50 Funny And Accurate History Memes For Everyone Who Wants To Learn More About Our Past (New Pics)
Through history, we learn how past societies, governments, cultures, and technologies were built, how they operated, and how they have changed over time. This knowledge can then help us to get a more detailed picture of where we stand today and what to expect from the future.
But time is precious, and you don't always get the chance to dissect a book on what shaped the present. Luckily, though, the internet has more to offer than just pdfs. It also has plenty of jpegs.
Continuing from where we left off last time, we at Bored Panda put together a new collection of posts from the subreddit r/HistoryMemes and the Instagram account History in Memes. You get to see the first pig to fly, poke fun at Americans naming their cities, and much, much more. Enjoy!
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Thoughts?
The UK is viewed as the country responsible for the most holidays celebrated by other countries for getting away from the UK
Load More Replies...Also a great curator for historic items taken from other countries.
I don't know why you were downvoted. This is true. The British museum is home to several cultural artifacts that were stolen. When people started to investigate them, they simply said that they were keeping it or something bogus like that. There's a little advantage though. If the British had not taken some artifacts, they might have been destroyed due to negligence. But now, these countries want them back but they keep hearing lame excuses. The "Ori Olokun", an outstanding bronze head sculpture is currently in the British museum, even though Nigerians have petitioned for it to be returned again and again.
Load More Replies...Lord Ringo ain't wrong... there's a few more independence days to create, tho.
It All Makes Sense Now
But it's so true! I have European peasant dna and it really sucks when i try to exercise
Load More Replies...As one of those Murderous Bastards, I object. We're just trying to keep you fit. Think of us as your free Personal Trainers
Ha ha ha ! I feel the same way! Mine will sometimes say! Dinna worry lassie! Fresh hot bread from the oven is guid for ya ! Smear some of that wonderful golden butter on it, tastes even better!! Be quick lassie! Need ta run from those Murdering bastards in helmets!!
I've been saying this for years! Diet? My DNA says "not to worry, we can store ALL the calories in fat cells until this famine ends!"
Hahaha... Maybe try riding a bike instead? Bikes didn't exist back then when you were fleeing from the murderous bastards
But why bother with history in the first place? Well, Peter N. Stearns, a professor at George Mason University, said that it's vital to our lives even though we like to live in the present and plan for the future.
"In the first place, history offers a storehouse of information about how people and societies behave," Stearns wrote. "Understanding the operations of people and societies is difficult, though a number of disciplines make the attempt. An exclusive reliance on current data would needlessly handicap our efforts. How can we evaluate war if the nation is at peace—unless we use historical materials? How can we understand genius, the influence of technological innovation, or the role that beliefs play in shaping family life, if we don't use what we know about experiences in the past?"
When Your Joke Backfires And You Accidentally Advance Women’s Rights
So 60 percent of MEN voted for her? I don't think women could vote then. Very interesting and I'm going to have to Google her.
Who’s the joke now?! And history showing that men have always thought their jokes won’t backfire on them.
Major W
"Giving away land..." imagine that these days. I feel so sorry for Gen Z and millennials with the cost of houses today.
That's amazing! My great grandfather accepted some of the free land in Saskatchewan to start life as a farmer. He may have also received some of your great grandfather's seeds!
What a connection! Do your family still have that land today? (I must admit, I thought it was amusing that BP blocked out Saskatchewan the first time, but left it in, for the second. What's the big deal about knowing which town it was, anyway?)
Load More Replies...Pretty awesome helping out those framers who stole all that land.
Load More Replies...That's such a nice thing todo without spending money as well and making new friends
I won a supply of Jif lemon cleaner as a kid in 1988. They only stopped sending it in 2001 when the company became Cif. I would say that’s a pretty good run of free stuff.
How to stop giving away free stuff: Change the company name and say that the deal no longer applies.
Load More Replies...Hey, weren't all we Cabbage Patch kid owners from the 80's supposed to get birthday cards for life? I got one and never heard from the company again.
To everyone saying the dude was evil because the land was stolen- we can't go back and change history just vow to never repeat it. I really want to know how many of you wear nikes or other designer things made by exploitation? Where is your outrage for contemporary issues?
I Love A Nice Vase
1. And they still haven't returned that f*** ton of c**p. / 2. I mean, who doesn't appreciate a nice vase?
1 is a difficult issue. At the time, pretty much none of the other cultures gave a s**t about those items. Tourism and local museums didn’t exist and locals simply weren’t interested in it. So they sold it for close to nothing because that’s what it was worth to them. A little while later, the world has changed and it would be fair to return lots of items. But nobody can make them.
Load More Replies...My two kittens that identify as Tasmanian Devils (well at least the cartoon version). They prefer mosaics apparently.
Load More Replies...So here is the thing about ancient artifacts... there are laws in place that provide for return of artifacts to their country of origin PROVIDED that they can be housed in appropriate storage. For example if you are a teeny tiny town in say Southern Italy that is poor, chances are much higher that the item will not be returned if it is something that may be adversely affected by heat, humidity, local insects, etc... The goal of most museums now is the preservation of artifacts - which is why today things like the Mona Lisa and the Decleration of Independence are behind glass, with humidity and temperature closely regulated to keep them from breaking down. I have seen/studied museums where artifacts were returned, but then housed incorrectly. One ancient artifact was returned to a country that placed it in a non-air conditioned museum in a town next to the ocean, and in a building with a ton of windows. Within three years the heat, humidity and sunlight totally destroyed it.
It's not that hard these days to make a goddamn replica. I'm British (or at least live here) and FOR F***S SAKE GIVE PEOPLE BACK THEIR HISTORY.
Some of it's been returned, mainly because they've been shamed into it, but tonnes haven't.
Americans & their double standards. Yes, I’m commenting in hindsight but still…..
We beat them so we get to keep it, just like amerisca and the Indians.
Oh a nice vase (varse) is a lovely thing. But why do we have millions of tourists looking at our stolen stuff 🙄 Yes USA, im talking to you
The professor highlighted that some social scientists attempt to formulate laws or theories about human behavior but even these recourses depend on historical information, except for in limited, often artificial cases in which experiments can be devised to determine how people act.
"Major aspects of a society's operation, like mass elections, missionary activities, or military alliances, cannot be set up as precise experiments. Consequently, history must serve, however imperfectly, as our laboratory, and data from the past must serve as our most vital evidence in the unavoidable quest to figure out why our complex species behaves as it does in societal settings."
This, fundamentally, is why we can not stay away from history, Stearns said. "It offers the only extensive evidential base for the contemplation and analysis of how societies function, and people need to have some sense of how societies function simply to run their own lives."
History Of Religion Can Often Be Frustrating
Most prophets (especially Mohammed) were very clear about who to kill
Nope, he was pretty vague about it too. Mostly its left to the followers to come up with leaders who interpret the rules to suit their own biases and interests. Mohammed said nothing at all about killing Americans, or not eating kangaroos.
Load More Replies...Joey's got it right. Intolerance has been a significant cause for many wars.
Not Nice
Haha I can relate. My country has ruined me as a tourist for other countries..I always make a mental comparison of ancient achievements and I'm like "awww honey...." XD
Load More Replies...Try pointing out that Stonehenge is 20,000 years older than the pyramids.
you're a bit off, its actually somwhere between 500-1000 years
Load More Replies...Try to show Newgrange in Ireland, it is thought to be even older than the brick pile in Egypt.
Tell your wife that it's amazing what can be done with drive, determination and an endless supply of expendable labor.
It's a common misconception that slaves build the pyramids, they actually used farmers that had no work at that time of the year
Load More Replies...As if modern Egyptians had anything to do with the building of the pyramids. As with Stonehenge, the builders are far removed from the people that live in those countries now.
Ancient Americans: Pfft, ours are older. (Mummies in some areas of South America pre-date Egyptian mummies by 1000 yrs or more!)
This is pretty ignorant of South American history New World mummies had nothing to do with pyramids and weren't intentionally mummified the way Egyptian mummies were. They were just kids sent to die on mountain tops where the cold dry air preserved them. South American pyramids started to be built by the Aztecs in the terminal preclassic period about 2000 years ago. They're younger than Egyptian pyramids. Btw I studied this at University. Mayan and Aztec civilisations were incredible.
Load More Replies...Point out the lack of the Nile, an organized central government and priesthood, a long rainless building season, a stock of workers with nothing to do during the Inundation, writing, bronze tools...
Joe Bless
Zombie apocalypse. I'm actually surprised that it hasn't happened already!
I feel like "Jod" would result in more roaring what the f***s. xD (but I'm legit going to use "jod" now)
Ah, throwback to the old gif "jiff" pronunciation argument that people still fight about, even though the inventor of it was clear on how it was pronounced.
Absolutely nothing would surprise me. If God came down and said I'm sick of all you sinners, and started vaporizing ppl, I wouldn't be surprised.
Well, no!, Not just 2020, but 2021 and, thus far 2022. Heavens, our country is going downhill. It appears that mass shooting, including that of many children means little. Yes, politicians say they will fix the problem. But, nothing will come out of this. My condolences to Uvalde victims and many -- too many -- victims of other rampages.
No Shame
Linguists have shown that the American accent is closer to the accent spoken in England when they came to America than what is spoken there today. What we think of as an English accent is relatively new. The claims that Americans don't speak proper English are based on listening to redneck accents which are as close to representative of the average American as a cockney accent is too representing the average English person.
Being midwestern it took me years to realize that accents varied all over the country, not just the south, since our accent is the one tv people train to learn.... 🤦
Load More Replies...Yo I'm American and I speak quite a few languages. There's a of of multi or bilingual people here actually
As I pointed out in downvoted-to-oblivion comment: 67 million Americans are bilingual. And not in the "oh I learned in school" way, but can converse in it, etc. :-)
Load More Replies...The second reason history is inescapable as a subject of serious study stems from the first. "The past causes the present, and so the future," Stearns said. "Any time we try to know why something happened—whether a shift in political party dominance in the American Congress, a major change in the teenage suicide rate, or a war in the Balkans or the Middle East—we have to look for factors that took shape earlier."
Sometimes fairly recent history will suffice to explain a major development, but we often need to backtrack more to identify the causes of change.
"Only through studying history can we grasp how things change; only through history can we begin to comprehend the factors that cause change; and only through history can we understand what elements of an institution or a society persist despite change."
Indifferent Penguin (Left)
I agree, the penguin hung around for the selfie; it must have been impressed or maybe it just wanted a quick peek under the kilt.
Load More Replies...It doesn't specify whether it's his right or my right. Still confused.
Idk call me crazy but I think the tones that come from a bagpipe aren't that different from the tones of goose honks. Potentially the penguin just hears some kind of bird? Before anyone jumps on me, I do realize the birds are from different poles, as am I moderately far north. So my point of reference is geese and have not one clue what could sound similar though I assume something does....
Father Of John Wick
Don't forget he also used to volunteer for the Finnish Army during the Winter War and then joined the RAF to fight the Axis. The dude is borderline a legend.
He is an absolute legend. To be fair though - and not make him sound 250 years old - the last execution by guillotine in France was in 1977.
Yep, but he witnessed the last public one, which was in 1939.
Load More Replies...-Once corrected a film director about what it sounds like when you stab someone.
director Peter Jackson. Jackson allegedly told him to imagine what a man being stabbed in the back sounded like. Lee replied that he didn't have to imagine, because he knew what it sounded like.
Load More Replies...And he voiced King Haggard in The Last Unicorn in english and german. ..............................................................ETA: From Wikipedia: Known as an actor with a deep, strong voice, Lee also sang, recorded opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010 (at age 88), after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released in 2013 on Lee's 91st birthday.
Load More Replies...He will always be the original Dracula to me! (I know he was not the first)
I Still Do This
Tell Boris Johnson and henchmen to try debating sober, it might help.
They should add the idea sounding good when you're on LSD, too. Then again on Angel Dust.
They do... that's what Wine Friday was really about! Which of course makes it completely justified 😜 /s
Load More Replies...This sounds like a good idea... but I'd better take a few drinks and give it a re-think...
Pretty Straightforward
Well hopefully he'll die soon. There are rumours he has aggressive cancer. Normally I'd say "fúck cancer", but in this case I'll give it a pass.
Load More Replies...Technically, Kaliningrad is not Russia until after 1945 so I don't know. Should we count that? (For those who don't know, that little red region above Poland used to belong to Germany before 1945 called Konigsberg and was German land since the Teutonic Order)
Pit more help is not making it's way to the Ukraine, they have had to sell the Eurovision trophy
History well told — either through text, pictures, or any other medium — is beautiful. Many historians know the importance of dramatic and skillful writing (as well as of accuracy). They understand that with proper form they can transform a seemingly "dry" unappealing story to something that deeply moves the general public.
"Biography and military history appeal in part because of the tales they contain," Stearns said. "History as art and entertainment serves a real purpose, on aesthetic grounds but also on the level of human understanding. Stories well done are stories that reveal how people and societies have actually functioned, and they prompt thoughts about the human experience in other times and places."
"The same aesthetic and humanistic goals inspire people to immerse themselves in efforts to reconstruct quite remote pasts, far removed from immediate, present-day utility," the historian explained.
How Resourceful
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_r%C3%A9acteurs_nucl%C3%A9aires_en_France#/media/Fichier:Nuclear_power_plants_map_France-fr_2.svg
Load More Replies...that is not polite, but it is nothing compared to BElarus.. Belarus choosing to build a nuclear plant 40 km from Lithuania's capital Vilnius making the capital of neighboring country into evacuation zone in case of force majeure.. As if it is not enough, they did not follow safety standards when building the plant and do not allow international inspectors to inspect the area.
This is like Sweden who placed a nuclear powerplant just 20 kilometers away from the capitol of Denmark, Copenhagen. It was operational from 1975 to 2005, when it was finally closed down due to political pressure.
Nuclear power is actually some of the cleanest energy that you can create - provided that there are no accidents/meltdowns
What to do with nuclear waste regularly produced? That's as far as can be from clean.
Load More Replies...Belgium has a cracked one right next to Germany and was giving out iodine tablets to the population instead of shutting it down
Well they do have statues facing each other that basically say f you to the other. You wanna learn how to have beef for centuries look at these two.
Same Difference
Correct, otherwise it would be "we're brokeN"...
Load More Replies..."Broke" means "have no money." "Broken" means "something is fundamentally wrong with me."
In English I'd say "my wings are tied" to indicate that I can't help or act because I am constrained in some way.
Load More Replies...Yoink
Well, his mother is voiced by Julie Andrews, so... yeah.
Load More Replies...This is getting old. I mean every civilization has and will cart off things from other civilizations (russian wives texting their husbands to grab Ukranian washing machines). The british just happened along when better transportation was available.
I agree, as Tom Clancy wrote: war is "an armed robbery writ large". What's the point of starting a war and/or invading if you don't get any spoils? Every tribe or larger group has done it. The British just happen to be in a period when public opinion has some force. In 2,000 years time there will be a huge outcry for the Kremlin museum of ancient history to return that rarest of artefact, the V-Zug AdoraDish 6000 dish washer to its original owners.
Load More Replies...why do people keep bringing up the british stealing stuff. the southern united states used to be mexico!
All I can see is someone who looks a bit like Oscar Isaac, stealing the moon, when O.I. was just the phenomenal "Moon Knight". And now I'm sad that there's no more episodes of Moon Knight to look forward to, because I really enjoyed the show!
Spot On
Nothing in the modern world can happen until it's been monetized with ads and you've subscribed, commented and rung the bell.
Yup, it's the American way. (unfortunately and to our deterioration)
Load More Replies...And so much more garbage online. Slowing down seemingly reputable websites with junk like... pictures that almost went too far, warnings your liver is dying with vague symptoms, preying on hypochondriacs, etc. it's truly disgusting that some websites alloy such garbage in this age and time.
To be fair- all of our livers are dying from the toxic c**p consumerism driven by commercialism has created. I can tell you the secret to protect yours for the low low price of $199.95... Spoiler: it's fresh air, exercise, healthy foods, and most importantly !!Water!!
Load More Replies...I'm in thunderstorms right now, in tornado alley, and when I click to watch life saving information, if a tornado is coming, they make me watch ads first.
Its crazy that none of the other countries are sending troops to repel the invaders. What is this . . 1939?
Do you get a pizza in under 30 minutes or the end of the world (whichever comes 1st)?
History also provides a bridge to moral contemplation. Studying the stories of individuals and situations they've been in the past, whether we're talking about the Queen or Heath Ledger, allows us to test our own moral sense, to hone it against some of the real complexities people have faced in difficult settings.
"People who have weathered adversity not just in some work of fiction, but in real, historical circumstances can provide inspiration. 'History teaching by example' is one phrase that describes this use of a study of the past—a study not only of certifiable heroes, the great men and women of history who successfully worked through moral dilemmas, but also of more ordinary people who provide lessons in courage, diligence, or constructive protest."
Whoever Runs Their Twitter Needs A Raise
I believe (the vast majority of) today's Germans are genuinely ashamed of their past and do everything possible to make amends. (I'm Dutch by the way)
Load More Replies...It is a crisis. What could be more of a crisis than a brutal military invasion by a belligerent neighboring country?
And it's Ukraine, not the Ukraine. "The Ukraine" is what the Russians call it.
Load More Replies...Parrots Are An Anomaly
There were poems of lady conversing with her pet parrot 2000 yrs ago... !!
Not to sound like a smartass but this pic probably doesn't represent one of the first persons to have heard a parrot speak, does it? 🤓😉 (Looks quite European and that's not where parrots originate)
i'd prob be like "WELL it finally happened, i've lost my damn mind :D"
Right? We had friends with a Cockatiel named Tina. Lovely bird. Learned how to say "Aw, f*ck me!" Funny as hell.
First Pig
Is it just me or does the little fella look happy to be going on a sky tour?? ☺️
With all that machinery I'd say flight time would be pretty short. So need to lighten the load a bit well out goes the pig. I assume parachutes were invented after men learned to fly.
Load More Replies...My response when someone that that was really bugging me said that was "Like a pig hasn't been on a plane?" Stunned silence. Mission Accomplished lol
This Is Just So Bad It Might Work
"You get a Ukraine, Putin gets a Ukraine, everybody gets a Ukraine!"
Load More Replies...You’re not stupid. NFTs are stupid. https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq
Load More Replies...History also helps people to find their identity, and this is actually one of the reasons why modern nations continue to encourage its teaching in some form.
"Historical data include evidence about how families, groups, institutions, and whole countries were formed and about how they have evolved while retaining cohesion. For many Americans, studying the history of one's own family is the most obvious use of history, for it provides facts about genealogy and (at a slightly more complex level) a basis for understanding how the family has interacted with larger historical change," Stearns said.
Not Exactly The Most... Heteronormative Culture
The thing is that the Ancient Romans did not have a concept of gays and homosexuals. They just view that "I don't care if you are a man or woman. If you have a hole, I can have sex with you. The more I have, the more dominated I am."
It was common for an older man to "mentor" a younger man or teenage boy before the elder man got married, and that mentorship often included a sexual relationship.
It was in ancient Greece. Not in Ancient Rome! It's not the same.
Load More Replies...A lot of ancient cultures around the world didn't have a problem with that - abrahamic religions began to stigmatize them as whole
Load More Replies...Big Simp
And iirc they often had woman in their crew because they were about as dangerous as the men in fights.
Or they left them at home to run everything, which they did quite handily.
Load More Replies...Their woman. The Scottish and Welsh women that encountered them would probably disagree.
They dug up a mass grave of Viking warriors and found a lot of them were women.
Yup. Most cultures treat women as subordinates for breeding and domestic and farm labor.
Polite to women? maybe after they had raped them. Think you need to re-study the Vikings
They didn't rape their own women, though (yeah, I know that sounds just as bad)
Load More Replies...Time Flies
The same can be applied to computers as well. We went from those giant computers that was the size of an entire building that can only do simple mathematical calculations to a smartphone in less than 70 years. (I know that mechanical computers that read punchcards existed much earlier but I wanna focus on the one that was pioneered by Alan Turing in the 40s until the introduction of the smartphone)
I don't know if this comment is a joke or not.
Load More Replies...my grandmother was born in Finland 1898 & died in 1993. So her lifetime spanned no airplanes to the moon landings, and supersonic jets. Not only that but she witnessed the independence of Finland, the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Russian Empire, and the rise and fall of the of the Soviet Union.
This is kids' stuff. Up until 1800, people had been riding horses or sailing on wind powered ships for thousands of years. It could take two weeks to travel from New York to Philadelphia, or a month for someone in Boston to hear news from London. By 1900, we had steam ships, railroads, photography, the telegraph, the transatlantic telegraph, the wireless telegraph, the telephone, recorded sound, movies, and unfortunately, one-piece ammunition cartridges, repeating firearms, the Gatling gun, and modern battleships.
Wait'll we step back and look at what happened between 2019 and 2021... Thanks COVID
On second thought, between 2016 and 2021... Thanks Trump and COVID. You both are stains on the existence of humanity
Load More Replies...What amazes me more is that some can traverse from marriage to divorce in under 6 months....
And if the "woke" get their way, we can watch it regress in a decade.
How Og
I´d say somewhat more original than naming new cities just New City which has been done a lot in Europe over time. For example Naples, the countless places named Neapoli all around or later Neustadt in Germany. Also Carthage in its original Phoenician, which makes Cartagena even funnier as its Roman name Carthago Nova means New New City.
Um, the names were brought here by people *from* Europe, which is why there's New York State, New York City, York (town of) in New York State, and York, Pennsylvania, as well as Rome, London, Paris, New London... but given the native names were Narragansett or Monongahela in anglicized spelling, I kinda get why it was done.
And islands in the Pacific Ocean - New Britain, New Ireland, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Georgia. I agree with not always using native names - Would have been embarrassing living in a place which translated to English means "that's your finger you dork" or "place where men p**s a lot" or "point that finger at me and I'll spear you in the guts". Definitely hold off giving native place names 'til you have a good grasp of the local language and sense of humour.
Load More Replies...Ummm... The people who named new York came over from York and considered themselves Europeans since they had been born there and lived there their whole lives! Americans do enough stupid things without needing to make any up!
Alexander the Great: I think I’ll name this place Alexandria. And all the other places too.
The Japanese have Kyoto meaning "Capital City" and when they opened the new capital they named it "Tokyo" which is "East Capital". You'll find many peoples around the world through time not knocking themselves out to be super artsy and creative with their city names.
I was born in Portsmouth and I work in Norfolk. Never been to England though.
Well, we kinda got over that as we expanded west from the east coast. As well as adopted or adapted from the original Native American or Spanish names, so many of them ended up being descriptive, or just oddball—-as if they were named as a joke, only the joke name stuck. Here are a few: Hell for Certain, KY. Bear Dance, MT. Truth or Consequences, NM. Slapout, OK. Zigzag, OR. Rough and Ready, CA. Last Chance, CO. Beer Bottle Crossing, ID. Hungry Joe, MT. Greasy, OK. Starvation Heights, OR. Plenty Bears, SD. Miner’s Delight, WY. There are a lot more. So I’d say the farther away from the colonies we moved, the more inventive we got about naming (or renaming—-my humble apologies to the Native Americans and earlier Spanish settlers for this!) all the literal thousands of new places we settled or passed through.
To be honest, those were the european settlers that named those cities after their hometowns..
The Romans certainly ripped a few ideas from the US - they based their architecture on Monticello and the Senate on the American version and the spaghetti on canned Spaghetti-O.
Load More Replies...Even if we take a step back and look at institutions, businesses, and other social units, such as ethnic groups, we can see that they also use history for similar purposes.
"Merely defining the group in the present pales against the possibility of forming an identity based on a rich past," Stearns explained. "And of course, nations use identity history as well ... Histories that tell the national story, emphasizing distinctive features of the national experience, are meant to drive home an understanding of national values and a commitment to national loyalty."
So if you find yourself unable to stop scrolling through this list, relax. You're not wasting your time. On the contrary, you might be growing in more ways than you might imagine.
It Really Do Be Like That
Pretty sure Indian cinema makes up for it, and does a wonderful job of bringing Indian history to life.
With the enhanced and dramatic lightning effects and super punches.
Load More Replies...Hi. I'm American. How old your country? Mine is almost 250. So yeah, were basically teenagers. This should clear up some things for you.
So much happened so fast in the last 200 years that Americans almost think of different decades like their own historical epochs. Like we have so many damn Wild West movies, but historically the number of gunfights in the West was pretty low and the job title of "cowboy" only lasted about 14 years.
There were people on this land before Europe or the rest of the world knew it.
also chinese/japanese/korean history. usually, the only chinese/japanese/korean characters in movies are slim, athletic, fanservice kawaii waifus with a strict father and is always compared to a lotus/tiger/dragon.
Worth
A journalist asked them to comment and they said "Nun of your business!"
The young priest who did our marriage ceremony (Italy) decided to give up the church and travel around Europe on his dirt bike. 😎
Buddy Is Kooky
Tom Cruise is also a terrible actor AND person. It's kinda disgusting how big this whole Top Gun thing is rn
Load More Replies...I think it's a waste to let Tom Cruise dominate your thoughts so much though. Or go watch Edge of Tomorrow so you can see him die over and over and over again.
The nothingness behind his eyes is just the nothingness between his ears leaking out.
Tom Cruise's smile to me always looks like the countless hours he spent in front of the mirror practicing Tom Cruise's smile.
That's what happens when you sell your soul to L. Ron Hubbard.
That's a real good one!. Worth to remember an think about (a lot!), I think...
Christians Sure Are A Contentious Bunch
Actually, in history the Jews and Samaritans were from different lands (Israel and Samaria) with different beliefs. Samaritans were the children of Jews who married Gentiles, therefore the Jews hated them. The Great Commission was given to the newly repented Christians to love the Samaritans and Gentiles, and to preach the Gospel to them.So Christians who understood what their beliefs were about (having faith in Christ, loving others, and spreading the Gospel) were loving to their neighbors (it's literally part of the greatest commandment in the Bible) It was the extremists who held prejudice against those of different beliefs. If you read about Paul's missions, he loved the people he was trying to evangelize so much, despite most of them having different beliefs. So Christianity is about faith and love. As a Christian myself I am very saddened and bothered when those extremists give us a bad name. I may not agree with everything you do or say, but I will not kill you for it.
Thanks for not killing me. But yes, it is a shame that the adherents of faiths end up using their supposed beliefs to excuse the most horrendous depravities. Whether they be Christians, or Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.
Load More Replies...Christians when they see another Christians with the same beliefs, but from another country.
Yep, they're the worst - all organized religion is utterly ridiculous with its tells of magic, while also making sure that it's only to the benefit of men, while crushing women.
Many religions actually promote matriarchal power. Afro Latino religions, like Candomblé, Santeria, Voodoo, traditionally only allow female priests, and make women the center of religious power. It makes sense, given that women are life creators. That's a serious kind of magic
Load More Replies...Don't forget the Seminole people on Florida who adopted the English settlers' lifestyle and religion completely. And were driven out like cattle on the Trail of Tears because they just weren't white enough. The fact they dressed, built houses, and worshipped exactly like they did made absolutely no difference to them at all.
Bad news makes headlines. There are "bad" and "good" people adhering to every belief system. However, some will mention bad things done by large groups of people that adhere to a particular religion. One of these large groups: atheists. Stalin, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot: all atheists who put to death millions of people who disagreed with them. Some may argue: well these do not accurately represent atheists, and there are many "good" atheists in the world. People of every belief system could argue the same. One must look at the actual beliefs of each belief system, not just the conduct of people who claim to adhere to said belief systems. Although some may try to counter this with a statement of their particular perception that more bad has been done in the name of a particular belief system than others. This may be a difficult thing to objectively quantify without resorting to anecdotal evidence, or without being influenced by personal bias.
Even if these factors (bias, anecdotal evidence, etc) could be eliminated, this would be difficult to quantify.
Load More Replies...Look its not just religions, its everyone else who doesn't live in our valley. We're OK, we just do a few preemptive strikes every now and then - nope its them over there who are the savages. Read "A short short story of mankind" by John Steinbeck if you can get hold of it - a great allegory that explains it all.
There's an interesting article on the evolution of religions, and why it was adventagious for religions to develope into genocide machines. And why modern religions are evolving away from that. It takes a biological approach to the history of religions. Wish I could remember the name. You would like it i think.
Load More Replies...But with that being said, there are fewer people studying the subject. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, we had 34,642 history majors in 2008. Fast forward to 2017, and the count was just 24,266. Most of that decline occurred after 2012, with a notable single-year drop of more than 1,500 between 2016 and 2017.
However, that might just be temporary. Writing for the American Historical Association's blog Perspectives on History, Northeastern University's Benjamin M. Schmidt pointed out that the history major has had low points before. The discipline weathered a significant decline between 1969 and 1985, when the major dropped by 66 percent.
(At the time, those numbers were linked to higher education’s boom in the '60s that saw the discipline's rapid expansion and subsequent bust when higher education growth slowed in the '70s.)
It Really Do Be Like That
Lol. Try telling American Christian's that Jesus wasn't white... their heads explode.
Can the OP, or anyone else name one, just ONE, actual American textbook used in a real school in the last twenty years that claims pharaohs were typically nordic dudes? If possible please provide a citation and the name of the school that adopted it.
The kind used in homeschooling may be culpable. My oldest godson is in the US Air Force and is a flat-earther thanks to "homeschooling" b/c Mommy and Daddy chose the materials, and it was very very very very very ... blindingly *Anglo* in nature. His little history book showed all the Europeans as blue-eyed blonds. ALL. Of. Them. FFS.
Load More Replies...Ancient Egypt was a society that had a bunch different skin tones, from the Nubians to those closer related to the Levantines (who had much paler skin, almost white ) and middle eastern skin tones. This argument of "where they "white" or where they "black" is pathetic tbh.
Does that imply that a Native American could be an Italian?
Load More Replies...And in the Middle East Jesus was white with blue eyes. Riiiiiight.
While they were not white, the Ptolemic dynasty originated in Macedonia so they would have been lighter skinned then most of the rest of the rulers from earlier in Egyptian history.
Everybody Has A Friend Like This
Now That’s Cool
Let's not forget, The Great Emu War. It took place from November 1932 – 10 December 1932. Where Australia went to war with emus, and LOST!
As an Aussie, I'd have to say the Florida appears to have weirder s**t. 🤔
Load More Replies...Reminds me of what my sister has told me about the Rover scouts 'Mudbash'. The part she was most interested was the obstacle course, much better than just cars going around a track!
Load More Replies...Same! This is what I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_chariot_racing
Load More Replies...Come on there was also a lot of very interesting aircraft and other technology development going on, advances in mass media - radio and movies, and much more going on during that decade.
Instant Hands
and the 24 miles were the last leg. he ran from athens to sparta, 150 miles, and then back, 150 more miles, fought for three days, and then ran to marathon (city in ancient greece) and then died while in full battle gear…he ran almost 350 miles in about a week…
Load More Replies...Christians wear the crucifix. Imagine being killed by a rifle and having those who loved you wearing miniature rifles in memory of you.
There was a comic book story in the 1950s about an Earth astronaut who landed on another planet and was seen as a prophet, but the government was threatened by him so they executed him on a rack. When other earthlings arrived years later, there was a religion based on the first visitor from Earth and its adherents wore miniature racks as pendants.
Load More Replies....Pretty sure that he ran from Marathon to Athens having very recently run from Athens to Sparta and back..?
that’s exactly what happened. 350ish miles in like 7 days
Load More Replies...Schmidt also said that the anxiety over career prospects for history majors is probably misguided, since we know that students with history BAs disperse into a wide variety of careers.
"The increasingly common practice of lumping a wide variety of disparate fields together as STEM is probably giving students and their parents excessive expectations about the earning potential conferred by many science and technology degrees," he wrote.
"While engineers in their 20s can indeed make salaries that would make most full professors of history jealous, science, technology, and math majors are much more of a mixed bag. Extensive data ... released out of the University of Texas system do show history majors making less than most science fields after controlling for the university they attended. But they appear to make more than many other fields, including English, psychology, sociology, and even a number of biology-adjacent majors (such as zoology, ecology, and neurobiology, though traditional biology majors make somewhat more)."
Fair Play
A bit like a substitute coming on with five minutes to go and their team already 6-0 up. Running round the pitch at the end holding the trophy aloft.
Hey, if that substitute is Teddy Sheringham and it's 1999...
Load More Replies...At that point, it was pro forma for the US to not be involved in wars unless they directly affected the security of the US. Of course, it became easier and easier to redefine "security" over time to mean just about anything...usually "they have resources that we want."
I agree for World War I. For World War II though it's a gross oversimplification - the U.S. provided the vast majority of materiel for the war effort for all the allied nations, and this was critical. For instance, the Soviet Union, arguably the one who really did most of the fighting in that war, could not have made much of an impact without the enormous resources provided by the U.S. Vehicles, ammo, food, medicine, and much more.
Well, some people might call that "war profiteering", considering how rich those manufacturers selling those products became by the end of the war.
Load More Replies...Of course America won each of the conflicts and paid the bill for reconstruction. The US did lose more ships than any of the European countries, and lost about 45% of their soldiers and sailors. World peace is expensive.
Especially, when you are starting war based on never existed nuclear weapons.
Load More Replies...Same thing with the First World War actually. Also European immigrants and immigrants from the south boosted americas indusrty
Love Them Both Equally… Barely
Mine is a sassy little black creature who always meows back whenever she's told to do something useful like kill a fly
Mine is a polite murder beast who will kill anything that moves, provided it's smaller than him.
Load More Replies...I don't see how cats can be athiests, as they believe in God. They just believe that THEY are God. Ancient Egyptian history reflects this!
Very Realistic
My mom was a historian (ancient and medieval) and it was impossible to watch movies with her because she'd continually comment on the historical anachronisms...from clothing to architecture to weaponry.
I have no specific knowledge of fashion history, but even I cringe when a viking is clearly wearing vinyl not leather. I couldn't even watch Outlander, when the woman finds herself in a fort full of men, yet they found different gorgeous period dresses for her to wear each day.
Load More Replies...I think more attention should be paid to historical costume accuracy. I mean, method acting. How can you really understand a historical character unless you’re dressed exactly as they would’ve been? I don’t mean that as playing dress ups either. I wore a historically accurate mid-Victorian woman’s gown for a re-enactment once. While it was a really neat thing at first, it wasn’t long before it was f*****g unbearably hot and heavy, and a real burden to wear. The corset was very restrictive, and the sheer weight of pantaloons, chemise, crinoline (the hoop), petticoats, and dress left me with sore shoulders for several days. Don’t even want to talk about the experience of going to the bathroom—-trying to manage going to the bathroom, I mean. Let’s talk about the hair. Anyone with long hair knows that the weight of it when it’s piled on top of your head can give you a headache and sore neck. You also cannot get dressed or fix your hair by yourself. My husband had to hold sections of my hair while I put it up in an accurate style. He also had to tighten and lace up my corset, get the crinoline balanced right, help me get petticoats and gown over my head and straightened out, and button the buttons on the back of the gown. I understand a lot better now just how restrictive life was for Victorian women simply because of their clothing, and I am so happy to be living in an age of (comparatively) comfortable fashions.
How about how movies just pretend that all historical figures in every country had modern British accents. Even British people didn't have modern British accents.
I hate it when they have perfectly straight and white teeth in historical movies! Ugh! My mom pointed it out when I was young, and now I can't stop noticing it!
British Units
What kind of idiot would deliberately do that?
Load More Replies...We use both, it's just so stupid... like sometimes I'll make a cake in imperial, and measure liquid in metric, but I'll drink beer in imperial
And now the government has just announced (in the last couple of days) that it's to start a consultation into using imperial measures. I think it's crazy but
Pretty much all countries, counties and towns had their own individual imperial systems before invention of metric system..
We use both and I don't understand why being bilingual is so great but being bimathial is somehow week.
The only time we really use Imperial in Australia is pints of beer!
Load More Replies...Schmidt said that ultimately, the long-term state of the discipline will rest on how it adapts to a cohort of students—and their parents—who are much less receptive to arguments for the liberal arts than previous generations have been.
He noted that many departments and organizations have already worked out useful ways to articulate the purpose of the major. These are undoubtedly helping attract and retain students.
Who knows, maybe these memes will also help 'sell' history.
Love To See It
Sad truth: "States' rights" go too far, and you end up with Texas. And Florida. I'm American, and I wish we'd stop the bullsh*t.
A funny fact about Germany: We have one state where the death penality is still legal - the only thing theoretically preventing executions is that federal law overrules state law
Load More Replies...I live in Florida... It's like living under the thumb of someone whose gone insane, only the idiots around me keep reelecting him! The city I live in is the same way with an insane council and mayor. Under Trump I was able to say the same thing about the entire country and I started investigating what it would be like to move to Europe..... Are least Biden is just inept and not insane. It's thoughts like that which save my own sanity.
Not quite. The closest we came were the plantations of the antebellum south—-and we fought a war about 160 years ago which made them go extinct. Governors of American states do not own the entire state, while feudal lords owned the land they governed. We have to have states tailor certain local laws to fit their local society and surroundings as well as follow broader federal laws, because the country is just too large and diverse. Laws that fit a coastal state are useless in a desert or mountainous state. Laws that fit more populous states may not apply to states that are sparsely populated. Hell, laws in one part of a state with wildly diverse climate/topography/population may not apply to another part of the state. So a certain amount of governing has to be delegated to smaller entities—-who all have to answer to larger entities, who themselves have to answer to one ultimate entity (the buck has to stop somewhere)—-in order to be manageable. FFS people, Hammurabi realized this almost 4000 years ago (c.1750 BC)!!!
Pretty much a discounted Roman Empire. At least it's not the Holy Roman Empire.
A very ignorant version of the US constitution and the role of each state
As opposed to Putin's and Xi''s doctrine: "all your planet are belong to us"
Love That Shit
I laughed so much when I read that for the first time. This made me remember it. Thank you.
Load More Replies...diogenes was a bro. he knew what he wanted. he wanted to sit in a barrel. also, does anyone else want a sitcom where ancient philosophers are whooshed into the future and funny hijinks ensue? because i want that.
. We inherited a lot of them,from Europeans, who came to North America, and loathed Europe so much they named everything after it. There's New York, York in Pennsylvania, ther was York in Ontario, now Toronto, we can keep going, but seriously, wtf, enough, there's even a York, New York!)
In New England (other than "New England"), we generally don't even bother with the "new." Worcester, Marlborough, Cambridge, Gloucester, etc.
Load More Replies...Also worth mentioning that the first Africans were brought to this country on a DUTCH ship. But don't forget to ignore the fact that they were indentured servant's and all but like three of them earned their freedom within the first several years.... kinda went down hill from there....
PS. The bad hombres included a few Jews who wanted to settle in the New World.
Gotta Do Whatcha Gotta Do
George Washington didn't know about the temptation of oil! Uh, I mean, spreading freedom.
The United States has changed a LOT since it was founded. They used to be keen on separation of church and state and republicans weren’t that bad.
He also said don't form parties and try to keep religion out of government... well, he tried.
A "few hundred years"? We didn't even wait till he was dead till we started getting involved in foreign conflicts. (Quasi war with France, and a couple of Indian Wars where the Indians had foreign backing)
THIS IS Cyril Ramaphosa, HE IS OUR BEST HIP HOP ARTIST IN SOUTH AFRICA!!!!!!!
And why? When did the US become the world's police force? I'm sorry for your conflict, but why is MY son expected to serve and die on foreign soil for something we have NOTHING to do with? (No, my son did not die, just sayin').
I mean we did only put him on a quarter and a dollar. The big bill is reserved for the guy who was an Overseas Ambassador lol
She’s A Keeper
The library burned more than once and by the time it did it was no longer the epicenter of learning in the Mediterranean world. Instead, the library slowly declined as it became less unique because other libraries amassed considerable collections. There was no great, tragic moment where countless works were all lost in an instant.That’s not how the chain of transmission breaks. See the point Literature in the article linked beneath. https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-fall-part-i-words/
What Happened To Free Speech?
Look if all law books have jokes and pictures inside, everyone will focus
since ben franklin had very... exiting experiences with every woman he met, we can call him not a Founding Father, but rather, the Founding Daddy
No frankie its okay I will bow to your power of actuallytryingtogetpeopletoreadit :)
All Men Are Equal, But Some Men Are More Equal Than Others!
That reminds of an enslaved person (his name was Billy), who was forced to fight for the British during the Revolutionary War, but was about to be executed for treason by the U.S. The two dissenting judges in his case wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson (who was governor of Virginia at that time) arguing that since slaves were legally property, and not people, he couldn't have committed treason. It worked, and Billy was pardoned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_(slave)
Technically, Jefferson wanted to free slaves in “all men are created equal”, but the other founding fathers shot him down about it.
So he kept and sold slaves on his own property. Yeah, he was big talk about "end slavery gradually" but he didn't walk the talk, so he gets no credit for it from me.
Load More Replies...Lice At The Portuguese Royal Court = Fashion
Feels Bad Man
Would Ya Look At That
It really does wonders, doesn't it? I would love to be able to go and see these locations later in my life.
Don't wait. I'm older and travelled when I could when younger. Ill health is getting in the way now. Glad I went when I did.
Load More Replies...Things like this truly leave me in awe. I want to visit, but I don't, because my mind wants to absorb every detail and go back in time to see this.
Mad Respect
I think that's supposed to be the shroud of Turin, but I like the take.
It’s Saint Veronica’s veil. She supposedly wiped Jesus’s face and his image appeared in the cloth. Apparently he was burning his image into a lot of fabric in those last three days lol!
Load More Replies...also, can't be the Shroud of Turin in the painting, because Jesus isn't actually dead yet, and the shroud would have to have time warped back in time.
Portuguese Drax
Switzerland during the Medieval period vs Switzerland during World Wars in a nutshell
The Sumerians Played A Trick On Us
That was written only about 4,000 years ago and we have solid evidence of civilizations going back to 9,000 years ago. No surprises there if you ask me.
Before written language, each tribe had its storytellers, who were important because they memorized the story of the tribe, and the world itself, including its creation. Naturally, as each new generation of storyteller came up, the stories were tweaked to fit the zeitgeist of their times, or the personality of their leader. When we started writing, these stories were finally written down, so the storytellers weren’t needed anymore (unless maybe they were the only ones who could read and understand the text). I believe that compiling these stories could have been the basis for the Old Testament. The New Testament is likely based on witness accounts of the life of one extraordinary man. To clarify, I am not religious at all. But I think I can see how that particular book was put together, and believe the interpretations of key events may have been based on the understanding of those events in the time they were created, then changed or embellished over the ensuing centuries or millennia.
the earliest known writing dates back to about 3400 BC, But modern Homo sapiens came on the scene about 160,000 years ago. So the history of our species between about 157,900 BC and 3400 BC (and any civilizations that rose and fell during that time) are completely unknown to us.
Funny thing... it was Europeans that named all the US east coast cities of the original colonies.
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He and the Mighty Atom would get along. https://todayinhistory.blog/2019/02/22/december-22-1943-the-mighty-atom/
This Guy
Most of his women look like really buff dudes with random boobs attached as an afterthought lol.
Funnily enough, that happens to be one of the /less/ cheeky things Michelangelo decided to paint on that church... turns out he decided to insult all the people who hired him on the way out too
What A Genius
Fortunately, George Dantzig looked a lot better tan this guy here.
Well, he does look like he's got something to say.
Load More Replies...Looks Like An Old Burrito
United States Of Alaska
Lovely Cows
when god made Scotland the most perfect beautiful country, a scotsman thanked the almighty who replied "jokes on you wait till you see who i gave you as neighbours"..
We have scafell pike... and we'll claim Snowdon, seeing as we claimed the rest of Wales 700 years ago :D
Load More Replies...Holy
Pizza existed long before. You can also use other sauces as a base. My local pizzeria makes one with pumpkin mousse in autumn, for instance.
Load More Replies...Fair Play
I didn't know that, that is so cool! America could never. Also, love the fact that harry potter is sliding its way in here.
Oh really? When and who forced Portugal to care about Poland?
Load More Replies...Their (fascist) dictator offered to join in with the allies but was told that they would be more helpful neutral.
Load More Replies...Less Sausage, More Carrots
They did back it up with science. Carrots being a good source of vitamin A, which is good for the eyes.
British put out the carrot vision improvement notice to divert the actual use of radar as the ability for the night fighters to down the German planes
Cats Do Rule The World
Basque (Euskera) was used for that same purpose during a war (don't know which one)
We Didn't Agree On This
Holddd Up Wait A Minute
Frank Doesn’t Wanna Pay Taxes 5w
But appearances are misleading. The shape doesn't change indeed, because it's perfectly convenient for an environment that doesn't change much. But "inside", in the genetic program, there is A LOT of evolution. Immune system for example is rightfully up to date and very different from what it was in ancestors 445 million years ago. Same with sharks : we deem them primitive but they are very sophisticated, they can smell molecules or sense electromagnetics fields around them with a precision we still fail to understand completely ; in a way, they are way more sensible and smarter than the cold-blood killing machines we think they are. Seeing evolution as a kind of contest where some species are more advanced than others (and where human kind would be on top, of course) is a very mistaken view : in the present time, after some 3.5 billion years of life on Earth, every single species you can observe is extremely evolved. That includes horseshoe crabs of course.
Wait a minute! So you're telling that Creation was not 6000 years ago? Interesting
Absolute Craters
Yeah, definitely fake. I have a pothole outside my house that went from "oops" to "omg!" in like 3 months. Someone stuck a traffic cone in it to warn drivers, but the cone eventually sank too far in and couldn't be seen. Then the hole grew weeds and we had a weird impromptu garden on the street. This was all over the course of a year. Recently someone filled it with gravel.
Load More Replies...Japan may be good but they didn't fix that in a week. Darn internet tryin to fool us again
You're right....it only took them 2 days to fix it, they spent the rest of the time testing it to check whether it was safe before reopening.
Load More Replies...Michael Collins Is The Real Legend
The Islamic Golden Age Is Underrated Ngl
Everybody else: Unfortunately, history will not see you that way.
Welcome To The Industrial Era!
Ezpz Lemon Squeezy
It's Tony Soprano's house. From the show. The Sopranos.
Load More Replies...More like 1979. I bought my house in 1997, and it's a small 2BR house, which was all I could afford after several months of working double time and during a buyers' market. On the same salary, my parents had a custom built 4-bedroom house.
Must have been annoying to run out of loo roll and have to go back to Germany to replenish
The Grand Staircase Before And After The Sinking Of The Rms Titanic
Have the cleaners got the century off? This is just deplorable. Call the agency and find a new housemaid.
The only maids they could afford down there were mermaids.. And you know jiw difficult they are to find..
Load More Replies...Makes Me Wanna Do Some Renovations
I see MacCarthy as some kind of zombie still running the US to thi day, from a secret chamber underneath the White House.
Load More Replies...It's still ongoing. They've even ramped up the language and have now gone full fascist. They in this scenario being the GOP and the maga nutz.
What A Mess
I wish this was still true but the French seem completely anesthetized now.
Too Much Going On Lately
Yeah, right, like the human race will actually survive all the way to 2050.
Well, there might be a few survivors in some out-of-the-way place who'll get blasted back to the stone-age and will have to start everything again from scratch... Wouldn't be the first time...
Load More Replies...I don't think, especially 2020 will be like something happened from January till mid March, then there was lockdown so nothing actually happened. 2021 started with lockdown, then vaccine came out and THEN when mankind went bananas.
Idk Why But It Feels Like Somethings Missing
is it weird that i know more american history than my own countries histories because of tv. Like i can name almost all the states and know all bout lincoln and george washington. I have a feeling there are people outside of the us who know more us history than literal citizens
I'm from Vietnam and I know the history of Europe and the US wayyy better than my own country's own history. I believe it's just that some country's history is either too complex to study or it's just not interesting enough for some history books to cover.
Load More Replies...What Did That Lamp Do To You?
Fair Play
Where’s Metallica At Now When We Need Them?
Buy In Ethiopia, Sell In Australia 6w
Buys 25lbs of bananas in Ethiopia and ships them by plane (fast before they rot) to Australia only to find that shipping them means I have to sell them for 5 dollars for 3 lbs to just break even…
Or do it like everybody else - harvest them before they are ripe, put them on a ship and let them get ripe on the way to australia 😉
Load More Replies...What The Heck Is Even That
1914 Was Nuts
Assassination of Archduke spreads fear at Archduke convention! Lol!
Behind the scenes : Britain - terrified Russia will attack India so allies with Russia.
Heartbreaking
and on Valentine's Day. That's some Nietzsche level mind twist
Load More Replies...Big Yikes
Polish Horse
DONT RUN YOU NEED TO MAINTAIN FORMATION TO COUNTER CAVALRY IF YOU RUN HE WILL CUT YOU DOWN
Not Lovely
The Mujahideen Has Entered The Chat
They stopped after the Cold War ended?...
Cold War didn't really end. That's the plot twist.
Load More Replies...Gone, But Not Forgotten
Nathaniel I would just love to sit around and chat with you L o l
Load More Replies...What A Great Idea
Could someone explain to me how democracy would be supposed to work with only one "political faction"? (Or even only two if it comes.to that...)
The post is saying there should be no political parties at all, which would facilitate more informed voting. Lots of people just vote for their party’s rep without even knowing anything about them. It’s lazy and results in c**p people being elected. People focus so much on their party winning, they’re not examining the actual candidates anymore.
Load More Replies...That’s Fire
Everybody Makes Mistakes
Thales Was A Chad
If I Had A Nickel...
Yes
That chicken looks like they about to ask for the manager
Uh Oh
Where Did Our Manners Go?
Bobson Dugnutt Op
You can't tell me there isn't a Dean Wesrey or Mike Truk somewhere. They might play baseball sometimes, too.
Nice Try Pal
Okay seriously!? You blanked out the name of the country of N***r? Really?
But what if they get demonetized for showing that? Or words like "died", "killed", "sex"? Where would they otherwise steal content to monetize?
Load More Replies...Was talking to a woman about how my parents are moving to Portugal (from the US), and that they initially considered Costa Rica. She kept getting both countries confused with Mexico, and when I told her they're on three different continents she laughed and said they all speak Spanish down there "like they do in Brazil".
Anyone else starting to suspect BP is really a front for an experiment to see how much censorship people will tolerate?
Yooo Heaven Costs $15?
Saddest Last Words Of Some Of The Most Important Thinkers In History
Must Read
Washing Machine You Love To See It
My great-grandmother got gout in her hands from washing clothes in the river, so yes, the washing machine is a great invention
Impressive
Annex The Syrup Country
He was actually the only one in that movie who had any sense of normalcy.
Load More Replies...Wouldn't have happened. People in Bellingham WA were too laid back. My cousins lived there.
Oh You’re A Memer? Sad
Now they are gonna need a PhD because the only place hiring historians is the university
Actually incorrect - a lot of places hire people with history degrees because they tend to have an eye for detail, excellent writing skills, critical thinking and analysis. Historians go into fields like politics, journalism, law, etc....
Load More Replies...Somehow, the concept of going to college to get a well-rounded education has been lost over time.
It Ain’t Easy Being The Best
Not A Bad Idea
Ionic All The Way
Same. Suitably decorative without going overboard.
Load More Replies...This Freaking Guy
For some reason, that face reminds me of that one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, except this is a lot creepier.
Philippines Is A Mess Of Local Culture And Spanish Influence
Yikes
To give you guys a perspective on how much of a screw up the ship builders were, this ship used to cost 500,000 Rex Dollars, 5% of Sweden's GNP at the time. In comparison, 5% of current Sweden's GNP is 29 billion dollars so yeah.
The way I was thought about the Vasa war ship; the wood was too dry and thus shrunken down wich allowed water to seep into the gaps and sink it. Had they let the wood absorb some water and swell up sealing the gaps it would have floated.
And Trump is like "Oh yeah? Well, I played a diickk on a reality TV show and everyone who ever lived said I was the bestest diick, ever."
Japan Kinda Huge
Need A Horizontal Refreshment
"But, Nathaniel, the children! We have too many!" "Never fear, it's 1785! They will die soon!"
Load More Replies...When The British Try To Blend In With The French
Certified Chads
These Birds Are Mad Sketch
I Don’t Know If Someone’s Already Posted This
Too few decent people doing whatever they could in the midst of madness and horror.
Fit Check
WW1 was basically strategy and army as it was last 200 years. Except they got long range guns.
Which Side You On?
Both are good. But if I could only have one, I'd have to go with potatoes. 🤔
Stonks Boi
Guess Who
Useless Islands Beautiful Scenery
How Dare You
So Exact
Worlds Smallest Violin
I’m Sorry
Too Soon?
Simpler Times
Honestly
That Boi Jc Knows How To Do It
Peter meant "rock" dude hauled a net full of fish onto land that was too heavy to lift into the boat. Peter was probably pretty buff. Basically Peter was The Rock before The Rock was.
Nah. Just their way to remain anonymous like we do now on Social Media.
Sometimes It Be Like That
Royalty
Uh Oh
Feels Bad Man
Snatch And Grab
Seems Familiar No?
Well slap my bum and call me 1929 because I'm in a great depression!
Load More Replies...Not Even Nature Can Stand In The Way Of Louis The Sun King's Greatness
Deserved That
For perspecive; my great grandfather was 17 when it was signed and my granddaughter was 2 when it ended. 6 generations having to pay for a war they didn't fight in. Deserved?
"Lock Up The Crown Jewels, Here Comes Light-Fingered Nic."— No Chill Bbc
Do You Have A Moment To Talk About Our Lord And Savior
Cleopatra: I spoke 9 languages. History: yeah but you were pretty. Cleopatra: I ruled Egypt and several other territories during my reign. History: let's market you as a halloween costume. Cleopatra: I WASN'T EVEN KNOWN FOR MY LOOKS. History: lol look shes hot
Cleopatra: Egypt prospered under my rule. Historians: h o t. Cleopatra: I brought several new commodities to Egypt. Historians: ara ara sit on my face
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Cleopatra: Egypt prospered under my rule. Historians: h o t. Cleopatra: I brought several new commodities to Egypt. Historians: ara ara sit on my face
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