50 Odd And Interesting ‘Weird History’ Posts

Louloubelle 4 years ago

I had never known this, but saw an episode of "Band of Brothers" where one of the soldiers, who was engaged, took a parachute to send home to his sweetie. So, I looked it up, and it was not uncommon.

19points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

No it wasn't because there was no silk to have otherwise.

7points

Everything_Fubar 4 years ago

Welsh really loved Kitty. That was so pure. Great episode.

3points

Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago

I immediately thought of that episode. I believe it was Lt. Welsh, the other guys were wondering why he was keeping the parachute and he commented on how it was expensive silk.

2points

Lila Launehase 4 years ago

I have read parachute dresses weren't that rare. Lots of beautiful fabric, right?

18points

Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago

And often made of real silk too!

10points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Beautiful and meaningfull...

14points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

All things have a story and this one is no different. I love that she had it made out of that parachute.

8points

Springy boi 4 years ago

That looks like a princess dress

5points

Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

She found a way to make a wedding even more devastatingly emotional *ugly cries so hard it bothers her cat*

4points

lara 4 years ago

Magnificent.

3points

Penelope Mays 4 years ago

looks like Belles dress, only white.

2points

Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 4 years ago

It really does!

0points

ChinmayGhule 4 years ago

Okay.

1point

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Leah Helbig 4 years ago

Our world was built from the back of the horse. They are one of the most important creatures who ever lived.

30points

Flexiegirl94 4 years ago

So true. Never though about that before... thank you Leah Helbig!

5points

Cip IESAN 4 years ago

Must watch "War Horse", the 2011 Spielberg's great movie...

18points

Sue Aubrey 4 years ago

Written by the great Michael Morpurgo and also a great stage musical with automaton type horses. I’ve read, been and seen. All brilliant!

0points

ghost34 4 years ago

There was no ‘heroes’ return’ for the majority of horses at the end of the war. Only those owned by officers were guaranteed to return to Britain. The fate of the others depended upon their age and fitness. 25,000 horses remained in the British army while between 60,000 and 100,000 were returned to Britain to be auctioned. The remainder were sold in the country where they were stationed at the end of the war – to farmers as work animals or to butchers to be killed for meat. A fortunate few were rescued by the RSPCA and Blue Cross Fund and retired to live out their lives on sanctuaries.(war horses / www.animalaid.org.uk)

12points

Christy Smith 4 years ago

8 million?! That's so depressing.

9points

Grady'sRaider 4 years ago

Calvary versus machine guns. It was disgusting. - quote by a WW1 vet I knew

7points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

They quit using combat cavalry pretty quickly. The real value of horses during the war was as draft animals.

0points

denzoren 4 years ago

8 million...wow. RIP.

7points

The Cute Cat 4 years ago

It is a very sad one..

6points

BK Jan 4 years ago

Those that did not die in battle were slaughtered by their own armed forces because it was too expensive to bring them back to the home countries of the cavalry. Horrible!

6points

Mike Crow 4 years ago

Cite your source.

-2points

Equine_Ravenclaw_Directioner 4 years ago

Wow, I Love that. Rest In Peace!

3points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

S**t, that makes me want to cry.

3points

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549points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago

That is one stunning mosaic! Those colours!

110points

DAISY 4 years ago

YES! It's still in pretty good shape after 2000 YEARS! WOW!

5points

Withnail 4 years ago

Amazingly well-preserved! Absolutely gorgeous x

15points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I just love how it is still preserved so perfectly - even underneath so many layers.

12points

Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago

It’s so beautiful

8points

Renee Letkiewicz 4 years ago

I'd like to "accidentally" discover something like this...

4points

Lynn Colombo 4 years ago

Beautiful!

4points

Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago

beautiful :)

4points

hi myself 4 years ago

And to think that it's 2,000 years old!

3points

Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

That's incredibly well preserved.

3points

judy baker 4 years ago (edited)

What a beautiful mosaic and hats off to the people and their painstaking work to create it.

2points

Andrew has a PhD from MIT in long-duration spaceflight, is an expert in space exploration, and has authored a host of academic and technical papers. What’s more, he’s an avid writer, having published books for adults and children alike, and he creates tabletop games in his spare time.

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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

way ahead of her time

117points

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François Carré 4 years ago

There has always been women to stand for equality, in every time and everywhere. It's just that men tend to erase their names from history afterwards.

33points

Madison Sadler 4 years ago

My name's Catherine of Aragon was married 24 years I'm a paragon of royalty my loyalty is to the vatican so if you try to dump me... you won't try that again! (upvote if you know what I'm talking about lol

15points

-alex_the_trans_demon- 4 years ago

(don't know if you wanted anyone to continue it but) I'm that Boleyn girl and I'm up next. See I broke England from the Church. Yeah I'm that sexy. Why did I lose my head? Well my sleeves maybe green but my lipstick's red....

0points

denzoren 4 years ago

"Right to education? How absurd!" The men that Catherine of Aragon had to deal with.

7points

Ozacoter 4 years ago (edited)

She was a very strong woman. Same as her mother Isabel la Catolica. You can say whatever you want about the bad things that she did (like fighting her arabian neighbours and expelling all non catholics from the country). But she was a extremely strong woman in a mans world. She also tried to implement rules that ensured that the natuve americans were treated properly (for those times standards). But it did not work.

6points

Dark Pearl 4 years ago

Good for her!

4points

New Prometheus 4 years ago

It would have been so horrible to be a woman any other time in human history except now, and still is in many places. But in her times, for example... God, I would have become so bitter I would have killed myself. So much respect to all women before us.

3points

Vera 4 years ago

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2points

N G 4 years ago

Off with her head

2points

Computernaut 4 years ago

Today's controversy is tomorrow's norms. For good things and bad.

1point

lara 4 years ago

Actually the first "university" in Madrid was created and sponsored by Ferdinand and Isabella. One of the "first" Ph.D.'s was a woman, whose name escapes me at the moment.

1point

judy baker 4 years ago

Truly a woman of the Renaissance who helped pave the way for future generations.

1point

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448points

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Sol Veig 4 years ago

You still get that in finland

218points

JennyLaRue 4 years ago

and Scotland

22points

New Prometheus 4 years ago

And every mom to be gets it.

8points

Rabbit Carrot 4 years ago (edited)

In the U.K. you just get leaflets and a couple of free samples for things you won’t ever buy or use.

3points

Lisa Chambers 4 years ago

What is the bowl for?

0points

Jeffrey Diehl Premium 4 years ago

Finland is a civilised country.

0points

Philipp Blum 4 years ago

The kit now is granted by (...) to all expectant or adoptive parents who live in Finland or are covered by the Finnish social security system!

36points

... 4 years ago

Yes, it has been given to all parents since 1949.

12points

Warrior Mama 4 years ago

I've heard that you can even use the box as a bassinet.

18points

New Prometheus 4 years ago

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Vicky Z 4 years ago

Meanwhile in my country they are trying to convince us to have kids giving NOTHING to young couples that are struggling with the lowest wage!

15points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

That should happen everywhere - I feel it'd help a lot of women.

15points

ベンジーBenji 4 years ago

That's actually really cool. In the US you just get a really big bill/a lot of medical debt.

10points

arponet 4 years ago

Is not for low-income women, it is for families. Anybody have the right to get one

6points

Confused koala 4 years ago

This would be very helpful to many new parents today

4points

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

Kits used to be provided to expecting women in France (are they still?). It would be lovely if something like this was provided everywhere.

4points

Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

In the US, the only thing you get is a huge medical bill.

3points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

I was so shocked when I've read that the first time. Over here we just joke that kids cost a lot of money, but you literally go into debt to have them. That's so messed up!

4points

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420points

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Hans 4 years ago

That is an unimaginable long time, yet such a tiny fraction of how long life exists on earth...

83points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Even a tiny fraction in the story of our species that is around 300-200.000 years old

17points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Also the first depiction of mild disappointment with a fancy new hairstyle

21points

Rod Egret 4 years ago

It's la Dame de Brassempouy (SW of France) it's dated approx. 21K years old.

16points

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François Carré 4 years ago

Indeed, posting amazing pictures is fine, giving some references is even better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy

10points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

It is always a bit baffling that the earth or life on earth or even just humans on earth are so much older then our calendar. Even the oldest ones. It would be much cooler and more interesting to start counting like... before and after Dinosaurs or before and after humans or before and after first life on earth. Now, that would be awesome!

3points

Pantea 4 years ago

The figures would be too long but you're right, many more interesting things have happened in the history than Jesus' birth or Mohammad's journey from Mekka to Medina etc.

4points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

She/he had braids

3points

Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago

imagine if we still hve mammoth today :)

2points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

They would be severely endangered like elephants

9points

Mrcat45 4 years ago

if u guys wanna see something cool search up on google Sudbury head

2points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

Don't do it if you have a weak stomach and are about to go to bed. It is not scary exactly but a bit... odd looking

2points

H Moore 4 years ago

Oh yeah...it's Ayla!

1point

Karla Torres 4 years ago

Glad to know I am not the only one who thought that

0points

Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago

There is one which is about 1,000 years older from the Czech republic: https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2018/11/worlds-oldest-portrait-carved-in-ivory-26000-years-ago/

0points

DetongLhamo 4 years ago

Prehistory and History are time travel.

0points

The Canadian, who now lives in Los Angeles in California, has also been extensively featured in the media, including in The New York Times and by Vice. And finally, adding to his great list of achievements, he’s a real trivia aficionado (even having taken home awards) and he’s the curator of the Weird Science account, too.

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415points

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Danielle Keller 4 years ago

It's okay, geometry makes me unhappy too.

182points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Even the teach looks unhappy.

21points

Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago

haha

7points

Rench 4 years ago

I thought they all looked very worried about something

4points

arponet 4 years ago

Knowledge in general. We know it

3points

Carter Mosoff 4 years ago

Idk why but i read this in my head in Josh from LetsGameItOut’s voice

1point

ChinmayGhule 4 years ago

Please! Mathematics is the most beautiful language in the whole world!

1point

Phoebe Rueda 4 years ago

Maybe this is a favorable reference to Hypatia of Alexandria? She was a well respected philosopher and mathematician.

27points

Dave P 4 years ago

that is who the british museum thinks it is as well

6points

ProbablyIsaac 4 years ago

"...and that's called a triangle—" "WHAT SORCERY IS THIS??"

11points

DAISY 4 years ago

I TRULY DON'T THINK SHE'S TEACHING "ALCHAMY", Doesnt look like it to me!

0points

Chris Wade 4 years ago

Guy at the top, gasping and covering his mouth gets me.

7points

I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago

That's the other guy hand

7points

Chich Premium 4 years ago

"Yes, I know it sucks but this is how we *prove* it sucks"

4points

V 2000 4 years ago

obviously too beautiful to be teaching... i mean, barely anyone is looking at the table!!!

3points

denzoren 4 years ago

They all look so defeated.....same.

1point

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Clearly, this artist is a lover of maths. Jk.

1point

Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

Monks look really sad!

0points

Lady Cadaver 4 years ago

Why do they all looked so bummed?

0points

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389points

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Otter 4 years ago

That might be because in the 1930s, people were still catching tuberculosis from cow's milk. Sick cows can transmit the bacteria through non-pasteurized milk, so if the hospital had its own herd then they could make sure all the beasts were healthy and not infecting the patients.

184points

crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago

wow! thanks. learned something very interesting and new today. :)

28points

First Name Last Name 4 years ago

Exactly. Most large institutions had their own herds and farms for this reason.

10points

Nubmaeme 4 years ago

The White House even had cows, horses, chickens and other farm animals because there were no grocery stores or grocery delivery companies like today. It was common place for many places like that to have not only such animals, but vegetable gardens too, where today we think it odd for them to have them. Pasteurized milk was not widely available. Most people drank raw milk back then. Some still do today. I didn't drink pasteurized milk until the early 60's when the local dairy was forced to start pasteurizing their milk.

8points

Springy boi 4 years ago

Thanks for sharing that tidbit of knowledge with us and I didn't know that!

7points

ChinmayGhule 4 years ago

Is that true? Is it unsafe to drink raw milk?

3points

Ranch Dressing 4 years ago

Wasn't pasteurisation invented by then tho?

1point

Lola 4 years ago

Regardless, it’s a wonderful gesture.

1point

Aileen Grist Premium 4 years ago

I caught TB from cow's milk in 1957

0points

kkathleen517 4 years ago

Beasts huh?

0points

Some Cool Guy 4 years ago

Makes sense

4points

Lorraine McNeair 4 years ago

Wonderful idea.

0points

Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago

goats are cheaper, healthier, and easier to keep

0points

Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago

There was a dairy shortage around that time, just listen to "The Dollop" podcast about butter crimes.

0points

arponet 4 years ago

0 km food. This is the new model

0points

Vicky Zar 4 years ago

Not for the newborns I hope

-1point

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Final score:

361points

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Cip IESAN 4 years ago

In the prehistoric times, the customer service complaint was a wooden club...

106points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Or a spear to the heart.

13points

Libstak 4 years ago

All I keep thinikng is BAM BAM, BAM BAM BAM, circa Flintstones and baby BAM BAM.

9points

Lynn Morello 4 years ago

We are almost at that point now.

1point

Nizumi 4 years ago

Still the most effective form of complaint to this day ;)

1point

Luna Lovegood 4 years ago (edited)

More backstory!! The copper merchant's name was Ea-Nasir and he preserved dozens of complaints like this one in his basement. He sold really bad copper. There's an entire subreddit dedicated to him (r/reallyshittycopper) and here's an article with the whole dramatic story! https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/05/11/meet-the-worst-businessman-of-the-18th-century/?sh=6e4567c12d5d

36points

Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago

Oh poor Ea-Nasir. We're still ragging on him literally thousands of years ago. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

11points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

The customer was sent a baked clay tablet containing explicit instructions about where to shove it

9points

J. F. 4 years ago (edited)

To be fair, it's a legit reason to complain - if I order high grade copper and the guy delivers low grade it's useless for me

9points

Chris Wade 4 years ago

Ah yes, Karenna. (I'm assuming that's the old Babylonian version of the name).

9points

Hermione 4 years ago

Probably Ken. Women would have had no say.

7points

Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago

haha, karenna so funny

3points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Yeah let's expand this bullshit Karen thing to the ancient times.....

1point

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

I thought is was Shredded Wheat.

2points

Auntriarch 4 years ago

Slightly crunchier but same taste

2points

ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

Customers haven't change since

2points

Paradox Skye 4 years ago

Yelping on stone works too!

1point

Daniele Tigli 4 years ago

"I want to talk to the copper manager"

1point

Sakura 4 years ago

E-Al Nasir, famously bad copper merchant of Mesopotamia (and now a famous internet meme from Tumblr) comes to mind...

0points

Since 2014, Andrew has been working at SpaceX as a Mission Manager, while previously he had got 4 years of experience as a Spacecraft Systems Engineer at COM DEV. One of the coolest things about him (at least for me) is that he was a candidate for the Canadian Astronaut Corps back in 2009 and as recently as 2017.

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357points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago

And I want it so bad! That bag is gorgeous!

122points

thefaithfulspouse 4 years ago

Ditto!!

10points

Daniel Marsh 4 years ago

Right? Even a guy like me can recognize that purse never went out of fashion!

8points

judy baker 4 years ago

Someone should reproduce this and it would sell like crazy.

4points

earringnut 4 years ago

The inlay is gorgeous.

4points

Queen Mab 4 years ago

Ditto

1point

Andrew Gibb 4 years ago

Even back in 14th Century Northern Iraq women's clothes were designed without large enough pockets for a mobile phone as a marketing ploy to sell handbags. Lolz

20points

thefaithfulspouse 4 years ago

How can you tell how big it us? Seriously, there is no banana for scale

12points

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

Is it from BAGdad?

9points

Brandy Grote 4 years ago (edited)

A prehistoric purse - full of dog teeth! - has been found, and bits of older ones, but this one is the oldest INTACT reticule. Amazing!

5points

CP 4 years ago

It's so pretty

5points

Christa Cope 4 years ago

How do we know it was a women's purse?

4points

Eucritta 4 years ago

I found a newspaper article on it. Judging from this, it's not implausible, but it's also not strongly supported by data. As the saying goes, a nice just-so story: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/feb/19/handbag-courtauld-gallery-identity-treasure-fashion

2points

Sarah Pryde 4 years ago

whichever designer decides to manufacture replicas would make so much money

3points

Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)

Wow! So beautiful

2points

Lisa Pockat Bork 4 years ago

Beautiful!

1point

Amanda Hunter 4 years ago

I wonder what was kept in them those days.

1point

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347points

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JB 4 years ago

100 years later - armed insurrection.

151points

julia 4 years ago

by domestic terrorists, no less :(

28points

hi myself 4 years ago

Yeah PLEASE GO BACK TO SNOWBALL FIGHTS!!!

9points

Mari Bryant 4 years ago

No. If it snows there are still snowball fights. It's tradition.

0points

Jarrod Nichols 4 years ago

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K Witmer 4 years ago

Jarrod that's why all your Republican judges aren't letting them out on bail. An oath keeper yesterday pled guilty. The police you claim to love so much said it was an insurrection remember you must back the blue at all times. Weapons were used including bombs were found for you to deny what we all saw w our own eyes is exactly why we unequivocally know you are a huge liar w no credibility

6points

WorldNeedsReboot 4 years ago

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Jace 4 years ago

Today, I'd be worried the republicans would throw "snowballs" formed around large rocks... while claiming democrats were throwing stones.

10points

Anonymousplease 4 years ago

I like that they are in their suits, it is kinda funny

5points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I love this - but alas it ain't so simple now.

4points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

Why not? Just shove them outside during snow-days and let em at em! I wonder how many 'friendly fire'-balls Ted Cruz will get ;-)

6points

Atopher Bot 4 years ago

Half the f*;ers would have a heart attack or stroke if they tried that now...

3points

BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago

And I'm not 100% sure that is neccessarily a completely bad thing...

3points

Bill 4 years ago

We should bring dueling back

2points

Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago

People act like real issues are just “political debates” between two similar but different groups. No. If we solved “political debates” this way, black people would still be slaves and women wouldn’t be allowed a snowball to participate.

2points

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

Although, hear me out, Elizabeth Warren vs Turtle Neck Mitch. Or Corey Booker vs Tom "Slavery Wasn't All That Bad" Cotton.

9points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Today, barely 100 years later they would use hand grenades.

2points

judy baker 4 years ago

Packing their beloved guns along.

3points

Queen Jackson. 4 years ago

If it’s the same dirty rock filled snowballs thrown at the Boston massacre I think we can pass.

1point

Nikki Sevven 4 years ago

Most of Congress is too old to even think about doing this.

1point

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346points

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

What an amazing detail!

82points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

Bot surprising, considering the sculpture. We just aren’t used to seeing it due to time and the loss of things like this.

1point

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Jewelry remains remarkably similar.

10points

earringnut 4 years ago

The hairstyles aren't that far off either.

9points

Gin. No tonic 4 years ago

Eleven is much older than we thought! Or can she travel through time?!

9points

jjdubs W 4 years ago

They look almost modern!

2points

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

They look contemporary. Just incredible.

1point

Glynna Bowood 4 years ago

They look hardly out of date/style actually!

1point

conejocongato 4 years ago

they look so contemporary!!

1point

s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago

Or we all look so ancient! :)

0points

LAWLAWLAW 4 years ago

how old is it?

1point

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

It's generally believed to date from the 3rd Century C.E.

15points

Mayrene Chester 4 years ago

it actually feels very modern

0points

B DI 4 years ago

Greek family.

0points

What’s more, he was being considered as one of the potential candidates for a one-way mission to the Red Planet as part of the Mars One project in 2014. It should be clear by now that Andrews’s passion for science and history aren’t just for show—he’s dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth, knowledge, and pushing the limits of mankind. And Weird History… it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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343points

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Cip IESAN 4 years ago

The president and the prime minister of many states are not allowed to share the same aircraft. And, during the war, the medics weren't allowed to share the same foxhole.

97points

Ni Na 4 years ago

Or for the Queen and the heirs.

18points

MilaFi 4 years ago

This is a code for many companies, the most important ppl are not allowed to fly together.

8points

Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago

Well... the Poland incident of aircrash included this worldwide

2points

judy baker 4 years ago

Similar thing happened with the 5 Sullivan brothers during WW2 that were killed while serving on the USS Juneau. This created the Sole Survivor Policy.

2points

ChinmayGhule 4 years ago

In short, don't put all of your eggs in the same basket!

1point

arponet 4 years ago

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Andrew Gibb 4 years ago

Which brothers failed to invent the airplane? The Wrong brothers

13points

Springy boi 4 years ago

lol that's a good joke

4points

K.Kobayashi 4 years ago

Kobe Bryant and his wife never flew on the same helicopter either, for the sake of their children.

2points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Really? Wow it's like they knew... how sad

2points

Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago

It wasn't Wright that they broke a promise

1point

Sofie 4 years ago

Like the royal family

1point

Leonardo Ambrosio 4 years ago

Santos Dumont!

0points

Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago

Most large corporations follow the same rules. Yeah, try 117 guys from all over the country to a meeting in Seattle without having ANY of them on the same flight. Freaking nightmare.

0points

Lorraine McNeair 4 years ago

I can understand the father’s wish.

0points

Analyn Lahr 4 years ago

Never put all your commanding officers in the same shuttlecraft.

0points

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327points

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Chris Wade 4 years ago

I mean... As far as prison cells go, that surely isn't that bad, right? lol

130points

PixieVonBehr 4 years ago

It would cost £1,500 per month to rent this in London lol

36points

Nubmaeme 4 years ago

Only Capone was allowed to have these things. The other cells were simple standard cells.

10points

*me* 4 years ago

He had a lot of stuff smuggled in and because of his rep the guards didn’t do anything

9points

Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago

I think that's the point of the picture?

6points

Bama Belle 4 years ago

I agree. I'd rather live in that than a modern day prison cell.

5points

ChinmayGhule 4 years ago

Compared to him, I don't even have my own room!

2points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

It looks like a cross between a modern top security prison, a wine cellar and a chintzy B&B

18points

sofacushionfort 4 years ago

Eastern State in Pennsylvania. Once considered a marvel of civilized prison, compared to the rest, even though the toilets were flushed once a week. Capone used his stay as an alibi to evade an even harsher charge in Illinois.

13points

Cip IESAN 4 years ago

I've seen worse hotel rooms...

8points

V 2000 4 years ago

And somehow it looks more expensive than my bedroom :/

4points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Wow. He actually didn't get off too rough.

4points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

Pretty swanky

2points

J. Normal 4 years ago

Remember the walls were painted, there was probably more art on the walls etc.

2points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

How is it legally possible to get your furniture in your cell? I'm pretty sure it was not hidden in his mail.

2points

Mike Crow 4 years ago

It was something he did, plus his status I think, that the warden allowed it.

5points

Anonymousplease 4 years ago

I think that he was pretty wealthy and was able to pay for a batter room.

1point

Orionpax75 4 years ago

He was still very powerful, very wealthy, and lots of judges, politicians, a few senators and sole other high profile politicians in his pocket! Plus he still had hit an out there so I can see why the warden gave him what he wanted

0points

A.J Milne 4 years ago

The most adorable prison cell

2points

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315points

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Chris Wade 4 years ago (edited)

Fast forward 82 years later and people moan about having to wear a cloth/paper mask on planes.

266points

Cip IESAN 4 years ago

I would love to send the anti-maskers back in time, during the gas attacks in the WWI...

50points

judy baker 4 years ago

It really is amazing how sadly people have become behaving so petty about masks. I don't wanna wear one boo hoo.

11points

Cass Thomas 4 years ago

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sofacushionfort 4 years ago

The high pressure inside the body VS the low pressure in the upper altitudes would result in a cabin of embarrassed passengers breaking wind. In higher altitudes, tooth cavities would rupture from the pressure imbalance.

10points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I bet the anti - masker Karens nowadays would freak if they were bought back to then.

6points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Funny how we use a female name for these antimaskers but 2 out of 3 people complaining are usually men....(not saying that women don't) if that's not sexist i don't know what is

9points

Louloubelle 4 years ago

My name is Karen and I'm not an anti-masker. Rude to use a person's name as a slur.

1point

YoyoSthlm 4 years ago

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Hermione 4 years ago

Laughing gas. At a party.

2points

Mari Bryant 4 years ago

Back in the day, people would dress up for plane trips. Now it's like People of Walmart.

1point

backatya 4 years ago

They wore someone else's breathing mask EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW

0points

Orionpax75 4 years ago

All I can think about is the rick and morty episode with the glorzos lol

0points

Cip IESAN 4 years ago

I became an antimasker in open spaces after my booster shot of Moderna, in February; in stores I proudly wear very tough masks printed Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, Rolling Stones etc.

-1point

Robin Hodge 4 years ago

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302points

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Kori Peek 4 years ago

Dwight is my relation and I can tell you this was 100% true. :)

88points

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

Oh...that's lovely!!

14points

judy baker 4 years ago

How cool!

7points

Dawn Ours 4 years ago

Kori Peek My Mom's dad (Chief) served in WWII as a Mechanic He admired and Respected "Ike" growing up I used to beg Grandpa for stories about him , see my grandpa was Half Native American and would on occasion drive the General around when his regular driver was not avail. So me asking questions was almost 40 yrs after the war, I used to say Come on grandpa it's been decades the war is over there has to be some interesting story to tell. Much to my frustration at the time Grandpa only ever said "the General was a good man he's never released me from my orders and I respect him I can't and won't tell stories" I'm 55 and I get it. when you are given an order by someone you respect you just can't break your word. One of the many reasons these men and women were The Greatest Generation. They understood what Honor means. We need more like them more than ever.

2points

Tequila4Two 4 years ago

Not a weird idea. A bit of love can reduce your stress levels, and with that decrease the change of a heart attack.

25points

Springy boi 4 years ago

Awwwwwwww

10points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

I really believe that hug therapy as well as laugh therapy should be prescribed!! In many many cases even in serious illnesses the psychology can be up to 50% of the treatment! Not exaggerating I've done multiple seminars about this subject

8points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Aww that's so wholesome.

6points

The Cute Cat 4 years ago

That is cute..

6points

Lauren 4 years ago

My dad delivered flowers every week when Mrs. Eisenhower stayed at Augusta National.

4points

Brian Bennett 4 years ago

Excellent advice new Doctors this day and age should use this advice.

1point

Demongrrrrl Premium 4 years ago

For optimal health, you should get/give twelve hugs a day. Don't remember where I heard that, but I consider it true,

1point

Lauren 4 years ago

And you can give yourself a hug!

1point

Jace 4 years ago

Hugs are nice.

1point

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301points

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Some Cool Guy 4 years ago

Al Ula in Saudi Arabia

65points

mca 4 years ago

It's amazing in person

2points

Chris Wade 4 years ago

Minecraft vibes.

11points

Jojo Dancer 4 years ago

Looks like where the Stones were keep hidden in The 5th Element

9points

Andrew Gibb 4 years ago

the design is very similar to carved buildings found in Petra

9points

BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago

Makes sense that this reminded me of Petra!

3points

Scagsy 4 years ago

Just like modern day builders. When's he coming back to finish it?

7points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

They were talented

4points

Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago

wow

2points

Chich Premium 4 years ago

Some guy wandering around the desert thinks "See that Huge rock. I'm gonna carve a house out of it"?

2points

Nadine 4 years ago

They didn't use to wander. They used to live around these areas. Desert weather is harsh and many historical items were lost to time, since they were mainly biodegrade. What stands the test of time are rocks.

8points

Jace 4 years ago

Cool. I've never seen that before.

1point

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago (edited)

Known as the first "tomb stone". :-)

0points

#18

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295points

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ShneeksDawn 4 years ago (edited)

What a bore-ing job

59points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

That's some deep humor!

15points

Tiggy Darling 4 years ago

Meh. That joke could have been a hole lot better.

11points

ProbablyIsaac 4 years ago

Hole-y crap.

10points

ChinmayGhule 4 years ago

In The Boring Company.

2points

Sharrow 4 years ago

Elon Musk named one of his enterprises The Boring Company, and yes it's goal is to build tunnels.

0points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

I dig this joke!

0points

Gosia Buczek 4 years ago

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denzoren 4 years ago

I always feel like there should be a plaque or something with the names of all the persons who worked on these types of things. It is not an easy or comfortable task at all....and without modern tech.

13points

Brandy Grote 4 years ago

This was an extension line. The first UK underground line, Paddington to Farringdon, was running DURING THE US CIVIL WAR!

4points

michael reid 4 years ago

Man, that is LOADS of work. Digging it all by hand. Mental

2points

KatHat 4 years ago

The first tube lines in London were "cut and cover" - ie, they dug down from the surface, laid the line, built a tunnel, and then covered the whole thing over. For this reason many of the earliest lines follow the streets above as they were the easiest place to dig. Later, they developed the ability to bore effectively and relatively safely, so the later lines are more direct and don't wiggle all over the place quite as much.

1point

Heather Menard 4 years ago

They also lived there while building it

1point

Andrew Gibb 4 years ago

the company that dug the underground 'undercut' their rivals

1point

Amanda Hunter 4 years ago

And it's still going strong.

0points

Lorraine McNeair 4 years ago

Hard work!

0points

Jean Thompson 4 years ago

...And no hard hats to be seen.

0points

#19

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293points

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judy baker 4 years ago

They build very few structures today that would last even half as long.

46points

Panda 4 years ago

Our house was built 200 years ago and it is much more beautiful than many contemporary apartments (I know 200 years is not that long ago, but still.. )

7points

Vera 4 years ago

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1point

Iamtheblaine 4 years ago

Do you think it's just stood like that all this time without extensive maintenance and refurbishment?

0points

Madison Sadler 4 years ago

Wow...

3points

Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago

Armenia. Tainted forever by the Kardashians.

2points

blugeagua 4 years ago

No its not! I'm sure the Armenians don't care for them either. Not only that but the family were all born and raised in the US. They don't count. Lol

0points

Mare Freed 4 years ago

That's so beautiful.

0points

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0points

#20

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287points

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Chich Premium 4 years ago

This makes me happy :)

74points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

Then, have a nice day!

10points

Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago

it's the Kool-Aid man's ancestor!

26points

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

My thought exactly.

1point

V 2000 4 years ago

That's ancient mommy's Happy juice

8points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I can imagine a kid carrying this and painting it.

8points

denzoren 4 years ago

Wilson? Lol

6points

Paradox Skye 4 years ago

That moment when you realize smiley emoji is way older than you..

4points

Skybolt727 4 years ago

It’s kinda like when you draw a smiley face on your book for the next person at school

4points

Sabrena Patterson 4 years ago

Oh yeah! Kool Aid!

2points

Xottel 4 years ago

:)

2points

Pirate Captain 4 years ago

Dream? Dat u?

1point

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277points

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Chris Wade 4 years ago

Ahahahahaha very grown-up, guys, keep it goin'

111points

Giles McArdell 4 years ago

* flowin'

19points

Lousha 4 years ago

Fun fact: "pisa" in Hungarian means "piss".

19points

Springy boi 4 years ago

Huh I didn't know that but damn that's fascinating!

4points

Dark Pearl 4 years ago

You know the feeling when something is mildly disappointing, but you can't stop giggling? That's me right now.

7points

Mz Phit 4 years ago

The rivalry is epic! There's an old Florentine saying- ( translated) " Better a dead man in the house than a Pisano on the doorstep" . Of course, that intensity has faded now, thank goodness ( unless you are talking about Calcio-soccer lol)

6points

Thomas 4 years ago

To which the Pisani usually responds "che Dio t'accontenti" (may God please you).

0points

Sol Veig 4 years ago

Well, they must have been pissed off

6points

Douglas Campbell 4 years ago

It's pronounced "Pee-za"

5points

Queen Jackson. 4 years ago

Like the towers of pizza!

1point

John Dilligaf 4 years ago

that's some Master level troll-work

2points

Rench 4 years ago

I always pee with gusto...

1point

Mazer 4 years ago

Tribalism, still impacting people today.

1point

Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago

hahaha spiteful

1point

#22

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266points

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Chich Premium 4 years ago

I love that font for the Metro.

68points

Andrew Dunne 4 years ago

It's still the same (or very similar) now.

5points

Cathy Jo Baker 4 years ago

One of the metro stops in Mexico, Bellas Artes, imitates this style of subway stop.

3points

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Moi aussi.

2points

s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago

did Mucha create that?

0points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

So vivid!

7points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Them just posing on the bench made my day or night. Idk.

5points

Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago

"Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon, documented life in Paris using color filters made from dyed potato starch grains."

3points

Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago

https://petapixel.com/2015/12/10/these-color-photos-of-paris-were-shot-100-years-ago/

1point

ChloeClementine 4 years ago (edited)

This looks so much like Paris now, I could have been there yesterday, I have found few cities like Paris that seem to be so well preserved

2points

Gabe 4 years ago

I would say spring 1916 as the uniforms are quite new (these uniforms started to be given in spring 1915) and everybody wear it.

2points

Glynna Bowood 4 years ago

The background is just blurred a bit making it so like a impressionistic painting!

1point

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François Carré 4 years ago (edited)

It must be post 1914 though, because French soldiers didn't wear those blue uniforms before that. They used to wear fancy red pants that made them so easy to see from far away and shoot at that literally thousands of men were lost just because of that within the first weeks of WWI.

1point

Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago

The uniforms of French soldiers in WWI was blue, which was a pretty bad idea, since it made them stand out on the battlefield. Overall, the French military had very little regard for their soldiers which causes mass desertions and widespread mutinies. One of the reasons that Petain was considered a war hero was because he actually made things better for the soldiers and changed battle plans to reduce casualties. (also executed 49 soldiers for mutiny and desertion, but spared another 580 who were also sentenced to death).

0points

Eric Forster 4 years ago

That soldier nearest the camera just wants to catch some zees.

0points

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Otter 4 years ago

SOMEONE TELL ME THE STORY BEHIND THIS!!!

97points

Gosia Buczek 4 years ago

High Wycombe is known for chair making, especially Windsor chairs. This impressive chair arch was put up in the town, to welcome Queen Victoria on a visit in 1877. The people who lived here wanted to show off the local industry and their pride in it.

187points

Mark Howell 4 years ago

In Leeds, 1894, the city welcomed Queen Victoria with an arch made out loaves of bread. Here is the story and picture, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-56604516

15points

michael reid 4 years ago

Afterwards they gave all the bread to the poor

5points

Petra, princess of Brigid 4 years ago

anxiety level: 100000000

13points

Dark Pearl 4 years ago

One wrong move and decimating Jenga occurs

10points

Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)

"What time is the queen coming? In two hours! Oh God I'm tired standing... let me pull a chair.... oops

5points

The Cute Cat 4 years ago

look very safe..

2points

Jace 4 years ago

All I see is a disaster waiting to happen.

1point

Ian Leong 4 years ago

Those who made this are a group of upstanding people!

1point

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François Carré 4 years ago

And there was nothing left in all town to sit her royal ass on.

1point

Gene The Bean 4 years ago

charch

1point

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255points

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J. F. 4 years ago

And it took a long time to re-discover the need of taking vitamin rich food on sea travels

79points

Bill 4 years ago

The Royal Navy had the answer sitting in a pile of paperwork for 200 years. They forgot about that experiment with lemon juice

12points

Scagsy 4 years ago

That's why their Longboats didn't have cabins. No-one could tolerate the smell of it - both before consumption and the gaseous after-effects!

19points

Andrew Gibb 4 years ago

hence the term 'wind beneath our sails'

18points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

"By Odin's beard, let us discover a new land so we can stop eating this disgusting stuff"

11points

Marky Mark 4 years ago

What? Sauerkraut, Kim Chi, and all other fermented cabbages are DELICIOUS!

9points

Daniel Marsh 4 years ago

All that cabbage in their diets also helped keep the sail full. I'm so sorry. Just not quite sorry enough not to post it.

9points

Mazer 4 years ago

The term “Limey” a Derogatory term used to denote British sailors goes back to the 19 century because British sailors used lemon juice to combat scurvy. *Back then lemons and limes were basically considered the same thing

4points

Jon S. 4 years ago

Were they at sea long enough to get scurvy? Its supposed to take several months without vitamin C to develop scurvy and I know some Viking expeditions were a year or two long, but they had long stop-offs on land when I assumed they would acquire local fare.

4points

Bill 4 years ago

The made the new world long before Columbus

7points

Trond Hermansen 4 years ago

I would like to know the source of this information. Anybody knows?

3points

Jim Laughlin 4 years ago

Google L;Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland for your answer.

0points

Tomáš Houdek 4 years ago

It was also one of few meals that wouldnt spoil during sailing.

1point

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Interesting.

1point

Arne Paulsen 4 years ago

On voyages more like Onions really....But besides that Sauerkraut is a Danish invention and not as you might believe German!

0points

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254points

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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Cousins are nice, but when a little horde of bloodthirsty bolcheviks want tu slaughter your family, they are not here to help you.

75points

thefaithfulspouse 4 years ago

Exactly. They appealed to the Kaiser of Germany who was the cousin and I believe also the British royalty, although I could be wrong about that. Nobody would help them. Sometimes blood isn't thicker than power

21points

Jace 4 years ago

I keep thinking about this horror (the murder of the czar and family) whenever people suggest that we need to start hanging politicians or assembling a gallows/guillotine. It's sick. We need to remove people from power, not murder them. Though, I don't think the progressives are the ones to worry about, since I've not seen a gallows assembled by any protestors other than the Trumpanzi insurrectionists.

8points

Jenifer Halpern 4 years ago

No they weren't! With families like them, who needs enemies!

0points

Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago (edited)

When the majority of the people in your country are dirt poor, and thousands are dying from famine and from fighting a losing war, but you are off pretending to be a Big War Leader, while your cousins are running things into the ground, your wife is being told what to do by a crazy religious "holy man", there is going to be a revolution. The f*****g Russian pro-Royalists (as well as Ukrainians) murdered 100,000 Jews, just for being Jews, and evicted 600,000, despite the fact that there were hundreds of thousands of Jews serving the the Russian army. So don't talk about "bloodthirsty Bolsheviks", when the Imperial Russian forces were far worse.

0points

Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago

King Edward did not to be seen has playing 'politics' so the Tsar and his family were murdered. The Bolcheviks wanted to make the Royal family was no more.

0points

Sakura 4 years ago

Not downplaying what the Bolsheviks did (which was way overboard and ultimately helped no one), but the rulers at the time of the overthrow were grossly incompetent. The people were suffering.

-1point

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I love photos that show humans just having fun.

13points

Vera 4 years ago

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3points

BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago

Maybe not Hitler, probably closer to one of the North Korean Kims goofing around...

0points

Emma Byrne 4 years ago

Are they taking the piss out of the Hapsbergs?

3points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago (edited)

Do you mean Habsburger?

-2points

Desiree McKinnon 4 years ago

Even royalty can have a little fun

3points

Desiree McKinnon 4 years ago

Prince Phillip once disguised himself as one of Queen Elizabeth's guards. When she recognized him, she actually laughed, in public.

14points

Arne Paulsen 4 years ago

People Tend to forget Tsar Nick had a lot of blood on his hands, and all in all was a piss-poor ruler, With idiots like him on a throne the outcome is inevitable!

1point

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

Many were Victoria's grandchildren.

1point

Mickie Shea 4 years ago

Oh! How gay were the times?

0points

HellVetios 4 years ago

Is the prince of greece the father or grandfather of Prince Philipp?

0points

Victor Botha 4 years ago

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was originally titled Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. His father was one of the Greek kings younger brothers, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. His mother was Princess Alice of Battenburg. Lord Louis Mountbatten, was his uncle. He was also a Battenburg, but anglicized his name from Battenburg to Mountbatten.

1point

Renee Letkiewicz 4 years ago

Silly ol' chaps

0points

#26

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Final score:

252points

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Kai Wee Toh 4 years ago

...and then they replaced the cocaine with something more potent and addictive - refined white sugar.

158points

LottieH 4 years ago

Yes! Bring back the cocaine! Ban the sugar!

41points

Brandy Grote 4 years ago

High fructose corn syrup is even worse! Yuck.

12points

Marco Conti 4 years ago

Actually, they substituted the sugar with corn syrup not long before the "New Coke" fiasco. If you want sugared coke in the USA, you have to buy the Mexican one.

4points

Guywithchickens 4 years ago

If l remember correctly they got in trouble for the wine way before the cocaine. He was hocking it in dry counties.

4points

Lynne Monteith 4 years ago

High Fruitcose Corn Syrup

3points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

It always had sugar

1point

DC 4 years ago

... seriously, this is as untrue as it is pointless.

0points

Skybolt727 4 years ago

There is one difference cocaine can ruin lifes.

0points

ベンジーBenji 4 years ago

Coca-Cola started off as a "medicine" for common ailments by Dr. John Pemberton in 1886. It was not a WINE. Coca-Cola did own a winery and Coca-Cola did at one time have Cocaine in it but this fact above in NOT correct at all. You can easy look this up on the history of the company or any creditable source. https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/history

24points

Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago (edited)

Weird History twitter really does spread a lot of false facts

2points

Dhukath 4 years ago

Like the design of the first bottle, kind of elegant!

11points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

It actually is

3points

I Liquored On 4 years ago

I want wine with cocaine in it. I mean comercially. I just can't get it right in my kitchen.

6points

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

This lady seems quite fine. Hu, cocaine wine. 280px-Vin_...e20b9b.jpg

1point

Pantea 4 years ago

My husband told me his grandmother was shocked to see him drinking cocacola in the 60s: Stop drinking! There's cocaine in it! :))

4points

europaleta 4 years ago

I love the original bottle tho'

4points

KoalaLa 4 years ago

gimme back the wine cocaine

2points

AzKhaleesi 4 years ago

I want that bottle! (the first one)

2points

Petros Vrasivanopoulos 4 years ago

please bring the original original taste back

2points

Pazuzu 4 years ago

yummy

2points

#27

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250points

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Pervinca 4 years ago

He was German before Germans even exist

111points

Ross Keim 4 years ago

I forgot they just magically appeared one day

11points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

I wanted to write the same joke but last time I did i was attacked....

7points

Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago

wait... I thught sockin sandals is Czech speciality

2points

Thorsten M. Weisner 4 years ago

Ha Ha! I can Laugh about that, because we Germans have so much humor!

1point

Squidward 4 years ago

It's Poles who wear socks and sandals ;)

1point

Yvonne Blau 4 years ago

LMAO

0points

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

Knowing what we know about King Tut's conditions, it is possible he only had 2 toes on each foot. /S

15points

Robert T 4 years ago

Now that's some camel toe!

9points

Saara-Elina Kaukiainen 4 years ago

Ancient Egyptians wore socks. It was common practice.

7points

alwaysMispelled 4 years ago

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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

So he was german?

7points

Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago (edited)

Just so misinformation isn't spread: this isn't Tutankhamun's socks. These are a pair of socks found in Egypt, dated to Roman period Egypt, like way more recently than he lived. There were no socks found in Tutankhamun's tomb but it's possible he might have wore a pair. There's just no evidence for that. I think Weird History just wanted to make a fun, viral tweet. Just don't believe everything you read 🧐

5points

Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago

Very long feet and two toes... I know he had a lot of genetic deformities from inbreeding but someone has to say the other alternative..... Aliens man

4points

Al Christensen 4 years ago

Walk like an Egyptian.

4points

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Japanese tabis!

2points

Guywithchickens 4 years ago

Is it bad that l now think less of him?

2points

s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago

He was quite disabled, judging from the very post mortem.

2points

#28

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Final score:

238points

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

And nearly 70 years later he's still waiting for her to step down.

126points

Scagsy 4 years ago

Never gonna happen. Big Liz is immortal!

36points

Truth Monster 4 years ago

May he forever wait.

30points

Giles McArdell 4 years ago

I've never been convinced Charles is all that interested in being King, Elizabeth's longevity does make for some good jokes at his expense though.

18points

Zaza 4 years ago

I'm 100% certain that she is determined to outlive him, because he wouldn't be suited to rule at all

16points

Aunt Messy Premium 4 years ago

She won't step down.

11points

Bert van Aalsburg 4 years ago

Who waited longer? Charles or Edward?

0points

Viki Banaszak 4 years ago

More like kick the bucket.

0points

Lorraine McNeair 4 years ago

And there are a few reasons why he should wait forever.

0points

Mshauri Mazuri 4 years ago

Maybe because many people doesn't want her wife to become queen once he ascended.

0points

Seán Baron Premium 4 years ago

The Queen Mother (the lady on the left of the picture) made history by attending her daughter's coronation, as traditionally, the Dowager Queen would never attend the next coronation.

16points

... 4 years ago

Mom, I'm bored! Did you get your hat already?

8points

Downunderdude 4 years ago

69 years later 'Muuuuuuum. When's it my turn?'

4points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

He looks so uncomfortable and bored.

4points

Aunt Messy Premium 4 years ago

Like every little kid does at every wedding/church event/funeral/adult dinner since the beginning of time.

13points

Brian Bennett 4 years ago

He's still an insolent child.

3points

Marilyn Holt 4 years ago

Being a prince or princess--not a life anyone would want

3points

Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 4 years ago

What about the Fresh Prince of Bel Air?

0points

Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)

He still looks like that most of the time....( a plane could land on this hairline)

2points

Rosie Cox 4 years ago

The coronation was 1953, not 1952

1point

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

She looks incredibly young and vulnerable there. I mean, I knew she was young and hadn't expected to be Queen so quickly, but still...

1point

Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 4 years ago

That's not Queen Elizabeth in the photo - Charles is sat here in the middle of the Queen's mother, also named Elizabeth, on the left, and on the right is Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister Princess Margaret. They are all sat to the side watching, whilst Queen Elizabeth is down in the centre being crowned.

11points

#29

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237points

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Lila Launehase 4 years ago

She obviously regrets nothing! Love the smirk!

232points

SydneyP 4 years ago

She’s definitely proud of herself lol. I love it 😂

17points

judy baker 4 years ago (edited)

Looks like she would do it again if she had a chance for a do over.

11points

Gin Marie 4 years ago

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LottieH 4 years ago

That smile tells me he deserved it and it was worth the 5 years.

36points

Debbie 4 years ago

Did you read the backstory? She only had suspicions that he was going to leave her or that he had been with a prostitue. No proof. Crazy women exist too.

4points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

After she pulled the Lorena Bobbit her victim had nothing to pull anymore.

18points

T J 4 years ago

Seems to be very pleased with her self

13points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

He had it coming ♪♫♪

12points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Isn't anyone amazed by the perfect hairstyle while in prison?

12points

Watching 4 years ago

She absolutely gives not one care.

6points

Debbie 4 years ago

So she suspected he had seen a prostitue and then cutt of his weener? Then I don't love the smirk - it's the smirk of a maniac. If it was because he raped someone, ok. But not on suspicions about him going to a prostitute or thinking he was leaving her. That's insane. And those who love her smirk: Do psychopats smile when they do their thing? Do torturers enjoy torturing people?

4points

Queen Jackson. 4 years ago

Okay reading the comments turns out it wasn’t a hundred percent a Lorena and he DID NOT deserve it and she deserves more than five years. Yikes.

2points

Gin Marie 4 years ago

Guys? Stop whining. And stop avoiding facts. Men murder, rape, mutilate, and permanently injure women every day. This woman could not vote and was judged by a jury of men. Men commit nine murders for every one committed by women, except they kill women for resisting rape, for leaving them, for refusing dates, and for anything that bugs them. They are judged by a male-dominated legal and justice system. Women, meanwhile, don't have a right to self defense or even sarcasm. A judge gave an 18-month sentence to Kenneth Peacock, who killed his wife HOURS after catching her cheating, so no crime of passion there. Brock Turner was caught in the act of raping an unconscious woman and got six months.

2points

#30

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227points

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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Combines the pleasure of horseriding with the anxiety of being accidentally blinded by your mount

115points

judy baker 4 years ago

It's all fun and games until the creature goes into rut.

1point

Melissa Powell 4 years ago

lol

0points

okpkpkp 4 years ago

I see 5 steak knives on each branch of his antlers. That equals 10 No thanks..

0points

Leesquee 4 years ago

Accidentally?

0points

Pilot Chick 4 years ago

I feel the need to point out that is an elk not a reindeer

13points

IguanaCircusGirl2000 4 years ago

Thank you! I was hoping someone noticed.. :)

1point

Just a girl in a crazy world 4 years ago

We started using horses to avoid the risk of getting your eyes poked out

2points

Queen Mab 4 years ago

Canadians are so cool. . .and nice.

2points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

This should have become mainstream

2points

Danieletc 4 years ago

"The next day, I got THIS hole in my OTHER cheek, and that's when I decided to get a horse."

1point

Mary Veltri 4 years ago

I'm the boss

1point

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago

That could easily poke an eye out. . .!

0points

nala simba 4 years ago

Isn't that a horse with a chandelier on it's head?

0points

Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago

Not a reindeer, but an elk/wapiti.

0points

#31

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Final score:

226points

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Shannon 4 years ago

It's beautiful there. I visit it once in a while with my kids.

46points

therarestbanana 4 years ago

I work in the city it's in. Very pretty!

7points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

The place looks so picturesque. I love it.

5points

Ayra 4 years ago

There's an amazing Fantasy Fair happing every year at the castle and the surrounding park: Annotopia

4points

Tamsin Far 4 years ago

Yesss! Hope we will manage in october!

2points

skyfire the nightwing-seawing 4 years ago

I’d love to live in the middle of a lake like that!!

3points

Solidhog 4 years ago

The photo makes it look like a miniture on a model railway set!

2points

Jace 4 years ago

Yeah, just you TRY to ring the bell or knock on the door to sell me crap/religion...

1point

Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

Beautiful!

0points

Amanda Hunter 4 years ago

How cute I love it.

0points

Mare Freed 4 years ago

That looks magical.

0points

#32

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224points

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I I 4 years ago

why ? disgusted by nature ?

109points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

A waste of space that could have been used for topless tribal women

60points

John Dilligaf 4 years ago

disgusted that their distinguished publication would waste space by printing "photographs" like some low-brow plebeian magazine instead of filling their pages with intellectually stimulating articles.

20points

Ross Keim 4 years ago

National Geographic, geography has nothing to do with animals hence why they were upset

19points

Marco Conti 4 years ago

Likely they didn't want photos to substitute for artist's renderings

5points

v 4 years ago

Puritanical people are always disgusted by nature because it reminds them so much of our own natural drives.

5points

ravina nimje 4 years ago

It should have been Tribal women featuring playboy magazine, instead, they decided to feature Nature for a change.

2points

Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago

My comment, word for word!

0points

Philothei Phoenix 4 years ago

They thought it was turning into a 'picture book' and that such was beneath the dignity of a respectable publication focused on georgaphy and cartography.

33points

First Name Last Name 4 years ago

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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

Scared of change. Just like now.

7points

Chich Premium 4 years ago

Gonna a need a why

6points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

I have a why! I need a because....

1point

pebs 4 years ago

Why?

5points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

But that's so pretty, and how lucky to be able to see nature in all its wonder?

4points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

Fools look how much money they made

2points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago

Seems a bit dramatic.

1point

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago

And the NG became better because of it.

0points

Diana Murtaugh 4 years ago

Seriously, I'm pretty sure it had to do with spending. Actual photos (the whole process) were very expensive back then.

0points

#33

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209points

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MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago

well, that's basically only time of home i could afford, so they weren't that wrong

53points

SydneyP 4 years ago

I feel your pain my friend. My current home (which I love) is a 25 foot restored tow behind camper. It was restored by the previous owner however I’m currently planning to restore it myself this fall.

6points

Isabella 4 years ago

Well, they were right, here are mobile home, but not that big. 😁

13points

alwaysMispelled 4 years ago

In 1,000 they thought horses and carriages would look exactly the same, and trains would look exactly the same? They didn't try very hard

7points

Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)

We thought there would be flying cars 30 years ago and what we have? Flat earthers and antivaxxers!!! We are not any better

10points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Some of those predictions were amazingly accurate. Apart from the aesthetics, many were spot on.

4points

VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago

I mean, they’re not wrong. We have campers and stuff

3points

Baz Nau 4 years ago

This resembles online shopping - On Track shopping I suppose

3points

Beeps 4 years ago

I feel cheated now - why don’t we have this?

2points

Queen Jackson. 4 years ago

We do, just stereotypically in the U.S. it’s thought of of an trashy white redneck home so it’s not a popular first choice.

1point

Nadya Raymond 4 years ago

Well we already have mobile homes so they were spot on with that one

0points

Viki Banaszak 4 years ago

Not wrong but not as fancy.

0points

clive apps 4 years ago

See Van Life online

0points

#34

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206points

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Sarah Grape 4 years ago

I thought he said redcoats; though regulars make more sense, red was a popular color for coats

31points

Tom Harper 4 years ago

"Regular" as opposed to temporary reservist militia is the idea - ie. The formally well trained soldiers who knew what they were doing and meant serious business.

1point

Hollysmom 4 years ago

Are "they" ever going to print and teach actual historic facts? I doubt it

9points

Tee Witt 4 years ago

That does not make sense, I am constantly reading on BP how the Americans "kicked out" the British?

0points

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago

I don't think Americans considered themselves British at that point in time. . . !

0points

blugeagua 4 years ago

Maybe not, but obviously they still were. They were much closer to their British bloodline heritage than we are today.

0points

Carlye Piparato 4 years ago

I’m a teacher and I never knew that!

0points

Mike Crow 4 years ago

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Ross Keim 4 years ago

He didn’t take credit, just the people who wrote the history books gave him credit, he was one of many riders

28points

Dave P 4 years ago

He was one of the 3 original who did the first leg. It was a relay system, Person reached one town, and each town sent 3 riders in different directions and the original would go in a fourth until he got tired. He was one of the original 3 from the first leg. BTW in the relay there were African-American riders, and even one woman.

20points

#35

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204points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago

A tendency to decapitate the pilot. How many people had to die before they concluded it was a design/idea fault and not just bad luck on the part of the pilot?

159points

Dave P 4 years ago

given this was the Nazi's, I doubt most of the "test pilots" were willing volunteers. They didnt care about dead concentration camp prisoners used as human experiments

22points

arponet 4 years ago

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ChinmayGhule 4 years ago

They just needed a bamboo copter!

1point

MilaFi 4 years ago

Maybe more testing should have been done before using it for reals!

1point

Jim Mozzy 4 years ago

At least Nein

0points

Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago

Fewer than 5888, I presume

0points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Go, go Gadget?

8points

BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago

Dammit, now that theme song will be stuck in my head all day!

0points

purple turtle 4 years ago

That's gotta call for a cut-throat competition in the weapons market.

5points

europaleta 4 years ago

"A tendency to decapitate the pilot" - how nicely put 🤪

4points

ƒιѕн 4 years ago

Kind of like ejection seats for helicopter pilots. Not a good idea.

4points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I spluttered at the end. I wonder how many poor souls died before they scrapped the idea.

2points

Ray Martin 4 years ago

I wonder how they planned to stop the pilot from spinning in opposition to the main rotor.

1point

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

Well there is that

1point

arponet 4 years ago

If the wings are over his head, how can they decapitate him?

1point

kjorn 4 years ago

this is just a small downside

1point

#36

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Final score:

202points

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Ozacoter 4 years ago

Most english words have origins in other germanic or lating languages.

55points

Raven Sheridan 4 years ago

English is the kleptomaniac of the language world.

29points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

English is a Germanic language after all.

5points

Scagsy 4 years ago

True, and there's a good smattering of French in there as well.

2points

ChloeClementine 4 years ago

Many English words also have Sanskrit roots too. I.e. the word shampoo

1point

Petros Vrasivanopoulos 4 years ago

most people dont know it but a HUGE part of english has greek roots https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/03/28/english-words-greek-roots/

1point

David Beaulieu 4 years ago

Yes, all languages developed over time, just like races, nationalities, borders and animals. The only constant is change.

10points

Penelope Mays 4 years ago

english is just 3 languages in a trench coat

5points

Jan Jansen 4 years ago

and berserk

3points

Hanna Eriksson 4 years ago

Baggi, boll, skalle, ånger, byrth, kaka, häl, vek, ägg, fräknar.

2points

J. Normal 4 years ago

Best "trick" I learned to help with spelling and english comprehension... learn the Latin and Greek suffexes & prefixes (?) EX: pro - con, etc.

2points

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

So is the word husband and gasp (also towns ended in -Kirk, -by, or -thorpe are viking. Dublin is also from the Viking).

2points

Sol Veig 4 years ago

I live there now where they once lived

2points

Theblackcat 4 years ago

?

4points

Sol Veig 4 years ago

Love this culture

1point

Cass Thomas 4 years ago

That is not weird history.

0points

#37

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201points

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Bob Picasso is a fine name for a dog.

132points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

My rat: Ratty. My budgie: Budge. My doll: Baby Doll. My first cat: Mr Spiggots (threw you a curveball ^-^)

13points

judy baker 4 years ago

Had a cat we named Rufus Quagmire.

5points

Adam Belaire 4 years ago (edited)

Irony for those familiar with the Pablo Picasso vs. Bob Ross Epic Rap Battle of History. "My name is Pable Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María De los Remidios Cipriano De la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Back To You...Bob."

9points

Sue Aubrey 4 years ago

The Spanish have impressive names!

1point

KL MJ 4 years ago

He also had a dog named Lump.

5points

Sara G 4 years ago

I love giving animals human names! My last 2 cats were Dan and Michelle, and the shelter named them, but I loved it!

4points

Robert Bailey 4 years ago

What the hell is wrong with Bob?

4points

Philly Bob Squires Premium 4 years ago

Yeah! What's wrong with Bob?

4points

Whitney Gal 4 years ago

Picasso was a jerk. But Bob is cute.

4points

thefaithfulspouse 4 years ago

I don't know, Bob is not a common name for a dog

3points

s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago

Especially a Spanish dog.

2points

_𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕔𝕠_𝕝𝕠𝕔𝕠_ 4 years ago

Big bob

1point

Yettichild 4 years ago

I share a birthday with Picasso

1point

#38

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Final score:

201points

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Otter 4 years ago

Capuchin monkeys are also named after the monks.

73points

Jessica Nametz 4 years ago

I saw Capuchin and thought, "like the monkey?" then saw your comment :) Thank you for that tidbit

9points

WildHoneyPie 4 years ago

Ha ha got the baby on a leash. I thought that was a relatively modern thing. Just proves toddlers have always been terrors!

11points

Jessica Nametz 4 years ago

Hilarious and accurate! Before kids, my husband thought leashes on kids were insane. Now that our daughter is 2.5, he's all for it 😂

7points

Marko Čibej 4 years ago

Let's illustrate that bit of wisdom with a painting of Franciscan monks. Just to check if everyone is paying attention.

3points

Jon S. 4 years ago

How do you tell the difference?

0points

Petra, princess of Brigid 4 years ago

Idk why the baby staring at a spoon is so funny to me

1point

Sue Aubrey 4 years ago

I think they are supposed to be beggars. Very smartly dressed ones.

0points

Viki Banaszak 4 years ago

She has a leash on the baby?!?

0points

Amanda Hunter 4 years ago

She's saying "come on then, hurry up"

0points

Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago

Also the shape that the foam creates looks like the hood of a monk from the front.

0points

Debra Stringham 4 years ago

Wonderful artist!

0points

GC Rovario-Cole 4 years ago

They did get out of the habit of wearing the foam on their heads.

0points

Libby Tailor 4 years ago

In Hungarian language, the word "kapucni" is come from "kapucinus". "Kapucinus" means Capuchin(monk), "kapucni" means hood -because of these monks had hooded cassock.

0points

#39

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Final score:

197points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago

I love these heart-shaped books.

19points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

So pretty.

5points

Erik Granqvist 4 years ago

I have never understood eh9y this shape came to represent a heart. Because I have seen lots of hearts (animal hearts), and they does not look like that one tiny bit.

1point

Sue Aubrey 4 years ago

How beautiful! I’ve never seen one before.

1point

Suzy the observer 4 years ago

Love story?

1point

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago

Really difficult to end each page in a point. . . !

0points

Amanda Hunter 4 years ago

How wonderful.

0points

#40

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Final score:

196points

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Chancey 4 years ago

Looks like a golden snitch!

104points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I thought that too! Proof maybe? (jks ofc)

8points

Elizabeth Tunney 4 years ago

Could be, but it could also be an Eevee (pokemon) (sorry, I’ve always dreamed of having an eevee by my side in The Harry Potter world)

3points

Ian Smith 4 years ago

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Helwin 4 years ago

It's a bunny !

10points

Patricia Murray 4 years ago

But it's a picture of what??!

10points

Tipo 33 4 years ago

picture of a ribbon.

19points

Madison Sadler 4 years ago

What is it of?

4points

ravina nimje 4 years ago

Looks like Playboy symbol

3points

Jace 4 years ago

But what is it?

1point

Dinie Violet 4 years ago

What is this?

0points

Carter Mosoff 4 years ago

And we did not use colored photos regularly until like the 1950’s or 60’s

0points

Marvin HoG 4 years ago

Tartan ribbon, for those who don't want to click to check

0points

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago

. . . or, the first Playboy cover photo!

0points

#41

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Final score:

191points

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pebs 4 years ago

The power of the arch!

44points

Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago

The power of competent craftsmanship.

2points

Giles McArdell 4 years ago

Here seen just at the start of the traditional fish slapping dance.

4points

Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago

This is remains of the bridge - just the arch which undergirded the actual bridgeway (which obviously would have had a much shallower slope).

2points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

Looks like a buried Stargate...

2points

Sue Aubrey 4 years ago

Wow that brought back some nice memories. I’ve still got the box set in my book case. I haven’t watched it for years. My late husband and myself were addicted to it. Great series! And yes it does!

1point

Glynna Bowood 4 years ago

Wish we had a modern photo of the bridge for comparison.

2points

lara 4 years ago

I guess they just haven't gotten around to blowing it up, yet.

2points

Tara 4 years ago

I'm guessing at some point, Roman times probably, there was a lot more water under this bridge to warrant such a large arch. Just goes to show how desertified the region has become.

1point

Carrie DeHaven 4 years ago

The sides seem rather steep. I guess one had to be physically fit to cross.

1point

Jon S. 4 years ago (edited)

Possibly, but there is the rump of more stonework visible on either side. Potentially a counter slope was dismantled for the good stone/brick when this bridge became defunct.

1point

Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 4 years ago

I'd be exhausted before I even made it to the top! We don't discuss my dismount...

0points

Amanda Hunter 4 years ago

Like they say, they don't build em like they used to.

0points

#42

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Final score:

190points

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Fun fact: when Titanic sank, the White Star Company refused to pay officers and crew members for services provided during the sinking. And the family of one of the band members who died actually was charged for the loss of his uniform.

86points

Brandy Dor 4 years ago

That don't sound like fun at all....I don't think that word means what you think it means

40points

judy baker 4 years ago (edited)

I saw that about the uniform. What a rotten stunt. They were greedy not unlike some other companies today. Margaret (Molly) Brown began raising money for destitute survivors and victims families almost immediately after boarding the Carpathia. Btw my Grandmother sailed from Trieste to the U.S. aboard the Carpathia upon it's return. The ship was torpedoed 3 times and sunk by the Germans in 1918. 5 people were killed.

16points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago

The ugly head of capitalism rises again.

10points

Scagsy 4 years ago

Nice one corporate. I hope you are proud of yourselves.

10points

Joe Reaves 4 years ago

Stopping pay was standard industry practice (not defending it, just saying all the companies sucked). The moment the ship sunk you were no longer paid.

4points

Mickie Shea 4 years ago

When you let accountants dictate policy.

1point

Louloubelle 4 years ago

Can you say FU?

1point

Lauren Lee 4 years ago

I can’t imagine what I would’ve done with that bill..cry, laugh or scream.

0points

Chris Wade 4 years ago

Is it me or they seem to look worried? Foreshadowing?

10points

A.J Milne 4 years ago

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Seán Baron Premium 4 years ago

Fun fact I used to live in the same village in Cheshire that was home at some point for the Captain of the Titanic; Captain Edward Smith. The village is called Culcheth.

7points

Sofie 4 years ago

Wow...they do not look optimistic at all

6points

Giles McArdell 4 years ago

They look like someone just told them what's about to happen.

6points

Mickie Shea 4 years ago

First to command an unsinkable ship. So proud, so arrogant. So wrong.

2points

Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago

Nice uniforms, crummy employer

2points

Joanna Werman 4 years ago

God bless their legendary souls

2points

Venatrix324 4 years ago

Rip 😢🥺

2points

Jenifer Halpern 4 years ago

Sad! White Star Company sucks!

1point

#43

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Final score:

187points

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Wilf 4 years ago

In France they call it the "iron harvest". About 900 tons of unexploded ordnance is recovered every year. If you drive around the battlefields it is perfectly common to see a handful of old hand grenades or mortar rounds sitting on the verge at a farmers' gate, waiting for the bomb disposal people to come on their latest run to pick them up.

93points

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

A bunch of kids near my place found a shell at the beach and knowing that it was dangerous they took it to the police station...

11points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I was amazed to see the same thing in Belgium a few years ago.!

2points

Mark Kelly 4 years ago

They leave them out in plain sight?

1point

Johan Maebe 4 years ago

For farmers it stays dangerous to work on the land here in this Belgian area around Ieper. Sometimes a tractor runs on one of this bombs. Mostly nothing happens but sometimes a farmer get killed or hurt due to the explosion. We still find underground shelters, with stuff in dating from the 1ww. Also we still find unidentifiable remains of soldiers. It's a full time job for people to try finding out who this was and to give back his name. Tracking his family and giving the remains a last resting place.

13points

J. F. 4 years ago

We in Germany still find bombs from World War 2 during construction - this stuff stays dangerous for decades or even centuries

13points

Dodo 4 years ago

We find them in the UK too. Makes you wonder how long it'll be before we find the last one

0points

Seabeast 4 years ago

There is a special corps of people called deminers who go around searching for them.

3points

Melissa Powell 4 years ago

Spent a week in Suippes back in the 60s. NATO had a gun range there and my husband was the assigned officer in charge of the gun range. This was about a year before France exited NATO. There were and likely still are areas where there are warning signs not to enter large areas due to unknown locations of explosives. Very dreary and very sad.

2points

Libby Tailor 4 years ago (edited)

In Budapest, Hungary the Chaine Bridge is renovated (begins this month). A WWII bomb was found in the river Danube last week. Again. There are several occasions every year.

1point

Sannette de Groes 4 years ago

Maybe they should send that mine sniffing rat that got a medal

1point

Melissa Powell 4 years ago

I have read he retired.

1point

RadiatorAnkleSpider 4 years ago

Wow… just wow.

1point

Whitney Gal 4 years ago

There are parts of the US that will never be livable because they produced and disposed of chemical weapons there and buried tons of unexploded ordnance.

1point

Sue User 4 years ago

I recently found out I lived on such a base when I was a child.

1point

Tim Pillinger 4 years ago

Recently has a ton of bomb turn up in Exeter UK

1point

#44

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Final score:

184points

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MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago

i would love to try, sounds much more fun

80points

ベンジーBenji 4 years ago

Imagine the drunk people playing with blow darts...

10points

Nene Hughes 4 years ago

... Right up until you accidentally inhale....

2points

Jane Alexander 4 years ago (edited)

styrofoam target, a straw and those toothpicks with the ruffles on them. Load ruggle end in straw.

2points

Mayrene Chester 4 years ago

just remember to blow, not suck

1point

Philip Mitchell 4 years ago

The game still exists in school class rooms and McDonalds just with spit covered mini balls of paper instead of darts.

1point

Cassie 4 years ago

We have some half inch PVC pipe that we use as a Nerf blow gun.

1point

Jessica Nametz 4 years ago

I agree!

1point

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

Don't inhale for mergatroid's sake! Maybe that was part of why they switched to hand throwing?

8points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I believe so, but definitely after a few incidents no doubt.

4points

Cip IESAN 4 years ago

And it's played even now, by some tribes in the Amazon jungle, with poisonous darts...

6points

ProbablyIsaac 4 years ago

Don't breathe in...

2points

I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago

What if u accidentally suck in

2points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

Oh I would

1point

A.J Milne 4 years ago

I prefer that version more

2points

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François Carré 4 years ago

But a "tendency" to swallow darts was noted, so they changed the rules because people were starting to find the game not so funny.

1point

Ty Stratton-Quirk 4 years ago

Warning: don't try this if you have the hiccups.

1point

JORVI 4 years ago

Fun for the whole family!

1point

thefaithfulspouse 4 years ago

I might actually do better with this method

1point

#45

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Final score:

184points

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Chich Premium 4 years ago

I remember using one of these. Man I'm old!

73points

lara 4 years ago

Nope, not until you admit that you used an abacus. THEN you are old.

15points

Henry Cheves 4 years ago

Would you consider speaking to my ancient history class?

2points

Maripat Webber 4 years ago

Me too!

0points

NWB 4 years ago

was it super heavy? It looks it?

0points

Marco Conti 4 years ago

I remember watching my bookkeeper using one of those while I looked upon him with contempt while using my 1MB Mac Plus (with external 1MB HD).

0points

judy baker 4 years ago

It looks heavy. My lap thinks my small one is too heavy at times lol.

0points

Tequila4Two 4 years ago

Back then, when the floppies were larger than the screen.

11points

Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 4 years ago

And this seem the 5 1/4 ones, previous to them were the 8 inch ones. Never saw one, just new about them.

1point

K.Kobayashi 4 years ago

Osborne went bankrupt because they made the mistake of showing off their new and improved model while they were still producing the original model, and the new one wasn't ready for production yet. People stopped buying the original model. This is now called the Osborne Effect (seriously).

8points

Tami 4 years ago

I serviced those as a computer tech in the early 80s. It weighed over 24 pounds, definitely not a laptop, but it was portable...well actually lugable.

7points

Radek Suski 4 years ago

It depends very much on the definition. But Osborne was not the first laptop (because it isn't a laptop yet) nor was it the first mobile computer because there were models developed earlier

6points

Queen Mab 4 years ago

I'm old too. We had a Kaypro that looked exactly like this and used it regularly albeit slowly. It used large floppy disks. I'm horrified now that we got rid of it.

2points

Philly Bob Squires Premium 4 years ago

I still have my KayPro IV!

2points

J. F. 4 years ago

Now the real question: Can the original Doom be played on it?

2points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

Unfortunately, no. The Osborne 1 has a fixed character set, and only 4Kb of video memory. Hypothetically you could create an ASCII version of the game, but your framerate would be measured in seconds per frame, not frames per second.

3points

The Cute Cat 4 years ago

I wonder how many giga is the RAM..

2points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

0.000064 Gb (64 kilobytes)

4points

mcborge1 4 years ago

The first portable computers like this Osborne 1 were called Luggables not laptops. The closest I got to owning a luggable was an Apricot XI. It used a little external crt monitor that weighed nothing and the main unit had a carry handle and sliding drive cover plus you could clip the keyboard to the underside of the unit. It came out 3 years after the Osborne 1.

1point

Cassie 4 years ago

It wasn't a "laptop" it was a "portable computer". The keyboard snapped to the front/top and you carried it like a suitcase. It was barely portable considering they were freakishly heavy. Laptops were a nice advancement on the technology.

1point

#46

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177points

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A.J Milne 4 years ago

London is strange😐

56points

Monday 4 years ago

Boston had it's moments too...21 people died in a molasses flood there.

46points

Raven Sheridan 4 years ago

You ever hear about the Great Molasses Flood of Boston in 1919?

8points

Sue Hazlewood 4 years ago

Look up the Great Boston Molasses Flood. That was weird and horrible

5points

Not Proud British 4 years ago

No, it's really not.

1point

Lillukka79 4 years ago

I bought a book about weird London history. It's a great book.

0points

Some Cool Guy 4 years ago

They got out twice to pee before they drowned

27points

Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago

HAHAHAHA wow, brutal but hilarious

12points

Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago

What a tragic waste. Oh, and then there were all those people who died as well. :p

19points

Chris Wade 4 years ago

The dog hahahahaha

13points

Suzy the observer 4 years ago

Happily surfing to safety.

5points

Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago

That dog has it all worked out

6points

ravina nimje 4 years ago

The dog is floating safely, that's what matters.

4points

Sue Aubrey 4 years ago

Quite right! I always want the animals to be ok.

3points

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François Carré 4 years ago

"Only" 8 people drowned because the 1.5 million liters were promptly drunk by brave Londoners.

4points

MAL 4 years ago

I love the dog just surfing along.

3points

Sawdust 4 years ago

Can't get enough of that wonderful Duff.

2points

imontape 4 years ago

What a way to go

2points

#47

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176points

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Otter 4 years ago

More beavers need to be relocated to the American West. By trapping water behind dams they make water tables rise, which helps reduce wildfires and increases reservoir levels.

114points

The Cute Cat 4 years ago

This explanation need to be in the picture caption..

8points

Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago

I love your name .

6points

Mundane Adventures 4 years ago

Stop building water dependent developments in DESERTS!

4points

Mark Fuller 4 years ago

Thank goodness. I've been looking for these instructions for years. I knew there was an optimal height for beaver dispatch!

13points

Sue Aubrey 4 years ago

That’s so funny🤣

0points

Marco Hub-Dub 4 years ago

I supposed I’m not thinking it through, but how did they remove the parachutes once they landed in the lake?

11points

Becky Samuel 4 years ago

The parachutes weren't attached directly to the beavers! The beavers were in the boxes you see in the pictures, and they released automatically on landing. They were dropped on land, not on water.

17points

Andrew Gibb 4 years ago

reminds me of a Naked Gun pun. Looking upwards- nice beaver. Thanks, I've just had it stuffed

9points

David Beaulieu 4 years ago

Um... how many were dropped outside that range to get that dialed in?

3points

M O'Connell 4 years ago

I'm guessing they were using previously recorded recommendations from cargo drops. That altitude gives plenty of time for the parachute to open and the crate to slow to its terminal velocity, but no so much time that they would risk it blowing too far away from the drop zone.

2points

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

Special Agent Commando Beaver.

2points

Ionut Tautan 4 years ago

is that Robert Deniro?

1point

Downunderdude 4 years ago

Did anyone ask the beavers?

1point

Mayrene Chester 4 years ago

how many beavers were sacrificed to get that statistic?

0points

Shirley Heyn 4 years ago

But how many died tangled in the harness and chute?

0points

#48

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Final score:

174points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago

With such a name they were just asking for it.

44points

Vicky Z 4 years ago

Kind of like the unsinkable titanic.....

10points

Adam Jeff 4 years ago

Well, it would have been a bit off-putting to the crew if they'd called it "I shall sink".

9points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

It's submarine, so kinda would have worked.

2points

Chich Premium 4 years ago

Was it yellow?

5points

WildHoneyPie 4 years ago

Ah man, now I'm gonna have that in my head all day!

4points

J. F. 4 years ago

What do we learn? Never use names for vessels that have the slighest potential to jinx it. Calling stuff "unsinkable" also brings bad luck - neither the Titanic nor the Yamato lived up to that claim

3points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Lmfao the bluntness in which that was just said. I love it.

2points

Pazuzu 4 years ago

the submarine was invented here in Ireland,actually 20 mins drive up the road from where i,m living

2points

Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago

Well, it's a submarine, it's supposed to sink.

1point

Abigail Nagel 4 years ago

the first irony

1point

WildHoneyPie 4 years ago

Oops

1point

nala simba 4 years ago

Bit of a Titanic failure, eh?

0points

#49

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Final score:

155points

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Chris Wade 4 years ago

Surely a while after him the name "sandwich" stuck but people have been putting stuff between slices of bread (or variations of bread) for thousands of years.

81points

JB 4 years ago

But a white guy with peerage had to be there for the name. Same as Cardigan and Raglan and so many other names of people that attached themselves to things.

16points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Exactly. The romans were already using their bread to eat products like cheese or honey. And I am sure that older cuktures did it as well

8points

clive apps 4 years ago

Burritos, stuffed pitas, leaf wrapped rice, bean paste buns, thousands of variations of this. As usual some arrogant English fop puts his name on something and claims to have invented it.

2points

Monday 4 years ago

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Tee Witt 4 years ago

You all have got it wrong, just because the above says he "invented" it. He gave his name to a way of encasing food items between to pieces of bread in Britain, that is all. Always some people who will try to make an issue of it.,

0points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

*Earl* of Sandwich. He apparently ordered his meals like this in order to keep playing cards. Being an aristocrat, the fashion caught on. But people have been eating like this since Roman times.

31points

Arthur Waite Premium 4 years ago

You can bet his kitchen staff were doing this long before he thought to ask them.

6points

Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago

I live in Sandwich , less than a mile away is a little village called Ham .

17points

Tiny Dog 4 years ago

Do the people who reside between the two say they live in the Ham/Sandwich Area?

19points

Truth Monster 4 years ago

that's how it got its name, but that's not how it was invented

12points

Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago

And supposedly he did it because he didn't want to leave his gambling table. Though if you're that rich, I don't know why you wouldn't just have a whole dinner served to you there.

6points

Tiny Dog 4 years ago

He needed one hand free to hold the cards.

11points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

From memory I think it was a clean way to eat meat without all the mess, so they didn't have to stop doing whatever they were doing to degrease their hands etc?

4points

Anonymousplease 4 years ago

Yes, from playing cards I think

5points

Andrew Gibb 4 years ago

How dare you all suggest that a sandwich was around before this British Naval genius invented it!

3points

Dave P 4 years ago

the modern sandwhich of deli slices, cheese, and lettuce, but no the concept. Originally Sandwich refered only to his style before the terms became more broad.

2points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Revolution? Oh, you meant the colonial dissent.

2points

birdie 4 years ago

it was because he enjoyed gambling so much. he wanted a way that he could go about his business and have a full meal that he could eat with one hand and minimal mess

1point

#50

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148points

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Tequila4Two 4 years ago

And with the knives.

40points

tuzdayschild 4 years ago

That was his gang sign.

8points

JP 4 years ago

Kalends, Nones and Ides were ancient markers used to reference dates in relation to lunar phases. Ides simply referred to the first new moon of a given month, which usually fell between the 13th and 15th. In fact, the Ides of March once signified the new year, which meant celebrations and rejoicing. The Romans considered the Ides of March as a deadline for settling debts. So, Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, being stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus on March 15, signifies a debt being paid. Brutus's reason for killing Caesar is that he "loved Rome more" than he loved Caesar. Brutus explains that Caesar was ambitious, and he believes that he was protecting the Roman people from a tyrant. Thus, the debt he paid was to the Roman people. The day later became infamous as the Ides of March.

17points

Orionpax75 4 years ago

One of these in gold sold for 4.2 million about a year ago in London. There's only 3 left in gold in the world and about 100 in silver known to exist

2points

Don Quixote 4 years ago

Some considered this to be a d**k move!

2points

Matthew Zornig 4 years ago

Birdperson lives!

1point

judy baker 4 years ago

Beware the Ides of March.

2points

Marianne 4 years ago

Early merchandise!

1point

Destini Mattocks 4 years ago

With 'Ides of March' I automatically think of Iron Maiden....

0points

Marek Yanchurak 4 years ago

Talk about ridin dirty.

0points

Magpie 4 years ago

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0points

okpkpkp 4 years ago

my dad's birthday, March 15.

0points

Pantea 4 years ago

And mine :)

1point

#51

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Final score:

54points

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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Just another example how over time cultures change. Today not wearing pants within the city limits is deemed barbarian.

46points

Evil Little Thing 4 years ago

Down with pants! Up with skirts!

10points

First Name Last Name 4 years ago

Not at my house. ;)

6points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

It is peculiar isn't it? How much the times change?

3points

arponet 4 years ago

But if you wear them destroyed, they will be called fashion

0points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

That for the people who beleieve that trousers are inherently masculine and skirts/dresses feminine

4points

Otter 4 years ago

But within the next 100 years, Roman men started wearing pants under their short everyday tunics. The style went east when the western half of the Empire fell, and spread around the known world. As late as the 19th century, Russian peasants were wearing the same basic outfit as seen in late Roman or Byzantine mosaics.

4points

Dave P 4 years ago

Not true, Dr. Mary T. Boatwright, one of the foremost experts on ancient Rome has said this is a myth and false.

2points

Rod Egret 4 years ago

Vercingetorix and Cesar. Another wrong representation of the Gaules....

2points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

"This is ROME! Hand over your weapons and your pants!"

2points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

"Heathens! A breeze at the knees is clearly a must."

2points

crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago

2020 and 2021 have sent me back to Roman times. I'm not sloppy, I'm ROMAN! haters will hate.

1point

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago

I totally misread that as "plants". Made no sense but I would have believed it because it's way too late over here

0points

JessG 4 years ago

This looks like Kal Drogo riding up to the Lannisters to plead for a prisoner release...

0points

#52

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52points

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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

Wear it with pride!

27points

MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago

i can get behind that 'punishment'

8points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

In the US there aren't enough Hello Kitty armbands.

4points

Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago

In US they won't need any cause no police is getting punished.

4points

Otter 4 years ago

Someone has to try this on the bad cops in the LAPD!

4points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

So, "pink, feminine"=punishment 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️*sigh*

2points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago (edited)

Not really. In Thailand the color is associated with children. It's an "act like a child get treated as a child" message. It is supposed to publicly embarrass officers who committ technical faults, like lateness.

15points

Jean Thompson 4 years ago

Great idea! Now, to make them look stupid, make thugs wear large, pink ribboned dummies around their necks.

0points

Madison Sadler 4 years ago

Why is it a punishment?! I would LOVE to wear one!

0points

Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago

I'm guessing it is shameful

0points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I like this "punishment".

0points

arponet 4 years ago

It is not a punishment. They do it because they like it. Go to Thailand (and many other Asian countries) and you will see what actual love and passion for HK is

-1point

#53

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Final score:

50points

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#54

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50points

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Kristy P 4 years ago

"Roll the bones"

14points

Pokémon MasterAudrey 4 years ago

Why do I want these?

1point

The Dave 4 years ago

What did they use in place of cardboard boxes to thrown down on for some craps?

1point

Madison Sadler 4 years ago

Ooh, creepy!

0points

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

Bones are used everywhere to make everyday objects since forever. I used to play dominoes with bones dominoes at my grandma's house.

1point

arponet 4 years ago

Why? Many items were carved on bone! Even now. What do you believe it happens with those tones of bones from cows, chicken...? Do you think they are buried? Ha ha ha

1point

ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

Creepy? this aren't human bones

0points

#55

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Final score:

49points

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Scagsy 4 years ago

It says a quarter past nine and not a quarter to five. Title is wrong!

30points

Rod Egret 4 years ago

Good one!

6points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I would be constantly checking the time in public just to show off my watch

2points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I sorta, kinda want it now.

1point

thefaithfulspouse 4 years ago

While this is beautiful I don't really think this is history

-1point

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

Sure! Louis XIV was nobody, who cares about his watch depicting him as a kid, made by one of the most talented clockmaker of his time...

0points

#56

Interesting-Weird-History

Final score:

48points

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IzzieM 4 years ago

mmmmm, notes of wet hair...sophisticated!

37points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Hmm I wonder why? Oh maybe because it was stuck at the bottom of the ocean FOR 170 YEARS?

5points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Mermaid hair, no doubt

5points

AnnaBanana 4 years ago

Cheese? Just what you want in a good champagne...!

4points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Briney champagne...ugh.

3points

ProbablyIsaac 4 years ago

"Oh, you drink wine from the bottom of the Atlantic? Of course you like that, everyone likes that."

2points

kjorn 4 years ago

better than wet dog i guess

1point

Chris Wade 4 years ago

Bottoms up lads!

1point

Kujo1d 4 years ago

Someone actually drank from it? Man, dedication.

0points

les 4 years ago

so it tastes like wet dog

0points

#57

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Final score:

48points

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LottieH 4 years ago

Looks like the polar express 😍

11points

Desiree McKinnon 4 years ago

The winter of 1881 was terrible. Blizzards began in October and lasted through April. Trains stopped all.over the midwest. People nearly starved to death. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about it in The Hard Winter. She lived in the Dakota Territory.

6points

Mrs. Jan Glass 4 years ago

A fellow Wilder scholar, Cindy Wilson, wrote a book called The Beautiful Snow, about this very winter. A lot of people have been revisiting The Long Winter, especially, due to quarrentining. Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson) has been reading the whole LH series aloud in daily increments (along with other contemporaries) on her FB channel during COVID, too. Once you start digging into the history of the books' writing, production, and publication, it's mind-blowing... especially Rose Wilder Lane's (and her mother's) interesting definitions of "a true story"/"the truth." Hit me up if you want book/article recommendations!

1point

Laura Gillette 4 years ago

Snow Piercer!

1point

Enaid Curry 4 years ago

Snowpiercer!

1point

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Compare this to England, where the train network can be brought to a halt by "the wrong kind of snow" and "leaves on the line"

1point

Raccoon Queen 4 years ago

I read a book pretty recently about that, in some places it took seven months to get trains through.

0points

David Beaulieu 4 years ago

The quote seems wrong here. The train is traveling through the blizzard, but that was clearly dug by humans or plowed by a different train. The path is clearly already dug.

0points

#58

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Final score:

45points

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Madison Sadler 4 years ago

Wow! That's really cool! I'm going to show this to my band teacher lol

8points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Looks like an elaborate instrument of torture

2points

rspanther 4 years ago

Depends on the music they write with it.

5points

Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago

Depends on the composer!!

1point

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Kind of does actually - but a beautiful one.

1point

#59

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Final score:

45points

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Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago (edited)

When your fashionable in a different countries

1point

#60

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44points

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Otter 4 years ago

It was common for the boys to be injured by flying pins.

17points

Petros Vrasivanopoulos 4 years ago

especially 19th century was a horrible time to be a little boy. i bet there was a job called dead boy collector and you guessed it, it was boys picking the bodies of dead boys getting kiled whilst on the job

2points

InfectedVoice 4 years ago

I did that in the early 90's at the local skittles club where my dad went, I would wait at the end and line them all up again, got paid £10 for 3 hours and as many cokes as I wanted.

0points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

How many times did they get hit in the head

0points

Renee Letkiewicz 4 years ago

Then technology came in and took their jobs...hmmmm

0points

Mooncat83 4 years ago

That's terrible

0points

Cip IESAN 4 years ago

Now, all the pin boys are hidden! Ever watched "The Onion Movie", about the little Asian children hidden in all the electronic devices?

0points

I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago

Or Snowpiercer where underprivileged children had to run the machine

1point

#61

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Final score:

44points

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Wilf 4 years ago

It was a photoshoot to promote the upcoming international tour. They're dressed as typical London city gents. This was basically the 'uniform' worn by city finance workers long after the rest of society swapped wearing morning dress with modern lounge suits. Remarkably, city workers were still wearing this outfit into the 1980s. Just occasionally you see some older gents still wearing it when they go up to their clubs. I've seen one or two in the last few years!

22points

Victor Botha 4 years ago

Still incredibly elegant I think.

1point

Saara-Elina Kaukiainen 4 years ago

This photo was taken June 3rd 1964. The movie premiered 19th Dec 1971. So.. Yeah.

9points

AdamKingXV 4 years ago

The book was out in 1962, and the Beatles wanted to make it into a movie, along with Keith Richards as Alex. So...Yeah.

11points

Steve R 4 years ago

Have you heard of books? No, this is nothing to do with A Clockwork Orange, the title is clearly a joke, but the book came out before the picture was taken.

3points

Scagsy 4 years ago

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Raven Sheridan 4 years ago

Part-time Kingsman.

1point

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Pictured just before they popped out for a bit of the old ultra-violence

1point

Kai Wee Toh 4 years ago (edited)

4 handsome droogs!

1point

Dorothy Parker 4 years ago

Sigh.

0points

Angela Turrall 4 years ago

I need to dig out my old copies, but I’m sure i remember this is from the Hard Day’s Night movie... Definitely before A Clockwork Orange though.

0points

Steve R 4 years ago

The book came out in 1962. This picture is after 1962. You're wrong.

1point

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Isn't this photo from the moment they were knighted?

0points

Steve R 4 years ago

No. They weren't knighted. Paul was in 1997. Ringo 2018. John and George never were.

0points

#62

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Final score:

44points

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

The Antikythera mechanism. It was apparently designed to determine the times for the Olympics.

20points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I sometimes wonder what the ancient Greeks could have achieved if they had access to the plentiful wood and coal needed to power machinery

4points

lara 4 years ago

No one really knows what it was used for. And the idea that they "re-created" it by examination of the "insides" fails to note that the "insides" are a block. It is one of the great mysteries of the "ancient" world. My archaeology professor said that one of the items that scientists would love to "re-create" is "Greek Fire." Despite many thinking it was just a form of napalm, he said, it doesn't [and I quote] "compute."

2points

J. F. 4 years ago

Also the oldest differential gear found yet.

2points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

It looks cool and delicate.

1point

Linda Roy 4 years ago

Want to bet if this had been found in Egypt or South America, it would've been labeled as being made by aliens.

0points

#63

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Final score:

43points

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Emma Byrne 4 years ago

Yeet!

14points

crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago

Yeeted!

3points

David Beaulieu 4 years ago

I wouldn't say deep.

1point

Chich Premium 4 years ago

My people are calling! I must go!

-1point

#64

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Final score:

42points

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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

All that effort, and the only survivor is Lobster Thermidor

24points

Estelle G 4 years ago

It didn't worked out because 10-day weeks means having one day off every 10 days instead of every 7 days. Very unpopular.

3points

thefaithfulspouse 4 years ago

Did they have days off back then?

1point

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago (edited)

It was actually a deliberate effort to dechristianize France. The Republic Calendar was made in order to end the seven day week and Sundays for religious celebrations.

2points

#65

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Final score:

42points

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Some Cool Guy 4 years ago

You're a wizard Jesus

56points

Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago

Totally heard that in Hagrid's voice. LOL

7points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Oh and look, he's brown. From the Middle East. Who'd a thunk? /sarcasm

15points

Not Proud British 4 years ago

Or does it depict him using a stick to write in the sand as recounted more than once in the Bible?

12points

Lila Launehase 4 years ago

On the right he looks a bit like he-who-must-not-be-named.

5points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Well he did came back to life as well. Did jesus have a horrocrux?

5points

Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago

I was just about to type this.

0points

Mrs. Jan Glass 4 years ago

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Zombie Jesus!

0points

Curry on... 4 years ago

Probably using a pointer for the power point presentation.

2points

Mia Smith 4 years ago

And looking rather more genetically accurate

0points

Terd Fergison 4 years ago

That's Dhalsim from Street Fighter 2.

0points

arponet 4 years ago

Jesus dressed as a Roman! C'mon! Who are you trying to cheat?

0points

Steve R 4 years ago

Jesus was a Hufflepuff.

0points

$copper-fractions avatar$

Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago

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David Andrews 4 years ago

Concepts of wands goes back in various forms into pre history, Homer wrote multiple times about the gods using rods to perform magic on people such as putting them to sleep or transforming them into animals

10points

#66

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41points

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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I defy anyone to tear up that treaty

8points

#67

Interesting-Weird-History

Final score:

41points

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JessG 4 years ago

Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

22points

Kristy P 4 years ago

Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople. So, if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Instanbul!

10points

Mrs. Jan Glass 4 years ago

But... why did they change it? Can you say?

2points

arponet 4 years ago

Greeks remain giving the name Constantinople to this city nowadays

2points

#68

Interesting-Weird-History

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41points

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Ross Keim 4 years ago

Atleast they didn’t still have heads in them

12points

lara 4 years ago

The Turks did stack Armenian heads in big pyramids.

2points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I can just imagine some hapless person placing the last one on top, stumbling a bit and causing a helmet landslide

4points

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Dave P 4 years ago

the famous building was a bank vault for storing Jewels, it is shallow cave with an ornate outdoor carving, at originally a massive oak door.

5points

Aunt Messy Premium 4 years ago

Making sure to note that the city was NOT inside the unfinished building that's only about four feet deep.

2points

Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago (edited)

The most ornate "palaces" that are carved in the rock were actually mausoleums.

0points

#70

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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

little chat between cousins....

12points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago (edited)

Tzar Nicholas II is missing there...

4points

Wilf 4 years ago

Fun fact. When the war was declared IN 1914 the Colonel-In-Chief of the British 1st Dagroons didn't turn up for duty because it was an honorary title held by.... Kaiser Wilhelm II....

3points

ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

I think George is wearing a german uniform...

0points

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

European politics sure was confusing back in the day.

2points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Leading members of the Daft Hats Society

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Ozacoter 4 years ago

Last public horse carriages in that place. My grandma was born in 1925 and she remembers taking the horse "bus" from her city to her grandparents village.

15points

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François Carré 4 years ago

Yes, in many countrysides regions, motorized vehicles didn't really arrived until the late 1930's. They were way too expensive for the majority of people.

2points

K.Kobayashi 4 years ago (edited)

That's a cable car, not a streetcar. There's a slot between the tracks, and there's no overhead wire.

0points

Alan Foster 4 years ago

New York had electric streetcars with underground power. The electrical pickup was via a slot between the rails.

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Otter 4 years ago

One account from early travelers said that the queen of a Mount Builders' city wore nothing but pearls...

8points

Dave P 4 years ago

I doubt that. Did you know they were gone before White People came there and none of the Native tribes in that part of the Americas had a written language. So how do we get accounts from people who didnt write?

6points

Dave P 4 years ago

we actually know very little. We know they were great cities, we know they had an empire stretching across about 7 different US states, but a lot is guess work as they left no writings, and by the time Europeans came, they were long gone. A big mystery

3points

Kevin Hickey 4 years ago

Then smallpox happened.

1point

Heather Menard 4 years ago

They knew not to build in a flood plain

1point

clive apps 4 years ago

Looks a lot like IncaAztec stuff.

0points

#73

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clive apps 4 years ago

Endeavour was one of the rejected choices for the original starship name

0points

Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago

But Kirk wasn't killed after trying to kidnap a monarch...

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#74

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Jean Thompson 4 years ago

They all look real characters!

3points

arponet 4 years ago

so, what is weird in it?

0points

BAN CAPITAL LETTERS 4 years ago

they weren't required for all workers in previous construction projects

4points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

Did it save anyone

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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Even in 1995 the pyramids were in the suburbs of Cairo

5points

Wonderful 4 years ago

It looks like a land of sand and a sea of city.

0points

Bacony Cakes 4 years ago

*indiana jones theme*

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JB 4 years ago

Faster just to carry the gun.

13points

First Name Last Name 4 years ago

Faster is not always better. Especially with a gun.

2points

Otter 4 years ago

A tank that can be kicked over by an infantry man, okay...

2points

regi stra 4 years ago

it's not a tank of course!!

2points

Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago

Of course, it's an Italian tank.

2points

Lauren Caswell 4 years ago

😂great mental image!

-2points

Sleepy Cat 4 years ago

My knees hurt just by looking at it

1point

Linda HS 4 years ago

For a second I thought it was a tank costume for Halloween!🤦☺️

0points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

Iuncomfortable

0points

Ray 4 years ago

Pew pew!

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Kirsten Kerkhof 4 years ago

And I thought my handwriting was crappy ...

36points

Raccoon Queen 4 years ago

I know right

1point

Agfox 4 years ago

So, he trained as a doctor before switching careers

9points

Sean Kernick 4 years ago

He was taking Mercury for an STD I think, which gives you the shakes.

7points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Kind of logical. English language did not have a standardized spelling until the 1700's.

5points

T J 4 years ago

If I did not any better I would swear he could not write

5points

Giles McArdell 4 years ago

William Shakeyhand

3points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Pity the poor scribes and printers who had to decipher that

1point

Kristine Phillips 4 years ago

He wasn't the real writer.

0points

Sarah Pryde 4 years ago

side note, dude had terrible handwriting

0points

lara 4 years ago

How can you tell from the handwriting?

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Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

He was an interesting character, however he seems genuinely kind.

15points

lara 4 years ago

Seems?????????? What does that even mean?

-1point

Tequila4Two 4 years ago

And he was also a Vampire Hunter. ;)

3points

Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago

Someone tried to use that in a campaign, and Abe remarked on what a good patron his opponent was.

1point

clive apps 4 years ago

He also grew up on a plantation that used slaves,so he saw the abuse first hand.

-1point

Renee Letkiewicz 4 years ago

Of coarse he did...

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Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Funny, how they never seem to actually return tho.

10points

First Name Last Name 4 years ago

That says more about the Times than the times.

8points

J. F. 4 years ago (edited)

Would be funny if they make a come back as electronical device like Google glass or something like that

3points

sofacushionfort 4 years ago

Until the scandalous behavior of 1920's Flaming Youth caused them to constantly pop out

3points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I've only seen one person wearing a monacle in real life, back in the 1980s in the foyer of Sadlers Wells Theatre

2points

Andy Acceber 4 years ago

Clearly an immortal Times editor has stock in the monocle market.

2points

Ms Po Po 4 years ago

Is he wearing lipstick?

2points

Robert Bailey 4 years ago

That's as many times as Time has published an article saying the young generation is ruining everything.

1point

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François Carré 4 years ago

I've always wondered about the technique required to maintain it like this without mechanic help. It must be exhausting for the face's muscles.

1point

Mrs. Jan Glass 4 years ago

That style mustache came back, though. But I guess the monocle was a bit too much with the hipster guy uniform of blue-gingham-checked shirts and skinny jeans.

1point

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Monocles were actually very popular until the 1930's. Then people started associating them to German generals, and were no longer fashionable.

1point

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Saint Thomas 4 years ago

I love the wink to Ghostbusters in the title :-)

9points

#81

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Otter 4 years ago

The origin of the exercycle?

8points

Downunderdude 4 years ago

Hey, boys, the bloody British have stolen your wheels.

0points

Reynard 4 years ago

Will that work with Zwift?

0points

JB 4 years ago

The guy in the front is doing all the work.

-1point

M O'Connell 4 years ago

It's not a canoe!

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Chris Wade 4 years ago

I'm willing to wager Robert started the whole Yeti/Bigfoot/Sasquatch craze.

44points

Marky Mark 4 years ago

Right after he finished getting dressed he realized he had to go pee

1point

Seán Baron Premium 4 years ago

There's still a debate about whether or not he was the first man to reach the North Pole, as apparently he was a bit of a bastard.

1point

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

He looks like a cross between Chewbacca and a polar bear.

1point

Raccoon Queen 4 years ago

I watched a Netflix show that said he didn’t actually discover the North Pole, he just took all the credit

0points

Piet Puk 4 years ago

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Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Seems quite fun.

13points

Daniel Atkins 4 years ago

I want to ride my tricycle i want to ride my trike.

3points

Mrs. Jan Glass 4 years ago

Much easier and safer to ride for women wearing long skirts.

1point

arponet 4 years ago

So, what? Why is that weird?

0points

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

the penny farthing. Some were quite dangerous.

0points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Note the penny-farthings - I saw a young man riding one in York a few weeks ago

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Tequila4Two 4 years ago

Wait, what? Where? I live my whole life in The Netherlands, first time I have heard of this.

8points

Rod Egret 4 years ago

Seems to be East of Utrecht. And there is even a Austerlitz there....

4points

Renee Kamphuys 4 years ago

It's in Woudenberg, near Zeist.

1point

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François Carré 4 years ago

Must be the highest mountain to be found in Netherlands though, you should see it from very far away right ?

1point

Rob Chapman 4 years ago

Looks more like the Mayan pyramids than the Egyptian ones

1point

Turnip and a Frog 4 years ago

The Austerlitz from the battle is in the contemporary Czech Republic. Today’s name is Slavkov u Brna.

1point

Randolph Croft 4 years ago

One of the reasons Roman roads are so durable is that they were intentionally over-built by Legionnaires for the purpose of the same thing - keeping them occupied, and heavy work kept them in shape. Many of those roads are still in service.

1point

KC Lancaster 4 years ago

Gotta keep your armies busy - idle hands and all that...

0points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Because they were bored lmfao. They must've had so much time on hand.

-2points

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sofacushionfort 4 years ago

The origin of the name Case Western Reserve university in Ohio, originally in Connecticut's territory

8points

Corey Smith 4 years ago (edited)

NE Ohio was the western land reserve for Connecticut, where they came to get lumber and other resources. Western Reserve University was established. But the Case comes from the Leonard Case institute of technology. Case Institute merged with Western Reserve University in 1967 and became Case Western Reserve University.

4points

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Watching 4 years ago

Mind your business, this needs to be re-issued today.

31points

Dave P 4 years ago

You know the term back then meant that people needed to take care of their finances

4points

Ben Smith 4 years ago

The reverse is also quite nice. 13 interlocked rings and the words, "we are one." More good advice that we should take

3points

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

Mind your business... good advice, we should take it.

2points

Xenon 4 years ago

I've got a replica of one, it's pretty cool.

0points

JB 4 years ago

Not a penny. This coin was worth a dollar.

0points

Ben Smith 4 years ago

No, that's a Fugio Cent.

1point

Chich Premium 4 years ago

FUGIO?

0points

JB 4 years ago

Latin for I flee…weird.

1point

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Chris Wade 4 years ago

I mean, my heart goes to him for losing his leg but, surely, this is weird haha

12points

Ross Keim 4 years ago

It was stolen by Texans during the war of independence, I think it was only just returned to Mexico in the past 20 years or so

4points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Santa Anna was a megalomaniac. He reelected himself 11 times and named himself "Most Serene Highness". When he was deposed, people unburied the leg and dragged it through the streets...

2points

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

The Malcolm grandma's leg had a much more sad fate but had a funeral ceremony too.

0points

#88

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Shirley Andrew 4 years ago

how is that "ugly"???

36points

Saint Thomas 4 years ago (edited)

It's a Simpson reference. In an episode, Burns gives one of those to Bart to thank him for saving his life by donating blood (Burns and Bart both have the very rare double O negative type). When Bart sees it, he asks : "what is this big ugly head ?" and Burns answers : "Actually, it's a big, ugly Olmec Indian head".

9points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Carving those was an example of technical prowess...considering they are made of basalt.

4points

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

No, it's not an astronaut, Erich.

2points

Truth Monster 4 years ago

But see how he's looking up in a perfect angle as if he's in a rocket ship?? lolol

-1point

Amy Cohen 4 years ago

Legends of the Hidden Temple!

0points

Mark Howell 4 years ago

Gum, Gum, dumb dumb. ;o)

0points

I'm lay sheep in China 4 years ago

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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago

This really needs some work on it to make it easy to use.

9points

Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago

It’s actually back ! The UK and US have re jigged it , and you can see it at work today.

1point

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I saw something like this in a cartoon back in the 60s and set my heart on owning one when I grew up. I'm 61 and still waiting

1point

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

Come to the old Bell Aviation in Buffalo, NY and take her for a spin.

1point

CrunChewy McSandybutt 4 years ago

It won't be long now before some drunk guy dies in a spectacular way using a jetpack.

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Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

smart

6points

Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

Love the mask on the left

2points

Debra Timah 4 years ago

observation *post* - literally

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#91

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Dhukath 4 years ago

This map is comparing the wrong scales Europe is a larger land mass than the continental USA, so the Roman empire would be much larger still. Comparison map https://moverdb.com/us-states-europe-population/

17points

Adam Jeff 4 years ago

No, I don't think so. San Francisco is more or less overlayed with Seville, and New York with easter Turkey. Both distances are about 4000 km according to Google maps. So I would say the scale is the same.

4points

Sara Rodrigues 4 years ago (edited)

That might be right, but the link you provided is comparing population densities, which does not reflect landmasses... It would be better to see both places at the same scale and using the same projection

4points

arponet 4 years ago

Add that with the technology of 2,000 years ago they were able to manage and organize all that territory

1point

JB 4 years ago

Ahem…and part of Canada.

2points

Ross Keim 4 years ago

And Mexico and Cuba, guess they’re not worth mentioning to you as Canada isn’t worth mentioning to the us

2points

Philipp Blum 4 years ago

Maybe keep in mind that the middle is the mediterranean sea and thus - no land.

0points

Ozacoter 4 years ago

Maybe keep in mind that theh did not have fast transportation, telephones or internet. Proportionally their territory was huge compared to usa now

3points

Gaspard Marnot-Houdayer 4 years ago

It was kind of a "big lake" to the Romans because of the Empire's borders=p

2points

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

And keep in mind that Seas and Oceans always were and are still war causes.

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ADHORTATOR 4 years ago

Illustration shows the roman senate

4points

Ross Keim 4 years ago

What illustration?

7points

Fred L. 4 years ago

Ancient Athens also frequently exiled politicians for a number of years in order to protect their democracy. Way to go.

1point

Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago

We need to bring this back.

0points

arponet 4 years ago

Why is it weird?

0points

#93

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Thomas brennan 4 years ago

That tweet ain't quite right. The HMS Resolute was abandoned while searching for the Franklin Expedition. A US whaling vessel found the Resolute wreck and it was repaired and returned by the US. The desk was made out of the timbers of the Resolute as a thanks for the kind gesture.

41points

Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Where is the mistake, then?

1point

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

I bet Trump's dumb ass carved MAGA in it.

8points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

This was in "The National Treasure 2".

1point

Downunderdude 4 years ago

Trump probably had it broken up for firewood.

0points

arponet 4 years ago

first: Wrong. Second: what is weird on it?

0points

Jesse Rowell 4 years ago

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Watching 4 years ago

Oh the poor racist Trump trash.

12points

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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago

I hope his girlfriend had good eyesight or a magnifying glass

13points

Raccoon Queen 4 years ago

Writing like that was normal, you wanted to write as small as possible

1point

arponet 4 years ago

Is it weird? Why?

1point

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

I want more information about this.

1point

#96

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago

Johnson always played a recurring joke, in which he invited someone for a ride and then drove into the water. The guest usually freaked out, because he did not know it the car was amphibious.

20points

Saint Thomas 4 years ago

I heard the anedoct, but everytime I ask myself : how could this prank works more than once ? People would surely talk about it. Or maybe they agreed to be in on the joke and don't reveal the prank... but knowing people, I find that hard to believe :-) At least one would have spilled the beans.

4points

Scagsy 4 years ago

Somebody in the back is not overly confident of keeping his trousers dry.

3points

Madison Sadler 4 years ago

Wha-

1point

TK 421 4 years ago

Now they have those at Disney World. I think it’s $30 to ride around the lake.

0points

K.Kobayashi 4 years ago

It's still on display at the LBJ ranch. At least it was when I visited a few years ago. Neat place to visit.

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#97

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Kristal 4 years ago

Ew. Why?

29points

JP 4 years ago

You know how it is...stuff gets pushed to the back of the freezer and you just forget about it.

20points

Gizzywig 4 years ago

It’s tradition to keep the top tier of a wedding cake for the christening of your first born.

6points

Daniel Atkins 4 years ago

To eat with the champagne the found in the Baltic.

4points

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François Carré 4 years ago

Because every successor after Victoria is supposed to eat a bit of it to become the true King / Queen.

2points

A.J Milne 4 years ago

But why?

3points

Piet Puk 4 years ago

For when you get home drunk are you are REALLY hungry.

6points

Marie Zimmerman 4 years ago

“Preserved” is an odd choice of words

1point

BSteel13 4 years ago

"Preserved" (does Dr. Evil air bunnies)

1point

Renee Letkiewicz 4 years ago

Bàrf

0points

Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

was it one of those matrimonial/christmas cakes?

0points

Raccoon Queen 4 years ago

🤢

0points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

Huh

0points

#98

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pebs 4 years ago

The French nuclear tests in the atolls of Polynesia were crimes against humanity.

47points

Little Panda Bear 4 years ago

I agree whole - heartedly.

9points

Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

And this folks is why we have radioactive honey.

4points

First Name Last Name 4 years ago

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Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago

Remember when France began testing again--in the 90s? and everyone boycotted their wine? Why?

3points

cassiushumanmother 4 years ago

Yes, right. Whatever bad things we are doing, people are going after our wines or cheeses.That's not the producers fault but i think boycotting this products have a strong symbolism. Mururoa atoll and algerian desert(4times Hiroshima) were the worst, killing a lot of people with cancers and eternal damage to environment. And we are still the most nuclearized country in the world, i live between 2 nuclear power stations.

1point

Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago

Terrible 😞

2points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

I never understood why they have to test these. I'm duh it's going to kill everything

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Abigail Nagel 4 years ago

that is awesome

3points

Nene Hughes 4 years ago

It's all fun and games, until someone tries to run through it...

0points

Mrs. Jan Glass 4 years ago

I can still smell the slightly-stale sausage rolls wafting through the air....

0points

Gene The Bean 4 years ago

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Dynein 4 years ago

The caption on the lower right reads "ship-train in the year 2000" and the one on the upper left "Hildebrand's German chocolate"... I guess this was some kind of marketing scheme? Collectable cards depicting future technological advances?

19points

Mimi 4 years ago

I hope they bring that back, that’s awesome

3points

JB 4 years ago

And the Internet. They got that right, too.

1point

WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago

Ship railroad.

1point

Scott 4 years ago

Aren't ships already amphibious?

0points

Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago

Amphibious means that it goes on both land and water.

0points

Heather Menard 4 years ago

They weren't wrong. I .E. Boston

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#101

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Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago

Keuka Lake (Hammondsport), NY

6points

JB 4 years ago

Fore liked the color.

1point