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63 History Memes That Might Make You Laugh At Our Twisted Recent And Ancient Past
History is full of chaos, but the pure absurdity of our ancestors takes the cake. For example, Roman Emperor Constantine the Great named almost all his kids — and his capital city — after himself. Family dinners must have been an absolute nightmare of miscommunication.
Or look at Pompeii, where ancient Romans vandalized city walls with landlord complaints, petty neighbor insults, and crude jokes. Thousands of years later, modern archaeologists carefully brush off these drunk scribbles and label them priceless historical artifacts.
A popular online page @accuratehistorian loves roasting these bizarre moments by turning them into hilarious memes. We’ve rounded up some of their funniest and most accurate posts to show you just how strange the past really was.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
I have this image printed and framed and hung on the wall of my bathroom facing the toilet, but the caption reads, "When you flush the toilet and the water starts rising" XD
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Forrest Hobbs 5 hours ago
Come on! That's not fair! It was only the Prime Minister, and even then only part of his liver. 🤣
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nottheactualphoto 4 hours ago
"Drip." Isn't that something the kids used to say a few years ago?
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Sandra Gleeson 5 hours ago
Nothing has changed here in Australia, it's still the same scenario:(
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
The USS Johnston was torpedoed during the Battle off Samar by the Japanese battleship Yamato (yes, THAT battleship Yamato, the one they named an anime after) and sank during the battle. She kept fighting after she was torpedoed, however, and was basically overall badáss until she sank. 186 of her crew díed, but 141 crew members were rescued.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 hours ago
And they will make TV series and movies about each battle. TONS of them. XD My ex's mom used to watch them all the time.
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BrunoVI 5 hours ago (edited)
Japan didn't lose because of an atom b**b. Japan lost without sacrificing millions upon millions of their civilians to starvation and meter-by-meter urban combat because of an atom b**b. They were utterly defeated, their industry destroyed, and their entire population was on the brink of starvation. Seriously, I always heard about how many combat deaths the surrender after Nagasaki prevented, but I was astounded to learn how many starvations were prevented: probably about 10 million, and that's *if* the United States organized relief for the territories behind their lines.
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BrunoVI 5 hours ago (edited)
I'm pretty sure that's a horrendously huge romanticization. I would say that I believe schizophrenia in history may have been a less terrifying condition. I don't believe any miraculous visions from Joan of Arc to Therese Lisieux can be attributed to schizophrenia, but I have seen plenty schizophrenics who have built a happy rather than terrifying world based on their religious beliefs. Which is probably what the first illustration is trying to get at.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 hours ago
Always reassuring to see that humans haven't changed one bit, what with all the wars and hatred of others "not like us" and the kílling and all that /s
LakotaWolf (she/her) 3 hours ago
Always reassuring to see that humans haven't changed one bit, what with all the wars and hatred of others "not like us" and the kílling and all that /s
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