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Ah, history—my first true love, right next to fantasy fiction. There really is nothing like opening up an expertly written, emotionally-riveting history book on a rainy evening with the flames merrily crackling in the fireplace, the wind howling outside your windows, and learning about historical events.

Right among the top history lovers on Planet Earth lies Andrew Rader, a polymath who’s as skilled as his interests are varied. Andrew is the man and the legend behind the incredibly successful Weird History Twitter page that’s chock full of fascinating, intriguing, and even hilarious, well you guessed it, historical facts. The unexpected and sometimes weird things he shares are enough to make a history buff like me squeal with joy.

Go brew yourself a mug of tea or a cup of coffee, scroll on, and upvote your fave fun facts about odd history! When you’re done, you’ll find our delightful post about the Weird History page that the Bored Panda team put together previously right over here.

More info: Twitter (Weird History) | Twitter (Andrew) | Instagram | Facebook | Andrew-Rader.com

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afoben
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine too! What a heroe. He lost eveything for it but will never be forgotten.

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Lexi Mitchell
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t like people trying to, like, beat other people for this kind of thing. Just tell us that he saved thousands of Jews without the “more than ANYBODY ELSE” part. Lots of people did all they could to help as many Jewish people as they could. They all deserve praise even if one of them did the most.

pebs
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also the italian Giorgio Perlasca saved more than 5000 jews.

Kathryn Baylis
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4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And Chiune Sugihara, known as the Japanese Schindler, a Japanese diplomat to Lithuania in 1940, who also saved between 3500 and 6000 (estimates vary) Jews by signing visas to Japan for them, even though it was in violation of his country’s orders—-it also cost him his job in the Japanese diplomatic corps after the war.

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Raven Sheridan
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An unsung hero! I applaud you Aristedes!

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    Kirsten Kerkhof
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would buy a ring like that in an instant!

    Rose the Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Similar items appear occasionally on online antique sites but are very expensive.

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    Tina Hugh
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shut up and take my dinars!

    Vicky Zar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2700 years? Thats impossible! The world is only 2021 years old! ;) ;) ;)

    Oskar vanZandt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those ancient Egyptians had their priorities straight in which animals to worship IMHO (my cats are watching me as I type).

    Bean
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ngl, that looks like a cat-shaped ring pop. by which i mean, yes, i would wear that

    JessG
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ancient Egyptians had LOTS of cool cat stuff. I mean, hey, they did kinda worship them after all

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They probably were cool already before is was considerd to be cool.

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    AndersM
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok guys. Stand completely still for 19 minutes!

    Trav May
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, that's a groupie.

    glowworm2
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is a BIG cellphone! (Ps. I'm kidding)

    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just realized there are 4 people. I thought that arm on the left looked extra long.

    DangaTank
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    waitwaitwaitwaitwait..... If they are taking a photo right in front of them how is the picture facing from the side????

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Now stand still for 3-4 minutes”

    Mohsie Supposie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They MADE it cool! WE just following their trends.

    Dorothy Cloud
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg, no kidding. Dumb back there, too.

    Fieke Engelen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would love to see the actual photo

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    Since founding the Weird History page on Twitter way back in 2011, Andrew’s amassed a following of nearly 159k followers. Since our previous post about the page back in August 2020, the number of fans has grown by nearly 14k people.

    And it’s all because of the awesome posts that Andrew makes that entertain and educate us at the same time.

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    River Webb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    humans were made to love cats, theres no doubt about it

    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The spirit of the internet was around before it had an electronic vessel to inhabit.

    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why cats are always plotting on killing us

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How can I upvote this MORE.

    elfin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now those pictures are on the Internet.

    Znaya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cats were always popular and telling people what to do 😀

    François Carré
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cats invented human people to worship them anyway.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The title shows how little the author knows about suffragettes. One of their goals was to fight the sexual exploitation of women.

    Xylle Flora
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Women fought for the right to wear pants. This happened sometime after they won suffrage.

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    Connie Martin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Suffragette" itself is a disparaging term used by opponents at the time trying to belittle these women and their cause. The respectful term is "suffragist" and refers to both male and females who supported the cause.

    Sheena Ferr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe I'm not as bright as I thought, but I thought the ,"Ooh La la " remark was being used ironically. Something another woman - her friend perhaps would say to her as she sees her friend flashing her scandalous ( because it wasn't proper for women to wear pants) way .

    Sheena Ferr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    * flashing her pants in a scandalous, yet being funny kind of way*

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    Kim Kermes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They preferred to be known, and called themselves, suffragists. "Ette" is a diminutive as well as a feminine suffix.

    Brian J
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perhaps the title was just being light hearted?

    Dawn Adams
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Women wearing pants during that time really was an "ooh-la-la " moment. Notice the overskirt, making the pants less obvious.

    s. vitkovitsky
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "suffragist" -- "suffragette" was used to mock the idea of women's sufferage, as it's meant to denote something diminutive, sute, less-than.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He became a Grandmaster in 1950 at age 39. Like Bobby Fischer, he won the US Chess Championship 8 times, which is still an all-time record.

    Steve Wilson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. “Playing” but not “defeating”. I’ve read a few accounts that said he lost every match of this stunt.

    Jovita A
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, I think it was on BP too, that he lost all of them...

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    Linus Nilsson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, he must have cheated. Probably played with both hands

    Shain
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So do these chess masters have perplexed expressions on their faces or extremely kind?

    Marcellus the Third
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indulgent. By that point they were all in secure positions; he played well just not super.

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    Gyro Pilot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Old guys are thinking " i oughta spank your f***y, young man"

    David Beaulieu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What branch of the military is he in?

    Maiun
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The guy on the far right looks totally defeated.

    Dorothy Cloud
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn't hear about him at all. Just Bobby Fischer!

    Brielle DeSenneville Freano
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    look at all dem breathing like there is no such ting as covid-19!😭😷

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    Andrew’s incredibly passionate about a variety of different subjects and you can feel that passion in his Twitter posts. Currently, he’s a Mission Manager at SpaceX. He’s more than qualified for this position, seeing as he’s got a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from MIT specializing in long-duration spaceflight.

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    He’s someone you could easily look up to if you’re in need of some motivation.

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    Truth Monster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was created by an artist named Kimbal for a promotion.

    Saint Thomas
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is actually a modern artwork created in 2014 by the artist Kimball for an exhibit at the Mexican Museum of Design, one that explored the character of Batman through the lens of Mexican creativity.

    BG
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not making any accusations, but have you ever noticed that Batman and Emperor Kuzco have never been seen together?

    Bill
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No more time traveling while wearing cosplay costumes people

    glowworm2
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I need a comic series about Ancient Mesoamerican Batman!

    Nubis Knight
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's more Catman (jaguar)?

    Pascal Oudot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is a bust made by artist Christian Pacheco. A creation made for the exhibition of the 75th anniversary of Batman.

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was only seen when local noble Tajoom Ich’aak B’aaknal was absent :O

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    Edgar Rops
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, the woman had the right to kill a woman, her husband was having an affair with, but only with bare hands.

    Kathryn Baylis
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, did she also have the right to kill her sleazy tomcat husband, who was the REAL villain in the triangle? TBH, it isn’t the other woman, but the husband who is at fault here—-he could choose to say NO. Whether the other woman came on to him fully aware he was married, or he picked someone else and chose not to tell her that “Oh, by the way, I already have a wife and kids at home”.

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    No one
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since the amount of sexism back in medieval times, I'm a bit surprised it's not the other way round.

    Bama Belle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Up until the 70's, Texas had a law, the "paramour law", that allowed a man to kill his cheating wife if he caught her in the act. This didn't apply to cheating husbands.

    Mz Phit
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My biggest stipulation for my husband when I was in labor was that he have fresh breath. He hadn't understood until then how much his dragon breath grossed me out... and thankfully, he's fully reformed! Now... I still need to get him to dry off his beard before going in for a kiss

    JessG
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Take yee dragon breath to the grave, dear husband!"

    Annie Niemands
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not much you could do back then. Medieval remedies be like: Breath smells of sweet rot? You need to balance it out with something savory, start a diet of pale ale and garlic sausage. That'll save your relationship, surely.

    Bama Belle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandmother grew up in the rural south during the Great Depression. She said she & her siblings chewed on tree bark to clean their teeth. Where there's a will, there's a way.

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Works better than my darn alarm clock

    Sander
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quite a bit more expensive though.

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    Edgar Rops
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also comes with special effects: the statues on the sides - they move

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those are actual people the stand there and then move at quarter hours intervals. (:15 :30 :45 :00) 😂😂😂

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine having that as your main clock... you'd never know the time

    James016
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's obviously eleventeen past the sun in that picture

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    Angela B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And not an apple in sight..... other wise it would have only lasted a year.

    Slune
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are the apostles parading above the face. On the right side of the picture you can figure out the death (skeleton) who is ringing the Death knell and holding a hourglass,what symbolizes the passing time. Since September 2019 , after 9 months of renovation, the tourists can enjoy the spectacular mechanism every full hours

    Nevits Yibble
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this is how we know the Earth is banana-shaped

    Dorothy Cloud
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And we think we're so darn smart now!

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    What’s more, Andrew won the Discovery Channel’s 2013 competitive TV series, Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All. So there’s no doubt that he’s smart and knows his stuff. Basically, the complete opposite of the people that the r/IAmVerySmart subreddit pokes fun at.

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    River Webb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that would be amazing to live in

    Bender Bending Rodríguez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WOW... this city looks so cool. Wonder what material is used to construct those buildings. Looks like something out of Aladdin.

    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s adobe. One of the reasons why the earthquake was so absolutely devastating. Almost 30,000 people died.

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    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you guys remember the earthquake? It was world news back in like 2005-ish. This city crumbled after a really bad earthquake and it was very sad. However, this is not a very comfortable place to live. Beautiful and awesome but the houses are old and not modernized.

    Sian Edwards
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2003. They were going to rebuild, hopefully.

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    Susan Mercurio
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hope it lasts another 1500 years, if the USA doesn't bomb it

    Ami Temi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good and sad point. Hopefully that will never happen.

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    BlahBlahBlackSheepah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine what it probably looked like painted

    Ezra The Pan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that would be amazing olive in, and it technically is made of sand

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    Linus Nilsson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Such an incredibly sad picture. All these small children, never getting to know their parents.

    Bama Belle
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    @Peter, get off your soap box. You know what Linus meant. A lot of these babies were given up by poor, desperate, war weary mothers. (Some were stolen.) So yes, this picture is very sad if you are one of those poor souls who had to give up her child.

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    Andrew Gibb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    imagine being an air stewardess during this

    Mz Phit
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm imagining Teeny tiny martinis....

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    Jo Morris
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately the first flight crashed, killing 78 babies being airlifted from Vietnam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Babylift

    Kay blue
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a recent episode of long lost family where a lady who was on one of these flights was looking for her birth family.

    Bill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That kid in the front row is thinking "I can't believe it they seated me next to a screaming baby"

    Vicky Zar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From what I could gather, no not everyone was. But some

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    Amanda Jessup
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So so sad. Most of these children would of been “Amerasian” children. Born from Vietnam women and American soldiers.

    Seabeast
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, and their lives would not have been easy had they grown up in Vietnam.

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    Mz Phit
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember this so well- I was 9 at the time and wanted a baby sibling so badly that I made up a fantasy that my family was adopting one of these babies... I talked about it in school and my teacher called my parents to congratulate them... I got into trouble for "telling stories", so poof! there went that dream! I still wonder how their lives turned out.

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    Jaekry
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WOW! How is this not on some list of world wonders... Then again, neither is Angkor Wat in Cambodia which is truly special and exquisite, but Christ the Redeemer in Brazil is, no idea why? It's a relative modern statue. (And off rant.)

    Sinkvenice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've wondered that before too. It's MUCH more beautiful than Christ the Redeemer.

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    Nevits Yibble
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If this were in Texas it would've been bulldozed and converted to strip malls

    Amanita Virosa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow first I've ever heard of this. I'm going to go Wikipedia it.

    Venatrix324
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how neat itbia

    Norart
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean the greedy colonialist evil empire that invaded another country (several, actually) and culture then dominated and profited off of it? How quaint!

    Katinka Min
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are some incredible sights we don't know about, simplyy because there is no tourism in these countries. I hope that'll change a bit so not EVERYBODY has to trample the same things.

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    Andrew’s also a published author, having written ‘Beyond the Known’ about the history of exploration: from the very beginning of humanity all the way into our spacefaring future. What’s more, he’s written plenty of other books, including the ‘Epic Space Adventure’ series and the ‘Rocket Science’ book for kids.

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    Canadian in Cornwall
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think he used to known as Barry Obama then !! :) Gorgeous then, gorgeous now.

    Martha Meyer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure how this counts as “weird“?

    Allen Lavine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know he was not perfect but he was a good president and great family man

    Ploploplop
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonder if he still owns that leather jacket.

    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He went to Occidental at the same time as my husband.

    SocksNeverMatch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ....I do not beleive it but is that the book that says he was born outside the US?

    j miller
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonder who paid for his education and expenses?

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    Steve Wilson
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Einstein told Chaplin “People admire you even though you don’t say a word”. To which Chaplin replied “People admire you even though they don’t understand a word you say”.

    ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chaplin was a pedophile. He raped a 14 year old and later married her.

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    Marnie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had NO IDEA that Charlie Chaplin was such a handsome guy!

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was like a Brad Pitt or George Clooney of the day.

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    Rachael Rachael
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WOW! CC was actually a bit of a handsome man! ❤

    Gabby M
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My goodness, I didn't even recognize Chaplin without his hat and mustache.

    elfin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guess which one looks like a comedian.

    jk nbt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    both chronic sex addicts... ahhh, the price of genius

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    Kathryn Baylis
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too bad they always have to have fruitcake under all that lovely frosting (it’s the tradition). I mean, the spice cake base with just the nuts added in would be an odd combo but relatively tasty, as long as it’s fresh. But once you put that godawful candied fruit (I can never detect the “candy” part) in it, then yuck.

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    Sasha Kuleshov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would not eat it, imagine crushing such beauty with your teeth ._.

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She even used ration coupons to purchase her wedding gown (I just found out).

    Auntie Panda
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People sent their ration coupons to help too, she couldn't use then. It was. Illegal. But a sweet gesture to their princess.

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    A.J Milne
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's so beautiful that I wouldn't be able to eat it.

    Thomas Ewing
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't top that cake! Nothing is too good for the Queen!

    Stephanie Chapman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would not want to be the first person to cut into it. I'd feel like I was destroying something beautiful and would be terrified I would topple it over.

    Mary Peace
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They take layers off and put on a flat surface before they cut into it, unless they just cut into the bottom layer for show.. Obviously you can't cut into it like that.

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    But that’s far from everything, the founder of the ‘Weird Science’ account is also a game designer, occasionally dabbles in YouTube videos, and even co-hosts a weekly podcast called Spellbound. The podcast is about a variety of topics ranging from science and history to economics and psychology. The Canadian who was born in Ottawa is now based in Los Angeles and considers himself “an avid trivia player, space enthusiast, science nerd, and history buff,” according to his website.

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Authur Conan Doyle is a man way ahead of his time. There are a lot of examples that Holmes used that would become real years after the books.

    Marcellus the Third
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On the otherhand he believed in fairies. So your mileage may vary.

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    Kyra van Rijzingen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is simply not true. I suspect they mean before the police in the UK. Scotland yard was not really at the forefront of criminal science in those days. But the police in Belgium (I think, might have been France), had been using fingerprints and other personal identifiable metrics for years before the use of fingerprints popped up in a Sherlock Holmes story. And Holmes only used it once. Arthur Conan Doyle kept up with current scientific developments, but he didn't really come up with anything that didn't already exist or was at the very least being worked out or speculated upon at that time.

    Pascal Oudot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The method of identifying criminals by their fingerprints had been introduced in the 1860s by Sir William James Herschel, Holmes appeared in... 1887.

    Marvin HeartofGold
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe Sherlock and Phillip J Coulson are 2 of the very few fictional characters to be brought back to life solely because fans absolutely refused to acknowledge their deaths.

    KC Lancaster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just barely - First successful fingerprint case, June 29, 1892; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisca_Rojas. First Sherlock Holmes story publication; The Strand Magazine July 1891.

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    Luther von Wolfen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Burn, Hollywoodland, Burn" would've been a mouthful for Chuck D.

    N G
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahh, it disappeared in the great landslide of 1949

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The city took down “LAND” bc of all the suicides that happened at the sign- they thought bc there was 13 letters it was bad luck. (Not sure if that’s true or not)

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    KellyO
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Hollywoodland sign was used and advertisement for an exclusive neighborhood/community for whites only. True Story. The sign was erected in 1923 and originally read "HOLLYWOODLAND". Its purpose was to advertise the name of a new segregated housing development in the hills above the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sign

    Kathryn Baylis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was an ad for a real estate development up in the hills, back in the 1920s. I believe the real estate agency eventually went belly up, and the city just never bothered to take the ad down. Then it became iconic, so they couldn’t, even if they’d wanted to.

    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every time I see a pic of this sign I think of troop Beverly hills.

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it has been in peril many times :(

    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always head they blew over in a wind storm

    Teucer T
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Hollywood" was a city between 1904-1910. Film studios and theaters were illegal in Hollywood during the 6 years it existed. Once it was absorbed by Los Angeles, tbe bans were no longer in effect. In 1911 the first production company moved from New Jersey to California and the film industry began booming there. The city of Hollywood no longer existed at that time. The landmark "HOLLYWOOD" sign was originally "HOLLYWOODLAND" as shown in thr photo and was an advertisement for a housing development on tbe outskirts of Los Angeles. "LAND" was later removed and the sign turned into a film industry promotion.

    Dhukath
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From supposed religious community to den of iniquity!

    Ja R
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that is what i read. and not long after the movies started there was debauchery behind the camera. still worst today

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    Man with nice beard
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope they remember some poacher face in the past and trample them in the future

    Don Golosso
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I instantly had to think of this Dutch TV commercial: https://youtu.be/qhubT_A6-cI

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    Xylle Flora
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, if the elephant brain was shrunk to the size of a human's the emotional part of their brain would be as big if not bigger than a human's.

    Demongrrrrl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A couple of years ago a poacher was trampled by elephants. And then eaten by lions. Talk about karma!

    Lexi Mitchell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that’s some weird history, that elephants... can remember things

    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wrong account. This is from Weird Science, not Weird History. People never vote based on the topic. Not really a historical fact.

    Marcellus the Third
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Elephants never forget, that's why they drink.

    François Carré
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The evidence of elephants being much wiser than humans is that they never pretended to conquer the world, while they could easily do.

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    The line between a good and a bad historian can be blurred sometimes because, well, history is a pretty blurry subject. There are so many perspectives and interpretations to consider, alongside the validity of historical sources, fact-checking (and double-checking, and triple-checking), and considering the overall historical narrative of any single event.

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    RaroaRaroa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, that looks awful. Would missing two teeth not be easier?

    Zara VP
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes and no. The two missing teeth would result in the teeth beside the void to cave inward- thus causing more issues and loss of the other teeth. The two teeth wired in place are helping to support the surrounding teeth and therefore saving them.

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thijs is really ingenious considering the tools they must have had available. Considering that anaestesia was not yet invented, this must have been unbelieably painful to install.

    BorPand8
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They probably had access to opium and marijuana.

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    ComfyPanda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will NEVER bitch about going to the dentist ever again.

    Alice Sanderson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

    Giulia
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no, i think that the two theet with the holes are someone else's theet that were used where this person theet were missing so they could eat better and they prevented the damage to the other theet near the ones missing

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    mehoi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you think it was gold or silver wire used? That's quite a good wire wrap job.

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It probably wasn’t their first rodeo!!!

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    DanieLegz
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rappers Grillz back in those days were crazy!

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    tuzdayschild
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If a writer isn't allowed to be ironic, who is?

    Daria B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, an artist creates work based on what inspires them, so....

    Jeannette Treusch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not completely correct. He pledged his publisher to write a new book within 26 days, otherwise he would lose the rights of his previous books to him. BUT the book has autobiographical features, because he had a lifelong gambling addiction.

    TexasWoman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a good country song sung by Kenny Rogers

    Miranda Prince
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then that Kenny Rogers jerk ripped it off ... ;-)

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    Ozacoter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the way.

    Samantha Comerford
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this is me now, or wishes it was .

    Rose the Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did he suffer from headaches or neck pain from the weight?

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I approve this sensible use of taxes :D

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    And don’t forget about all of the sources that end up being destroyed or being locked up in archives! Dabbling in history can be either a nightmare or an adventure (or both…), depending on your point of view and how invested you are.

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    Andrew Gibb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the real reason for double decker buses

    Hannah Edwards
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was really bad, my mum is from Nottinghamshire and remembers her dad going out with a group of neighbours clearing the streets so people could get out. People were in dire straights because coal deliveries couldn’t get through and they needed coal to burn for heat.

    Sue Grigg
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A short 2 years after WW2 ended, they were still trying to rebuild and recover from that.

    H Edwards
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this was the year that one of my grandparents' friends drove his car along the river in my home town

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This felt like 2020 summed up in a photo!

    N G
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freeze guns were readily available after the end of WW2

    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you like me now, punk? -The wrong kind of snow, talking to British Rail.

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same year UFOs started appearing :O

    Marvin HeartofGold
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That looked basically like my city today except we don't have double decker buses

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Smart comes in many forms

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s one way to “skirt” the system.

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    Sinkvenice
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He drank at least six pints before a match and then another pint for each frame. He did pretty well considering; he reached the quarterfinals of the world championship three times and the semis of the UK championship. Once, he was playing against Dennis Taylor. He stretched across the table for a shot, his trousers split and he pretended he'd passed wind. He was only 56 when he died, a great loss to the snooker community. Not that I was alive then. Hmm, should a 38 year old woman know that much about snooker? :-D

    Thenatural
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tbh...you probably don't know that much about snooker...you've pretty much quoted Wikipedia verbatim...

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    Matthew Daniel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My auntie beat him at pool, many years ago. He was so impressed because rarely did any women play him whilst he was on tour, and none had ever beaten him, so he gave her his pool cue. Unfortunately it was stolen from the pub she managed.

    El Dee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember this. Snooker players have to have a steady hand, the normal 'intention shake' we all suffer from is something they try to eliminate. Many used to take beta blockers until they were banned but the other thing that worked was alcohol. He used to drink beer, up to 30 pints I seem to remember - seems a lot, doesn't it??

    PotatoNinja5000
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thought that was Ron Jeremy for a moment.

    B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I claim exactly this. But there's a very narrow window in which I can sink a shot - somewhere between 'just drunk enough' and 'can no longer differentiate the table from the floor'.

    John Carr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Averaged 30 pints of beer a day while playing snooker.

    DanieLegz
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if I can get away with saying I can only do roofing drunk

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pool is such a competitive sport X3

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love playing pool. I miss playing with my late Father.

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    Dawn Ours
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    huh perchance was he from WI ? because that's WI logic at work right there.

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    I'manoob!
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wait so why is this weird or intriguing?

    Ozacoter
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because for millenia female fighters have been erased from history. For example there are quite a lot of ancient burials of women with hunting tools or weapons (both in the prehistory and later). If a man is found buried with weapons he is deemed a valuable hunter/warrior. But when a woman is found with exactly the same tools suddenly "we cannot know if she was using them or they had a symbolic meaning". There are still huge double and sexist standards in archeology.

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    Saulius V
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was not liberation. Just occupiers had changed. Nazis gone Communists came. True Liberation was 46 years later.

    David .hamilton
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By the end of August 1944 it was estimated she had seen more helmets than Rommel.

    Elizabeth Gardner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sheer fact she even survived let alone as a jewish partisan is amazing in itself.

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    Even though what makes a historian good is similar to what makes us look up to any high-quality scientist, the fact is, history just isn’t as straightforward as history is. Sure, you have objective things like dates and the names of the people who participated in events, but you also have intangible, immeasurable things like motivations and aspirations.

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's some good pilot skills. Nowadays if you do this, there would be a fine.

    Pascal Oudot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is totally forbidden to fly over Paris.

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    Andrew Gibb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A pilot flew under London bridge as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gavx54dKYvI

    B-b-bird
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNmJimWT6l4 Year 2000, Pilot J.Kairys. Bridge in Vilnius, Lithuania.

    Sasha Kuleshov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But can you parachute through it? :O

    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine the health & safety forms that would be needed for this to happen these days

    June Dominguez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! It’s that big? Can’t imagine this size!

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Technically, they still do. I mean, have you ever seen someone eating a pez and smoking at the same time?

    Luther von Wolfen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen people eating scrambled eggs and smoking at the same time. Gimme some Pez and a cigarette.

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    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that’s why we now have ebay!

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And now we have ebay bc of PEZ!

    MELISSA TULLOSS-NOLAN - STUDENT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the problem with eating candy instead of smoking is then you gotta try to get unaddicted to candy

    CharliAnn Olney
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The German's invented Pez not only to help stop smoking but designed the dispenser in the shape of a lighter. Talk about an oxymoron!

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    Kristof De Smet
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Intense study? Want of employment? Seems I should have been there a few times.

    RaroaRaroa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then there's Intense Application to Business, for those who took their work too seriously?

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    troufaki13
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unascertained 0+0=123 what am I missing???

    RaroaRaroa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn't know the reason or the gender of those 123 I think.

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    Xylle Flora
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of Nellie Bly (I think that was her name) who was a journalist and faked being insane so she could get inside and asylum and document it. My sister did a project on her once

    Mz Phit
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! My son did a project on her too! Fascinating woman- also broke the record at the time for global circumnavigation. A true pioneer

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    Isabella K
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For me the gender difference is much more interesting than the actual causes: loss of property nowadays is still a more frequent issue for male patients than for female. female patients are more likely to be taken in by friends or family if they loose all their property because of mental health issues...

    Suzy the observer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can we bring back "religious excitement"? we'd get rid of the extremists.

    Ozacoter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am surprised that "reading too many books" isnt mentioned. It used to be a reason to say that a woman was hysterical.

    LesAnimaux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I was alive at the time, I might as well have a membership.

    Joanna Stasiołek
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Intense application to business" I want to know what those two people did?

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    In essence, history deals with emotions, perspectives, and delves deep into the brilliant, scary, and bewildering things that make us human: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the weird. So it’s a constant battle to be cold and objective while analyzing the fiery depths of human emotions. Neither one approach is enough (being too detached means you’ll miss out on the real reasons behind events while being too emotionally invested will lead to biases), but balancing both and using them in tandem is where real quality lies.

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    CatOfTheDark
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why has this been downvoted? I see no reason that this would offend someone.

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    shinshige
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn’t that be a quadricycle?

    John Augsburger
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if two of the wheels were stabilisers; but which two?

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    Refugee Pups
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the White House in the very back, I wonder if Grover Cleveland was peeking out from a window!

    Eduardo Pereira
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is not a bicycle. It has 4 wheels, not 2.

    Chich
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Daisy, Daisy..."

    Kathryn Baylis
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually it’s more like a bicycle with a kind of sidecar than a bicycle built for two. She does have pedals, so he’s doing all the work of pulling them both.

    TUBLOVER3
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't look very happy ....

    Nevits Yibble
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like something Terry Gilliam would use for a Monty Python animation

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    Hans
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks a bit like media depicts a coronavirus.

    Martha Meyer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is no way this is an actual medieval example. The colours would gave faded long ago. What is shown is also not “embroidery“.

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is quite possible that this hasn’t seen the light of day in century’s - hence the colors would not have faded. But it’s also a possibility that the repair was done more resent... so the colors wouldn’t have faded yet.

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    BluEyedSeoulite
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm an amateur at crochet and this looks terrible. I can't even discern a stitch

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    Lexi Mitchell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have doubts they were using purple and red thread to repair in medieval times. That dye was so expensive.

    Trond Hermansen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But the church and monestaries made many books which were expensive and so they would also have been able to afford costly dyes to repair books. At least the monestaries made money selling (copies of) books and possibly also dyes.

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    Auntie Panda
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better quality of paper then, I suppose.

    Dorothy Cloud
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe because they didn't have glue.

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    Don Golosso
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ik gebruik het dagelijks! En zo had het voor half de wereld kunnen zijn als we Nieuw Amsterdam niet verkocht hadden voor een habbekrats.

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    Marcellus the Third
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They mostly let the protestant Dutch stay because the catholic Portuguese kept sending missionaries that caused unrest, "your emperor is no god" and so forth.

    BluEyedSeoulite
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Catholics had a hard time converting people in Asia and kept getting kicked out. A lot stemmed from the "You can't worship your ancestors!" Asians don't see offerings to the dead as worship, it is honoring. Catholics took it to mean worshipping.

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    Johnny
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At one point, the Dutch could only trade at Nagasaki in Japan, the Dutch Trading Post (Dejima) was reconstructed in Nagasakie and there's an entire dutch themed theme park (complete with windmills and tulip fields) near Nagasaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huis_Ten_Bosch_(theme_park)

    ADHORTATOR
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The comments from our dutch friends here are very understandable for germans :-)

    BiColi Erasmus
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same here. I'm Afrikaans. When someone talks Dutch or German I understand 80% of what they are saying but when I try to speak it, I sound like a blabbering idiot. 😂

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    Ozacoter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ik vind het echt moeilijk :(

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    Alexis Davar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to go to google translate just to figure out what the comments below were saying!

    Anni
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is funny to realize how much Dutch one understands in spite of not knowing the language... I am a native speaker of German. 😉 Hi, neighbors!

    Kris Vandenberghe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dutch isn't stupid, it's even the easiest internet language! All western languages talk about something like "doubleyou doubleyou doibleyou" and Dutch is simply like "way way way" :-)

    Jan Peters
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean "not very useful anymore" - 200 years earlier, it was very useful - even New York was still New Amsterdam.

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    Like a detective, a historian constantly evaluates how valid and trustworthy sources are while offering a fresh perspective on facts and figures that might be taken for granted by their other colleagues. At its core, history is the search for Truth (yes, with a capital ‘T’) while knowing that it’ll always be just out of reach. It’s a good thing we have ‘Weird History’ to fall back on when we’re tired from serious analyses and need a fun and interesting pick-me-up.

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    Alien
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jackie was so pretty 😩😩😩😩

    jk nbt
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    for you recent immigrants who need encouragement, pls remember that the first of the clan arrived in the US as poor Irish catholic immigrants, (despised in wealthy, waspy, protestant America)... Two generations later, a grandson was filthy rich and the ambassador to England... three generations later, a great-grandson was President & another was attorney general, top lawyer in the land... how? get out of debt, save, invest, own, get as much useful, practical education that you can get, and walk with the Lord... yes, this programs still works even in the current tough economy & political situation

    LC Greenwood
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger and quite evil.

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    DanieLegz
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FUNFACT: JFK was my distant cousin

    Joshua David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favorite connection to Jacqueline, were her aunt and cousin Big & Little Edie. If you aren't aware of them and have HBO Max, Grey Gardens is what you should watch. Equally as pitiful as it is somehow super inspirational.

    ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The woman next to Jackie looks like Emilia Clarke!

    Fieke Engelen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This column is supposed to be 'weird history'. Please tell me the weird in this photo.

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    Ezra The Pan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the person in the middle doesn’t look happy

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    LC Greenwood
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow. A lot of ignorance and racism in these comments. Do better people. Seriously

    Mario Gonzalez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can you give some examples of racism in these comments? I haven't been able to locate any yet.

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    Bill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Before the Chinese water only walked.

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    I'manoob!
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How dare they invent negative numbers. I'm still having a hard time solving equations with positive numbers lol

    "Simo Häyhä"
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Noodles were invented independently in many places

    Marcellus the Third
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A big argument is that because they got stuck on their tea, they never developed glassware and hence lenses/ glasses/ telescopes/ microscopes and a lot of natural sciences didn't develop, and other consequences (out-of-view navigation leading Columbus to America etc; not essential as the Vikings proved once but helpful).

    DanieLegz
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And #12 on my local Chinese restaurant menu, ooo that's my fave!

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you guys think this might be an inspiration for snowmobiles? Just curious

    LOttawa
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd say it's the other way around. The snowmobile was invented in 1935 in QC Canada.

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    Amelia
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty sure this is straight outta Star Wars

    Hugh Crawford
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    as long as you don't want to turn...

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That — looks — terrifying!!

    A.J Milne
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine something zooming past you and it is that thing, but more modern. I thing that would be cool.

    that rando_;)
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    looks like some kinda fururistic war vehicle

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    James016
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That looks like an amazing exhibition

    William Faulk
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it does! but dont forget, thats the year hell on earth was born.

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    Kay blue
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Prince Albert organised a similar exhibition in 1851, Crystal Palace was built to accommodate it.

    Stephanie Did It
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    World's Fairs still exist, but now they are called Expos. The next one is planned for Oct 2021 - April 2022.

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    Sander Bolier
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heineken has made a commercial about it; https://youtu.be/OQk2vaFIn5Q

    Susan Williams
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What will the future look like in 250 years? We cannot even imagine it.

    CarloSalvador
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it was with the purpose of this fair that the Eiffel tower was built

    panda_legerdemain
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks so much more interesting. Such an exhibition today would only have various AI

    Slune
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonderful industrial architecture! I'm still missing Les Halles!

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    CatOfTheDark
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The guy whose head is in the center looks like Rowan Atkinson to me for some reason.

    Doggo Froggo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yeah - they should do a Blackadder series from that time.

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    Vorknkx
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Saturnalia is also the basis for the contemporary holiday known as... Christmas.

    Rachael Marrast
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I totally read that as they served slaves, as like for dinner. glad I am wrong

    Angela B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could you imagine Bezos or any other high profile individual doing that these days? Although there are some great philanthropists out there, I can't imagine certain ones that would even consider it.

    Becky Moore
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well he doesn't have a job now, I'm sure he wouldn't mine giving me a foot rub :P

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    Mark Schilling
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm sure the slave appreciated this. Probably would have appreciated being set free more.

    Toea Muresan Iulia
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well, a lot happend on Saturanlia... for ex, you were allowed to kill somebody, or do any crime without being punished.

    Alexis Davar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That must've been an akward holiday.

    John Doe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    reverse reverse .... cha cha real smooth

    Shirley Heyn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now we just buy flowers for a secretary?

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    Truth Monster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...who is driving the car in the advert?

    Don Golosso
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's an early prototype for Tesla's autopilot.

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    Ploploplop
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    $2250 in 1900 would equal $69,769.82 today.

    kjorn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so electric car were always to costly

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    MAL
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too bad we stopped doing that. The planet might be better off.

    Luther von Wolfen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Solar power and electric cars were possible then. Both killed by Big Oil.

    Johnny
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Early electric cars offered impressive range -- 40 miles or more, but were very underpowered compared to today's cars. The Waverley car had a 2.5HP motor and could only go up to 14mph. Nowadays, you can get an electric bicycle with a motor over 1HP

    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are going back to that... hydrogen cell cars are basically steam cars and Electric cars are still the same

    Martha Meyer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was the case all over the world. The combustion engine was considered stinky and nasty at first.

    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Electric for the ladies! Clean, quiet, easy to handle. And they are beautiful cars to look at.

    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then BIG OIL got their grubby hands on the automobile!!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man, imagine if the people back then being able to look at today's computers. Their minds would be blown.

    Truth Monster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    its only 80 years ago. there's probably a centenarian who does remember

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    Robert H.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jonathan Frink (Simpsons): "computers would be twice as powrrful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe would own them"

    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even a 1970's pocket-sized electronic calculator would be more powerful than this switchboard.

    Robert T
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had an calculator wristwatch in the 1980's that would have had more memory and more processing power than this beast. But 1MHz is quite impressive for its time - early home micros hardly ran much faster decades later.

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    Walter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my timex wristwatch has more power than that

    mande.be
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE CALCULATING ONE OPERATION PER SECOND!!! It was incredibly powerful then!

    Thalia Lovering
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandmother was working at the Bank of Greece when the first computer arrived. It occupied several rooms and was guilty of several miscalculations.

    mande.be
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1KHz = 1000, 1MHz = 1.000.000 times per second, so if you look closely, there are at least 1000 "black spots" i a picture / on a machine.. So, I suppose that 1000 of those could do 10 times per second? I think IT WAS 1 MHz operations/second.. Why I think that? Because 1000 operations is pretty low, so maybe some 20-50 people could have done that themselves. I think that when they reached situation that 50 mathematicians COULD DO SO MUCH CALCULUS, they understood that they have reached the limits (probably, because more than 50 great math.people wasn`t able to get together in England, then).. If then Chinese were trying to solve the same problem, they would have been able to gather 5000 math.people at least & wouldn`t bother so much to make a machine.. hahaha)

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    N G
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Children often replicate what they see adults doing in the form of "play" to help them process what has happened/is happening.

    Easily Excitable Panda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That happenbd a lot in Northern Ireland between Catholic and Protestant kids before the walls went up between neighborhoods. They'd throw rocks and pretend to shoot each other 'til it was time for tea (dinner), and then it was "See you tomorrow!"

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    lenka
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, children mimic what they see around them. Walk into any schoolyard now and you will see chidlren playing some version of the "coronavirus" game.

    Becky Moore
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not if you're on lockdown like in the UK :P

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a year after the actual wall start being built so I don't know how I feel about this.

    Daria B
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Children play what they see. When I was a kid, there were kids playing war (Croatia, 1990s). My siblings and I grew up to despise these kinds of play pretend games. So... we played Sailor Moon instead. ♡

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    Pusfarm
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that Donald on the far, far right?

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    Truth Monster
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ....wait, what?! This can't be real

    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fact checking turned out that this is a witches coven tea party. Norfolk, England ca. 1929.

    Catherine Graves
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These older women (likely widows) are wearing the national dress and hat of Wales. It was common until the 1940s.

    Andrew Gibb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks like Welsh ladies having tea wearing hats that were the fashion at the time

    Batwench
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like Welsh women to me. So probably more Hufflepuff.

    El Dee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like Welsh national dress ie the hats..

    Shelby P
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wish there was a true caption of what's going on here...

    Mumof1
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tak the headline with a large pinch of salt - thesear old Welsh ladies enjoying a knees up!

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    RaroaRaroa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think the Romans performed Shakespeare. :-D

    Gabi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder how. "Okay, these are your lines, don't screw them up, and after the word 'forever!', Maximus is going to stab you in the neck. Die as theatrically as possible. Main rehearsal in 2 hours.... oh wait."

    cassiushumanmother
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That make sense to me. As a kid i used to think that the deads on movies were suicidal people who wanted their death to be useful.

    Kenny Kulbiski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought they were prisoners who were sentenced to death.

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    Aileen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was performed at the Globe Theater, they would take animal bladders and fill them with pig blood. Then the actor playing Julius Caesar would have them hanging under his clothes for the other actors to stab. Since the stage was slanted, the blood would run down and the groundlings would touch and play with it.

    Aileen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least, this is what I was told by a high school drama teacher a long time ago, so part of this may be incorrect.

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    Grant Barke
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Were the sex scenes realistic too.

    Dinorange
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Theatre and theatre... not the same in Ancient Rome

    Blue Mar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like the idea, please bring it back 😅

    Susan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My God there is no limit to human depravity.

    Blue Mar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think is great idea, should be practice today, it might stop other from crime 😉

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    Bored Seb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beer is probably older than bread...

    Henry Cheves
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're about the same age, because Mesopotamia invented a type of bread too.

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    Demongrrrrl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I highly recommend Tom Standage's book "A History of the World in Six Glasses", about how society was shaped by beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola.

    B-flat
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And actually depicting the harvest of papyrus, so it has nothing to do with beer or Mesopotamia ...

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    Pascal Oudot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Sumerians ate mainly grain bread, so hard that they soaked it in water to eat it. One day, a Sumerian is said to have put aside his "bread soup" to consume it later. By the intervention of wild yeasts, it would have fermented, turning into beer. The Sumerians called their beer "Sikaru", which means "liquid bread". Picture : cylinder-seal print depicting a scene of beer consumption with a torch. Capture-dc...36a2bd.jpg Capture-dcran-2021-02-11-203401-602587236a2bd.jpg

    Esmé Adgnot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thats actually pretty old too! I know Romans made and drank it but I bet it goes back even a little further.

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    Anton Kider
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    13,000 years old. Carmel mountains, Israel. So far...

    Jaana Rosenberg
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mead and beer were invented to have something safe to drink, while plain water had many kind of germs in it. Ferment it, do alcohol, germs will get kill and you will have something safe to drink. And you can have fun while staying hydrate,

    Mosheh Wolf
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Archeologists just found evidence of fermented beverage storage in Israel from 13,000 years ago, so beer is older than that: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X18303468

    backatya
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    everyone wants to party and go under the influence. Why not just enjoy what life has to offer?

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    Giovanni
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only the stick was shared, you would use it to skewer a sponge from a bucket full of them and then you would let the used sponge fall in the sewer.

    Kevin Corcoran
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the where the expression "wrong end of the stick" comes from ... :|

    Nizumi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hence the expressions "Getting the wrong end of the stick" or the more colourful, "getting the sh!tty end of the stick."

    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why? we don't need to know this, especially when we still have to eat today

    B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My eyes are watering at the thought of the sponge falling off halfway through the cleaning process...

    Walter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how it works in my house

    Becky Moore
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've learnt 2 things from this post. Very informative! :P

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    Amanda Jessup
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    4 years ago

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    Thomas Ewing
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When your roommate's farted and you are trying to study...

    Martha Higgins
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's your roommate, not you're (you are).

    Mary Peace
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Best Covid protection mask I've seen anywhere, shame I need the oxygen tank.

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    Andrew Gibb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the guy driving this is a dude

    Luther von Wolfen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems like hipsters would be driving these all over Brooklyn. Why aren't they in production?

    DC
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine riding such a device ... just imagine it - accelerating = you're at the front (the changed center of gravity, in front of the center of the wheel, actually provides the torque spinning the wheel) - and braking was the other way. Hard to ride, lots of accidents waiting to happen. A regular motorcycle is a better ride by far ... and, although these are there, they don't die out, but also don't gain any popularity nowadays.

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    Tiari
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He looks like Daniel Craig...

    Neil Ives
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just consider hard braking on a mono wheel. The wheel will continue to turn, spinning the rider with it.

    Kathryn Baylis
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can imagine getting and keeping just the exact right balance was the main skill to master.

    2WheelTravlr
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would have a ton of gyroscopic effect - think of how easy it is to balance a bicycle when it's in motion - this would be easier than that because of the larger wheel.

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    eddy edward
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too heavy on the brake and he'd be like a hamster spinning in its wheel!

    Alden Bruner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of general grievous

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    Ksenia M
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen this fact mentioned so many times. Just to be clear, this a taxes and regulations issue. Nobody actually thought that beer as not an alcoholic drink, which is obvious since any beer bottle has alcohol content stated on it and beer ads have health warnings. Also, Bud? Come on!

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This czech beer isn't that bad, the Us Budweiser on the other hand....

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    Vorknkx
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Under 10%? What is this - fruit juice? :D

    Isaac7lego
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Might explain something! (this is a joke)

    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quite a fitting name for that "beer": "Unregulated foodstuff".

    Ann Abdelzaher
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there is actually a drink which is mildly alcoholic like 3% that even kids drink.. called Kvas (my husband loves it he grew up drinking it)

    Shirley Heyn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes percentage sense to me, I'm a beer drinker for sure!

    Mya Lugar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have heard of the weather conditions and poorly insulated buildings. I think I would need a few beers to be comfortable there.

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    Nola Peach
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have been the most gorgeous of them all

    LOttawa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You and I both *Puts away tweezers*

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    DanieLegz
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well I'm f##king stunning then!

    Black Panther
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fridha Kahlo's place, wonder why she was the only one i could remember, she will always be remembered

    Toea Muresan Iulia
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or is the influence of ptolemaic egypt, with a trait of some Asia Minor people

    Isog Sargent
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you're a hammer everything becomes a nail

    Gina Lenna
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, they did not. What's your source?

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    Andrew Gibb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the woman in the picture seems to know what she wants

    N G
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she looks cold, I think she wants her PJ's back

    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rich people still do it now

    Kenny Kulbiski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never mind the bed what's going on in the picture?

    Edgar Rops
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the alternative was sleeping on the ground with the horse blanket for a bed (provided, the kings' trusty steed does not need it). Same for the bath tub (and rivers and lakes in many places are not that warm in the best of summers). Of course, this applies only to military expeditions, in peacetime, the King would just stay in subject's castles.

    François Carré
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now that's luxury. Take your bedbugs with you for a walk across the kingdom.

    Tash D
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They still do. At least Lizzy does

    El Dee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love this picture! And taking your bed with you, what a great idea! I hate hotel beds!!

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    troufaki13
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that many of Shakespeare's plays are based on ancient tales

    Daria B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So.... basically Shakespeare was the Disney of his time? ♡

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    Trond Hermansen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Danish Viking reenactor here: actually the Danish prince was called 'Amled'. Shakespeare took the basics of the old saga material and updated it for his audience. I like the original story better.

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    MAL
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hamlet has a happy ending if you like death.

    Trond Hermansen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shakespeare based 'Hamlet' off an old saga. It was written down in the 1200s by a scholar called Saxo Grammaticus who collected the sagas of the Danish people. The hero of the original story is a Danish prince called 'Amled' in Danish (Amleth in English).

    Kathryn Baylis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So what was the happy ending?

    YoyoSthlm
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What?? I'm from Scandinavia and I've never heard of it

    Pusfarm
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which was based on the even earlier legend Ammlll, the town drunk.

    Noelle (she/her)
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see what he did with the name there...

    Stephanie Chapman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Movie recommend: Hamlet 2 - stars Steve Coogan & Amy Poehler

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The company existed a century before the movie came out so it's just a coincidence.

    FloC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Plus it is mostly called "Schindler" without the addition of "lifts".

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    Akalvin
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The correct name of this swiss company is "Schindler Aufzüge AG"

    Robert T
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this is another lift company call Otis and they are based in Reading.

    Frank Ropen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just a naming coincidence. The company was founded in 1874 by Robert Schindler in Lucerne and initially manufactured agricultural machinery. In 1892, the company began manufacturing electrically operated elevators, which became by far the most important business segment due to the hotel construction boom at the end of the 19th century.

    Marion
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Schindler is a common surname in switzerland

    Aimee Bachna
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have a Schindler's fabric store in Cleveland...not sure if the have an elevator

    Tony James
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's actually the Schindler Elevator Corporation. But you cannot imagine the number of times that I've walked past their office on my way home, having had a few beers, and been tempted to change the name to Schindler's Lift.

    El Dee
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd seen this on a lift before and it raised a smile. You'd have thought the film might have been titled differently to avoid this pun..

    Marcellus the Third
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I haven't heard this joke in almost 20years, amazing.

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    Becky Moore
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The others must be pretty damn boring then :P

    Teucer T
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What else could there be? Bohr's actual atom?

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    Yugan Talovich
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a boy, Custer's mustache was still on display.

    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably the most understandable thing to many visitors, sadly.

    Mya Lugar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who doesn't want to get close to greatness, even if it's just the remnents of it's very mouth juices.

    PKMN Trainer Link
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love Einstein! I even drove past his Princeton house!

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    Kay blue
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They still use these today, although they have been updated a bit, for pigeon competitions.

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    YoyoSthlm
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aren't all hills ancient though?

    Walter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know Breath Of The Wild? As soon as I saw that image, I thought, "I wanna shield surf down that."

    Thomas
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm Italian but this picture makes me think about Windows XP more than anything else.

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    White Paper Tsuru
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What an incredible picture of hell

    Kuroka
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this will now be an insult I will use on people

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    Chewie Baron
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The massive bombing of the German defences before the start of the Battle of the Somme was so loud, it could be heard in London.

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    François Carré
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bagdad was one of the largest cities in the world at some point in the Middle Age, at the peak of the Arab empire. It had the most modern urban features and the biggest libraries of the time. It was completely destroyed by the Mongol invasion in 1258 and never really recovered from that afterwards.

    Mike Crow
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Baghdad was also the centre of science and advancement long ago when Europe hardly had the written language.

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    ADHORTATOR
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some things will never change

    RaroaRaroa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The men loved those stripes. How much your stripe bends indicates...

    Walter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the stripes make it easier for women to see... yeh

    Animal lover❤
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They look like fun people to hang out with

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    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Experts now think that, based on his photos, he was a very rare Barbary lion.

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess she is the personification of the city of Paris...

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    Helen Haley
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course, it didn't. How were you going to secure cat cooperation? We serve them.

    ADHORTATOR
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Ivan, have you seen this cat?" - "The one with the antenna, Wladimir?"

    Lee The Thespian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm just over here dying because they labeled the secret conversation

    ...
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they labeled the cat too. I guess just in case someone has never seen one.

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    Michał Jastrzębski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    operation ended because kitty, once relased, got promptly killed by a passing car, btw. Ooops.

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    King Joffrey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some of the horse riding events during the London 2012 Olympics were also held in a public park.

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Greeks: Excuse us, but may we have a word about our Lord Cthulu?

    Isaac Kim
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Cthulhu died for your Necronomicon and R'lyeh, sir!"

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    Fred L.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That coin is from the Greek city state of Eretria.

    Vicky Zar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it might be Atlantica

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    Lorraine
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We also have a version with "a testicle in the pâté" (Yeah we're French, we do talk about genitals and food...)

    Gabi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Hungary we say "There is s**t in the pancake"

    FloC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really ? I am French speaking and never heard this. At least not in the soup. "Il y a une couille", yes, but not in the soup.

    Laugh or not
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Si, la citation complète : il y a une couille dans le potage.

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    Doc Thissen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How? Just how? Is this not higher?

    Gabi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that's why Victoria's father says "There is an eye in me soup"

    Bored Seb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "there's a ball in the soup" might be a better translation, as the french word used ("couille") is clearly a slang word. Also, I don't think "potage" is used that much in english, but that's the actual word used in french : "y a une couille dans le potage"

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    River Webb
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how does anyone know about this?

    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because Franklin didn't make a secret of his belief that proper ventilation and lots of fresh air are better than sitting in a room with a lot of people spreading germs. So especially on cold days, he used to sit in front of the open window in the nude to profit to the max from the airflow. He went a bit too far with the nudity, but it shows that Franklin had more common sense than a lot of Americans these days.

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    Lee The Thespian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Him and John adams also got into a fight over an open window when they had to share a room at one point. Adams wanted the window closed because he said it would bother his allergies, Franklin wanted it open because he thought it would be better for circulation. They started arguing about it and three hours in, John adams got bored and fell asleep. The window was open. :)

    Dana
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like your name :) Do you have a favorite musical? Mine are Newsies, Next to Normal, and Tuck Everlasting

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    TTorrest Author
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's with all these naked writers? Am I doing it wrong?

    Mike Crow
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being naked in a comfortable environment is good for you.

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    Tiredpossum
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there's always good people on the bad side

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    Vic
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, I don't believe this one. How they hear about Jidai in a galaxy far far away? :-P

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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I should do that trying to read Les Miserables.

    TTorrest Author
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm at that desperate point in my block that I'm thinking I should try this. LOL

    Raven Sheridan
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first words he wrote, were probably: "I'm cold."

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    Ian Koch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how's it gonna get down without getting damaged?

    Gary
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's on wires. Look at the nose in front of the propellers.

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    Ludwig Michiel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was the first one to do it solo. 8 years before him, the duo John Alcock & Arthur Brown had made a non-stop transatlantic flight by plane, and the Atlantic had also been crossed by zeppelins carrying passengers.

    Shain
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The picture is so pretty.

    François Carré
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm reading Philip Roth's "Plot against America" in which Lindbergh is elected President in 1940 and enforces pro-nazi US policy. Excellent book.

    Chewie Baron
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was a Nazi supporter.

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    Henry Cheves
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Babylon had 60 digits instead of 10, so they invented different types of math to multiply since multiplication tables were impossible to measure.

    Usernames
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does it got tiktok app? #justkidding

    Vic
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah! Sacred Geometry!!

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn, this really hits me for some reason.

    Vorknkx
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably because this moment of joy would be followed by the world being divided into two nuclear-equipped factions that hated each other for half of century...

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    François Carré
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yay, now let's start that cold war at last !

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    CD Mills
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Early recycling! I know borrowing building material from older structures has gone on as long as there have been humans building structures.

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    CD Mills
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There sure isn't good visibility. For track racing these could be fun but there isn't enough protection or line of sight to be on the road with standard automobiles.

    B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Comfortable enough ride in the bigger one, but front visibility sucks.

    Beeologist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, seems that seeing what's coming up is optional ? 😬

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    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look up "wheels of misfortune". A website has video of one of these things in action.

    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, put on the brakes to stop the outer wheel, and the inner wheel is at the mercy of physics. Around you go! Plus, a wheel this wide would be nearly impossible to turn.

    Vansh Popli
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this looks like inspiration for the gyrospheres in jurassic park

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    sdorph
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It didn't work because seagulls are land birds, not sea birds, they never go very far from shore

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    4 years ago

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    Nevits Yibble
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's actually no such thing as a "seagull". Just different species of gulls.

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's sad once you realize their fate 4 years after this.

    Laura Mende
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    5 years. The Tsar, their father, did abdicate in 1917. Months of captivity followed. Eventually their were ALL shot on 17th July 1918. SOOO SAD!!! 😭😭 RIP

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    ƒιѕн
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    House of Romanov - Olga 22, Tatiana 21, Maria 19, Anastasia 17, Alexei 13. (Age when killed)

    Aria Singh
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sisters names are Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia. There brother is named Alexei

    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were a loving, devoted family. Sadly... politics.

    Auntie Panda
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    None of the girls wanted to marry a foreign prince,king,etc. They wanted to marry Russian nobility and stay close together.

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    Vorknkx
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    (hums) "In the dark of the night, evil will find her..."

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    Rim Trabelsi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes and they got caught in fire

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is, sadly, the reason why so many people were in the Gulags and the reputation of it is so infamous.

    Vicky Zar
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't it like this in the US right now? I've read something about it last month or so in relation with stereotypes for arrest. Car model x? Must be a criminal. It was a story by a police officer who mentioned that they had to have x arrests a month

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    Diellza
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pyrrhus of Epirus was an Illyrian King, not Greek, regardless of what Wiki says. He was Illyrian.

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    Man with nice beard
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tenchu game is based on real life ninja equipment

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    Sum Guy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where these bats infected with something?

    RaroaRaroa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Googled it. They had timed incendiary bombs attached. They'd be released in mid-air then go and roost in rooves of the highly flammable Japanese houses, eventually starting fires there. It was never used, but a lot of bats died during the testing process by the sound of it. And they did set their own military base on fire.

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    David Beaulieu
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to be confused with the exploding rats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Napalm was especially designed for this bomb, and the only reason it wasn't used was the availability of nuclear weapons

    Jaekry
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a weird pandemic feeling about this... ;)

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    Javiera Gotelli
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul...

    HyacinthTheRainWing
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, you can't go back to Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople

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    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People like it better that way...

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    Andy Mutch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not by me! Misuse of words like decimate is one of my pet hates.

    Giles McArdell
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never made that link before, seems so obvious now.

    Vorknkx
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The meanings of many words have mutated over time, one of the most notable examples being "gay" (originally meant "happy" or "joyous")...

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    Ludwig Michiel
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's even (very short) film footage of this: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a15939/1918-wwi-tank-flattening-a-car/

    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a friend who owned a replica of a smaller version. He made a cd of the thing cruising over very rough terrain, it looked SO fun!

    engineer_nope.avi
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    That's a tank though...

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    Edgar Rops
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He didn't, but he couldn't ride even remotely properly, so he gave the honor to Zhukov, who began military career in the cavalry.

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Downvote me if you want but: UK then, US now.

    Mike Crow
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t know if that’s what the picture represents. Look at Russia coming with a steamroller. My thought was that the picture says Europe fights each other as Russia steamrolls over everything.

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    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the time, the Ottoman Empire was still huge.

    Donkey boi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My interpretation is that the UK and France stand together to face off German hounds, the other countries keeping a watch on the event's unfolding. The colours give a clue of where loyalties lie. But who is watching the bear enter the dog pit to flatten Europe?

    Becky Moore
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought the picture underneath the union flag was a panda :P

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    Vorknkx
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of people nowadays still (mistakenly) believe Rio is the capital of Brazil. (or that Sydney is the capital of Australia)

    Don Golosso
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But nobody but the government wanted Brasilia as a capitol of Brazil. So for the people of Brazil Rio still feels like the capitol.

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    Mah
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and if you look from above, Brasilia is shaped like an airplane!

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    ADHORTATOR
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He survived the crash but was electrocuted when he was leaving the train

    Bill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That train might still be in service. Go Amtrack

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    Brad Guyer
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Able to trace them because an American remembered seeing careful/warning signs of a cable on the shore in the U.S., figured the Russians did the same. Sure enough.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With climate change progressing, there won't be any North Pole to travel to.

    Stephanie Did It
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Earth will always have the North Pole. It is an actual location; whether it will always be covered in snow and ice is unknown.

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    James016
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm loving the narrowboat balloons

    Chris B
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a postcard from an old german chocolate factory. The factory was manufacturing chocolate until the 1990s. Then it was bought by another german company. Maybe the most famous thing they did is "Scho-Ka-Kola" chocolate with coffee in it. Very famous during the world wars.

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    Aski Markup
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That one on the right has seen some s**t.

    CharlMarx
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, the one on the left hasn't seen bloody anything 😂

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cats were gods in ancient Greece. You would be sentenced to death if you killed a cat.

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    Laugh or not
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They seriously did it ? Not just as a movie plot???

    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My great grandfather was there. But I don't know anything beyond that. Maybe I should try to get his military records...?

    Bender Bending Rodríguez
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If certain s**t stain not being talked out of doing so, the US would have been first one to nuke hurricanes.

    Nevits Yibble
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sort of like pissing into the wind to try and slow it down

    Lee The Thespian
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why must dropping bombs be our first reaction. 'oh s**t something bad happened, let's go drop a bomb, see how that goes' honestly, we need to start using our brains instead of weapons. As you can see, they don't work miracles, they only make things worse. :(

    I'manoob!
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    nooooooooo....reeaaaally?(sarcasm)

    Aria Singh
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why?? Thats just gonna make it worst.

    YoyoSthlm
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It actually works. Here in Sweden, if there's a huge forest fire, we drop a bomb in the middle of it. The bomb sucks up the whole air which means that the fire will have non so it burns out.

    bryguy
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A volcanic eruption and a forest fire are two quite different scenarios

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    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's because if you only count the land that they controlled, it's pale compare to empires like the British and Mongol Empire.

    ADHORTATOR
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The roman civilization shines still

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They could never imagine security camera's on almost every corner. ANPR and face recognition would be totally unthinkable. And they couldn't even begin to imagine a society where everyone is making video's of how they ordered a hamburger....

    Ian Koch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    people make videos of themselves about how they ordered a... HAMBURGER?

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    Brandy Grote
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A Ring with rapid response. Gimme.

    kjorn
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    China today with all their security cameras

    engineer_nope.avi
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't we have some kind of tech like this exist somewhere?

    Bill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The NYPD owns a device like this

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    troufaki13
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't it be weird if the can opener was invented before the can??

    cassiushumanmother
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not true. Nicolas Appert invented it in 1795. In France canning is called "appertisation". Napoleonic wars began in 1803...

    YoyoSthlm
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the cans were made out of lead which caused many people to die of lead poisoning.

    Sue User
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think the cans were made out of lead, too soft . But they soldered them with lead.

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    Beeologist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, and founded in 1682. It was all part of Nouvelle-France.

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    Walter
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes, because color photo was a thing back in the 30's.

    YoyoSthlm
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    Where is the wall that Mexico was going to pay for??

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    Coleen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe he also said, "and if any of you tries to tell me you contracted v.d. from a toilet seat, all I have to say is that's a hell of a place to take a woman."

    N G
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Euphemistically put!

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    good advice and why I sleep with a gun under my pillow

    Cynthia Bonville
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am assuming you are being ironic knowing he was referring to prophylatics in order to minimize sexually transmitted diseases that took a real toll in troop readiness and retention?

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    Kevin Corcoran
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Call bulls#it on this one! Halloween is a Celtic tradition from pre-christian Ireland and is literally thousands of years old.

    Edgar Rops
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The day of all Hallows (I.e. Christian saints) was indeed celebrated on May 13 in the Early Middle Ages. It is still celebrated around that date in Eastern churches (Russian, Greek etc.)- it is tied to Easter, which moves, so, All Saints falls on late April /early May. In the British Isles, the feast was moved to November to coincide with Celtic Samhain, wherefrom Halloween traditions derive. Don't be so anglocentric.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween tells a totally different and more believable story.

    I'manoob!
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You've got me interested... So what's the history behind that? I want to know MORE!

    Stephanie Did It
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a source of information known as the Internet that can explain it to you at the address provided by Wilvander above.

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    Yeah this is not at all accurate lol and the only mention of this information ever is from a twitter post by this account. Do your research and don't believe everything at first

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    Cheryl Forbes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    DNA testing proved the skull was a woman.

    Chewie Baron
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not his. The skull is from a woman.

    Bill
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hitler's nephew served in the US Army during WW2 and as of10 years ago was retired in NJ somewhere

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    QuokkaVibes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The guy in the center staring in the camera looks like Chandler from Friends confused as he woke up in the war :D

    Ian Koch
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe that's the inspiration? never seen friends, so I don't know what you're talking about.

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    Col BatGuano
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fairly common to both sides in WWI and WWII. Except the Japanese never treated their enemy. Fairly savage.

    ZuriLovesYou
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn. He does not look happy about it.

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to the Hague Convention from 1907 about the treatment of POWs

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    4 years ago

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    Not at all... That kind of corn tortillas are only 2,500 years old...

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    TheHolyFatherOfToast
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hoping to hide a comment is all. Just keep scrolling!

    Col BatGuano
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    They never used lubricants

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    Linus Nilsson
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would gave used quotation marks around democracies. Sweden abandoned elections since it would be a distraction in case of invasion. The US can hardly be considered democratic, with their electoral college (wasn't there a post that one theoretically only needed 22% of the votes to win the presidency?)

    DC
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, if the 22 % are spread in a certain way, 22 % can win the majority in electoral college. The actual deviance between that and the popular vote, however, under real circumstances always is a lot smaller, but still too large to accept.

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    Javiera Gotelli
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not true. Most countries in south america were democracies at the time. One of the main reasons people from Europe escaped to Chile/Argentina/Brasil

    Wyn Williams
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The map is nonsense, Finland was an Independent democracy in 1942

    Maiju Niemistö
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Umm.. Finland has been a democracy since 1917.

    Purple light
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Women in Switzerland could not vote untill 1971, so I wouldn't call it a democracy. Neither would I call the USA democratic: most black people were barred from voting at that time.

    Mathias Karittke
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As I remember Canada, Australia and New Zealand were separate countries then, but members of the Commonwealth and excepted the sovereign of GB as their head of state, so, in fact, parliamentary/constitutional monarchies, as they are in 2021. Ireland was then a member of Commonwealth, but defined itself as Republic. Sweden was at this time, and still is, a monarchy. And Austria did neither exist in 1942, nor was it a democracy, except the author of this article defines the German Reich as such.