no phobia. I shall now deduce the location of the handiest portal and propel myself from within to without with great haste! Good day sir!
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Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
That's because cats make you a better person and poof, no more world domination, only naps and purrs.
Scott 2 years ago
How about the time that he organized a rabbit hunt to celebrate a victory, but the rabbits rounded up were domesticated and charged has the hunting party, leading to Napoleon retreating from a bunch of rabbits. Must have been decended from the Rabbit of Caerbannog. Reference: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51364/time-napoleon-was-attacked-rabbits
#15
Ah Yes Christianity
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
And don’t forget that whole Inquisition thing. Christianity at its best! (Sarcasm and disgust)
CP 2 years ago
The funny part is that there are 3 versions of the 10 commandments in the Bible. Apparently when God was telling random dudes to write things down he forgot the other versions? Seems like a strange mistake for an all knowing being.
Sandy Kavanaugh 2 years ago
Actually, I believe you're were close to several hundred commandments.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Thou shalt not kill, unless of course thou art a deity and thine planet pisseth thee off, and then thou smiteth it with water.
So historians have the thankless task of trying to find those bits of data and information that have been left buried in some archive, tomb, or museum basement. The first historian, at least to our knowledge would be Herodotus, who lived around 450 BC and is sometimes called the “father of history.” Though due to his habit of covering folk tales alongside real events, modern critics sometimes label him the “father of lies.” Historians can be a hard crowd to please.
#16
Memento Mori -Domitian, Probably
Alias-the-shade 2 years ago
Then he sends their slaves home cleaned up with those tomb stones which turned out to be solid blocks of silver
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Rhianna Hollowaye 2 years ago
He did more than that! He had a whole room of death themed décor and refused to talk about anything else for the whole evening. Then he sent people to knock ominously on the guests doors and scare them even more after they'd left, only to open the door and find that the knockers actually had presents for them
Druklet 2 years ago
I was hoping someone would say which one it was. Where's a history professor when you need one?
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Tragic Realization Oc
Noyfb noyfb 2 years ago
Wrong Napoleon. Napo Number Three declared war on Prussia, got his butt kicked and watched them declare German unification at Versailles. Talk about unintended consequences…
RedPepper 2 years ago
Napoleon the First suppressed a lot of small German states, simplifying the unification process later. The French occupation in the 1800s inspired also the first German nationalists.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
"The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, Roman, or an empire." - Voltaire
#18
Speaking As An Austrian
Hotdogking 2 years ago (edited)
Jokes on you, I’m from a European country where the only colonial history we have is being colonized and genocide! Therefore I’m perfectly entitled to looking like this. (Second sentence was a joke jtc) (edit; It’s Ireland)
Hakitosama 2 years ago
trick is we grew out of that and reminder that USA is mostly composed of people who came from Europe and should have followed the same growth as they started roughly at the same point ....
RedMarbles 2 years ago
Congrats on being a person born in a country in which you're able to see yourself as further removed from your predecessor countrymen having been part of groups that fought and stole and struggled for dominance and killed and subjugated individuals from other weaker groups to come out on top for the spoils of land and wealth and power. As far as the US, not sure it was ever going to be likely that the new country was going to carry on with the "progress" of the many different donor countries, considering the express idea was to create something new in a different land that lacked (to them) a long recorded history attached to it.
Load More Replies... Kat 2 years ago
It's good to learn from your mistakes. Even better to learn from someone else's
Kel_how 2 years ago
Too bad the US doesn't actually teach world history 🙃
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Just_for_this 2 years ago
Did the ungrateful colonials devolve when they crossed the ocean? suppose that would explain Florida... Otherwise Europe's history is their own too. “Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it.”
RedMarbles 2 years ago
If I've learned anything from Bored Panda, it's that Americans are not allowed to claim any history from Europe, but this is a new wrinkle. Let's see if I have it right. Don't consider your European ancestry as your own, because you are simply American and you will be mocked if you say you are of French ancestry, for example. Definitely don't go to the European country of your ancestors to see any history that you feel connected to, or at least speak not of such feeling of connection, because you don't have the right to that. Do, however, consider European countries as part of your history for purposes of highlighting where your more recent American ancestors have failed to pick up where your European ancestors left off and failed to parallel your European ancestors' country's subsequent governing decisions and popular beliefs.
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JoyfulZebra 2 years ago
A glass house built by feudalism and colonialism.
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Donald Crocker, Jr. 2 years ago
Correct as is, had to be worded that way to get past censors that wouldn't have let BLM/antifa/SJW's be referred to.
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Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
I can't stop laughing at "millennials of war." I'll have to add that to my "This would be a good name for a band" list.
#19
Fight Me Idc
Just_for_this 2 years ago
It's like when people say "music was better in the 70's". I like to remind them about Disco Duck by Rick Dees... I apologise in advance.
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Strahd Ivarius 2 years ago
in the '80, USA & USSR had the same level of free speech: a US citizen could go to the White House and say that he didn't like the US foreign policy, and a Soviet citizen could go to the Kremlin and say the same.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
That's it. Enough neo-Soviet propaganda from the memeworld. The entire internet has to submit a book report on The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Soltzhenitzyn. Also acceptable: With God in Russia, by Walter Ciszek.
Samuel Pelatan 2 years ago
Yeah, let's flagelatte in front of the memorial for the victim of communism, you know the one that count litteral nazi soldiers.
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Reenzy Bennington 2 years ago
Does that guy look like Thomas Doherty to anyone else or just me? Must be the jawline.
#20
My Answer:atlest Establish A Base Off The Beach
No Name 2 years ago
I'm female and have multiple disqualifying medical conditions but if I somehow made it that far, I'd have probably fallen on the way out and gotten trampled to death by my own comrades.
FlatEarf 2 years ago
No they didn't fit enough people to tra.ple you to death in the boats besides your chances of being shot, burned, or drowned are much more likely
Load More Replies... JoyfulZebra 2 years ago
*thinking about the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan* Yeah, not far...
C Lawson 2 years ago
My first thought too. That was such a sobering scene.
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Cuppa tea? 2 years ago
I will be orderly cleaning up the galley on the boat furthest from shore.
RavenTheCat 2 years ago
Did i say that? Noo i cleaned the bathrooms on D day, i was the head chef of the SS diarrhea
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Pineapple (he/him) 2 years ago
i couldnt have gone my eyes are too bad (thanks eyes you saved me) but if i did id probably get shot but who knows
Seamus Crumley 2 years ago
F**k you brain. Now I'm thinking of every Tom Hanks movie. I'll never sleep.
#21
Franz Ferdinand
Amy T 2 years ago
Hopefully we'll never wind up in this position to begin with.
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#22
High Iq Meme
Klondike Penguin 2 years ago
Actually, it’s not a Caesar salad until it’s stabbed 23 times.
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Aaron W 2 years ago
Caesar stole that line from Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. "We came, we saw, we kicked its a*s!"
#23
Well, Any Contradictions?
Little L 2 years ago
They were so inbred that they looked totally weird. Google Habsburg jaw
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SCP 4666 2 years ago
Although genetics were unknown at the time they knew the effects of intrafamiliar breeding. They pretty much ignored it because 'purity of blood n ' stuff'
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Christof Irran 2 years ago (edited)
The genetic defects from inbreeding are pretty much reversed by now. To wit: Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen, the Hapsburg heir and race car driver, doesn't indicate any of the Hapsburg's facial anomalies. And he had four victories in the European Le Mans Series in 2022, racing for Prema Racing. Ferdinand_...78fffd.jpg 
MaggieMay85 2 years ago
It’s like you can never make a decent looking character. Tamriel must have an inbred problem.
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#24
At Least One
Corvus 2 years ago (edited)
An old joke from SE Europe was that when you finished talking to someone on the phone, you'd hear two clicks - the first when the person you talked to hangs up, and the second - when the secret police hangs up :O
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Just can't stop remembering that the current Russian president was the head of the E German KGB...motto: "We didn't invent torture, we just refined it".
Neuropotathy 2 years ago
Was he? He was an average agent, known among his colleagues as "f*g-end" and "moth".
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
my joke is to greet the fed agent and the Zuck when I make a group whatsapp call
#25
The Siege Of Jadotville Is One Of The Un Peacekeepers' Finest Moments, But Is Barely Talked About
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
It’s awful that they’re only just now getting recognition after years. Heart breaking the treatment they received when they returned home
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Katangan forces led by French and Belgian mercenaries. And there were injuries on the Irish side and deaths for the Indian soldiers who were supporting.
Irish woman abroad 2 years ago
Yes, but no deaths among the 155 Irish defenders, while they killed approximately 1,300 attackers.
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Salsa Ambiguity 2 years ago (edited)
This meme format is new to me (I'm old in internet years) so I just audibly gasped and covered my mouth when I saw a school bus getting hit like that. Common sense said the bus HAS to be empty of kids, but my "be careful of school buses " instinct is apparently even stronger.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
Amazing what entrenched defenders can do. The movie was great, an obscure gem.
#26
The Dutch Called Oranges "Chinese Apples", So
un-izzy 2 years ago
this is a common debate in my french class. here you go: 0wtlv-63f5...b1b93e.jpg 
Muhammad Zaid 2 years ago
It's really fun, finding another Indonesian here 😁
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Bart 2 years ago
They do have granaatappel = apple from granada(pomegranade) and aardappel = earth apple (patato)
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago (edited)
It’s the same with beer in Spanish and Portuguese. All over Europe there is a variation of beer, like bier, etc. Whilst in Spanish and Portuguese it’s cerveza. But I do know how this came to be. There was a Roman Legion that travelled from Italy to Hadrian’s Wall (The Roman Empire’s most northern border to keep the Picts out. They’d taken with them crates of amphoras filled with wine. After drinking the wine they were then filled them with local ale and then went onto their next assignment which was in Iberia (their name for Spain/Portugal as there were loads of rabbits everywhere). When they got there, the locals tried some of the ale, liked it and looked at the crates and amphoras which had been stamped with the winemaker’s name back in Italy. His name was Cerveza.
#27
The First Four Caliphs Kinda Have Chad Energy About Them
ME 2 years ago
For some reason yo are missing the middle of the speech "Sincere regard for truth is loyalty and disregard for truth is treachery. The weak amongst you shall be strong with me until I have secured his rights, if God wills; and the strong amongst you shall be weak with me until I have wrested from him the rights of others, if God wills." He was in power for 2 years and had multiple uprising and rebellions, plus started multiple wars.
Jonny Man 2 years ago
Apparently his subjects listened to him, he clearly got what he wanted!
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#28
Daily Reminder That The Protestants Mainly Did Witch Hunts And The Church Outright Made It Illegal To Do Them
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
While in the 1500s the Church formally stopped prosecuting witchcraft, the just changed the name swapping "withcraft" for "demon possession" or "heretic". Nevertheless the Catholic church did plenty of prosecuting of free thinkers, ill or generally innocent people in the thousands.
STress 2 years ago
Heresy is completely other thing. Tomas de Torquemada, founder of the Spanish Inquisition, was totally indifferent about whole that witchcraft hype from Germany or France, but he did his best to eradicate Moriscos (descendants of Muslim conquerors) and Jews. Also, he did his his best to put the end on "conversos", Moors and Jews who got christened, since he didn't consider them "proper Christians". That's the real meaning of the term "heretic", not the updated witchcraft.
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I wrote an assignment on the Malleus Maleficarum ("Hammer of Witches") text at university, and yes it's basically a handbook on how to hunt and kill witches, but the part not everyone mentions is that at the time 99.9% of the population thought the guy who wrote it was a complete and utter crackpot (it shows).
Natalie Cilla 2 years ago
This!! I remember reading that one of his contemporaries stated that “Kramer has gone stupid with age” aka senile (not trying to be ageist here, just citing).
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Shim Sorensen 2 years ago
Catholic church has killed more people and ruined more lives than any group of people on the planet. Soon pathetic. Should be tried for war crimes.
Lorraine R 2 years ago
Just fact-checking -- you got this information where, exactly?
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Stephanie Barr 2 years ago
Catholics can always be remembered for the Inquisition, plenty of religious "joy" to go around.
#29
It's Our Territory
Mystery Egg 2 years ago
In fairness, the Falklands held a sovereignty referendum in 2013 and 98% voted to stay with Britain PLUS Argentina was a rainforest when the Brits first occupied it so they really have zero claim simply because it's closer to them than us.
Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
Argentina had no claim just bc it was a rainforest?!?!
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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
We had British, Dutch, French and Spanish occupancy in Trinidad & Tobago...we asked for none of them. British were the last so we speak English.
Richard Salisbury 2 years ago
Is the successful British defence of the Falklands the only example where a country has defended civilians against an unlawful and belligerent invasion that is routinely ridiculed by petty sorts on the basis of geographical proximity? The whole 'las malvinas' myth being made up by the fascist military junta of Argentina trying to distract the populace from economic troubles and state sponsored elimination of political opponents?
•The Comic Hero• 2 years ago
ok but can i keep saying devuelvanle las malvinas a argentina for the sake of the joke?
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Dav Carro-Ripalda 2 years ago
I am very sorry, and probably will be downvoted, but this is a colonization claim at its best. Same as spanish provinces in northern africa or gibraltar. Go back to your own country and respect country's frontiers.
#30
What Are Everyone’s Plans For The 12/25 Holiday?
Lia 2 years ago
Before Chocolate Eating and Chocolate Eating. You can use the time when chocolate became more well-known as a referance to time.
Jk 2 years ago
Technically, the historical figure considered to be Jesus (yes, he existed, but his religious significance is disputable) was found to have been born in ~4 BCE I believe. Something about a notable king at the time, who was dead at year 0.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
You're right, and the king was King Herod. According to the Gospels, he was king of Israel when Jesus was born, and Herod died in 4 BCE. So Jesus was born in 4 BCE or perhaps even earlier, not 1 AD as supposed. The medieval scholar who calculated the year of Christ's birth was just off by a few years. By the way, the terms CE and BCE did not originate with godless pagans "canceling" Christ. They were terms devised by Christian scholars trying to resove the contradiction.
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rodger coghlan 2 years ago (edited)
Zero - there are over 20 different calendars; BCE/CE keeps religion out of it (many other calendars are also religion based
L.A. Trefry 2 years ago
Hopefully, if we use Common Era long enough, the superstitious origins will be forgotten.
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
"the myth of Jesus' birth as spread through threat of violence by the Catholic church"
Andrewsarchus42 2 years ago
To quote Hotdogking so their comment is easier to see: “Allow me to be pedantic for a moment. Yes the whole BCE and CE are marked by Christs Birth (which according to a history podcast I listen to some scholers believe was around 6-4 BC so that doesn’t even work anyway), but people who don’t believe in Jesus would much rather use something that does not involve him. It’d be a bit like if Christians had to refer to the years as BM (Before Mohammed) and AP (Anno Prophatae) in reference to the Muslim beliefs. That makes sense right?”
#31
More Accurately
Cássio Bogdan 2 years ago
You can add the Soviet Union to that base. The US didn't go into Europe until the nazis were broken. They did very little and they think they got the right to boast after the cold war ended.
Demosthenes 2 years ago
It always helps small minds to compartmentalize. Essentially how all wars progress.
Mental Liberals 2 years ago
Humans are the best at war, murdering, plundering, conquering, controlling....
Imre Mikó 2 years ago
It rather means that this was the time the global economic cetnre moved from Europe to the US due to Europe being devastated. I remember learning it in HS and understanding how ww2 made room for the US to become a superpower and a world police basically, because before that US did not want to be involved in the conflict
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#32
Did You Know David Attenborough Owns A First Edition Of The Origin Of Species?
Yali-girl with weird name 2 years ago
Ik this not related but like the square eyebrows on society 😂
Ian Webling 2 years ago
They evolved that way to convey anger without vocalisation.
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Still trying to figure out what the title has to do with the meme - although it is interesting!
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Yes, you're still hairy great apes who like bananas (for scale)
Seamus Crumley 2 years ago
If anyone deserves a copy of the first edition of this book, it is the legend that is David Attenborough
Kioh81 2 years ago
Wait... he owns the original version Darwin wrote?!!! Whaaaat??? I wanna see!!!!!!!! Omg!!!
Sandy Kavanaugh 2 years ago
How many editions did Darwin need to have printed? I believe the first edition sold out almost immediately ?
#33
The Forgotten Squabblers
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
But then there’s Tollywood, Kollywood etc. (they’re the Bollywood of South India). I’m sure that people are divided over them
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
the main problem is the balkans have religious splits (orthodox vs catholic vs muslim) in close proximity. India has a massive hindu majority. The muslim majority part was cordonned off by the british precisely to prevent the fighting. (Dunno if it worked).
Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
For the British? Yes. For the Muslims? Depends on whether an individual was educated by the current Opposition or at a normal af school.
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Pakistan and Bangladesh both used to be part of India but left to form Muslim-majority states.
Shane G 2 years ago
"Left." The Hindus actually insisted the Brits must divide the country before leaving. They refused to share a country with the Muslims and for all the problems the division caused, I can only imagine how much worse it would have been if they had just pulled out and went home.
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Stimpy 2 years ago
Well, it does seem that most indian states each have their own militant independence movement...
Stardust she/her 2 years ago (edited)
No, despite how we sometimes bicker amongst each other, we’re still united by our history and the fact that we’re all proud of our motherland, Bharat mata
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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
WHAT? I'VE NEVER HEARD OF INDIA CONTROLLING ANY FOREIGN REGION.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
The meme is talking about how we have 28 different states yet are still united. It’s not talking about controlling any foreign territory
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They are right, India is a sub continent, which is even more remarquable
Jefferina 🇵🇸 2 years ago
yeah but india is now engaging in prejudice, violence, and the beginnings of genocide... alas
#34
I’m Part Of This
Phendrena 2 years ago
I see your Sabaton and raise you a NANOWAR OF STEEL :)
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RedPepper 2 years ago (edited)
When I turned 14, I developed a passion for Edwardian Europe. I became a samurai fan but much, much later.
Load More Replies... Rose Button 🇺🇦 2 years ago
Me, a history buff who is past 14: you fools, you FOOLS *laughs in probation*
PotatoNinja5000 2 years ago
Double the age, double the interests. I used to love the Romans as a kid, but now I'm equally into vikings and tanks. Maybe in another 14 years, I'll add samurai to the list.
TheKitKatLizard 2 years ago (edited)
Female history nerds often also tend to have victorian times, or any decade between 1920 and 1990 as things they might base themselves on tbh. Tho maybe I'm just biased bc of watching a lot of fashion history youtubers 🤔
#35
Romans Like Their Walls Way Too Much
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
If building walls is the key to success I'll start right now *builds a wall around my home*
Troy Parr 2 years ago
this is misleading, their success was due to building roads first. Even now we still say, "all roads lead to Rome".
Irish woman abroad 2 years ago
And building a highly disciplined, professionally trained army.
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giku T 2 years ago
m not sure about the walls but many of the roads they built are intact in Turkey.
gilded panda 2 years ago
my friend made a giant wall around a base in fortnite and called it roman strats
OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago (edited)
Are you being sarcastic? The spelling errors damaged my eyes permanently 😵💫
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Garry Cowan 2 years ago (edited)
Well they did have to build 2 to keep my ancestors from pillaging the rest of ancient Britain
#36
When The
Sergy Yeltsen 2 years ago
They all should have been locked in a concrete tomb and dropped into the Mariana Trench. And even then, they would still have polluted the waters.
JoyfulZebra 2 years ago
As someone who did go down that rabbit hole, please don't. But if you can't restrain yourself watch at least an hour of animal videos afterwards.
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That_Protogen 2 years ago
How else do you fine out the human bodies water content? Dry them to dust obviously.
#37
I Did It, I Beat Rule 12
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
If they were anything like my Sims they wouldn't even have needed sticks or stones... 🔥
Kat Nt 2 years ago
And the sims, like cavemen, would run towards the fire and scream at it!
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#38
Ksayarsa, Haksamanish
No Name 2 years ago (edited)
Apparently the best rendering of Xerxes' Persian name in IPA is Xšayār̥šā and "Achaemenid" should be rendered Haxāmaniš. Pronounce X as "kh", š as "sh", ā as "ah", and the r with the ring under it as a trill.
cogadh 2 years ago
Surprisingly, the video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey made an admirable effort to actually pronounce them correctly. Really threw me the first time they said Xerxes and Artaxerxes, they sounded nothing like what I ignorantly expected.
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I Prefer Bow
Nikolaj Christensen 2 years ago
Always polearms in a medieval setting, I prefer the poleaxe... it's like a canopener except for people in or without armor.
#40
"Don't Worry Boys, We Got It Covered" -Omar Bradley, Probably
Mike Crow 2 years ago
Nobody really talks about Juno beach which was the second most defended beach yet the Canadians are hardly ever talked about.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
The house seen in our famous picture of our landing at Juno Beach is still there. It is now a museum honouring Canadian soldiers.
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Raymond Core 2 years ago
Fact: Not one German soldier was killed by the pre-invasion bombardment on D-Day.
Seamus Crumley 2 years ago
American soldier climbing down to landing craft June 6th Normandy - "Omar, Ike. Have you really thought about this? It might be made into a great movie in the future by some famous actor, but I have a bad feeling and I really don't want to go."
#41
All Three Will Lie To You
Zia Barrett 2 years ago (edited)
Unit 731/The Atrocities of Manchukuo. They experimented on people, it was horrific. America gave those involved immunity from prosecution in exchange for the results.
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#42
Not Even A Us Tank In Japan
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
Should better be named "How the US blew up two whole Japanese cities inhabited by random civilians."
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Lee Henderson 2 years ago
The Japanese had vowed to fight for 10,000 years. When the rest of the world criticizes the US for the atom bombs, the neglect to remember the Rape of Nanking, Section 731 and other, inhuman atrocities commited by the Imperial Government. To the Japanese, other races/nationalities were subhuman, even other Asian groups.
weh cj 2 years ago
They wouldn’t have surrendered if we hadn’t done it. If we had invaded Japan, we would’ve lost 1 million troops and all Japan was ready to fight to the death. We would’ve wiped them
Irish woman abroad 2 years ago
They would have surrendered eventually, but it was considered that 6 more months of war, and the consequent loss of lives on both sides, were worse than annihilating 2 cities. FFS. Horrors of war.
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It ended the war and nothing has escalated to this level since. Unavoidable future? No one knows . . .
ChariotLee 2 years ago
All I hear is "How we proved our superiority by brutally murdering innocent civilians."
ChariotLee 2 years ago
All I hear is "How we proved our superiority by brutally murdering innocent civilians."
#43
So Much Wasted Potential
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
China makes a lot of claims for inventions, but not many of them are factually accurate. Claiming historical innovations has been a habit of the post-Mao Chinese autocracy, and is considered a way to foster nationalism and patriotism. They do not refrain from outright lying or making up "history" as it suits them. There are a credibility issues with those claims, and many inconsistencies, issues that even pro-sino historians feel the need to address but the chinese government plainly ignores in favor of propaganda. https://www.economist.com/china/2016/12/20/what-china-claims-to-have-invented
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago
A pet peeve is something that you personally find annoying.
Load More Replies... Yali-girl with weird name 2 years ago
Everything is made there like at this point im gonna find a print on me which say made in china 💀
Javier loh 2 years ago (edited)
They actually sold some of it via Singapore, we can actually find some artefacts in some places in Singapore
#44
Scary Actually
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
It was very depressing indeed when people complained that "Twelve Years A Slave" was too over-the-top unrealistically grim only to be told that in reality IT WAS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE WORSE AND THE MOVIE ACTUALLY TONED IT DOWN.
#45
Seriously, The Dutch Have A Massive Hard On For Canada
Life’s A Beech 2 years ago
The Dutch do love us. Canada liberated the Netherlands. We also gave future Queen Juliana and her family refuge during WWII. She gave birth in a Canadian hospital, which was declared neutral soil, so her child could have Dutch citizenship and not Canadian. They still send us 10,000 tulip bulbs each year. Dutch children also clean the tombs of Canadian soldiers and put candle around them.
#46
Athena Once Turned Someone Into A Spider Because She Felt Sorry For Her (???)
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago (edited)
Zeus will absolutely f**k up your life especially in conjunction with Hera. janus or hecate are all about choices, so are normal, aphrodite is ok, as long as you re-pay her. Artemis is relatively safe, to the point where you can see her bathing and survive, as long as you are female or young. Thanatos and Hades are inevitable, nemesis and tyche are omnipresent, and the nature gods, potamus, winds, and nymphs are common to meet. Dionysus is positively fun. apollo is okay, as long as you haven't insulted his mother. lots of the minor deities are friendly, the titans are tyrants, gaia is the mother of all tyrants. I think hestia and hephaestus are okay, but still gods, so don't risk too much. on the other hand, Loki is slippery, and Thor will kill you if you break his goats, but otherwise they are okay. It's the animals you have to watch out for.
Somethingpenguin 1 year ago
Apollo is ok, until he has a crush on you (look up Daphne and Hyacinthus if you don't know
Load More Replies... ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 2 years ago
according to google translate, it says "prepare your a**s" . . .
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Izzy Curer 2 years ago
Celtic gods are even friendlier. You can poke around in their mythology all day without anybody getting roped. Everyone is dtf, and there's this cow that keeps cropping up and getting into shenanigans like a Benny Hill movie.
Confused Duck 2 years ago
I feel like Roman/Greek gods where just used as excuses to explain bad things like famine, flooding etc. But I do enjoy the mythology.
Vix Spiderthrust 2 years ago (edited)
If you're talking about Arachne, no she didn't. She turned her into a spider for being uppity.
A person with a problem 2 years ago
I think the story behind the spider thing is that a woman was really good at spinning, so she challenged one of the gods. She won, and the god was angry and changed her into a spider. (Athena is the godess of cities, war, handicraft, and practical reason.)
#47
Spoiler Alert: It Did
ADHORTATOR 2 years ago (edited)
And, did it work? Edit: It did, and it is written in the heading.... Note to myself: Read more carefully next time :-)
T. 2 years ago
Yes, yes it did! For (a lot) more info on the subject visit: https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight
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#48
Very Brave Of Them
Premislaus de Colo 2 years ago
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
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#49
Ghost Of Tsushima Was Very Accurate
Zia Barrett 2 years ago
I admit that I want to see the Mongol too, the Samurai were primarily archers too.
#50
I Think We Can Work Something Out
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Any of the bordering powers - British Empire, Spanish Empire, or the USA - could have marched right into the Louisiana territory and seized it without firing a shot. So France was smart to at least get some money for it - and sell to a power that meant them no harm.
#51
Verhoeven: I'm Doing My Part!
#52
Everything’s Fixed
Hakitosama 2 years ago
This conflict is soooo complex and each attempt to solve it from the outside just make it worst .......and from the inside ? ...... Let's just say that the death threats from Egypt on a population who just escaped extermination DIDN'T help at ALL and left a ssslightly bad impression that remains until today
Tiramisu 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah, and the Israelis committing the Nakba didn’t help either.
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You Know The Movie I'm Talking About
Ishaan Sawant 2 years ago
have they put a black patch to make his mustache like Hitler's or is it censored?
#54
Who Would Win At Last?
Jrog 2 years ago
It didn't help that Hannibal elephants were almost all lost well before arriving to the Roman Empire core, mostly dying from Barbarian attacks in the Rhone Valley en route to Italy, in the crossing of the Alps and in the first cold winter of Northern Italy. In the same way, half the expeditionary force was lost in transit. Hannibal, by the way, was not the "greatest military genius of his time". He was a last minute replacement of his brother Hasdrubales, the Carthaginian general who set up the whole campaign and invasion, who got killed mid-way while camping in Spain.
Jrog 2 years ago
By the way, while Scipio Africanus was barely 17 at the Battle of Trebbia River, when the army led by his father was defeated, he was just 22 when he led the roman army in Africa, smashing Hannibal's battle-tested expeditionary force.
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#56
When You Think You Are Napoleon Reborn
Matias Marczak 2 years ago
In case you are wondering, every man above the age of 14 was murdered in Paraguay when they lost the war.
Allison Riley 2 years ago
War of the Triple Alliance. Paraguay had it's male population annihilated to the point they had to legalize married polygamy and their country still hasn't really recovered. They also suffered under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner ( He was awful ( He did genocide)
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F**k Beria
Donkey boi 2 years ago
As head of the NKVD, he would have his driver take him around the town where he would point out random girls that he wanted. The girls would be promptly picked up, taken to his house, and fed. After eating they would be taken to a soundproofed office where he would rape them. When they left, one of his bodyguards would be waiting outside and would offer the girl a flower. If they took it, it was implied that what happened was consensual, if they refused, they were arrested (rarely to be seen again). He would also arrange to meet girls with family member in prison and offer to release them if they "submitted" to him, in some cases he had already arranged for the family member to have been executed earlier in the day.
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"𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱...𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝘂𝗽𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂."
#59
Jumping On The North America Train
Zia Barrett 2 years ago
It was destroyed in an attack, supposedly, after the Vikings traded with the locals. I'm guessing from the mention of a cow that maybe they traded some milk or leather that made one of the locals sick and that is why the settlement was attacked.
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#61
(Meta) The State Of The Sub Rn
#62
Debate In The Comments
ᶜʰᵃᵒᵗⁱᶜ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡ 2 years ago
he's the black thing https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQSvDB-lR298TKulosJwrKfjWLvShLB1BnfhfaWWX15dB0xUc8rgINQ33g&s=10
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Donkey boi 2 years ago
For the America's, Not Grant. With the resources he had only an idiot would loose. I'd suggest George S Patton or Arthur Currie. I'd take Napoleon out too. There are too many to choose from for Europe and since he lost to 2 of the people on that list I guess he should be knocked down by default. I'd say the same about Khalid. Too many Asian generals to choose from. But let's not gorger Genghis Khan. Hannibal, you could probably have. I don't know enough about African history, but would offer up Tariq ibn Ziyad for consideration.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Tactically, yes. Strategically, Lee was a disaster for the South.
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You Better Know That If Certain War Is Compared To The Biblical Flood Then It Is *really*bad
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
In Polish, the period from 1655 to 1660 is known as "potop szwedzki", literally the "Swedish deluge" and refers to Swedish-Polish war, which, following on the heels of an earlier Russo-Polish war as well as an uprising by Ukrainian Cossacks led directly to the downfall of Greater Poland and it's later partition between the Russians, Austrians and the Prussians about 100 years later. Poland then ceased to exist for 123 years, until after WW1 when they fought and won a war of independence against the Soviets. And, as you can imagine, to say that the Swedes were "not exactly gentle" while they were invading Poland is an understatement of monumental proportions...
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The Vikings Chose A New Motto
Zia Barrett 2 years ago
It is either Allah or Inshallah, and is very much true. The dating is indeed correct for trade between the Vikings and the Abbasaid Caliphate. Who she was or the significance of the ring is unknown - whether she was a Scandinavian Muslim or a Middle Eastern visitor is also unknown.
#65
This Didn't Age Well
#66
Ouch
liam mckirdy 2 years ago
im a so happy nz is there there is so many that just forget to put nz in the map
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SilentNinja 2 years ago (edited)
Yes! I am from New Zealand and see way too many apps without it.
Theoretical Empiricist 2 years ago
Remembering a political cartoon from that time showing the chaos at Rand McNally situation room.
#67
Tbf He Hated Pretty Much Everyone
#68
Why Is Everybody Talking About The Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand, When The Arthashastra Already Speaks Of Assassination In The Year 300 Bce?
#69
Don't Look Up His Name Tho
Norm Gilmore 2 years ago
No Kum-sok. Just puerile teenage humour. Only passed away 26/12/2022. And yes that is the correct way to write dates in New Zealand. D/M/Y. 🙂
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Why shouldn't we look up his name? Who is he? So many questions
Barry Patterson 2 years ago
He was an early believer in bring your own MIG-15 with you when you travel to other countries. No Kum-sok.
#70
The 1965 Mgm Vault Fire And Many Like It Are Why We Don’t Have A Lot Of Silent Movies
Zia Barrett 2 years ago (edited)
Just as only a dockside warehouse of the Library of Alexandria caught fire accidentally and not the actual library itself; MGM had their film archives stored in sealed vaults, so even though 100% of Vault #7s contents were sadly destroyed, none of the other vaults were affected and they saved 70% of their library. Extra props go to MGM for storing their archive in vaults in the first place, the other film companies at the time typically destroyed their films, likely being a bigger loss to film history.
#71
Ohh I´ve Got A Brand New Shiny Helmet
Dom Corbett 2 years ago
Ive got a lovely new flak jacket and a lovely khaki suit
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#72
Seriously How Do People Not Understand This
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Aaaand... NO. Germany was THIS close to (kind of) winning WW2. UK avoided invasion only thanks to their barely-held air superiority in the Battle of Britain in 1940-41. Without UK, any plan for US intervention would not have gone through. US would have handed Japan a*se back to them in retaliation, sure, but most of the population was very much ok with peace with Germany up until late 1942. If Germany had invaded UK, they could have settled for a comfy European peace, acquiring France, UK, the Balkans, most of East Europe, the North African colonies and likely even Turkey, while keeping Italy, Portugal and Spain as close allies. They would have had plenty of time for rearming and renovating the military, while the USSR -that was still struggling with a "modernization" of the army two decades too old- would have been hopeless without the military hardware lend-lease agreements from the USA and UK.
Raymond Core 2 years ago
Once the atomic bomb ended the war in Japan, it would have ended in Europe only a few weeks later. The allies had air superiority and could easily have destroyed and and all cities in Germany.
#73
Did They Really Think It Would Be Accepted?
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
They didn't. In 2002-2003 Putin made public claims about willingness to join Nato *if invited*, something that is way out of procedure. Baron George Robertson, then Nato Secretary General, replied that if he wanted Russia to join NATO he would have to apply, as any other country. Putin of course refused because he was not willing to go through a process that he said was designed for "countries that don’t matter", and made clear Russia had no intention of modernizing their military to NATO standards (a mandatory committment). In hindsight, it became evident that Putin proposal was just a way to look for a pretext to roll back the 1992 Russia-NATO "Partnership for Peace" agreements. At the time, Russia was beginning its Chechen wars, which would have disqualified them from application anyway.
SilentNinja 2 years ago
You are such a history nerd….. I absolutely love it.
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#76
-And We Will Give It. (They Actually Did)
ME 2 years ago
The British did help in the Irish famine, to the extent of spending the equivalent of £1.2B today, by setting up Soup kitchens, importing Maize from the USA. A lot of the food exported rotted in storehouses as the local land owners refused to hand it out due to their tenants owing money. There was also a big move on the nationalist anti-British front at this time in Ireland which spread a lot of the rumour that British is not helping the Irish. The question is could they have done more and honestly they probably could and should of.
Death Metal Kitty 2 years ago
should have, not should of. "Should of" doesn't even make any sense.
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#77
He Fought For Three Countries Against Communism, Even For The Nazis, Yet Lost All Of Them
Hakitosama 2 years ago
Shout, Lauri Törni's name A soldier of three armies knows the game Keeps their echo from the past Rise from beyond your grave Son of Finland and the Green Beret May you rest in peace at last Lauri Allan Törni
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Captain in the SS = scum, regardless of any other military exploits.
Norm Gilmore 2 years ago
I really wish names were on these. Lauri Allan Torni aka Larry Alan Thorne.
#78
Kind Of Jealous
Zia Barrett 2 years ago
Life expectancy doesn't mean this. Very high infant mortality rates are why the number is so low historically.
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Not really true, the low number comes from child deaths. Anyway, people lived longer in the stone age than in agricultural societies, had fewer children whose survival was also more likely
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The Drip Don’t Stop
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
White, landowning males: lots of rights! Everyone else: those aren’t even people, LOL
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JoyfulZebra 2 years ago
Some funny, some sad, some informative, and some disrespectful. A fine assortment.
John L 2 years ago
I think I am not alone in saying, I didn't get a lot of these references....
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
Me neither even when people explained it in the comments I still didn't understand a lot of it!
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Maddy Cole 2 years ago
Yeah, well, these so-called "funny" "historians" don't know much about history.
Cathy 2 years ago
😑 Came for the history, left because of al the war related stuff (this is the BP airport right?!)
Gidget Girl 2 years ago
What exactly do you think most history is? Happy stuff?
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Some funny, some sad, some informative, and some disrespectful. A fine assortment.
John L 2 years ago
I think I am not alone in saying, I didn't get a lot of these references....
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
Me neither even when people explained it in the comments I still didn't understand a lot of it!
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Yeah, well, these so-called "funny" "historians" don't know much about history.
Cathy 2 years ago
😑 Came for the history, left because of al the war related stuff (this is the BP airport right?!)
Gidget Girl 2 years ago
What exactly do you think most history is? Happy stuff?
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