45 Funny Memes That Might Challenge Your History Knowledge (New Pics)

"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain

No change since then. Today if you stand up against racism, you're accused of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Boycott USA. Don’t buy any US products or travel here

I love Diogenes. He had no care in the world for what anyone thought. He would walk around barking like a dog, and shining a lantern into people’s eyes saying, “I’m looking for an honest man!”

"Tut, tut, my dear, I'm trying to help your family. Your mummy got caught up in some pyramid scheme, and something sphinx about it. She just won't listen - she's totally in denial."

As the great sage once said "Violence is not the answer. Violence is the question. The answer is 'yes'. " 😬 (anyway, that helmet belonged to a immigrant culture. Bl**dy Angles and Saxons, coming over here with their fancy continental ways, mangling their language until it turned into English, etc., etc.😉 )

What! Was he drunk or something?

It's still the word for river if you're speaking Cymraeg - spelt "afon" but that Welsh letter "f'" is pronounced as an English "v". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_orthography/ Meanwhile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittonic_languages

wait y is that true tho

Smart enough to be working modern jobs.

I'd have been ded

I was born less than a year before the fall of communism in Poland, but experienced the despair of it. Huge poverty, everything bleak, everything low quality, just the worst. And then I saw an English travel youtuber admire Soviet architecture and what not. Last year I went into bus station that didn't change at all, like a time capsule from the '80s. I whispered to myself, 'Where's Bald and Bankrupt?'

One you wanted to strike fear in your enemy and show how powerful you are. Today, its let hide before unleashing the firestorms of hell upon them from all over

The Unknown Comic needed groceries too.

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Mmm. I had to check. This is mistaken. The British Army in the 19th century did use lances and lances are a type of spear... (scroll down to plate E for one example) https://ia801409.us.archive.org/13/items/british-cavalry-equipments-1800-1941/vdoc.pub_british-cavalry-equipments-1800-1941-revised-edition_text.pdf and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance

And apparently he did it all with very weird hands

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We had a Premier named "Amor De Cosmos"

Hitler should have read the room better.

Remember when we thought he was the worst president possible?

He reminds me of... 531suo-136...72539f.jpg

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The censored word is fétish.

I thought this was one of those matches FIFA banned.

I don't get this...I'm whooshing over this one.

and we will call it "this land"

I am of German origin in part and admit I laughed!

Greenland looks the same size as Africa here. Africa is actually 14 times larger.

france fought, they just had bad battle plans the germans outflanked, they had tanks way better armoured and powerful than German ones, but were 1/4th the speed so they Germans outsped them, etc. They fought, they just poorly planned it all. THough in 1939 they could have ended it and taken Berlin if their leaders followed through on their promise to poland and didnt just barely invade Germany but had gone in full force.

There was a lot more red at the start of the 19th Century.

"Carrying my shield or on it, dear?"

"I don't know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

Are we ignoring that 1969 was fifty-six years ago, not 66?

Herodotus claimed sources, which I think were d***s

That flag was during WW1 when the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was formed to fight the Ottomans, before the Ottomans decided to destroy it with German help. Then in 1918 when the Ottomans collapsed they fell into a 3 way war before Georgia backed out if it, and the Armenians and Azerbaijan went into a 2 year brutal war (massacres on both sides) until the Soviets came in and forced all 3 to rejoin as the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and it didnt work well, so the Soviets decided to split them up into 3, and we still have issues today.

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The center of population wisely sailed around North Africa; it knew how bad the Sahara was.

You know what sounds romantic, babe? A bunch of other teens hanging out with us at the dump.

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Friedman and Capone were dead by 2008.

But, why does this guy look like Cell from DBZ?

So, what does this mean? I have no clue what the poster is trying to convey.

Ahem. Brit here. Number of times Brits have made a remark like that to anyone is the proverbial "two fifths of fúck all" because, er, we know about the monster that is the English language, British colonialism, British oppression of Ireland, etc., etc.. Americans make that sort of claim, but that's because they've been brainwashed into thinking that the USA saved the world back in 1945, etc., etc.

This…is weak…