‘Weird History’ Is An Account That Shares Interesting, Odd, And Funny Things That Happened And Here’s 50 Of Their Best Posts
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.
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Mine too! What a heroe. He lost eveything for it but will never be forgotten.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...Similar items appear occasionally on online antique sites but are very expensive.
Load More Replies...2700 years? Thats impossible! The world is only 2021 years old! ;) ;) ;)
Those ancient Egyptians had their priorities straight in which animals to worship IMHO (my cats are watching me as I type).
They probably were cool already before is was considerd to be cool.
Load More Replies...Just realized there are 4 people. I thought that arm on the left looked extra long.
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.
The spirit of the internet was around before it had an electronic vessel to inhabit.
The title shows how little the author knows about suffragettes. One of their goals was to fight the sexual exploitation of women.
Women fought for the right to wear pants. This happened sometime after they won suffrage.
Load More Replies..."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.
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 .
* flashing her pants in a scandalous, yet being funny kind of way*
Load More Replies...They preferred to be known, and called themselves, suffragists. "Ette" is a diminutive as well as a feminine suffix.
Women wearing pants during that time really was an "ooh-la-la " moment. Notice the overskirt, making the pants less obvious.
"suffragist" -- "suffragette" was used to mock the idea of women's sufferage, as it's meant to denote something diminutive, sute, less-than.
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.
No. “Playing” but not “defeating”. I’ve read a few accounts that said he lost every match of this stunt.
Yes, I think it was on BP too, that he lost all of them...
Load More Replies...So do these chess masters have perplexed expressions on their faces or extremely kind?
Indulgent. By that point they were all in secure positions; he played well just not super.
Load More Replies...look at all dem breathing like there is no such ting as covid-19!😭😷
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.
He’s someone you could easily look up to if you’re in need of some motivation.
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.
It is a bust made by artist Christian Pacheco. A creation made for the exhibition of the 75th anniversary of Batman.
He was only seen when local noble Tajoom Ich’aak B’aaknal was absent :O
Also, the woman had the right to kill a woman, her husband was having an affair with, but only with bare hands.
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”.
Load More Replies...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.
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
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.
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.
Load More Replies...Those are actual people the stand there and then move at quarter hours intervals. (:15 :30 :45 :00) 😂😂😂
Load More Replies...It's obviously eleventeen past the sun in that picture
Load More Replies...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
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.
WOW... this city looks so cool. Wonder what material is used to construct those buildings. Looks like something out of Aladdin.
It’s adobe. One of the reasons why the earthquake was so absolutely devastating. Almost 30,000 people died.
Load More Replies...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.
Good and sad point. Hopefully that will never happen.
Load More Replies...Such an incredibly sad picture. All these small children, never getting to know their parents.
@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.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately the first flight crashed, killing 78 babies being airlifted from Vietnam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Babylift
From what I could gather, no not everyone was. But some
Load More Replies...So so sad. Most of these children would of been “Amerasian” children. Born from Vietnam women and American soldiers.
Yes, and their lives would not have been easy had they grown up in Vietnam.
Load More Replies...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.
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.)
I've wondered that before too. It's MUCH more beautiful than Christ the Redeemer.
Load More Replies...If this were in Texas it would've been bulldozed and converted to strip malls
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.
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.
Seeing a "clean cut articulate black man" at Harvard?
Load More Replies...I think he used to known as Barry Obama then !! :) Gorgeous then, gorgeous now.
I know he was not perfect but he was a good president and great family man
....I do not beleive it but is that the book that says he was born outside the US?
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”.
Chaplin was a pedophile. He raped a 14 year old and later married her.
Load More Replies...He was like a Brad Pitt or George Clooney of the day.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...I would not eat it, imagine crushing such beauty with your teeth ._.
She even used ration coupons to purchase her wedding gown (I just found out).
People sent their ration coupons to help too, she couldn't use then. It was. Illegal. But a sweet gesture to their princess.
Load More Replies...Looks like he is putting on the finishing touches.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
On the otherhand he believed in fairies. So your mileage may vary.
Load More Replies...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.
The method of identifying criminals by their fingerprints had been introduced in the 1860s by Sir William James Herschel, Holmes appeared in... 1887.
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.
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.
"Burn, Hollywoodland, Burn" would've been a mouthful for Chuck D.
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)
Load More Replies...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
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.
Every time I see a pic of this sign I think of troop Beverly hills.
"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.
that is what i read. and not long after the movies started there was debauchery behind the camera. still worst today
Load More Replies...I hope they remember some poacher face in the past and trample them in the future
I instantly had to think of this Dutch TV commercial: https://youtu.be/qhubT_A6-cI
Load More Replies...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.
A couple of years ago a poacher was trampled by elephants. And then eaten by lions. Talk about karma!
Well that’s some weird history, that elephants... can remember things
Wrong account. This is from Weird Science, not Weird History. People never vote based on the topic. Not really a historical fact.
The evidence of elephants being much wiser than humans is that they never pretended to conquer the world, while they could easily do.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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
Load More Replies...Do you think it was gold or silver wire used? That's quite a good wire wrap job.
Correction: ANCIENT uno reverse card
Load More Replies...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.
Dog people, come together and give him a slow clap 👏🏻👏🏻
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.
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.
How do you like me now, punk? -The wrong kind of snow, talking to British Rail.
That looked basically like my city today except we don't have double decker buses
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
Tbh...you probably don't know that much about snooker...you've pretty much quoted Wikipedia verbatim...
Load More Replies...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.
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??
I love playing pool. I miss playing with my late Father.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...It was not liberation. Just occupiers had changed. Nazis gone Communists came. True Liberation was 46 years later.
By the end of August 1944 it was estimated she had seen more helmets than Rommel.
The sheer fact she even survived let alone as a jewish partisan is amazing in itself.
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.
That's some good pilot skills. Nowadays if you do this, there would be a fine.
A pilot flew under London bridge as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gavx54dKYvI
Technically, they still do. I mean, have you ever seen someone eating a pez and smoking at the same time?
I've seen people eating scrambled eggs and smoking at the same time. Gimme some Pez and a cigarette.
Load More Replies...the problem with eating candy instead of smoking is then you gotta try to get unaddicted to candy
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!
Intense study? Want of employment? Seems I should have been there a few times.
Then there's Intense Application to Business, for those who took their work too seriously?
Load More Replies...Didn't know the reason or the gender of those 123 I think.
Load More Replies...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
Yes! My son did a project on her too! Fascinating woman- also broke the record at the time for global circumnavigation. A true pioneer
Load More Replies...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...
Can we bring back "religious excitement"? we'd get rid of the extremists.
I am surprised that "reading too many books" isnt mentioned. It used to be a reason to say that a woman was hysterical.
"Intense application to business" I want to know what those two people did?
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.
Why has this been downvoted? I see no reason that this would offend someone.
Load More Replies...Well, if two of the wheels were stabilisers; but which two?
Load More Replies...In the White House in the very back, I wonder if Grover Cleveland was peeking out from a window!
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.
Looks like something Terry Gilliam would use for a Monty Python animation
very tru, that was also my first thought
Load More Replies...There is no way this is an actual medieval example. The colours would gave faded long ago. What is shown is also not “embroidery“.
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.
Load More Replies...I'm an amateur at crochet and this looks terrible. I can't even discern a stitch
Load More Replies...I have doubts they were using purple and red thread to repair in medieval times. That dye was so expensive.
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.
Load More Replies...Ik gebruik het dagelijks! En zo had het voor half de wereld kunnen zijn als we Nieuw Amsterdam niet verkocht hadden voor een habbekrats.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...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)
The comments from our dutch friends here are very understandable for germans :-)
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. 😂
Load More Replies...I had to go to google translate just to figure out what the comments below were saying!
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" :-)
You mean "not very useful anymore" - 200 years earlier, it was very useful - even New York was still New Amsterdam.
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.
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
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.
This column is supposed to be 'weird history'. Please tell me the weird in this photo.
Wow. A lot of ignorance and racism in these comments. Do better people. Seriously
Can you give some examples of racism in these comments? I haven't been able to locate any yet.
Load More Replies...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).
Do you guys think this might be an inspiration for snowmobiles? Just curious
I'd say it's the other way around. The snowmobile was invented in 1935 in QC Canada.
Load More Replies...it does! but dont forget, thats the year hell on earth was born.
Load More Replies...World's Fairs still exist, but now they are called Expos. The next one is planned for Oct 2021 - April 2022.
Load More Replies...Heineken has made a commercial about it; https://youtu.be/OQk2vaFIn5Q
What will the future look like in 250 years? We cannot even imagine it.
it was with the purpose of this fair that the Eiffel tower was built
This looks so much more interesting. Such an exhibition today would only have various AI
The guy whose head is in the center looks like Rowan Atkinson to me for some reason.
Oh yeah - they should do a Blackadder series from that time.
Load More Replies...I totally read that as they served slaves, as like for dinner. glad I am wrong
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.
Well he doesn't have a job now, I'm sure he wouldn't mine giving me a foot rub :P
Load More Replies...I'm sure the slave appreciated this. Probably would have appreciated being set free more.
well, a lot happend on Saturanlia... for ex, you were allowed to kill somebody, or do any crime without being punished.
Solar power and electric cars were possible then. Both killed by Big Oil.
This was the case all over the world. The combustion engine was considered stinky and nasty at first.
Electric for the ladies! Clean, quiet, easy to handle. And they are beautiful cars to look at.
Man, imagine if the people back then being able to look at today's computers. Their minds would be blown.
its only 80 years ago. there's probably a centenarian who does remember
Load More Replies...Even a 1970's pocket-sized electronic calculator would be more powerful than this switchboard.
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.
Load More Replies...My grandmother was working at the Bank of Greece when the first computer arrived. It occupied several rooms and was guilty of several miscalculations.
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)
Load More Replies...Children often replicate what they see adults doing in the form of "play" to help them process what has happened/is happening.
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!"
Load More Replies...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.
This is a year after the actual wall start being built so I don't know how I feel about this.
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. ♡
Load More Replies...Fact checking turned out that this is a witches coven tea party. Norfolk, England ca. 1929.
These older women (likely widows) are wearing the national dress and hat of Wales. It was common until the 1940s.
This looks like Welsh ladies having tea wearing hats that were the fashion at the time
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.
I thought they were prisoners who were sentenced to death.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...I think is great idea, should be practice today, it might stop other from crime 😉
Load More Replies...They're about the same age, because Mesopotamia invented a type of bread too.
Load More Replies...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.
And actually depicting the harvest of papyrus, so it has nothing to do with beer or Mesopotamia ...
Load More Replies...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
Thats actually pretty old too! I know Romans made and drank it but I bet it goes back even a little further.
Load More Replies...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,
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
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.
Don't remind me of the great toilet sponge shortage during the lockdown in 202BC
This is the where the expression "wrong end of the stick" comes from ... :|
Why? we don't need to know this, especially when we still have to eat today
Best Covid protection mask I've seen anywhere, shame I need the oxygen tank.
It seems like hipsters would be driving these all over Brooklyn. Why aren't they in production?
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.
Load More Replies...I see a blend of Daniel Craig and Dustin Hoffman.
Load More Replies...I can imagine getting and keeping just the exact right balance was the main skill to master.
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.
Load More Replies...Too heavy on the brake and he'd be like a hamster spinning in its wheel!
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!
This czech beer isn't that bad, the Us Budweiser on the other hand....
Load More Replies...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)
Fridha Kahlo's place, wonder why she was the only one i could remember, she will always be remembered
or is the influence of ptolemaic egypt, with a trait of some Asia Minor people
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.
Now that's luxury. Take your bedbugs with you for a walk across the kingdom.
So.... basically Shakespeare was the Disney of his time? ♡
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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).
The company existed a century before the movie came out so it's just a coincidence.
Plus it is mostly called "Schindler" without the addition of "lifts".
Load More Replies...And this is another lift company call Otis and they are based in Reading.
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.
We have a Schindler's fabric store in Cleveland...not sure if the have an elevator
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.
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.
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.
his roar at the start of films is his voicing protest of his captivity
Experts now think that, based on his photos, he was a very rare Barbary lion.
I guess she is the personification of the city of Paris...
Load More Replies...Of course, it didn't. How were you going to secure cat cooperation? We serve them.
"Ivan, have you seen this cat?" - "The one with the antenna, Wladimir?"
I'm just over here dying because they labeled the secret conversation
And they labeled the cat too. I guess just in case someone has never seen one.
Load More Replies...operation ended because kitty, once relased, got promptly killed by a passing car, btw. Ooops.
Some of the horse riding events during the London 2012 Olympics were also held in a public park.
Greeks: Excuse us, but may we have a word about our Lord Cthulu?
"Cthulhu died for your Necronomicon and R'lyeh, sir!"
Load More Replies...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.
Si, la citation complète : il y a une couille dans le potage.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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. :)
I like your name :) Do you have a favorite musical? Mine are Newsies, Next to Normal, and Tuck Everlasting
Load More Replies...I'm at that desperate point in my block that I'm thinking I should try this. LOL
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.
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.
Babylon had 60 digits instead of 10, so they invented different types of math to multiply since multiplication tables were impossible to measure.
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...
Load More Replies...The Spanish influenza was from 1918 to 1920. 1931 was nowhere near that time. There were also no major flu outbreaks around that time.
Load More Replies...Yeah, seems that seeing what's coming up is optional ? 😬
Load More Replies...Look up "wheels of misfortune". A website has video of one of these things in action.
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.
It didn't work because seagulls are land birds, not sea birds, they never go very far from shore
There's actually no such thing as a "seagull". Just different species of gulls.
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
Load More Replies...The sisters names are Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia. There brother is named Alexei
None of the girls wanted to marry a foreign prince,king,etc. They wanted to marry Russian nobility and stay close together.
Load More Replies...This is, sadly, the reason why so many people were in the Gulags and the reputation of it is so infamous.
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.
Load More Replies...Not to be confused with the exploding rats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
If you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul...
No, you can't go back to Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople
Load More Replies...There's even (very short) film footage of this: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a15939/1918-wwi-tank-flattening-a-car/
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!
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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?
A lot of people nowadays still (mistakenly) believe Rio is the capital of Brazil. (or that Sydney is the capital of Australia)
But nobody but the government wanted Brasilia as a capitol of Brazil. So for the people of Brazil Rio still feels like the capitol.
Load More Replies...He survived the crash but was electrocuted when he was leaving the train
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.
With climate change progressing, there won't be any North Pole to travel to.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
To be fair, the one on the left hasn't seen bloody anything 😂
Load More Replies...Cats were gods in ancient Greece. You would be sentenced to death if you killed a cat.
My great grandfather was there. But I don't know anything beyond that. Maybe I should try to get his military records...?
If certain s**t stain not being talked out of doing so, the US would have been first one to nuke hurricanes.
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. :(
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.
A volcanic eruption and a forest fire are two quite different scenarios
Load More Replies...It's because if you only count the land that they controlled, it's pale compare to empires like the British and Mongol Empire.
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....
people make videos of themselves about how they ordered a... HAMBURGER?
Load More Replies...Not true. Nicolas Appert invented it in 1795. In France canning is called "appertisation". Napoleonic wars began in 1803...
And the cans were made out of lead which caused many people to die of lead poisoning.
I don't think the cans were made out of lead, too soft . But they soldered them with lead.
Load More Replies...Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, and founded in 1682. It was all part of Nouvelle-France.
You mean because the fugitive is still alive?
Load More Replies...'woah' big surprise, the former president lied
Load More Replies...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?
Load More Replies...Call bulls#it on this one! Halloween is a Celtic tradition from pre-christian Ireland and is literally thousands of years old.
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.
Load More Replies...https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween tells a totally different and more believable story.
You've got me interested... So what's the history behind that? I want to know MORE!
There's a source of information known as the Internet that can explain it to you at the address provided by Wilvander above.
Load More Replies...The guy in the center staring in the camera looks like Chandler from Friends confused as he woke up in the war :D
maybe that's the inspiration? never seen friends, so I don't know what you're talking about.
Load More Replies...Fairly common to both sides in WWI and WWII. Except the Japanese never treated their enemy. Fairly savage.
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?)
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.
Load More Replies...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
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.
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.
Great post, I am really interested in ancient cultures :D I just wished there was a bigger description for each entry, because they definitely piqued my curiosity!
Ancient history is am excellent topic... Especially since there is the whole "history is written by the winners" thing which, while not being actually true, means that the details depend on who you're talking to.
Load More Replies...Very Interesting. Some of the comments weren't as informational as they were meant to be.
Great post, I am really interested in ancient cultures :D I just wished there was a bigger description for each entry, because they definitely piqued my curiosity!
Ancient history is am excellent topic... Especially since there is the whole "history is written by the winners" thing which, while not being actually true, means that the details depend on who you're talking to.
Load More Replies...Very Interesting. Some of the comments weren't as informational as they were meant to be.
