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50 History Memes That Make Even The Most Serious Students Laugh Like Court Jesters
History is often seen as a serious field for curious minds to ponder—and it certainly is. But once you remember that humans have always been wonderfully unserious, and have proven it over and over throughout the centuries, it suddenly becomes a great source of humor too.
Especially when the past gets turned into memes. One brilliant place for that is Medieval Memelord on X (formerly Twitter), a page that shares clever and funny posts not only about the Middle Ages, but practically every era in between. Scroll down for their best memes.
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Strahd Ivarius 1 week ago
the Japanese were involved also; and the USA provided arms and support to Uncle Ho at that time...
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Roxy222uk 1 week ago
You probably don’t know this, but the guys on the Mayflower didn’t leave Europe because they were being persecuted any more than a hundred other sects. They left Europe because they couldn’t make any of the countries become 100% *their* sect. They founded America basically to create a Christian equivalent of a caliphate. And not that long after landing they hung someone for dancing round a maypole. Sorry peeps, but America wasn’t founded on religious freedom and tolerance at all.
Tom Brincefield 1 week ago
They didn't found America. Any more than the founders of the Rhode Island colony, who wanted to create a haven for religious freedom and separation of church & state. Or the founders of Maryland, who were creating a refuge for persecuted English Catholics. Or Jamestown, there to make money. IOW, America was and is a blend of many different beliefs and desires. And the groups I've named were just the start of that blend.
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Niki 1 week ago
It's really very simple. The idea of containment became so fanatical, and the fact that it was entirely a proxy war fought at a time when colonization was rapidly seen for what it was created the perfect storm for this to be a loss. The US had no idea how to manage guerrilla warfare. There was no clear objective and spotty training. Let's add that many in politics were actively benefiting from the war machine, and you can see why winning and peace were never on the table.
Tele Avision 1 week ago
Obviously you're not a Google Genius and Wiki Professor.
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Jrog 1 week ago
What? Are you American or just ignorant? The UK secretly provided SAS operatives, weapons, training, and intelligence to help the US. Yes, they gave them to "Vietnam", but it was SOUTH VIETNAM, the one siding with the US...
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Michael Largey 1 week ago
He didn't have high school diploma, which was a requirement for those art schools. They may not even have looked at his portfolio (which was unimpressive, apparently).
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 week ago
If you have any pinch of empathy don't go for politics.................you'll be sacrificed at the altar of greed and avarice!
There’s something oddly satisfying about getting a history meme. It makes you feel like you’ve unlocked a tiny achievement—oh, I know what that’s about. And when the joke flies over your head, someone in the comments usually swoops in with an explanation that sends you down a rabbit hole of new discoveries. Either way, you learn something. But have you ever stopped to think about how history even became a discipline in the first place?
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Paul C. 1 week ago
Fair comment but whoever put this together might have got a better picture of a horse!
Min 1 week ago
I had to stare at it far too long before I figured out it was a horse, but it's been a long day. 🤣
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Cara Vinson 1 week ago
We saw War Horse in the theater, and my husband cried so hard we had to wait until the theater emptied so he could compose himself before we left. He was 50 at the time.
Grumpy old man 1 week ago
I still dont understand how horses and smellyfunts agreed to let humans ride them
Janissary35680 1 week ago (edited)
Isaac Asimov offers a parable about this in "Foundation" (the book, not the TV series). It's related by the character Salvor Hardin: "A horse having a wolf as a powerful and dangerous enemy lived in constant fear of his life. Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally. Whereupon he approached a man, and offered an alliance, pointing out that the wolf was likewise an enemy of the man. The man accepted the partnership at once and offered to kıll the wolf immediately, if his new partner would only co-operate by placing his greater speed at the man’s disposal. The horse was willing, and allowed the man to place bridle and saddle upon him. The man mounted, hunted down the wolf, and kılled him. The horse, joyful and relieved, thanked the man, and said: "Now that our enemy is dead, remove your bridle and saddle and restore my freedom." Whereupon the man laughed loudly and replied, "Never!" and applied the spurs with a will.”
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
Pretty sure Germany is gonna be on the good guys side in WWIII though.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
If WW3 ever starts there will only be a downside, not a winning side
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Zig Zag Wanderer 1 week ago
LOL! Disturbingly accurate. Unfortunately my dearly departed stepfather happily made jokes about how austrians tried to make everyone believe a certain moustached Austrian was German. In Austria. My Austrian mother was mortified!
Sour Patch Kid 1 week ago
@Ray Ceeya So are Japan and Italy, however Russians won't be so lucky.
Lady Beluga 1 week ago
Reich simply means realm (~ empire, kingdom). Österreich = Eastern realm.
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Pedantic Panda 1 week ago
Pretty sure they have overthrown more democracies than dictatorships.
Tom Brincefield 1 week ago
Democracies have the bad habit of wanting to do things for their citizens, while dictators will do things for their benefactors.
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Tom Brincefield 1 week ago
You may want to check on American history in Central & South America. A good start would be the Banana Wars.
Load More Replies... The word history goes back to the Ancient Greek term ἵστωρ (histōr), which referred to a wise or knowledgeable person. From that came ἱστορία (historiā), meaning knowledge from inquiry. The word later appeared in Latin as historia and then entered Middle English through Old French. At first it meant any kind of story, both real and fictional, but over time it became tied to studying the past in a more intentional way.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 1 week ago (edited)
"What have the British ever done for us?" OK, apart from....
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Jon 1 week ago
The image is from the British sketch show “That Mitchell and Webb Look”. The sketch, called “Nazis” is an adaptation from the sketch on the radio show “That Mitchell and Webb Sound”. It includes the catchphrase “Are we the baddies?”, with it being about Mitchell’s realisation that they would be portrayed as the baddies.
Mogh 1 week ago
I LOVE That Mitchell and Webb Look and The Mitchell and Webb Situation. My favorite sketch is the Sherlock Holmes one-upsmanship. And Sir Digby Chicken Cesaer.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 1 week ago
And the vast majority of colonies have seceded with agreements and help. Many have great fondness for the British, despite what the title of this post implies. Then there's the occasionally United States of America....
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 week ago
France didn't built the Maginot Line up to the sea because the Benelux states took offense to that idea, painting themselves as priority target as way to go around it
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Der Kommissar 1 week ago
Shouln't expect the Belgian or French armies to repel the German war machine
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Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 week ago
The countries they were “borrowed” from had 100’s to 1000’s of years to put those artifacts in a museum and did s**t with them. Say what you want now, but the BM saved most of that stuff from degradation and outright destruction.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 week ago
Yes, exactly. Better in the British Museum than where those irreplaceable artifacts are likely to be destroyed by conflict or in a coup, or sold off to the highest bidder, never to be seen again -_-
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Andrew Keir 2 days ago
You mean when Egypt had to spend all that money 'repossessing' the Suez canal ?
Load More Replies...Before writing existed, people relied on oral traditions. These early stories often mixed real events with mythology, like the Epic of Gilgamesh or Homer’s Odyssey. The arrival of written texts created opportunities for more detailed accounts. Greek writers played an important role here. Herodotus collected accounts of different cultures and tried to understand why events happened, while Thucydides focused on political and military decisions with a more analytical approach.
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Pandora 1 week ago (edited)
Let's blame the the Freemasons for the problems of our current political climate, they've been woefully under represented as of late. All the other scapegoated minorities deserve a break.
Jrog 1 week ago
I mean, Freemasons were actually behind a few terrorist attacks and an attempted neofascist golpe in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s. Proven in court and all. Google the "P2 Masonic Lodge". Of course they had support of the USA, ca va sans dire.
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Chilli 1 week ago (edited)
Shouldn't Romani be used instead of 'gypsies'? Idk, I'm not Romani, this is just something I heard to soz if this is a stupid question
Andrew Keir 2 days ago
There are very few 'stupid' questions, but OP is possibly making the point that those who blame others aren't too bothered about labelling them all correctly. Just "others" , generally.
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Riley Quinn 1 week ago
It may have been the European villagers, but now it's the US government pointing the finger at every group but themselves.
Andrew Keir 2 days ago
If it was only the finger they were pointing, I'd not be so unhappy; but they're pointing weapons
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
The past s***s. At least it did for about 90% of the people who lived there.
Queen Boudicca 1 week ago
Well, there aways was the 1% and the Church, so...yeah.
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Tina Girard 1 week ago
The (institution) isn't like it used to be...and never was. Had a Senior Chief say that to me about the Navy, but it works for anything.
Grumpy old man 1 week ago
The USMC used to say "to make a man out of a boy, you first have to remove the woman"
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Andrew Keir 2 days ago
1920s to 1970s, if you compare it with all the others...
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justanotherweirdo 1 week ago
As bad as things look right now it could be worse… soon it might actually be
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Jrog 1 week ago
Reference to the disproven myth of the "kerkoporta" being left open either by malice or distraction. Current consensus is that it never actually happened. A single, tiny, hidden door would have been ininfluential when the whole walls were being shelled by cannons for weeks and were almost completely collapsed.
Roman writers built on Greek methods. Early Roman historians organized events year by year, while later ones preferred longer, more reflective narratives. Many of these works combined factual information with commentary on leadership and character. Around the same time, another strong tradition was developing in China, where historians valued source verification and treated annals as the highest form of record keeping. Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian set a standard for thorough research.
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Multa Nocte 1 week ago
I believe my grandfather was at least 2 years shy of the entrance requirements.
Tina Girard 1 week ago
My grandfather was about 15 OVER, but yeah, they took him. He had all his teeth and was breathing alright
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Der Kommissar 1 week ago
German youths were conscripted when most able-bodied Germans were fighting, dead or captured in WWII
Queen Boudicca 1 week ago (edited)
With America rolling back labor laws for kids, getting rid of the DOE / opportunities for higher education, he kicking out of women, trans people, and gay people - plus targeting POC...who else do we have?
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sbj 1 week ago
Least we'd be about to calculate how long it's going to take us to die whilst being burnt at the stake
Brian Droste 1 week ago
Does anybody notice besides me that the two right tines on the pitchfork look like it is going up the man's nostril?
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
Melee. As much as I hate the movie, Gibson's Braveheart got that part right.
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Its funny because I am LITERALLY watching a history hit episode on YouTube rating battle scenes and warfare in the media and they keep bringing this up.
Nova Rook 1 week ago
Bad in 300 where they talk about the need to fight in formation only for them to engage in formationless a*s-kicking to win the day. They should have just let the freak join their side and get slaughtered.
Earonn - 1 week ago
This I can forgive. It's a movie, a lot of things get changed in order to get the 'more cinematic picture'.
Andrew Keir 2 days ago
And the first thing that gets changed is usually that the winner gets an American accent
Load More Replies...In medieval Europe, most historical writing came from monks and church scholars. They recorded chronicles, genealogies, and biographies of important figures, often shaped by religious interpretation. Similar patterns appeared in the Islamic world, where historians paid close attention to the chain of transmission to ensure reliability. Writers like al-Tabari and Ibn Khaldun produced large and influential works that looked at both events and the wider forces behind them.
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Pandora 1 week ago
Maybe it does? We've just never seen a portrait of him with his pants off! 😉
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
It was originally supposed to have an expanded building around the base that would have been more like the Lincoln Memorial but they ran out of money.
Kristiina Männiste 1 week ago
Wat was it supposed to look like? Two domes?
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Michael Largey 1 week ago
If you honor George Washington by visiting his monument, he's glad to see you.
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Siege Rook 1 week ago
Horses are nowhere near as easy to care for and look after as a dog, and do not make for good house pets, or companions for the average person.
Oops 1 week ago
This happens only cause the cannot bark or wave their tales, or sit on your lap.
Andrew Keir 2 days ago
I thought it was only people who hate History who waived their tales ?
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PrettyJoyBird 1 week ago
We call it telephone. Why are the Chinese whispering?
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BTW, someone did yesterday or so the "they try to introduce Arabic numerals into our schools" trolling again. And what would you believe, the right wing stupidos fell for it AGAIN.
Lila Allen 1 week ago
I mean you feel like there's a finite number of times they would fall for this...but ?
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 week ago
"can i copy your homework?" "yeah sure just change it up a little bit"
The Renaissance encouraged a renewed interest in older texts and languages. Scholars examined earlier manuscripts, compared versions, and questioned inconsistencies. Printed books made historical writing more available to ordinary readers. By the Enlightenment, historians were using reason and skepticism to study society, culture, and economics, and they began comparing different civilizations in more systematic ways.
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Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 week ago
Napoleon needed the money for his continental adventures, and Russia thought Alaska was pretty much worthless, and probably too far from Moscow to be administered properly.
sofacushionfort 1 week ago
Russia knew there was gold in Alaska’s rivers, and knew that inevitably meant the US would find some pretext to start a war to take it. Russia needed the US as a friend to balance their antagonists Britain and France, so the smart thing was to sell Alaska at a bargain price
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Lady Eowyn 1 week ago
Say what you may, a lot of those artifacts would probably no longer exist except for being there.
Moving Enigma 1 week ago
Don't worry if they weren't in the British Museum they'd be in the Louvre or, perhaps, the Smithsonian.
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Jules 1 week ago
Just playing devil's advocate for a moment, if museums can't have stuff from other countries, there'd be a lot less museums.
Tom Brincefield 1 week ago
It's entirely possible to have artifacts from other nations & cultures without stealing them.
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 week ago
i just snorted really loud in the library, currently debating if i should show this to the librarian or not because she just gave me a questioning look and asked what is it
In the 19th century, history became a more formal academic field. Leopold von Ranke promoted the use of primary sources and careful documentation, and universities created history departments and professional associations. Some thinkers proposed broad theories about how history works, each highlighting different forces such as economics or ideology.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
It's debated that that mammoths might be the first species humans drove to extinction. We are good at that sort of thing.
Roxy222uk 1 week ago
Much as we want to believe that Paleolithic humans made a habit of hunting mammoths it’s much more likely that they lived, day to day, on small prey like birds and rabbits. They would hunt as a community, with a net made of cordage held out between two of them (imagine a tennis net) and the others chasing prey into it. Then they could catch and k**l everything they flushed out. Hunting mammoths was probably done for special occasions. Why would you continually risk members of your extended family getting k****d every time you fancied a steak?
Janissary35680 1 week ago
Megafauna hunting in reality was nothing like the picture. Humans mostly used fire and noise to run herds off cliffs. Wikip buffalo jump.
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Michael Kennedy 6 days ago
There was much more cliff herding and trapping in pits than actual stabby-stab in the big-horns-face.
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Roxy222uk 1 week ago
Guy Fawkes was brought in later on as they needed an explosives expert
Load More Replies... Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 week ago
Guy Fawkes was no hero, and his elevation to such status is a new phenomenon. Up until recently he was always considered a traitor.
Senjo Krane 1 week ago
A lot of things are being turned on their heads these days. Like books like "little House on the Prairie' being stripped of some award recently. (Sorry, don't know the full story, just saw a video of some guy ranting about it)
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Ace 1 week ago
I'd like to know who this "everyone" is that thinks he was any kind of hero. We still burn an effigy of him on a bonfire each year, FFS!
Pedantic Panda 1 week ago
Some people do. Lots of effigies are burned across the UK every year.
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Anyone-for-tea? 1 week ago
Is that a typo as he was 5’2 and she was 5’10 because 5’6 is 168cm or so my id card has told me for years!
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Huddo's sister 1 week ago
Cool, I'm one centimetre taller than him! (That is literally my take away from this)
The 20th century expanded the discipline even further. Historians began studying everyday life, local communities, and groups that had been overlooked, including workers, women, and colonized peoples. New approaches such as oral history, feminist history, and postcolonial history widened the scope. World histories grew in popularity again, and technological advances made large-scale data analysis possible.
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Earonn - 1 week ago
A lot of the same people who called the French cowards are now kowtowing before some fat cvnts in ICE nappies.
Thanos'Fingers 1 week ago
I think the fat c***s in ICE nappies are the same people who called the French cowards.
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 week ago
Read about the French Resistance. Then see if you can call the French cowards.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
To be fair, England lost quite a few battles against France - when France had home field advantage, of course
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
OOF wait until you see what we Americans did west of the Mississippi.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
Reminds me of an old comedy called "What did you do in the War Daddy". The American Army rolls into a town and the Italians immediately surrender and start celebrating. It's been 30+ years since I last saw it but for some reason the have to fake a battle with the Americans so they can all just chill there in this little Italian village and ignore the rest of the war.
Sofia 1 week ago
well to be honest the swap happened when mussolini was defenestrated by the king and Badoglio was the new premier. So 2 different governments. Proof is that mussolini made RSI in the north and was still allied of the germans
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 week ago (edited)
Well, their fåscist leader didn't actually go down well with Italians
Michael Largey 1 week ago
When Mussolini was overthrown, Italy did a 180. Come to think of it, so did Mussolini.
Today, historians combine traditional skills with digital tools. They read manuscripts, analyze inscriptions, use restoration software, explore online archives, and collaborate across countries. Many collections that once required special permission can now be viewed by anyone with an internet connection. The work still reflects the original idea behind historiā: curiosity, investigation, and the desire to understand how people lived.
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Angela C 1 week ago
Some white people are more equal than other white people
Load More Replies... Michael Kennedy 6 days ago
Ireland did the colonising first. That's how Scotland was made. By 'Scots', the Latin word for the Irish.
Inmaculada Garcia 1 week ago
I'm always surprised to see how so similar the flags of Scotland and Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) are. My home, btw 😁
Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 week ago
James VI and I encouraged Scottish Presbyterian emigration to Ulster as a bulwark against Catholicism. The English had been in the south as far back as William in one way or another.
Pedantic Panda 1 week ago
Mostly from 1169. If you're taking about William the Conqueror/bastárd, he was well dead by then.
Load More Replies... Ace 1 week ago
Wrong. The Norman rulers of England actually started colonising Ireland around a hundred years before they did Scotland
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
And in fact the English 'persuaded' Scottish landlords to evict a fair proportion of the population, in favour of sheep. Then they wondered why you couldn't get anyone to work there ...
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
Just throwing this out there but El Cid and his whole crew were absolute screwheads who just made everything worse.
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Earonn - 1 week ago
But why, oh why, do I not bow to some guy just because one of his forefathers was better at ra.ping and pillaging than the others? Such a mystery!
Michael Kennedy 6 days ago
What about Trump? That's a perfect description if you look it up.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 1 week ago
I’m obviously missing something because actual rich Mediaeval men wouldn’t have been caught dead in stolen boots. They would want it to be known how much everything they were wearing cost. Did you know that a full suit of army cost the equivalent then of a modern day high performance sports car? Also, why did a peasant have to pay (in American dollars) for his hair?
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
My dad was that generation. "Old enough to die, Old enough to vote". The 26th Amendment.
Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 week ago
States set the drinking age prior to Reagan forcing them all to adopt the now 21 standard.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 1 week ago
We managed to lose ours once in Australia. Australians have been trying to replicate this for decades....
Laura Lawson 1 week ago
The best part if that story is they named a pool after him! 🤣🤣
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Sea Squirrel 1 week ago (edited)
Yes, the story goes that our ancestors did eat some livers. But don't worry. Nowadays we limit ourselves to fava beans and a nice chianti.
Norm Gilmore 1 week ago (edited)
Wiki says - The brothers were shot and then left to the mob near Gevangenpoort. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy. But that might be sensationalism because other articles say pieces were taken as souvenirs. Personally I can't stand liver...... :-)
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AnnaB 1 week ago
Johan de Witt, the leader of the Dutch Republic, was k****d and eaten by a Dutch mob following much discontent amongst the masses.
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Ivan Dluzniewski 6 days ago
a british soidier spared an unarmed n**i soldier in WWI. It turned out to be young Adolf Hitler
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Lady Eowyn 1 week ago
Rode. He rode his horse on the road. But this is an actual quote, I'm too lazy to get my book (of quotes related to all things equine and equestrian) and find the attribution.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
If he was crossing a river, he could have rowed his horse ?
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Kristiina Männiste 1 week ago
I kinda think the one on the right is hot.... It must be time to schedule another appointment with my psychiatrist
Anony Mouse 6 days ago (edited)
Interesting story about how the Prince of Wales was proclaimed by Edward I in 1301 though 😊
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David 1 week ago
Thats bc the USSR didnt let Gagarin go on a global tour or talk to the foreign press. The KGB had to cover up the fact Gagrin was a practicing Christian who had his son illegally baptized (USSR until 18 you couldnt get baptized legally, and officially practicing Christians were not allowed security clearance. the KGB and Russian military did a lot to cover up for Gagarin bc he was that good, they knew if he went outside of Russia, he was a risk bc of his devout Christian beliefs)
TotallyNOTAFox 1 week ago
I think they learned from the Laika PR disaster - Instead of praise for their rocket technology the world was shocked what they did to the poor dog
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago (edited)
Fun Fact: Gagarin didn't land in his capsule. He bailed out at high altitude and parachuted down. The capsule itself wasn't even designed to land intact. The Soviet space program was absolutely insane. They took extreme risks that NASA wouldn't touch. I'm not saying they were braver, I'm saying they were more desperate.
Anony Mouse 6 days ago
That’s a US press conference. The Russians feted Gagarin royally for the rest of his life.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
Because they're spying on you. You really need a tin foil hat to stop those signals from the microchips the CIA put in your brain...
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 week ago
With the help of the professional prussian military officer Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
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Francois 1 week ago
Why not call it Austria-Hungary-bits of Poland-Italy-Romania-Croatia-well-etc.
Cuppa tea? 1 week ago
Technically the full name is Austria-Bohemia-Hungary-Slovakia-part of Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 1 week ago (edited)
An empire, alright? (my grandfather actually fought for them)
Earonn - 1 week ago
So did mine! I just fear they weren't quite on the same side.... :D (But if your gramps was as a decent person as mine, they hopefully sit on a cloud together, a bottle of schnapps / whisky between them, and have the time of their life--erm...well, you know what I mean).
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 week ago
Japan actually had the better strategies and tactics, they heavily underestimated the US industrial capabilities and didn't cause enough damage in Pearl Habour to weaken the US navy enough. Internal fighting between military branches and very unfortunate circumstances gave them the rest in the end
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Earonn - 1 week ago
I always wonder why they didn't detonate the first b**b just over the ocean. Just to show "this is the one we have, there's more where that came from". Pretty sure that would have worked as well. To b**b two cities? The work of sadists.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
If you want to see real sadism in action, go ahead and check out what the Japanese themselves did during the Rápe of Nanjing/the Nanjing Mássácre, the Bataan Déath March, with Unit 731, etc. It gets a little tiring when someone hauls out that hoary old chestnut about "omg US so eeeevil for using the BÓMBS!!!" when Japan itself is not exactly clean. And you're incorrect that detonating over the ocean would have "worked as well". You've clearly got no idea about what was actually going on in Japan right before the bómbings - Japan's war cabinet and officials had NO plan on surrendering. They had already refused to do so when the Potsdam Declaration was presented to them. The Japanese government would have forced every last man, woman, and child to fight and díe before they would choose to surrender/give up. I am not a fan of the bómbs/bómbings and I think they were abhorrent, but it's the voice of ignorance when someone says something like "the bómbings were the work of sadists!"
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Lola Rocksmith 1 week ago
The Opium Wars actually were crucial in Australia's development in the 19th century
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Janissary35680 1 week ago
Not quite true and a little more complicated than that. There were three parts created after Charlemagne's death. Wikip Treaty of Verdun.
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Anony Mouse 6 days ago
Which church? Let me say that the Christian church has done a lot of bad things - but it has also done a lot of good things. Ignoring either is dishonest, illogical and biased.
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Bill Swallow 1 week ago
Except the people asking "How will you enforce that?" are the first ones to say "Fark, NO! You can't have your own military! You might use them against ME!!!"
Earonn - 1 week ago
Enforce? How about we show your rich folks that it's financially worse for them to have everything destroyed? Then they will make you step back from war. OOOOr (and I get it, that after all this time, it's an almost foreign concept for Americans, let alone Russians or Israeli ) - you can have governments that actually don't want war, and prefer diplomatic solutions, because they are adults without tiny pen.is syndrome.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 week ago
Much more accurate to say we named many after the indigenous we stole it from. MANY Chippewas, an Osceola, the name Michigan.
Rinso The Red 1 week ago
Northern New England - mostly the rivers and county names up here. Towns tend to be foreign cities or country names: Paris, Norway, Berlin, Oxford, etc.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 1 week ago
In Massachusetts, we do that with cities in our state we've already named. There's Boston and New Boston, Salem and New Salem, etc.
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Michael Largey 1 week ago
In my state we have towns named Toad Hop, Mudsock, Gnaw Bone, and Stoney Lonesome. No one has called us a copycat yet.
#47
GenericElder 1 week ago
Why would anyone downvote Lady Eowyn for suggesting we check out the Przewalski horse? I upvoted her to zero @ 11:24pm Nov24, 2025
G A 1 week ago (edited)
They didn't. It's BP downvoting any attachment to stop those spam adverts
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#48
sofacushionfort 1 week ago
Plains tribes would eat the cheese formed in bison calves’ stomachs
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago
Rennet. They didn't know what it was but they knew it worked.
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Nils Skirnir 1 week ago
The real issue according to native Americans’ stories is that they did smell the ships before they could see them. The English of that time were not known for excessive attention to bodily cleanliness.
Lila Allen 1 week ago
Well you got 40 guys, barely enough water to drink, inadequate toilet facilities, and hundreds of days at sea... I mean I'm pretty sure New Zealand could smell them coming
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#49
Earonn - 1 week ago
He was wrong at times, you know. Better: imagine if we had all the non-white and female Aristoteles' allowed to learn and do their research!
#50
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
van loon's law claims that technology will not improve while there are sufficient slávés to do things without it. And, boy, did those Romans have slávés !
Rinso The Red 1 week ago
I've heard the theory that it was only the plague that caused enough of a worker shortage that led to industrial revolution later in Europe. Not directly, but it created the conditions that Rome didn't have.
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#51
Giles McArdell 1 week ago
As a Brit, I am convinced all French people speak English, they just choose not to to p1ss us off!
#52
Wat Tyler's Revenge 1 week ago
True, but the EF was a great maritime disaster, and it happened in the era of mass media. It would still be remembered today without the song.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 week ago
Many don't realize just how violent the seas on Lakes, Michigan, Superior and Huron can get. The troughs are much closer together.
Major Harris 1 week ago
especially "When the gales of November came early"
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s.s. sultana, mississippi river, april 1865, has entered the chat. just over 1,500 lost their lives.
Janissary35680 1 week ago (edited)
🎵🎶And that's the way Edmund fits Gerald🎶🎵 (John Valby, "Edmund Fitzgerald")
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#54
Lost Panda 1 week ago
It's interesting because Kyoto (京都) means Capital City. So when Tokyo (東京) was established from Edo, it was named East (東) Captiol (京)
Judes 1 week ago (edited)
And Beijing is North Capital (北京, obviously pronounced in Mandarin, not Japanese), and Nanjing is South Capital (南京). Many years ago, Xi'an was called Xijing, or West Capital (西京)
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Sofia 1 week ago (edited)
they forgot that we were the only european country that AFTER fascism had a f*a*s*c*i*s*t (seriously BP???) party (MSI)
Der Kommissar 1 week ago (edited)
During the Lebanese civil war, the Phalangists, Christians also known as the Kataeb party, were fascists
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#57
Earonn - 1 week ago
Lots of mammal species went extinct,too. Like the dinosaurs, a few made it through. Guys, learn your stuff before making memes.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago
But... they're memes. They're not intended to be completely blisteringly factual XD
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#59
Giles McArdell 1 week ago
FFS! N**i Germany literally invented the long range cruise missile which led to modern day space rockets and missiles. The USA, Russia and all the world powers bent over backwards trying to grab every rocket scientist from Germany after the war.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 week ago
Not to mention R/C guided bombs, the first mass produceable helicopter in service and modern submarines. With access to deuterium in Norway the first nuclear b**b could had been german. (The main reason why liberating Norway was a top priority for the allies)
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Germany was in the process of developing nuclear bombs too. Stupidly enough they c*****d down on academia before the war and loads of smart people left.
Earonn - 1 week ago
Psssst. We don't want the US government to realise what they are doing wrong. It's great to get all these bright people coming to our countries in order to protect themselves and their families!
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#61
Grumpy old man 1 week ago
Chuckles aint related toDick3, so aint related to Wills, so aint king
Pedantic Panda 1 week ago
The island? Pretty sure it did. The term "Great Britain" was first used officially in a 1474 marriage document.
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Toasted Applesauce 1 week ago
Dante writes about Virgil tenderly picking him up and carrying him over a bridge. The entire Divine Comedy is a lot funnier read as an elaborate self insert fanfic of the Bible, Aristotle, and Greek mythology.
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Earonn - 1 week ago
Year 3 (4, for me): "there was a big war, and we were kinda guilty. This is what adults talk about when the say "WWII"". Year 7-8 "It's WWII, here are the names and dates of important events". Year 9/10 "Now we tell you about the Human costs and you'll visit an actual concentration camp". And It's good that way. If only Americans had listened to us when we told them where the scapegoating and glorification of 'fatherland' would lead. But, you know, they didn't need to worry, you see. They were 'better'. No dictator could ever come out of their own ranks.... And today? Hitler's paitings are bad, but not half as cringe as Trump's AI self-glorification....
Geoffrey Scott 1 week ago
I got a GED from Indian River high school in Fla, after going to public schools in Michigan then joining the USCG(one of the last to join without a HS diploma). Florida history: "The slaves didn't WANT to be free". What a culture shock.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 week ago (edited)
It's a bit one sided though, we get taught what was done, the politics behind it etc. (Not wrong to teach). But it very often lacks important things and details leading up to the whole situation, beginning with how Austria dragged the Empire into a war and how France occupied the biggest industrial area during the Great Depression, leading to extreme poverty. Usually it boils down to "People liked Hitler and became Nazis all of the sudden" without real context given.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 1 week ago (edited)
I don't think it was peasants. It was mainly the French ruling classes. That's why we eat Beef and Pork, for example, because those are French words for the animals that the peasants raised for the rulers to eat.
Andrew Keir 1 week ago
The peasants hung on to many of the old Saxon words cow (S) v beef (F), pig (S) v pork (F), sheep (S) v mutton (F), and so on
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