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71 Posts About History You Probably Have Never Seen Before: “Explaining All Wars”
If there’s one thing we as humans are going to do, it’s fight. Whether it’s brawls in a bar parking lot, childish skirmishes on the playground, or global, devastating armed conflicts — we humans know how to wreck some stuff.
Throughout history, there have been many kinds of conflicts: the 335-year war, where everyone forgot they were fighting; the friendliest “Whiskey War” between Canada and Denmark; or the Pig War in San Juan, where both sides realized how ridiculous the cause was and just stopped fighting.
We rarely get to see moments from these types of events, but thanks to the “Explaining All Wars” page on Instagram, now we can. With 139k followers, the account shares photographs of historical moments many of us have probably not seen before. Here’s your chance to see the origins of the baseball, the daily routine of President Eisenhower, and how a random starving donkey became the mascot of the French Foreign Legion.
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David Paterson 34 minutes ago
I know a case where the opposite was true. During a melee, a canon was fired as a salute, and the enemy fled.
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Russell Bowman 42 minutes ago
The Panzer V, aka Panther, was one of the smaller tanks ... only about 45 tons. Thats a hell of a crane load
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Russell Bowman 28 minutes ago
One round hit her ammo magazine ... she broke her back and sank in three minutes
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Russell Bowman 40 minutes ago
Many of them ended up getting their heads shaved and run out of town when the Germans retreated
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David Paterson 20 minutes ago (edited)
DDT is still used to control malaria, but not in that way.
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Kenny Kulbiski 47 minutes ago
Kinda like when my cat drags me around on his walk. Except I don't have that cool Samurai gear.
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David Paterson 8 minutes ago
America 1940. We're never going to get government approval to join the war unless Japan attacks Pearl Harbour.
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Russell Bowman 14 minutes ago
Similar to what the Soviets did with a seized B-29 ... made a carbon copy called the Tu-4
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Forrest Hobbs 2 minutes ago
This is a fake. There's no photograph of the actual event - and by the pilot's account, he was flying straight and level at the time in any case. To cut a long story short and quoting Wikipedia he was 'arrested and later invalided out of the RAF on medical grounds, which avoided a court martial' - 'and the embarrassment to the government of Pollock publicising the reason for his stunt and perhaps receiving the support of the public'. He didn't actually plan on flying under Tower Bridge's walkways. From what I recall reading, it's just that he was flying along the route of the Thames and the bridge was there, and he basically just couldn't help himself... 😁
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Forrest Hobbs 6 minutes ago
Warsaw? Try looking up Dresden. Berlin got off very lightly, all things considered. Well, the buildings did. The inhabitants? Well, Stalin took the view that since his troops had fought their way all across eastern Europe to get there, they were entitled to a bit of 'fun' at the expense of any local females... 🤢 Wars are nasty things, and some wars get nastier than others.
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