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Did you know that the ancient Romans believed that the blood of gladiators was a possible cure for epilepsy? Maybe you didn’t want to know that, but quite often, all the interesting and weird details from history get buried during quite boring and dusty middle school classes. Fortunately, many have discovered that memes are a wonderful way to actually cover these topics in an engaging way.
The “History In Memes 3” Instagram page shares hilarious and insightful posts about the past. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments section below. We also got in touch with archeologist and historian Ari Akkermans to learn more.
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    Altea
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    4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    nor was he blond and blue eyed (provided he existed of course...)

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

    Also Jesus was Jewish. All his followers, the apostles, ALL JEWISH. Christianity happened AFTER he died. Christianity, Islam and Judaism are called the "Abrahamic" Religions for a reason. They all have the same old testament. Sorry I have no dog in this race but I despise hypocrisy.

    Manana Man
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems to me he was a Jew since there were no Christians yet.

    Gabriele Alfredo Pini
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People are mad with me when I teach to their children (I teach Catholic Religion in Italy) that Jesus went to only one mass and his parents were not married in church...

    Andrew Keir
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm equally amazed by the number of Christians who sincerely believe that Jesus was white, and spoke perfect English

    George D
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because perception vs reality in America is something to behold. If you're a grounded individual it'll blow you're mind what people choose to believe, and I'm talking about everything, not just religion.

    Gen X Feral
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    3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please send help. I'm about to stick my head in the oven, the idiocy and horseshiit is just too much.

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    The Darkest Timeline
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LDS claim that Jesus came to North America and that native Americans are “lost tribes of Israel” even though they’re depicted as being white.

    lovemy suffolk
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LDS aren't Christians by definition. You have to beieve only in the Holy Trinity to he Christian. They acknowledge the Holy Trinity,bit they add a lot of ,-extras'

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    LokisLilButterknife
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the conservative and evangelical Christians think Jesus was some strapping Anglo-Saxon with flowing blonde hair, pearly whites, and piercing blue eyes. If you tell them otherwise, they freak out.

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    Thank you for personally meeting every single conservative Christian to test this theory out, you're truly an inspiration

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    Nitka Tsar
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tell that to that guy who said something like „If English was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for me!“

    Niki A
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I too am always shocked. Teaching history can be..... frustrating.

    Oerff On Tour
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    4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jesus was from Belgium. Nazareth is located about half an hour southwest of Gent

    LaserBrain
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I grew up with pictures of a brown haired Caucasian guy surrounded by lambs, in Sunday School. Looked just like a hippie :)

    Slytherin4Lyf
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I grew up Catholic, went to CCD (a once a week class at night to teach about our religion instead of going to catholic school) and i have never seen Jesus depicted as an extremely white pale male with blonde hair. I went there in the 90's too, and he has always been depicted as a brown skinned man with long brown hair and brown skin.

    David Smith
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still managed to find apostles with names like Matthew, Mark, Luke, Etc

    Mary Green
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You...you do know those are English translations of their original Hebrew names, right? You know the Bible wasn't wasn't written in English it was translated? You know that, right?

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I'm compelled to "correct" the coloring on too many nativity/christian scenes..😅

    Jane W.
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, my god. And here I was about to make a religious trek to New Jersey.

    Shelley Dawson
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But so many were driven out in the Middle Ages, and many were killed. This even happened in the more recent Lebanese Civil War.

    Magicrat
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Real Christians fully understand this.It is an anti Christian Narrative.

    Keith Handly (Ike)
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Holy Land is about the same size as New Jersey. So an honest mistake?

    Ray LeBlanc
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's because in the painting of the last supper, they all look very white.

    Ash
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's a fun one! Do you know who the Palestinians actually are? They're not a group that came in and displaced the Jewish population. They ARE the Jewish population - the part that stayed on after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. When Christianity got big in the area, a lot of them converted to Christianity, and when Islam got big in the area, a lot of them converted to Islam, but there are still plenty of Jewish Palestinians and Christian Palestinians. They are literally the native people of the area, not a bunch of newcomers with no connection to the land.

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    Bored Panda got in touch with archaeologist and historian Ari Akkermans to cover parts of history that often go overlooked. After all, the record is mostly made by things that were actually “left behind,” which ignores all the objects and items that were lost to time. So we asked him to give some examples of objects, artifacts, etc that were common in the past but are just not around anymore.

    “First, the Kilia idol. Super common in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age, only 15 have been found complete, and thousands of small fragments, I'm one of the few experts in the topic and one of the idols held in Istanbul, bought from an auction, was a central character in my film After Utopia: The Birds, a collaboration with Feleksan Onar at an archaeological museum in Turkey,” he shared.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Back in 2017 a muslim girl got on the tram here and a woman walked up yanked off her Hijab and screamed "THIS IS DONALD TRUMP'S AMERICA NOW!". Can you even imagine? That happened here in blue as blue gets Portland Oregon.

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    Other examples were quite a bit larger. “The Temple of Apollo in Antioch, nothing remains of it,” he shared. “Not because of the 50 earthquakes that rocked the city, most likely destroyed by Christians after it survived many generations.” An important temple in an important, large city, lost to time.

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    4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I sat in a parent conference once where the parent was insisting that his son not be taight anything that wasn't in the Bible - IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL - because "unless it's mentioned in the Bible it isn't true." I looked him straight in the eye and asked, "So you're telling me that George Washington didn't exist? He isn't in the Bible. What about cars and airplanes? Those aren't in the Bible either." His facial expression was priceless.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cancel? No. Tear down memorials to traitors and exploitative colonialists who tortured and killed natives? Absolutely. Because they never should have had memorials erected to them in the first place. Ironically, the folks who are freaking out about the eradication of these monuments are often the same people who rage against teaching history the way it actually happened instead of a sanitized version that glosses over the mistreatment of others.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What would a conspiracy theorist's mind have made of it if Elvis had been brought out of hiding in 2020 to publicly get the covid vaccination?

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    If that sounds bad, you might be surprised to learn that some even important things are also just lost or destroyed. For example, one other lost item is “The tomb of Alexander the Great, although there are many ongoing excavations right now in Egypt to find it, of course under a nationalist viewpoint.”

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ironically Elon Musk stole Tesla for the original inventor/ owner….

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    The Announcer
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gotta think about your marketability before you get too involved in a societal cause.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can we use him to replace all the statues of Robert E. Lee? Yeah? Then I'm all in!

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    “The original manuscripts of the poetry of Sappho, and most Archaic poetry, including plays by Aescylus, Euripides,etc, a whole lot of literature! Which were lost with the Library of Alexandria among other catastrophes in the ancient world,” he shared with Bored Panda.

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    This wasn’t even the only bit of language we can no longer access. “Tablets in the languages that preceded Greek, namely Minoan, in the Bronze Age. There's only a couple of inscriptions and the famous Linear A and B, though it might have been written as extensively as Babylonian. The first language Linear A has not been deciphered, the second language, Linear B, has only one fully deciphered text.”

    Similarly, “Old South Arabian inscriptions. Four entire languages, including Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramautic and Minean, and Hasaitic. including the ancestors of Arabic and Ethiopia's Ge'ez, all Semitic languages, have only 15,000 inscriptions left. For a comparison, the corpus of Ancient and Byzantine Greek is over 105 million words and some 20,000 inscriptions.”

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is not true btw (and it should be pretty obvious, really). It's all down to one person's error (that in any case was originally constrained to one location in England in the 13th century) that went viral a few years ago, I think actually after the original author had repudiated it. "In 1986 economist Gregory Clark wrote a working paper that (according to citers) contained this estimate. It doesn't appear he published it, but it got cited. He actually did for real publish a new paper in 2018 raising that number up to an estimate of 250-300 days. That's quite a revision!"

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    “Most Byzantine art during the 4th crusade,” he added, was destroyed by crusaders. “A lot of it is in Italy, but mostly has been lost. For such a long and important period, Byzantine art exists in incredibly small amounts, except for coins.”

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I may be a bit of a cynic, but imo that could apply to practically every country in the world.

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    Remember, in most cases, the things that survive are made from strong, durable materials. “Many of the marble and stone idols we have from the Paleolithic and Neolithic existed in cheaper versions in wood that we assume the poor mass produced and bought (like the Kilia idol or the Neolithic Mother Goddesses). But wood doesn't survive well, the oxidation process eats it up, few examples exist, sometimes preserved in water or in caves,” he shared.

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    4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Richard Gordon is the first source for this story, as told in his 1983 book "Great Medical Disasters". And even he said it took two and a half minutes, not 25 seconds. How is this ridiculous story still getting passed around? Liston was not Ash from The Evil Dead, chainsawing anything that didnt move fast enough

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    Interestingly, this even happened in the past. “The 7th century Archaic Greek city of Sybaris, in Calabria, southern Italy, is buried underneath an aquifer, and although the site is known, it cannot be excavated, the site will flood with water within minutes. I worked at the site with a team of artists last year. It was already lost in the 4th century BCE.” If you want to see more of Ari’s work, check out his Instagram and Linktree.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meanwhile Australia: "Hey, can we please be independent?" Britain: "Sure, whatever, run along."

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    Megalicious
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's completely accurate. We will never erase the damage we did to our indigenous people. Our legacy is shame and horror.

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    The truth is that without archaeologists taking steps to find and preserve these things, much would be lost. We tend to think of historical artifacts as being hidden in some tombs, but realistically, most were household items that just ended up being thrown out. Tombs, incidentally, are “great” because no one is looting them (for the most part.) It’s important to keep these ideas in mind when thinking about the past. We know a lot about things that are still around, but our minds tend to not fill in the blanks effectively. Picture a medieval street? How colorful is it? Because, in reality, most people would have colored clothes, and yet the concept seems so weird in our eyes. This is probably why memes can do a lot of work to teach people about the past.

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

    Off by about a century or so. This is the Georgian style. The first English people who rolled into America, did so during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabethan, Georgian. Not the same. See for example season 2 of Black Adder vs. Season 3.

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    LaserBrain
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It always strikes me as so funny that guys will put on a funny hat and claim to speak on behalf of the gods... and people actually BELIEVE them

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    4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is what gets crazy for me. My Oma was from Sekitsch, Yugoslavia...same as my aunts and uncles, I'm from Western Germany. None of these countries exist anymore. And Sekitsch is pretty much a dead language/dialect now, my dad can speak it but who else knows it. (I know it's not that crazy....but meh).

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read somewhere "Ukraine voted for a clown and got a president. The USA meanwhile ..."

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Pocahontas, Zheng Yi Sao. Had to look up spelling on the last one.

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    Bored Seb
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If he had a kid at 70, the kid was born in 1860. If this kid had a kid at 70, grand kid would be born in 1930 and would be 94 today. That is plausible. And probably easy to fact check.

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    4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, THANK YOU BP for saving me from the scary curse word 😨 I was worried /s

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the Millenials of war, atrocities, and mayhem come to my town, this Gen Xer will meet them with a proud "MEH!"

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    Pandora
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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about Antarctica? Those penguins are a pretty peaceful bunch. 🤔

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Romans took their time to conquer. Germany did most of it in 2 years and that wasn't enough. No surprise that the rest of world banded together and said 'hold on, that's is not very nice of you'.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this the Roman version of 'the trees speak Vietnamese' or 'the snow speaks Finnish'?

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Copper plate on the hulls made the British Navy go much faster as no barnacles 🥳

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My introduction to politics in the mid '50's was in Mad magazine. that's where I first read of 'Mousy Tongue' and others.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *Millions. The Chinese have fought wars with death totals that dwarf world war two, and most Americans never even heard of them.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then they proceed to put together a strike group while servicing the carrier they are assembling the strike group on and showcase some of the most advanced logistics in military history

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pervitin! Basically methamphetamines, they distributed it widely to soldiers to make them more alert. Many countries did this, including Japan. US military still gives it to its pilots.

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it. I have much confidence in him." (Colonel Theodore Lyman, Staff Officer, Army of the Potomac).

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    4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Little dude aged approximately 67 years with one bite! 😂😂😂

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