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History teaches us to analyze and explain past challenges. It allows us to see patterns that might've been invisible in the present otherwise, thus providing a crucial perspective for understanding (and solving!) current and future problems.
However, distant times, full of people that have been long dead might often seem like exactly that — distant. So let's make everything a little bit more relatable and take a look at a Facebook page called History Memes.
Offering what the name promises, it shows historic figures and the events they've been part of through well-known popular culture motifs, reminding us that we can always find common ground with another person, no matter if they're a peasant from the Middle Ages or an ancient Greek aristocrat.
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Cara G 3 years ago
Jokes aside, I don't see any other story this poster could possibly be telling besides a beautiful interracial gay couple who met at a steelworks, got married, and had beautiful children. Is there something else going on here?
Romenriel 3 years ago
They could simply symbolize the union between two nations.
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Sean RF 3 years ago
I think these alone work as pride posters in their own right
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Ralph Watkins 3 years ago
Both Communist systems were all about spreading the genes of their majority racial & ethnic majority into minority regions. For the Soviets, it was while Russian blood. For the Chinese, it's Han blood. The fact they make this look so gay is hilarious.
We managed to get in touch with the person behind History Memes, and they told us that the page isn't reposting content from elsewhere on the internet. They're creating the memes themselves.
"The only real criteria I have [for sharing a particular idea] is whether I find it funny and if it doesn't cross any line," the creator of the Facebook page told Bored Panda. "I don't want to get in trouble and I also think there are plenty of subjects you don't joke about. I usually find a picture or 'template' and then think of a historic event that'll go well with it."
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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
I can hear forensic anthropologists everywhere muttering under their breath
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Although I find this funny, I do think it's wildly inaccurate. I know a few of my Forensic Anthro profs that would be raising a fuss about this right now.
Load More Replies... Claire Jones 3 years ago
Tell me that skeleton isn't posed as Jim Carrey in ace Ventura 🤣 is it only me that sees that??
Monday 3 years ago
and race....and often there's some indication of age too.
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Om 3 years ago
other than sexual orientation, skulls do show difference between men and women, and also age. Some archeologists are even able to tell who had a higher up position (rich or poor) depending on how they buried too
Cranky Pants 3 years ago
Stop reading Bored Panda at work... just kidding... best place to read it.
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Jupiter Tonans 3 years ago
I have to admit I don't get this one. Which is doubly humiliating since I named myself after Danton.
Jupiter Tonans 3 years ago
Duh! I was waaaaaaay overthinking it. Down a rabbit hole about whose rights were respected under the Republic. Silly me.
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Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Also they were religious extremists. Got kicked out of 3 other countries before coming to the place with no white people.
Scipio Africanus 3 years ago
Technically not illegal immigrants since no laws were actually broken
"Mostly, the more common the knowledge about the period or event is, the better the post does," the person behind the page said. "So WWII memes do a lot better than obscure Dutch history posts, for example. I have a lot of American followers, which is funny since I'm from the Netherlands myself. So American history or Western history usually does better."
They started the page a long time ago and regularly made daily posts. "I think that helped [it to become as popular as it is] and I suppose my humor just clicked with people. I always stick to things I find funny and perhaps it's also a bit because it's all original content."
What they like most about running this history page is the fact that an obscure meme makes people ask questions and educate themselves. "It's just all in good fun for me!"
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I'm Australian and the first two members of my family to come here were - yes - convicts. Two petty thieves who were deported to a colony in Tasmania. ...oh hey, that's a nice wallet. Can I hold it for you?
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Sure you can, thank you. What a nice person offering to help. lol
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ben woskje 3 years ago
Im australian - and this funny.... more-so because as someone (like most of us) that have lived in Aus (Home) and in London.... im pretty confident that we got the better end of this.
Remi 3 years ago
A duck move on the part of Boris and co but if I had to choose between England an Rwanda I'd go Rwandan any day
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Zack Podany 3 years ago
Trunk Boot Hood Bonnet Stroller Pram Cart Trolley F***y pack *snickering*
Rylee Evergreen🦋 3 years ago
Babe if America hadn't become a country I'd be speaking Gaelic in the rolling hills of Ireland- okay, maybe that doesn't sound too bad
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AceOfChaos317 3 years ago
Hey Disney censored the owl house, this seems like another thing they will pull out of their rear
Mozzarella 3 years ago
…without slaughtering them and sinking their ships first! Obviously! Arrr me hearties!
Gossameringue 3 years ago
Definition of a pirate: take another's property without their permission
Nunya Bidnits 3 years ago
Well, Disney hasn't gotten a story right since the '30s, so this doesn't stand out too awful much
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
A good pirate is a dame so villainous that she'd behead her pirates for abusing women. That's a pirate.
Interestingly, historian, college administrator, amateur homesteader, and writer Joshua Wilkey quite often uses memes in teaching. "I even sometimes assign my students to use memes as a way to present what they are learning in the classroom," he told Bored Panda for our earlier article on history memes.
In fact, memes have been around in some form or another for thousands of years.
In 2016, archeologists uncovered a mosaic from the 3rd century B.C. in what was the ancient city of Antiocheia. The piece has three frames and seems to depict a bathing scene. The first frame is of a servant preparing a bath; the second frame, a young man running away from taking the bath, being pursued by an older servant who is unable to catch him; the last scene, a “reckless” but seemingly happy skeleton of the young man is sitting casually with a jug of wine.
The inscription below him reads: "Be cheerful and live your life." So you could say it's the original YOLO.
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Sathe Wesker 3 years ago
“Were polite to women”… Maybe their own women. They raped and pillaged. I did the ancestry test, I’m part Norse and pretty sure considering the Scottish, Irish and English part of me are higher percentage then the Norse that likely one of my ancestors had a bad encounter with one. I still say I’m part Viking though.
Nilsen 3 years ago
Quite a lot of Norse men settled in North Eastern England (the Dane Law and all that stuff) and seduced the young widows there. Please don't ask how they became widows.
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Babsevs 3 years ago
Did not realise the Vikings were so respectful! TV owes me huge apologies ;)
K Sarfo 3 years ago (edited)
In Norway woman had the right to a divoce if she wanted, woman could lead counsils, go to war and were a huge part of their "sucsess" abroad because of their knowledge and comitment'to their crafts That is to say before Christianity came and screwed us
Load More Replies... Zack Podany 3 years ago
Assassin's Creed Valhalla lied to me. Where was the Eivor Herbal Essences scene?!
CultOfBambi 3 years ago
Just take him/her/them for a dip in the waterfall by Valka's cottage...
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Funny fact - most of high class in modern UK is descendants of Norman's - from France.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
According to Ancestry, I am more British than Brits. I am American, sad to say, at least at the moment.
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Bert van Aalsburg 3 years ago
Makes you wonder if all the bad publicity, about vikings, was a snow job predicated by anglo-saxon men. Because all their women wanted to hang with the vikings instead of with them.
Charlie 3 years ago
The story is often told by the final victors, so that would be the catholic church, I believe.
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flutterbyy 3 years ago
Right, just keep nodding and slowly back off, and nothing will happen to you.
Panda Who Mumbles, Constantly 3 years ago
"We are unable to confirm nor deny any such events without the prior authorisation of the Director"
Ralph Watkins 3 years ago
I know a former CIA guy from that era. We got him really drunk one night & had him talking about all kinds of stuff. We asked him about the JFK assassination & he shut right up.
OwenHasADHD 3 years ago
Basically, how could have the CIA said “before” when the time traveler asks about JFK assassination? That would mean they knew about it before it happened. Hope this helps
Load More Replies...But why bother with history in the first place? Well, Joshua Wilkey said that "as an academic pursuit, history teaches important skills like critical reading and analysis. For the average person, though, history is an important way of understanding the context of what is happening in the present."
"I do not buy the argument that history repeats itself - and I think few professional historians would say that it does. It does, though, as Mark Twain once said, rhyme a lot. When one looks at the world as it is today, one cannot fully understand it absent knowledge of history," Wilkey explained.
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Needmorecowbell 3 years ago
Every time I read posts here insulting America, I am likewise offended yet in 💯 agreement.
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Queen Boudicca 3 years ago
That's because we are just like mommy...but w guns.
Load More Replies... Zack Podany 3 years ago
I dunno, British politics did a damn good cosplay with chief blonde tumbleweed.
Cpt. Robert Christian 3 years ago
SMH & HMH, whilst drinking my Earl Grey, eating a donut, and ruefully chuckling.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
America dealt terribly with the pandemic, but I thought England did worse...
Kelli 3 years ago
Ugh. I am not so sure. I am sill hearing Trump trash call it a hoax. One even told me they put an anti God gene in the vaccine. Not sure how it fit with that chip in there too. I can hardly feel either. 😂😂
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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
Me during literally any football match, but especially when it comes down to penalties. I like to annoy my husband by saying that they could have saved a lot of match time if they’d just done the penalty shoot out at the start and not bothered with the rest.
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
As I football fan, I've watched games where I would agree with that assessment.
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Scotira 3 years ago
Just for, you know, safekeeping. (I shouldn't laugh 🤣🤣🤣 I shouldn't laugh...)
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Cranky Pants 3 years ago
What I learn from this picture is never wear a skirt to a sporting event.
"One cannot, for example, understand the Black Lives Matter movement without understanding the long history of civil rights activism in the United States. One cannot understand what is happening in Afghanistan without understanding the long history of that particular part of the world, specifically through the lens of imperialism. Current events do not happen in a vacuum. Trying to understand or react to them absent an understanding of the history is detrimental at best."
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Navindu Wijewardena 3 years ago
For those who want the list - Afghanistan, Antigua, Barbuda, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barabados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cyprus, Dominica, Egypt, Eswatini, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jorda, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nauru, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sain Vincent and Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somaliland, South Yemen, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanganyika, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, UAE, US, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe. And those are just the colonies, protectorates (I havent the slightest idea what that means)and mandates that are now independent (according to Wikipedia)
Judes 3 years ago
I can't see Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Hawaii on the list.
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Anita Pickle 3 years ago
Yeah... Yet somehow the USA is super bad (not saying they are good, just a pot calling the kettle black situation)
Aparajit Joshi 3 years ago
British robbed India not colonised. We were civilized and colonized before existence of U.K.
Ralph Watkins 3 years ago
I worked with an elderly doctor from India. He used to boast that he was born a slave of the British Empire. He had a crazy sense of humor. Most Americans had no idea what he was talking about. Some even argued that only America had slavery & it was only black Africans who were slaves. There was no other slavery. Ignorance is bliss.
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Chich 3 years ago
Well the damn things kept catching fire and someone had to rescue the gold, geeez!
Monday 3 years ago
It was so kind of them to rescue the poor, defenseless gold.
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Pat Tamarin 3 years ago
Well, the church required everyone to tithe 10% of what they made, so of course they'd be a perfect target! (People also had to pay taxes to the king and the local powers. No wonder they were poor. )
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
I don't blame them the bad a*s found out and they went after it what did you expect.
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Nancy Man 3 years ago
When I was a kid, I wondered why all the flags looked like wrapped Christmas presents
Telmo Belo 3 years ago
200 years after Portugal, though. But they can all keep it
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Jansen Martin 3 years ago (edited)
The American flag came first though. In fact I think Liberia purposely copied the American flag. So US should be looking at them like hmmmm..
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Well-Dressed Wolf 3 years ago
Meme aside, the pics of these happy stretching big purr-purrs (and one mini purr-purr) really made my day and made me smile :) (yes I know big cats can’t purr… let me have my happy thoughts!)
Of course, that doesn't mean that you have to be familiar with every period of every civilization. "One of my favorite TV shows growing up was The Andy Griffith Show, and in one episode, Aunt Bee remarked that history must be harder to learn in the present because there's more and more of it being made every day," Wilkey recalled. "However, there are some good strategies to employ to learn the depth of history in a way that is useful for the present."
"Rather than broad surveys of history, whereby one attempts to learn the entire breadth of history for a given place, I think deeper dives are more useful. I prefer to study history topically rather than by place. For example, one can study the history of conflict, the history of racial inequality, the history of capitalism, or the history of imperialism, and follow the threads of those themes through both time and place, for a more comprehensive look at why things are the way they are."
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Stimpy 3 years ago
They are from Australians who think they are voting UP
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Ralph Watkins 3 years ago
Big Ben is the name of the clock, not the tower it's on. I was in London in 1984 & it looked just like this back then too. It's always being renovated.
Nini 3 years ago
God you're so stupid, 99% of the people in Notre Dale or the Eiffel Tower are tourists the other 1% are students on school trips. You have no idea how many parisiens never visited the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre.
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PurpleDoople 3 years ago
When your friend keeps asking who the Egyptian god of the moon was: “You can’t even cook, khonshu?!”
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Gaya Knust 3 years ago
Yup. I studied Ancient Greek at uni and dunno if it was just my uni, but there was a rivalry between the Latin and the Ancient Greek students lol.
Aria de Saint-Iuz 3 years ago
Elláda, not Greece. Modern Greece has almost nothing to do with the antient republic...
Cyd Charisse 3 years ago
The US adopted everything completely opposite to the UK in protest! Hence the driving on the right with left-hand steering, the rejection of the metric system…. Hell! We even eat with our utensils held differently just so we could root out spies during the Revolution. So, completely incorrect.
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Ele V 3 years ago
''the Greek mythology that you probably know is actually romanized versions of the myths''. So wrong that sentence
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Touch Connors 3 years ago
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. Winston Churchill
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
To be fair, this was back in the days when we actually respected the rule that going to war was a last resort, and only one to be taken in defense.
Rosanna Jackson 3 years ago
Nice try, a real time travel would know the caused it
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Scott Crosby 3 years ago
Considering that they were both European disputes, does that mean in time to stop it, or in time to win it?
François Carré 3 years ago
Make sure neither of the belligerants can trust your intentions of choosing sides, so that they won't attack you - just in case you'd choose theirs. Thus you can take your time and prepare you country meanwhile, building an insanely big force and watching which side is most likely to win. Once you are ready and know which side will be the most beneficial to the US leadership, arrange national propaganda accordingly so that all Americans enthusiastically join in, make your entrance... and write History.
Lorraine 3 years ago
Except this was not the case... Since the beginning, even when not actively getting involved, the US chose a side and condemned German actions. Roosevelt declared that while the United States would remain neutral in law, he could “not ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well.” And on the other hand, the US was not prepared to go to war after Pearl Harbor, they didn't have the army nor the equipment. They had a stronger industry and were not diminished by years of war so they could act faster after declaring war.
Load More Replies...The historian said that understanding how themes like economic inequality or political power have played out at multiple times and places is more useful for the average human than to learn facts about the history of a given place. "Ultimately, the goal should not be to learn history for the sake of being good at Jeopardy!, but for the sake of developing a more meaningful understanding of why things happened," Wilkey explained, adding that it's much more valuable than simply knowing what happened.
And it makes sense. You start making connections and developing ideas rather than just working on your memory. You start thinking.
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Toea Muresan Iulia 3 years ago
yes, it s good also without Karl Marks intervention
Load More Replies... Zack Podany 3 years ago
Took me a minute there, and I don't even have any cake to distract me.
Remi 3 years ago
Karl Marx talked about the class struggle between the working class and the bourgeois meaning the 1% or the rich or whatever the term is now
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Cat Momma 3 years ago
I have always struggled to pronounce this effing word!! Is it boojshee or bourjhuwa?????
Nini 3 years ago
He's not talking about college classes but the working class middle class and bourgeois (what American call "bougie" or some s**t) aka the rich/the 1%. If you know anything about Karl Marx you'll know he wanted to abolish the class systsm. Think casts like in India. It's a world play on the word class and probably the teacher being himself at least upper middle class
Load More Replies... Victor Botha 3 years ago (edited)
The Bourgeoisie were the middle class as opposed to the proletariat or worker class. Bourgeois refers to middle class values and standards and expectations. "He had very Bourgeois tastes for someone so wealthy"
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Mama Penguin 3 years ago
The election may be over, but the nightmare is not. Sit down. I'll make you a cup of tea while I tell you the horrors that is US politics that's still swarming with Trump's minions.
Remi 3 years ago
Seen the horror your supreme court vomits out so I'm all stacked on nightmares, thanks
Load More Replies... Scipio Africanus 3 years ago
American politics is just a bunch of idiots running around white buildings flipping a coin to decide whether to help of f**k up the country
Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Then looking up the purpose of a government and ignoring it entirely
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Phil Green 3 years ago
Surely, it should be, "This is politics?" It needs a question mark I think.
Zack Podany 3 years ago
Oh my bananas, I never realized how accurate that is. Granted, PotC had less underhanded scheming.
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Gemma jones 3 years ago
like i know thats photoshop but i so wanna get dungarees for my cats lol
Christopher Walkies 3 years ago
A Swiss man once told me that in the Second World War the Swiss built railroads for the Nazis during the week and prayed for the Allies at the weekend.
Mary Kelly 3 years ago
why does this swiss cat have a (bad) swedish accent?...geography people!
Helen Wood 3 years ago
they knew exactly what was happening in WW2, they turned away thousands of jews which ended up in death camps.
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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
Didn’t he impregnate Danaë by turning into a shower of gold? How does that work?
AceOfChaos317 3 years ago (edited)
I remember as a kid thinking riordan changed alot of things in his books, now I'd rather have riordans neglectful God's than a horny rapist
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Lol you couldn't write a children's or YA book based on Greek mythology without changing or omitting a lot. Well, you could write it - but no publisher would touch it with a nine foot pole!
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Zack Podany 3 years ago
And then there was Loki, parent to a giant wolf and an even more giant snake. And he was the mother of at least one of them.
Remi 3 years ago
Dunno about those two, but Loki is deffo the birth parent to Sleipnir (frack that spelling is off) who is a part horse with eight legs
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Once you decide on a topic you want to dig into, you need to start collecting sources. "At the risk of having my professional historian card revoked, Wikipedia is a great place to go to learn the basics of a given event," Joshua Wilkey said. "At this point, it's rather more accurate than most easily accessible sources, including most online encyclopedias."
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Tarcandor 3 years ago
Fun fact: there are still songs being sung over this event at the "Cantus" (Cantus= an evening of drinking and singing organised by student organisations)
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
I'm jealous. You Europeans get all the fun facts.
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Seabeast 3 years ago
"Today I will teach you how to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana."
Terri Johnson 3 years ago (edited)
I think this is Gravensteen in Ghent. A great castle to tour, with lots of restoration work done. 100_1050-6...0298ef.jpg 
Terri Johnson 3 years ago
https://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/the-battle-of-gravensteen-castle/
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AceOfChaos317 3 years ago
How it started: blows up a naval harbor. How it ended: we drop the sun on them twice
Monday 3 years ago
I still feel it would have been slightly more fair to drop the sun directly on a military base and not on a city full of civilians.
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Sean RF 3 years ago
I mean we probably should have gotten involved when the holocaust was a thing, and we also shouldn't have used f*cking nuclear weapons
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Romenriel 3 years ago (edited)
By sending material, their army entered Europe only after Pearl Harbor.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Welcome to the world of every American Panda...and the stuff about us is frequently inaccurate to boot.
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Zack Podany 3 years ago
You know, for a country that frequently laughs at the US for not using metric...
Robyn Bowns 3 years ago
I am just as confused as the queen... Wtf is cup of tea per colonized nation mean 😒
Mud spider 3 years ago
I saw this meme on Instagram and somebody commented “racism at its peak” people are dumb lol
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François Carré 3 years ago
Britain and France : "well, after centuries of inept crusades, we've tried very hard to find another way to thwart that threatening Ottoman empire and ruin it from the inside by introducing colonial capitalism, and it's getting really interesting now cause they got oil, but we've made a f*****g mess by creating absurd countries with rectilinear borders in the middle of the desert and..." US : "Hold my beer, you amateurs".
Romenriel 3 years ago
Back when there were crusades, there was no Ottoman Empire. IIRC it was actually its establishment that stopped crusades - it was just too powerful to mess with.
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"Apart from that, I am a big fan of podcasts. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is great for those who can devote substantial time to listening. Slow Burn is also fantastic, as is the podcast that accompanies the 1619 Project. This Land is wonderful for those who are interested in indigenous history. I could go on for days with podcast recommendations, but there are so many good ones out there, the possibilities are limitless. For print readers, ProPublica also has a wonderful deep dive into many important topics. I especially enjoyed their piece a few years ago titled 'Firestone and the Warlord' about the history of the rubber industry in Africa."
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Dani M 3 years ago
Un-fun fact: because of not having the ressources to either feed a family or to have a dowry, usually only the oldest son got married (the one that inherits after the parents) and sometimes daughters could not marry without dowry. So peasant and nobles alike often did not get married until their parents died and they were in their 30ies +. OR girls without dowries ended up living with their brothers family, or if noble, joined a convent.----
Nini 3 years ago
In France the noble had a whole system for multiple sons: the elder inherited everything and his father's position, the 2nd son was sent to the military and the others to the clergy where they could not marry so no offsprings to fight for inheritance.
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Monday 3 years ago
Tut was a deformed, inbred youngster who married his sister and died before he could accomplish much. We love the underdogs!
Natalia Maciel 3 years ago
Also his tomb was found intact so we know a lot about him.
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Nunya Bidnits 3 years ago
The only reason Tutankhamun is as famous as he is is because his tomb was found intact, and the artifacts were in good shape. That and the world tour of certain collections in the '70s and '80s helped market the Boy Pharaohl
Demongrrrrl 3 years ago
Also assisted by Steve Martin ("Born in Arizona, moved to Babylona. King Tut.")
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ProgHead777 3 years ago
It's strange to think that Tutankhamun is only famous because he was such an unremarkable pharaoh that no one bothered to rob his tomb.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
And making lame jokes about how hilariously short you were, even though you were actually of perfectly average height for an adult man at that time period.
Completely Hatstand 3 years ago
He was taller than both Nelson and Blucher.
Load More Replies... Simo 3 years ago (edited)
Well... But let's not forget losing the wars and being exiled to Elba Island, but wanting to go back to power so badly to sacrifice other thousand of lives in Waterloo just for your ego and lose again, then die alone and powerless in the middle of nowhere.
Nini 3 years ago
He died in Dont Helena which he quite liked it seems. Also France had an other Napoleon... the 3rd who sucked a*s
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Ravendor 3 years ago
Ah. Oversimplified. I see you are a person of culture
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J. F. 3 years ago
Same for Operation Barbarossa - it was planned to invade Russia during summer but Itlay attacked Greece without telling Germany. The troops intended to invade the USSR had to help the italians instead and pushed the invasion back to winter
Mar Nadal 3 years ago
And maybe Stalingrad would have been a victory? Stalingrad was a stupid stubbornness of Hitler. I mean, the defeat would have happened anyway, winter or summer.
Load More Replies... François Carré 3 years ago (edited)
Certainly not an idiot, but a megalomaniacal a*****e, yes.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
He also reinstated slavery, which had been outlawed by the Revolution, and "propagated Republican ideals" by putting his family on thrones all over Europe.
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Scotira 3 years ago
@ Ellie McGrath that'll be a big fat NOPE. In case of an invasion in Switzerland, the entirety of Europe would burn already since we are kind of in the middle. And being neutral doesn't mean, we'll just roll over. We can and will defend ourselves, just like we did in the Middle Ages.
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
Always remember; Italy, Austria and France all 3 built defense stone walls at their borders to Switzerland - to keep us out. Nowadays, all 3 of these defense walls are within Swiss territory, the Italian one is actually in the middle of Ticino. Switzerland is a fierce little fella, like some LOTR dwarf. Cunning, angry and filled with money.
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James Matson 3 years ago
when asked during WW2 what the swiss army of 2.5 million would do if Germany invaded with 5 Million men they responded. Fire twice and go home
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
Not really, we're already surrounded by Nato states. If anyone wanted to attack us, they'd have to get through NATO territory first and I doubt that'll happen.
Load More Replies...As for sourcing accurate materials, Wilkey said it's important to employ information literacy skills to vet any potential source.
"While there's much to be said about the elitist and often-problematic nature of academic gatekeeping, the solution is not for anyone to publish anything they want, but rather, for us to engage with the public as much or more than we engage with each other as academics."
The historian likes to tell his students that if they are not engaging members of the general public with their work, then the public will be engaged by idiots, liars, and fear-mongers. "The average reader should make it a point to ask why they should believe any given source (including academic literature!). The fact that they found it via social media is often an argument against believing it," he said.
However, if it's more memes that you're after, check out our piece on History Memes Explained, a cool social media project that not only collects but also dissects the best memes about our past.
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eff the haters 3 years ago
Imagine the metronome needle is a great big blade
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Between 1789 and 1871 : revolution, constitutional monarchy (1789-1792), 1st Republic and European wars (1792-1799), Consulate and more European wars (1799-1804), 1st Empire and more European wars (1804-1814, I'll spare you Napoleon's brief return in 1815), Restoration and colonial wars (1814-1830), revolution, consitutional monarchy and colonial wars (1830-1848), revolution, 2d Republic (1848 -1852), 2d Empire and colonial wars (1852-1870), war and defeat against Prussia -> Germany, 3d Republic (1870-1940, some stability... at last) and Paris Commune (1871).
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
That seems to be the answer to anything we can't readily explain. Aliens dude, it was the aliens.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
It's weird when people wrongly believe "humans couldn't possibly have ___." So you think you belong to a species of idiots, then?
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Scott Crosby 3 years ago
Because no one believes unionized labor could have finished the job on time?
Lara Verne 3 years ago
You think everyone believe it, just because some Swiss writter and dude with greek name told them so?
Nini 3 years ago
Idk I watched a documentary where they said the people loved both their Gods and Pharaoh were Gods on earth so they felt like they'd be rewarded in the afterlife and the depiction of them being whipped and s**t didn't actually happen. Those who suffered were probably the slaves and those working on the internal architecture who knew they'd have to die in the end to preserve the secret maps so nobody would pillage their tombs. Until Italy, Britains and France logged into the chat and destroyed and pillaged and even ate mummy powder....
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J. F. 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, didn't turn out well for France and the UK a few years later though
Yvette Desmarais 3 years ago
It was going to be worse. Wilson fought it. But he failed in a number of areas. The US never ratified from their side.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Two *very* interesting items were included in the Treaty of Versaille: Bayer had to forfeit the patents on Aspirin and Heroin, and BMW was prohibited, in perpetuity, from producing aircraft engines.
OkieDonut 3 years ago
It literally is their reaction to the last episode! Lol
Load More Replies... Victor Botha 3 years ago
The fact that Germany wasn't invited to the peace talks, that France wanted revenge reparations all guaranteed the rise of fascism and the rise to power of Hitler. In a sense, the allies started WWII with the Treaty of Versailles. It was only a matter of time before things got real.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Imagine what kind of civilization we would've been today if we hadn't gone through the dark ages in history. Actually some people's minds are still stuck there despite being born centuries later.
Dani M 3 years ago
nooooo i hate that "argument"- dark ages just refers to the (initial) lack of written sources and was roman, christian and anti-"barbarian". It completely ignores the achievements of any other people. And to be honest - if anything led to a regression in knowledge it was already into the middle ages and later when the church inhibited thought.
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Alex Ernst 3 years ago
The LoA was actually a copying library, but so many books going up in flames is still painful.
Ela 3 years ago
I confess I don't have my glasses on. At first glance I thought that toast was a black girl's hair up in a bun. And I thought, man it would suck to burn your hair and a hairdresser who doesn't know how to handle a black girl's hair is a disaster. But is burning it really that common? And then I realized it was toast.
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Not just you.... It's late and my eyes are getting fuzzy
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manalonedies 3 years ago
The christians would have burned it during the crusades if the Romans hadn't already done it for them.
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Láďa Durchánek 3 years ago
While I really respect Merkel, her decision to make Germany reliant on Russian natural gas (and her politics towards Russia in general) turned out to be totally disastrous.
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Lydia Nijland 3 years ago
Too strong a woman for Russia, that's why the war didn't start earlier
Péter Rózsahegyi 3 years ago
Look at Viktor Orban's face. I guess that conversation was about Hungary: He said 'What?' and they said 'Nothing, just turn back to the match, kiddo'.
Russell Tilling 3 years ago
"Zo Angela, vee give you cheep gaz an oil. You drop all yurr uzer zupplierz. Zen vee take Ukraine, zen Estonia, zen Latvia, etc. You get a big dachau viz a pool ja?"
Nines Rodriguez 3 years ago
"And this is how you throw poison in your political enemies' tea" -Vladimir Putin
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Bart S 3 years ago
that's ok, it's Polandball. https://www.polandballwiki.com/wiki/Polandball_Wiki
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Oh Poland, the smaller sibling that always gets the punched first when the bigger bros starts sh!t.
Chewie Baron 3 years ago
Then you have Belgium. A country invented so Britain and Germany could sort out their differences.
Load More Replies... Cara G 3 years ago
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Cara G 3 years ago
I feel like that comes with a high risk of said spaghetti routing itself through the nose. Much safer to laugh in rigatoni.
Load More Replies... Ka Se 3 years ago
Italy also got land where the Austrian population lived and which is still largely German-speaking - although the German language was banned, and resettlement projects were launched to Italianise the area. However, in the meantime, the region has fortunately been granted so many autonomy rights that the people no longer have any interest in being part of Austria. (However they still seem to feel connected to Austria and quite a few of them travel for work or education there.)
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
Jup, my grandma's family had to flee South Tyrol as her father refused to speak italian.
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DenjiSimp 3 years ago
Wasn't the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand the main catalyst that started it?
Olga Aftyka 3 years ago
Not really, that was just the final ignition spark
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Hotdogking 3 years ago
I heard it started because some bloke named Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry
Moo Moo Futch 3 years ago
"So I says to Mabel I says, some Duke in the back of an open wagon got shot in Sarajevo by some guy called Gavrilo Princip"
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Zooming in: “Empress Victoria’s OBGYN was too rough with the forceps.”
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
I heard it was when a bloke named Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cos he was hungry.
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Cara G 3 years ago
It was mostly because Benjamin Franklin sailed over and negotiated a bomb a$$ treaty using his spectacular social skills. Guy was a laugh riot, a storyteller, not one to say no to a drink or seven at a party, and brought with him tales of the American wilderness and newly minted customs and demonstrations of songs and dances that made French gentlemen roll on the floor laughing and women heave their corseted bosoms in lust at the exotic stranger. He got off the ship wearing a coonskin hat, you guys.
Chris 3 years ago
which earned him the spot on $100, the only non-president to be on a bill.
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Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Europeans: whose the savage now,................... Locals: still you. You erased my culture
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Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Come on Russia, we all know that the third movie is never as good as the first.
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Suzanne Tilson 3 years ago
Woman in 1500s: look I have money, land and I believe that science is the answer to all our problems............................................ Society: Blasphemy! (jk)
Queen Boudicca 3 years ago
Women in 2022 America: look, I have money, land and I believe science is the answer to all our problems: Society: B***h! She must have slept her way to the top! Libtard! Nasty!
Load More Replies... Phil Green 3 years ago
The Catholic Church: burn anyone we don't like. Local woman who can cure people with herbs? Burn the witch. Local politician who doesn't like the Pope? Burn him.... Guy with load of gold? Burn him. South American continent with loads of gold? Kill them all....
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
Pretty much women just being smart and knowing about the use of herbs. No need for magic tricks
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J. F. 3 years ago (edited)
Do you know what KitKat has in common with communism? Both are red and you have to share
engineer_nope.avi 3 years ago
A good Communist joke is like food, not many get it.
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BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
My kids are taught that with their toys or if they have their own snacks. If there is one bag of chops though, mofos have to share
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Chewie Baron 3 years ago
Why did they plant trees down the Champs D’Elyse? So the Germans could march in the shade.
julien 3 years ago
The Battle of Castillon took place on 17 July 1453 in Gascony near the town of Castillon-sur-Dordogne (later Castillon-la-Bataille), between England and France. Historians regard this decisive French victory as marking the end of the Hundred Years' War.The battle led to the English losing almost all their holdings in France, especially Gascony (Aquitaine). castillon-...7696dd.jpg 
Donkey boi 3 years ago
They were out gunned and out manoeuvred so quick that a surrender was irrelevant. The armistice was imposed upon them and their leaders' choices were either sign, or the citizens would pay the price. The countries leaders decided that it was better to survive than be eradicated. The French then led the best resistance of an occupied force in history, so much so that now whenever you hear the word 'Resistance', you think of the French. They don't deserve this.
Dan West 3 years ago
France surrendered AND collaborated. The collaboration is the more egregious act, imo.
Christopher Walkies 3 years ago
Culturally, I only hear Americans dismiss France like this. In Europe, it isn't in the first 10 things we think of about France.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
Well, that's what Anglosaxons like to tell themselves but it's not how France is remembered in Europe.
LuckyL 3 years ago
I'm from Germany - and no matter what I learned, the internet has all of this erased and I only remember France surrendering
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Richard Henderson 3 years ago
Just a quick reminder that France didn’t stop fighting the Nazis.
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Katinka Min 3 years ago
I have given up on trying to understand WWI. It was about money and power and Germany lost.
Toea Muresan Iulia 3 years ago
it was about freedom for some countries, colonies for others and destroying empires
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Gustav Gallifrey 3 years ago
And your home country is in another hemisphere on the other side of the world.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Australia is an export economy. They fought to keep the shipping lanes out of German hands.
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Remington Greer 3 years ago
Russia was playing Uno and got the reverse card
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ELily Kanena 3 years ago
Story spin-off, 2022: to show France and its Allies how it's done, Russia decides it's a great idea to attack Ukraine...
ELily Kanena 3 years ago
Second instalment, 2022: To show Frabce and Allies how it's done, Russia attacks Ukraine - We'll be done by Spring, they thought...
Adi A. 3 years ago
Special rules and conditions apply (you can try other seasons except winter).
Fudge 3 years ago
those conditions don't apply if you're Mongolian though. They attacked in the winter in purpose! So that their horses could easily travel over the frozen rivers....
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Annabelle Timsit needs to timsitdown and do a little more research.
Cpt. Robert Christian 3 years ago
Except when a whole bunch of the French lost their figuratively collective cool, which in turn caused another whole bunch of the French to literally lose their heads.
François Carré 3 years ago
I think the yellow vests were quite like the Sans-culottes of the French revolution. A genuine popular movement for social justice and direct democracy, quite fierce and brave, without leaders, sometimes violent, anyway scaring the Parisian dyed-in-the-wool politicians and intellectuals who hadn't seen them coming and couldn't control them. Had they found more support from the rest of the population, they could have gone a long way, but they got vilified by insidious and relentless mass media propaganda, deeming them an extreme-right movement - which the majority of them were not.
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Indosidius 3 years ago
The wephone should have just the apple core as an emblem because everyone gets a bite
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Alex Ernst 3 years ago
"Wait, I thought the big red off button was supposed to make things better, not worse!"
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Hugh Willie Mungous 3 years ago
And just to show we don't hold a grudge . . . . . we give you - MAGNA CARTA!
julien 3 years ago (edited)
"In the centuries since the Revolutionary War, French contributions have been criminally downplayed. Somewhere between the real Yorktown and Mel Gibson's rather less accurate version, The Patriot, the monumental French war effort during the birth of America got forgotten, buried in the sand, and pissed on. Without France, the entire American Revolution would have devolved into a bunch of dudes swinging their muskets as clubs within weeks." In short thanks to the french the american flag is NOT the union Jack ! lol
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Adam Zad 3 years ago
Don't be lumping that foul, vile creature in with us humans.
Load More Replies... Hiram's Friend 3 years ago
But he IS responsible for the destruction of the Temple, Masada too!
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François Carré 3 years ago
I don't know if I'm happy for the classy French weapon or unhappy for the waste of baguette.
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Nicola Roberts 3 years ago
Hahaha I love the nod to accuracy fellow pandas. Anything from a lot to bazillion. (Bazillion is my favourite).
Petra Moon 3 years ago
Genghis Khan fathered so many children that one in 200 people today have remnants of his genes.
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Tarcandor 3 years ago
@King Joffrey: the VOC "is" the East India Company. VOC stands for "Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, which is the original Dutch name.
Load More Replies... Victor Botha 3 years ago
The VOC was the East India Company = Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie sometimes referred to as The Dutch East India Company in English.
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TheElderNom 3 years ago
I've been told that's why the Chinese built the great wall, not to keep the Mongolians out, but their horses.
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Josh Dorsett 3 years ago
It's good to see the Vietnamese people have adapted as much as possible to life post war, they're still happy go lucky people and love a joke and aren't too materialistic. It's also very nice to see that the majority of the Vietnamese people are forgiving about the war from all sides. I'd love to visit there
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respulero 3 years ago
because is the reason you have schools? Maybe not for good though, but its a resason. In Europe it is because we got potatos. Thats good!
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Lara Verne 3 years ago
Dude wanted to sail to India, accidentally found the New World, it was very bad for locals.
Scott Crosby 3 years ago
Oh, the ignorant, misguided souls! https://www.timetravelturtle.com/spanish-south-america-genocide/
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MorgothBauglir 3 years ago
Not even Lenin, I think it was a decision from local Communist leaders, fearing that Whites would take the city.
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
(1) You can't impose communism; it only works if everyone involved agrees with the philosophy. (2) Communism is not and never has been a form of government; communism specifically repudiates the right of the State to even exist. (3) Bonus: Russia isn't socialist either.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
A failed philosophy for any nation state since 1917. Christianity since 300 AD: “pikers!”
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julien 3 years ago (edited)
" General panic now seized the Allied army and it abandoned the field in all possible directions. A famous episode occurred during this retreat: Russian forces that had been defeated by the French right withdrew south towards Vienna via the Satschan frozen ponds. French artillery pounded towards the men, and the ice was broken due to the bombardment. The men drowned in the cold ponds, dozens of Russian artillery pieces going down with them. Many drowning Russians were saved by their victorious foes. " I GUESS THAT BREAD WAS HARD TO SWALLOW THOUGH ! lol
julien 3 years ago
"Battle of Austerlitz : FRANCE defeats RUSSIA and AUSTRIA . casualties : FRANCE : 1,288 killed, 6,991 wounded, 573 captured[ AUSTRIA & RUSSIA : 16,000 killed and wounded, 20,000 captured. The battle is often cited as a tactical masterpiece.". If you call these french guys clowns then what would you call the Austrians and Russians ? This meme is not funny , just sheer RACISM !
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
OMG how could you use that filthy, filthy word.
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Daffodil 3 years ago
I guess we all should've assked this sooner, but why do we still use BP with all these censors... they managers to censor a word that could not passibly have any bad meaning...
The lavender Fox 3 years ago
Did they just censor a*s in pass? Wtfffffff ITS A WORD GET OVER IT BP CENSORS OMG
Gaya Knust 3 years ago
What in the actual fück, BP? The only reason I can think of why they censored (and I'm currently sleep-deprived) is cos pass has äss in it? lol
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Duesvolent90 3 years ago
OMG I come here to escape my children's favorite song! IT HAS FOUND ME..
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Sylvia Schmitz 3 years ago
Do people nowadays not know about MASH? Apart from all the jokes it's actually very informative abot the Korean War.
John L 3 years ago
Yet, ironically...was a commentary on the Vietnam war....
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Tonk Terrier 3 years ago
Um no. That's just anti American propaganda. Even after Hiroshima Japan refused to surrender
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sofacushionfort 3 years ago
The Russians knew about the gold, and knew they better sell to the US before the US took it by force, with Britain joining in for Crimean War II.
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julien 3 years ago (edited)
LET SEE WHAT HISTORY SAYS : " According to the historian Niall Ferguson, of the 125 major European wars fought since 1495, the French have participated in 50 more than Austria (47) and England (43). Out of 168 battles fought since 387BC, they have won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10. France wins the most battles with 1,115, followed by Britain with 1,105 " SO YES HISTORY SEES IT THAT WAY !
Hugh Willie Mungous 3 years ago
Unfortunately for the French, in any war, it is the final battle that counts above all those preceding it.
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54 3 years ago
Germany had war declared on it by Britain, because Britain was friends with Belgium, who was being trespassed by Germany in order to get to France to kick France's a*s, because France was friends with Russia who was getting ready to kick Austria's a*s because Austria was getting ready to kick Serbia's a*s because someone from Serbia shot the leader of Austria's a*s. Or, actually shot him in the head... and Britain is currently friends with japan
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Stephen Walsh 3 years ago
I see Ireland is caught up in the melee. We should be like Switzerland. We're neutral. But still funny.
Theo Blackwood 3 years ago
We were never truly neutral, not in the way Switzerland was.
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dream of delusion 3 years ago
it was centuries ago.. did you expect to look all pretty and polished?
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Random Anon 3 years ago
And surprise surprise, the French joined the revolution in another continent just to p**s off the Brits haha.
Everything is fascinating. 3 years ago
And to weaken their army so they could create mischief elsewhere.
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Troux 3 years ago (edited)
I think it's about how this was America's first experience fighting a non-traditional war against a guerilla army who excelled in camouflage and hiding. Instead of lining up against each other on an open battlefield, the US would just march in the general direction of a war and suddenly be attacked from some hidden troops in the jungle. Home Alone is an accurate summation of how a massively underpowered army can use home field advantage to embarrass some cocky invaders. Fan theory: this scene in Forrest Gump is talking about the weather and the war at the same time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_56VcpTR-0
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MorgothBauglir 3 years ago
Median net worth grew 80% from 1980 to 2016. The middle class is getting richer.
Load More Replies... Don Williams 3 years ago
And the best parts of the state property are overseen by the party leaders for the good of the people!
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Diolla 3 years ago
Oh come on. What is it with everybody dissing France? It's not like they always surrender (think Napoleon for example) or they're the only country who gave in to the Germans during WW2. I am Dutch and my country did not exactly kick Germany's a*s either.
Scott Crosby 3 years ago
Because the French are arrogant. If their national anthem isn't a joke, what is?
Load More Replies... Victor Botha 3 years ago
The French Resistance was one of the strongest of all the occupied nations. Don't get me wrong, every single country had a strong and fearless Resistance, but this meme is just way out of line. I guess you could make the same meme about the US in Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.
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JoyfulZebra 3 years ago
Of course, his rave pales in comparison to the perfect idea of his rave
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Petra Moon 3 years ago
In Killing Eve, Constantine was murdered with a pizza cutter. Very effective weapon.
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The lesbian knitting panda 3 years ago (edited)
do you know what happened at the communist school? Lenin teaches and Karl Marx! (I have no regrets)
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beesechurger elite 3 years ago
don’t say that lol it will make people look for it
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Aurelien 3 years ago
No, sorry, just no. I'm french and this is definitely not a foreignly lead uprising. It was unstructured, sporadic and started in rural regions. The main cause was the raise of gas taxation and then it grew stronger due to the patronizing reactions of the government and police violence.
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Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
No can do. Both ends are fateful. We need a controlled capitalism, with roofs for richness, and more shared resources.
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Donkey boi 3 years ago
No knowledge was lost. At the time of the fire, the Great Library, well... it wasn't so great. Knowledge was always copied and shared and the library was already falling out of favour. There were better things to learn in the land to the East. Arabia was the centre of excellence when it came to knowledge at that time.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Now wouldn't that make it The Pervert Union instead? In which case, the logo is wrong too. Should've been a dildo and whip. The star is fine I guess.
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Kat Rob 3 years ago
uh yes a "new" term dating back to at least the 1600s
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Robin 3 years ago
Who doesn't love time traveling, space jumping, telepathic dragons? Only fools I say.
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Scipio Africanus 3 years ago
Karl Marx tried to create a system to benefit the people. He had good intentions but it just lead to broken system after broken system
manalonedies 3 years ago
If you haven't read The Communist Manifesto (and 99.9% of you haven't) you really shouldn't comment on Karl Marx.
Troux 3 years ago
I must confess, I haven't read Mein Kampf, and yet I've jumped to some negative conclusions about Hitler.
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pelemele 3 years ago (edited)
@Mohammad Omar, @Da Dragon Queen, @AsexualShrimp : The French state is very attached to secularism and considers that religion should remain in the private sphere and should not extend into public life, but a few months ago a mayor authorized the wearing of the burkini in swimming pools of his municipality. The wearing of this particular garment is understood by many in France as an ostentatious sign of belonging to a religion, which is why the decree of this mayor was canceled by the Council of State and the wearing of the burkini prohibited.
That_jalapeno_floofball 2 years ago
Bro, not everything is racism! They're memes! Get over it!
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Falcon dimi 3 years ago
English is still a strange language. Remove 1 letter and the sound changes totally.
Ellie Vanille 3 years ago
That's what makes it difficult for us non-natives to learn it and especially to speak it. Happily the grammar is quite easy. I really pitty those who have to learn french as a second language. The grammar, the writing... everything is so difficult.
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Christof Irran 3 years ago
And realized he needed increased tax revenue to fund the growing military. And realized he could legally tax the Jews if he made them German citizens.
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E.T. Blackfyre 3 years ago
England lost the 2021 European Championship in football (soccer) against Italy
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Toea Muresan Iulia 3 years ago
destroyed??? then, who build the roads, the baths, the barracks, the walls? oh, yes, destroyed some huts :)))
Christof Irran 3 years ago
And Glaudius introduces the British to soap. Yet to them he was, after all, only a foreigner from the continent and they refused to entertain these foreign concepts. To this day, if you have ever been near an English football fan.
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François Carré 3 years ago
The longer he stays in power, the more he starts looking like Napoleon, and that's worrying to say the least.
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