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everyday i wake up and think about Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów, rest in peace angel (1569-1795) [*]🕊️
There are 2 kinds of 1944-45 Soviet marches: the traditional parade march and "HEY LOOK I DISCOVERED SWING"
Is this about ww2 or am I just hyperfixating
One of my favourite genres of supernatural horror media might be described as bear-poking horror.
Basically, it’s horror media where the supernatural threat is a known quantity. Everybody – or at least everybody who’s involved – knows what it is and what it does, and there’s a specific, known, easily avoided act that will incur its wrath. All that’s necessary for nobody to get eaten is for nobody to do that thing. Typically there isn’t even any benefit to doing the thing, so there’s literally no reason to do it.
However, in spite of all that, absolutely everyone is going to die, because some fucker went and poked the bear.
Why, oh why did they poke the bear.
I mean they kinda have to call themselves central. It wasn't like there was a clear way to distinguish west from east for like 40 years /s
honestly is there a single thing thats more hilarious than “central europeans” insisting with all their might that they are not eastern european
eastern european countryside: oops! all ww2 monuments
George Washington:Don't split into two parties or we'll be doomed
Untied States:(immediately splits into two parties)
George Washington:
I think my 8th grade history notes are very special indeed
any female born after 1830 can't cook...all they know is brontë sisters, pad they bustle, ill-fitted corsets, get tuberculosis, and die.
I love the smiths but how could a man ever know how joan of arc felt
if I had a nickel for every time politicians were thrown out the window in Prague I'd have three nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened three times???
The SS Warrimoo, a passenger steamship traveling from Vancouver to Australia, was silently knifing its way across the mid-Pacific waters. The navigator had just finished calculating a star fix and handed the results to Captain John DS. Phillips.
The Warrimoo's coordinates were LAT 0º 31' N, LONG 179 30' W. The date was December 31, 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton announced, "We're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line."
Captain Phillips was prankish enough to seize the opportunity to do the nautical feat of a lifetime. He summoned his navigators to the bridge to double-check the ship's position. He altered his course slightly to focus directly on his target. He then altered the engine's speed.
The calm weather and clear night worked to his advantage. At midnight, the SS Warrimoo rested on the Equator, exactly where it had crossed the International Date Line. The ramifications of this odd arrangement were numerous.
The ship's bow was in the Southern Hemisphere, in the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere, in the midst of winter. The date on the aft portion of the ship was December 31, 1899. The date on the forward half of the ship was January 1, 1900. The ship experienced multiple days, months, years, seasons, and centuries simultaneously.
NEW ZODIACS JUST DROPPED!!!!
Just learned the French had their own Calendar after the French Revolution. I NEED people to start telling people that's their sign. "What's your sign?" "Watering can." "A... What?" "Did I stutter?"
I showed it to my cp gov teacher and neither of us could stop laughing for a good minute
Made a thing. Come on. You know you want to play. Though be warned, it may be more difficult than it looks!
The virgin political compass with 37 thousand axis of billions of possible values
> Cringe
> Impossible to keep track of
The Chad Machiavelli system: "All societies are either principalities or republics. Principalities are good. Republics are bad"
> Based
> Very easy to keep track of
You think anyone had the balls to give Stalin nicknames. "Eyo! It's my boi Joey S - Calls himself man of steel but we know he ain't packing anything hard down there! AMIRIGHT?!"
I was reading a ancient German strategy book and it mentioned the terrain of some area they were preparing to invade so I googled a map of that area and it was in modern Germany so I guess the strategy worked.
Did you know a Egyptian pharaoh named themselves after the Egyptian devil out of respect for his power? That's the equivalent of a Pope Satan.
Colonial north USA in fiction: "We must end slavery at all costs! It is a moral affront to God"
Colonial north USA in reality: "Those slaves TOOOK ERR JURBS!!!!!!"
I think it's a shame that Confederates give rebels a bad name. It was far more common to have slave revolts than pro slavery rebellion but that ONE TIME a pro slave revolt takes off and it's all anyone seems to remember.
What's one set of atrocities among friends?
The dichotomy between MLK and Malcolm X proves: Whether you ask nicely or aggressively - those that ask for civil rights in an effective manner will be struck down.
I feel so bad for old timey doctors that actually wanted to help: "We've amputated all their limbs and they're still haunted! Must be a small ghost"
Imagine thinking shit like this and crying yourself to sleep as all your patients die.
Geisha was a job in ancient Japan where they charmed guests by playing party games. They were the original Twitch streamers.
Obsessed forever with the “Two Monks Invent...” series on The Toast by Daniel Mallory Ortberg. It’s one of my internet happy places and I hope it never goes away.
Two Medieval Monks Invent Art
Two Medieval Monks Invent Maps
Two Medieval Monks Invent Some More Art
Two Monks Invent The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Two Monks Illustrate The Old Testament
Two Monks Invent Biblical Art
Two Monks Invent Denominations
Two Monks Invent Dinner Parties
Two Monks Invent Bestiaries
Two Monks Invent Writing
Two Monks Invent Religious Iconography
Two Monks Discover How Tall Women and Horses Are
Two Monks Discuss Alexander the Great
Two Monks Learn How To Draw Hands
Two Monks Invent Renaissance Art
Two Monks Invent Byzantine Art
Two Monks Invent Horses and Armed Warfare
Lord Byron & friends: Oooh, how about we try writing our own ghost stories 👻🤪🤫👀
Mary Shelley:
