What is the weirdest historical fact/story you know?
Oswald Mosley shot a shark with a revolver while Franklin D. Roosevelt watched
Germans and Brits had a Christmas party in the noman's land between trenches during WWII.
Just makes you realize how absurd wars are.
>>901858
*WWI
fuck
>>901810
there's a war where the only casualty was kettle
>>901903
>Christmas Truce
>boring shit
Nigga I will stab you.
John Wilkes Booth's brother, Edwin Booth saved Lincoln's son from being hit by a train.
>>901858
This is especially weird because of the response that top brass had to it.
Start moving soldiers around so they couldn't get familiar with their counterparts on the other side, and engage in artillery bombardments if they ever seem to be.
The first person in Britain to be killed by a tiger was Hannah Twynnoy.
It said that Hannah Twynnoy was a barmaid working at a pub called the White Lion in Malmesbury (number 8 Gloucester Road – now a private house) in 1703 when a travelling circus arrived to set up in the pub's large rear yard. The circus contained a menagerie of animals including a tiger, which Hannah was warned against upsetting. She liked bothering the animal until one day it got tired of it and mauled her.
Her tombstone reads:
"In bloom of life / She's snatched from hence / She had no room / To make defence / For tyger fierce / Took life away / And here she lies in a bed of clay / Until the Resurrection Day."
I heard that in India, they have these giant ants (like, they are the size of dogs) that instinctually seek out gold, so the Indians use them to mine gold. Pretty crazy, if true!
Lyndon B. Johnson liked to wave his "Johnson" (lol!) around
>>901810
claudius pulcher fucked his five sisters.
Sir John A. Macdonald was an absolutely raging alcoholic.
With the death of his wife and daughter, he began to hit the bottle harder than he had during the Charlotte-town Accord talks where the leading politicians of the Canadian Provinces drank 3500 bottles of wine in 3 weeks.
Sir John A. Macdonald was due to begin preparations for his talks with the Queen and British Parliament in regards to Canada's sovereignty and independence, and was working late into the night in a room given to him at Buckingham Palace. He got hammered, as usual, and fell asleep while his writing candle was still burning. When he awoke, half of the room was on fire (including the window to the court yard) and his entire left side was on fire.
Although John A. Macdonald did survive, he was in awful pain and had half of his suit burnt into his flesh. Knowing that if he stopped now, the delicate balance of Irish, Scottish, French, Metis, and English colonists he had assembled would crumble and Canada may well stay a British colony until the 1940's.
so what did he do? He drank so heavily, every single day, that he was capable of both masking the pain and irritation of having half of his body bubbling and burning under his suit and have the diplomatic chops to negotiate a bloodless independence for Canada. All while totally drunk off of his ass.
And to top it all off, he then built the first trans-continental rail way in the world.
>>901810
You are closer to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was close to the construction of the pyramids.
some british jew is pretending to own Napoleon's penis
>>901961
That's not so much weird as it is obscure.
Attila means "little daddy" in Gothic
Abraham Lincoln didn't believe in equal rights
JFK was assassinated.
Atatürk was actually a man.
Moon exists.
>>901810
Hitler did nothing wrong
>Siddartha Gotama is a Hindi deity, in the Sri Krshna Consciousness movement
It's a fact that no one remembers the other guy that died with Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly
Constructivism is better than Socialist Realism.
>>901961
you live near malmesbury then mate? I swear that's written on some plaque there, remember reading it myself
>>902377
The Big Bopper, right?
>>902377
>American Pie
btw that was in about a plane crash
>>901810
Black people did nothing wrong
>>902378
just fuck off with this psuedo-intellectual garbage you nanny
Stanley Kubrick was murdered for making Eyes Wide Shut
>>902382
That's the one
>>902390
dis guy right here, I don't think your conspiracy theory counts
>>901925
It's just really, really well known. It's boring in an unsurprising way.
>>902392
so you think that Kubrick was a good boy who dindu nuffin?
I dunno about weird but I thought it was pretty funny.
When General Napier conquered the province of Sindh in India, he sent a telegram which said "Peccavi", latin for "I have sinned."
It is yet unknown whether he who retrieved the telegram groaned loudly, nor is it known how many nights general Napier spend tossing and turning awake scheming the pun.
>>901867
Sauce
>Soviet Union launches Sputnik
>A couple months later United States attempts to launch it's own satellite
>goes up a few feet
>explodes
>A few days later a Soviet Diplomat asks if the U.S would like to receive foreign aid that had been marked for "developing nations"
>banter level 9000
>>902418
Please tell me this is real
>Apollo 10's Lunar Module was nicknamed 'Snoopy' and the Command Module 'Charlie Brown'
>The Apollo 8 astronauts were the first humans to ever see the far side of the moon with their own eyes.
>Also they got shit for reading the Book of Genesis on Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEmn0uaQCYc
>>902424
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_TV3
During the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship had a monkey. The crew of the ship liked to dress this monkey up in a sailor uniform as a way of entertainment. During a battle, the ship sunk and the entire crew died. The monkey survived the ship wreck and washed ashore to northeastern England. The Englishmen who resided in the town of Hartlepool found the monkey in the French sailor uniform. Because none of the town's residents have never seen a monkey, nor a Frenchman, before, they assumed the monkey was a French spy. The townsmen put the monkey on trial and due to the monkey not being compliant during the trial, they sentenced the monkey to death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger
>>901928
On the subject of Both, I think most people fail to appreciate the fact that John Wilkes Booth was a celebrity. He came from a famous acting family and was easily one of the most prominent actors in the country at the time of the assassination. That's fucking crazy, and almost no one talks about it. Can you imagine if Tom Cruise were to assasinate Obama?
>>902377
That's because the Big Bopper wasn't a musician. He was a radio DJ that had a novelty hit. It's still sad that he died, but he wasn't really the loss that Valens or (especially) Buddy Holly was.
>>902453
>due to the monkey not being compliant during the trial, they sentenced the monkey to death.
are british the most autistic people?
>>902408
That's clever
there are large similarities with with Spanish and welsh dna due to shipwrecked sailors from the armada fugging all the welsh women
(thus they are nonwhite nonanglo degenerates)
>>902453
If they had never seen a Frenchman before how did they know what a French uniform looked like?
the French wear blue
the monkey wore blue
>>902387
Bit much.
>>902408
thats pretty good
I remembered something I can contirubte now. I read somewhere on 4chanz that latin women have bad genetics because all of the beautiful Qts were sacrificed by mayans/aztec etc.
There is a bit of folklore that says that Marshal Ney survived his execution at the hands of the Royalists and fled to America, living out the rest of his life in the US.
http://www.napoleonicsociety.com/english/neya.htm
>The British officer John Masters recorded in his autobiography that Afghan women in the North-West Frontier Province of British India during the Second Anglo-Afghan War would castrate non-Muslim soldiers who were captured, like British and Sikhs. They also used an execution method involving urine; Pathan women urinated into prisoner's mouths. Captured British soldiers were spread out and fastened with restraints to the ground, then a stick, or a piece of wood was used to keep their mouth open to prevent swallowing. Pathan women then squatted and urinated directly into the mouth of the man until he drowned in the urine, taking turns one at a time.
>>902506
holy shit that's hot
>>902506
given Islamic obsession with female purity this seems pretty out of place. More likely that this lad had a bit of a fantasy
A man named Paul Morphy was easily the strongest chess player in the world in the mid 29th century. Before mental illness cut his career short, he cut a swath through the best players of his day, and even started offering pawn odds to top 10 players.
Whenever he played a woman though, he would get into a mate in one position, and then resign, he considered it ungallant to beat a woman.
>>902528
I can die in piece knowing the people of the 29th century are going to be this autistic.
>>901867
And presumably the soup within.
>Australia was nearly conquered by the Irish.
>A band of irish convicts escaped from the early colony with an intention to walk to china using an arrow drawn on a piece of cloth as a compass
>Some of the men responsible for the mutiny on the Bounty established thier own country and pedophilia got so rampant the UK had to intervene, however they faced a problem that almost the entire male population was guilty so jailing them would destroy the country. Instead they built a prision there and jailed only a couple of them.
>Sydney was breifly thrown into a panic during the Crimean War as it was feared that the Russian Pacific fleet would sail into the harbour and blackmail the city into paying them a large amount of money. Barricades and cannons were hastily set up.
>One of Australias Island possessions was effectively brought out by an English Merchant who transported a harem of Indonesian women there and sought to make a mini kingdom.
>>902527
Islamic obsessions like that are a new import to Afghan culture. Literally until the late 70s early 80s, the Iranians started going retard, and the Saudis started shipping over wahabbists, that sort of thing was basically an intellectual fringe in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan did things the way Afghanistan did things, as harsh mountain niggers.
>>901810
read a story that one the USSR asked america for a shipment of extra large condoms for their soldiers working overseas. the US sent them a crate of extra larges, and labeled them all as medium
>>901810
Tarrare
Look it up
>>902468
No, it's that Iberian people migrated to the British isles thousands of years ago. Welsh people remained untouched by Saxons and relatively so by Viking raids and the like and are thus more in-touch with their root population.
One of Napoleon's marshals went insane from syphilis, showed up to a party in nothing but boots and epaulettes, and then died when he tried to fly out of a window.
>>901810
Chanakya, high councilor for Chandragupta Maurya was said to be born with teeth, meaning that he would be a successful ruler. But Chanakya's family was not precisely the royal family so to not bother the royals not to bring bad omens, they took away his teeth.
That would mean the omen should be reformulated; and that meant that Chanakya would be a great support for the indian ruler.
>>902408
I don't get it
>>902366
Just because it's well-known doesn't mean it isn't fucking weird.
The first German soldiers to fight in WWII did so with the Chinese against the Japanese at Shanghai. That's pretty fucking weird to me.
>>901810
The was a spanish conqueror who switched to Manco Inca side during the spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
Manco Inca made him part of his royal court as a high imperial advisor.
He was actually made a Inca by privilege and wore a Incan outfit with the big earrings that acredited him as a Inca Lord and he was transported in a litter like a Inca Lord and he was given women like a Inca Lord. Pic semi related.
>>902408
God I love Napier.
>"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."
>>902408
Please explain.
>>902776
How did he do senpai? Did he get butchered by the Spanish?
>>901974
t. father of lies
>>902791
He simply went to Manco Inca in Cuzco and i guess Manco Inca was interested in having a spaniard as ally and not just as a slave for gunpowder manufacture and iron making.
Although his fate is not so clear, he probably was forgiven when the spanish conquered Ollantaytambo and released most of the spanish prisoners and black slaves captured by the Inca.
>>902750
>I have sindh.
>>902556
In reality it's the complete opposite, the burqa is actually an ancient Pashtun tribal custom that predates Islam
>>902372
10/train
>>902506
That's one way to go.
>>902527
It wasn't Islam: shit has been like that among Afghan Tribesmen since the days of Alexander.
>>901974
Memeodotus pls
>>902550
YOU HAVE UN-SOUPED MY KETTLE, SIR.
>>902758
Germans supported Kuomintang initially. Large quantities of German equipment were shipped to China. It was only later (like 1938 iirc) that they decided to favour the Japanese instead.
Also, in the 30s Soviet Russia supported KMT as well, even to the detriment of actual Chinese communists.
>>901810
The gommie president of Chile Salvador Allende funded between 1971-1973 what could have been the very first internet in the world for management purposes: cybersyn/synco
They hired an english math nut for the job.
Pic is the control room
In 1973 the system was operational and in test phase, suddenly Pinochet
Mfw my country could have been the lead and founder of www for eternal shitposting purposes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
>>Yang Kyoungjong (March 3, 1920 – April 7, 1992) was a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, the Soviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.[1][2][3][4]
>>In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. At the time Korea was ruled by Japan. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labour camp. Because of the manpower shortages faced by the Soviets in its fight against Nazi Germany, in 1942 he was pressed into fighting in the Red Army along with thousands of other prisoners, and was sent to the European eastern front.[1][3]
>>In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and was then pressed into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as an "Eastern Battalion", located on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, close to Utah Beach. After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944. The Americans initially believed him to be a Japanese in German uniform; at the time, Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, reported that his regiment had captured four Asians in German uniform after the Utah Beach landings, and that initially no one was able to communicate with them. Yang was sent to a prison camp in Britain and later transferred to a camp in the United States. After he was released at the end of the war, he settled in Illinois where he lived until his death in 1992.[1][2][3]
>>904433
Wow, that is the most retro-futuristic decoration I've ever seen
>>902788
> conquers Sindh
> sends Peccavi
> I have Sinned
> Sinned
> Sinn'd
> Sindh
There are still direct descendants of Hernan Cortes and Montezuma II among the Spanish nobility, through Montezuma's daughter (Cortes' concubine) Dona Isabella. Presumably there are quite a few who can trace their ancestry back to other aztec nobles.
Andrew Jackson sent out a raiding party during his actions against the creek. When they got to this Creek village most of the Indians held up in this one large building. The American troops set fire to it and shot anyone who ran out. Many perished in the fire. When the troops returned the were sent back to forage for food because supplies were low. The returned to that burnt out building and someone noticed that there was a celler door. When they went down there they found a massive horde of potatoes. They were however, covered by some sort of goo. They deduced that it was the boiled fat of the indians which seeped through the floorboards. They took out their knives, scrapped it off and ate the potatoes.
>>901810
Winston Churchill fought with a lancer cavalry squadron in Africa in his youth before the invention of the airplane. Saw nukes getting dropped on Japan and died four years before the moon landing.
Chronologically Cleopatra is closer to us in the 21st century than too the building of those famous pyramids.
High and late medieval cuisine was heavy with spices, up to 75% of all dishes in some books involved spices. The many complex spiced sauces would resemble takeaway Chinese or Indian curry more than European cuisine of the past few centuries.
Some popes in the past could read Arabic.
The ruler of what is now Persia gifted an elephant to Charlemagne, it died of a cold during one of his many military campaigns. The tusks where then shaped into chess pieces that still exist today.
A late medieval Flemish to French textbook from Bruges has translation of small talk, rhymes and casual conversations/phrases. One of them is a women of the household telling her maid to go to the market to buy a monkey.
>>904457
>And thats how Andrew Jackson invented Freedom Fries and conquered the world
>>902462
>Can you imagine if Tom Cruise were to assasinate Obama?
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frI_BUkH5OY
>>902528
source on mental illness? I though he just retired because he didn't want to be a professional anymore. Wiki says he became an unsuccessful lawyer.
>>904457
That's fucking metal.
>>902633
>At the start of the War of the First Coalition Tarrare joined the French Revolutionary Army. With military rations unable to satisfy his large appetite, he would eat any available food from gutters and refuse heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. Suffering from exhaustion, he was hospitalised and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed an eel whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was of normal size and appearance, and showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament.
A game of got your nose went too far that one time
>>902475
French didnt ware blue. Thats just modern cinama. Every unit would wear differnt colours dependant on the unit
at the battle of Tanga, a shitload of bees started to attack everyone in sight. One poor guy got stonged so bad that he felt unconscious and the bees stung him some more, and he woke up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tanga
>>904580
Oh my god that's hilarious.
>>901810
Not the weirdest, but White Coke. I can't green text it well enough, so here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Coke
>>904508
http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/morphybio14.html
His mental decline actually apparently started after he quit chess though, so I got that wrong. Mea culpa.
>>904457
>>904482
>>904511
Another little known fact about Jackson was that despite being famed for having killed just a shittonne of indians, he actually didnt hate them or anything. In fact he saved a little orphan indian after a battle and raised him as his own son. He even wanted to send him to West point but political realities got in the way.
If you guys have time, pick up HW Brands biography of Jackson. It gives a very nuanced view of the man, instead of the usual black and white. I still really dont know what to make of him though.
Here's one especially cool for Norwegians. There used to be Norwegian slaves in Hawaii, which the natives called The Akkamei or something similar... The natives had a word that was in the language on top of the fact that norwegians would say "Åh akke meg" which is like "oh poor me", hence the name Akkamei.
The fact that Hawaii had white slaves was one of the main contributors to USA taking Hawaii.
>>904620
where did they get them?
>>904602
Interesting. It's a shame I can't find any pictures of this "White Coke" though, it probably had a cool bottle.
>>902462
He wasn't just a famous actor, but THE most famous actor of his day and age.
It's like Leo assassinating Trumo
A bit more /sci/, but in 1953 Soviet scientists discovered that scotch tape can release xrays when peeled. It took over 60 years for anyone else to confirm it (UCLA).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/28xray.html?_r=0
>>902462
Sheit, maybe. They did pull off Operation Snow White fairly well.
>>904634
Maybe they were missionaries trying to spread the Hawaiin Pidgin Bible.
https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Hawaii-Pidgin-HWP/
Before the Battle of Drepana during the First Punic War, the Roman admiral, Publius Claudius Pulcher, consulted the sacred chickens as to whether or not he should attack. The chickens refused to eat food that was offered to them, a bad omen. Instead of heading this omen, however, Pulcher simply stated "let them drink, since they don't wish to eat," and threw the chickens overboard. He then proceeded to attack the Carthaginians and get the entire Roman fleet destroyed.
>>901810
one of the first men that travel with colombus was arrested for 7 years after he went back to his town because some spirits we're coming out of his mouth and people tough he was possessed. he was just smoking tho.
>>902408
Took me a second, kek
>>902469
Well, it was obviously speaking french
>>901858
Everyone knows this.
>>901867
Lest we forget
>>902475
Yeah but this is a town, they don't need to know what a Frenchman looks Soldier looks like, only how Napoleon is portrayed in those political cartoons.
Prehistoric cities in the Indus Valley had planned grid layouts oriented with the wind for ventilation. As well a written language, public baths, waste management, and indoor plumbing.
The Australian army was defeated in an engagement with roughly 20,000 Emu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
>>902468
A few sailors can't effect the genes of entire peoples.
>>904761
Everybody on /his/ and /int/ knows that
>>904769
And /k/, how could they ignore something that ridiculous.
Scotland joined the UK because they spent half their money trying to take over Panama
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
>>904769
I didn't
>>904769
Some might not know, and I think we would all be remiss if we passed on an opportunity to make fun of Australians.
there's a tribe of Hungarian Arabs in Egypt left over from the Ottoman Empire
>>904756
THEY HAD LOOS!
LITERALLY POO IN LOO
>>904812
Can someone explain the poo in loo meme to an eastern yuropean?
>>904827
Indians poo in the street instead of the loo
>>904620
Not really slaves per se, just people who moved to Hawaii in search of a better life who ended up getting exploited and suffered in the weather conditions.
They sailed over in the 1880s.
>>904812
I know right?
I mean technically most of those cities were in what is now Pakistan but yeah still.
It's really really really fucking hard for me to wrap my head around sometimes. Imagine how far that society could've gotten if the culture persisted to modern day...
>>904827
India apparently has such a problem with the population not being potty trained that UNICEF had to make a video to educate them on the merits of the toilet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peUxE_BKcU
The ancient Picts of Scotland were originally believed to live underground in dwellings such as skara brae. This led to the concept of "Pixies" coming into existence, small mythological creatures which lived underground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
>An examination of the four bodies which were found in May shifted the narrative as to what had occurred during the incident. Three of the ski hikers had fatal injuries: Thibeaux-Brignolles had major skull damage, and both Dubinina and Zolotarev had major chest fractures. According to Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny, the force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high, comparing it to the force of a car crash. Notably, the bodies had no external wounds related to the bone fractures, as if they had been subjected to a high level of pressure. However, major external injuries were found on Dubinina, who was missing her tongue, eyes, part of the lips, as well as facial tissue and a fragment of skullbone; she also had extensive skin maceration on the hands. It was claimed that Dubinina was found lying face down in a small stream that ran under the snow and that her external injuries were in line with putrefaction in a wet environment, and were unlikely to be related to her death.
inb4 muh aliens
>>902528
Good player. Probably have 5-6 games of his memorized desu.
>>904849
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rathbone
>failed to save Lincoln
>mental health went down hill claimed that there "were people hiding behind the pictures on his wall"
>killed his wife and kids
>>904838
So you're telling me the pictish warriors.. Were the really the Tooks of Hobbiton?
>>904894
You smoke too much Pippin.
>>904928
>smoke too much
>hobbit
kek
They literally invented smoking (in-verse, obviously, I'm not THAT retarded)
>>901810
Spratlys Islands, which is a contested space between Philippines, China, Vietnam, ROC China, Malaysia, and Brunei, used to have a Micronation on it Sealand style. Except the implications were x10 worse.
>Be Tomas Cloma
>Eccentric fishing magnate from the Philippines. Called himself admiral and treated his fishing fleet like a navy.
>1956, Cloma with 40 men with pistols "claimed" the contested Spratlys Island and established a "capital city" on the biggest island.
>Declared the new country "Free State of Freedomland."
>Issued currency, stamps, the fishing fleet was turned into a navy (sans the lack of weapons) and the sailors, marines (despite all they had were colt pistols and one rifle).
>Flag bears a seagull due to Freedomland's national pride: Guano deposits.
>Freedomland triggered a diplomatic crisis in South China. PRC Chinese, ROC Chinese, South Vietnamese, and Philippine navies rush to reinstate their claims and push Cloma and his miniscule republic back (peacefully.).
>Cloma and his fellow founding fathers got cornered in the biggest Philippine held Island, their capital.
>1972: Philippine Dictator Marcos, in a bid to get the island, arrests Cloma on grounds of impersonating an officer of the Philippine Navy.
>Cloma surrenders based on one condition: The Dictator has to pay him one peso.
>He gets paid.
He tried to run for president of the Philippines in the 70's and 80's based on the platform that he'll build giant transparent domes on major Philippine cities to shield them from seasonal Typhoons.
Tomas Cloma died in 1996. His headstone is a prow of a fishing ship.
The Filipino residents of what used to be Cloma's claim remember him fondly. They still jokingly refer to the place as "Cloma's Claim." And the largest Philippine held island in the Spratlys has a bust of him that greets people at the airstrip.
>>905051
Freedomland's Flag.
>>905056
Freedomland's stamps.
>>905058
The ship Tomas Cloma used to "claim" the Spratlys. Still afloat and used as a training ship by the civilian Philippine Maritime Institute. A school Tomas Cloma later founded to train merchant fleet officers.
>>905051
Glad to see they got that dispute sorted ou-oh... oh that's right.
>>905068
To this day the school and Spratly's Filipino residents call cloma admiral. The official school's anthem is "The Admiral's Hymn."
>>902201
That's not that weird
I like to wave my William around
The entire existence of this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg
>>901810
Mongol-French alliance and Royal marriage
Napoleon Bonaparte Prince emperor was killed by zulus
>>905142
>>905136
There was a Mongolian (well, he was an Ongut or an Uighur from what is now Beijing, but he was a subject of Kublai Khan) Nestorian Christian monk who went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, later becoming the Ilkhan's envoy to the Pope, and ended up, among others, meeting the kings of France, England and Sicily, and celebrating his own Eucharist in Rome at the behest of the Pope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabban_Bar_Sauma
>>905051
>>Declared the new country "Free State of Freedomland."
>"Damnit why didn't we think of that??" was heard from the White House
>>904407
Soviets under Stalin fucked the Chinese Communists so hard. Kept telling them to rise up and take cities full well knowing they'd be wiped out. If you've ever wondered why the PRC turned on the Soviet Union, that's where it all started.
>>901867
Luna Lanie
>>905136
He really needs a biopic
>>905232
Upvote!
Gráinne O'Malley didn't speak any English and Queen Elizabeth I only spoke very basic Irish, so when the two women met to negotiate a release of some Irish prisoners including Gráinne's half brother, they spoke to each other in Latin.
Gráinne was a noble, but Latin was commonly understood by even the Irish peasantry, to the point where a British surveyor was very amused to find two young farmhands from Galway speaking to each other in Latin.
Gráinne was also bald, which artistic depictions of her don't tend to show.
The story of Hisashi Ouchi, one of three workers exposed to unbelievable high neutron radiation. Because nobody had survived this level of radiation before (and the study of which was largely unknown), the Japanese government kept Ouchi and the other two workers alive to observe and document the effects.
Ouchi died 82 days after the incident.
>>902408
>>905335
I really regret clicking on that.
>>905335
>Ouchi
Kek
>>905319
>Gráinne was also bald
Source? I only heard that she cut her hair short when she was younger because she worked on a ship.
>tfw no tomboy Irish princess pirate lord waifu
>>904437
Reminds of Lauri Torni.
>really hated commies
>fought with his native Finland against commies
>when Finland turned to the allies, he defected to Nazi Germany and became a member of the Waffen SS
>Realizing the war was over, he escaped to neutral Sweden, then migrated to the US
>joined the US army, worked his way up to the rank of Major
>one of the first waves of advisors sent in to help the ARVN during the Vietnam war
>died in a helicopter crash in 1965
God bless you magnificent bastard.
>>905373
STARTED OUT AS A RESERVE.
>>901810
Last recorded sword kill for the british army was in WWII if i remember correctly
>>902453
WE DIDN'T HANG THE FUCKING MONKEY
>>905412
You're thinking of the longbow kill.
By Mad Jack Churchill
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
>>905412
if you mean Mad Jack Churchill, he did carry a sword, but he never killed anyone with it.
He did however also take a bow and arrow, and did indeed kill a German officer with it.
>>905426
>>905424
IT IS ONLY CLAIMED.
NEVER PROVEN.
Often in stories about the space race you'll hear that the russians started a space mission as "last ditch" effort to catch up to the americans, however this mission wasn't manned, and many had similar to it had been done before.
>>905335
>Ouchi
>>905335
Holy fuck, he hung in there
>>905460
The Soviet actually 'won' the space race if you put aside the idea of victory meaning putting a man on the moon and then never investing in space travel again.
>>905478
Yeah, it's weird to see how many firsts the Russians actually got, Most of the scientifically relevant stuff was done by the Russians, shame about how it all turned out.
>>905335
this one occurs around the time of the Fourth Crusade and concerns the first Emperor of the Latin Empire established by it, Baldwin
Baldwin had been captured by Johannizza, king of the Bulgarians, during the battle of Adrianople and was later confirmed to have been executed not long afterwards, apparently in one of Johannizza's fits of rage, but this was not heard of until years after the fact
When Baldwin became Emperor of the Latins he had left his daughter Joan in charge of his native Flanders:
>After Baldwin's death, his daughter Joan steered the country into a closer relationship with the French crown - a policy opposed by some within Flanders. In 1224 a hermit in the village of Mortaigne, near Tournai, was identified as a crusading companion of Baldwin, but this he denied. Within a year, however, as various nobles and clerics came to see him and talk to him, the man eventually stated that he was the count himself. In Holy Week 1225 he showed scars that the real Baldwin had allegedly possessed.
>Inconveniently, however, he was about a foot shorter than the count, his local geography was hazy and his French was rather more erratic than people remembered. One writer put these factors down to advancing age and time spent in Greek prisons. With this flexible approach to memory and physical likeness, the town of Valenciennes received the individual they called 'emperor' and he took a ceremonial bath and had a shave. Such was their delight at this 'reappearance' that the monks of St John's abbey kept his whiskers and drank his bathwater.
>The man now began to tell of his escape from Johanniza, the tortures that he had endured (which included the loss of some toes), his suffering during several periods of captivity at the hands of Muslims, and his final journey back to the West. Joan of Flanders sent her lover to interview the hermit and he was convinced that the man was her long-lost father. More and more towns came out in support of the returned hero ...
Cont.
>>905504
>and thereby created a vehicle to assert Flemish independence from France and to turn against Joan's rule. She tried to have him discredited: Baldwin's former chancellor could not recognise him, and the hermit could not remember the old court official. In spite of testimonials by men claiming to have seen Baldwin killed on the battlefield, the imposter rallied massive popular support and Joan was forced to flee to Paris. The hermit was taken so seriously that King Henry III of England wrote to him to ask for a renewal of earlier alliances between Flanders and England.
>Joan turned to her ally, King Louis VIII of France, for help. The king sent his aunt Sibylla, who was also Baldwin's younger sister, to meet the claimant. She did not recognise the man, but hid this from the hermite and convinced him to meet King Louis. Before this, with his confidence now at peak, the impostor processed through Flanders dressed as an emperor and with his adherents walking ahead, bearing a cross and banners. He even issued charters, knighted ten men and confirmed documents with a seal that described him as count of Flanders and Hainault and the emperor of Constantinople.
>The cities of Lille, Courtrai, Ghent and Bruges all welcomed him as he went on to an audience with the King at Pèronne. Louis received the 'emperor' with due courtesy and started to question him. Perhaps the man was by now so assured that he did not anticipate such an interrogation: in any case he was ill-prepared. He could not recall where, and how, he had done homage for Flanders to Louis' father, King Phillip; nor was he able to recollect being knighted, or his marriage to Marie of Champagne.
>>905509
>His supporters argued that he refused to respond to such questions out of pride; soon, however, he asked for a rest and a chance to eat. Once he had left, several churchmen rushed forward to claim they recognised the man as a jongleur who had once tried to impersonate Count Louis of Blois, another noble killed on the Fourth Crusade. The bishop of Beauvais claimed to have had the man in his prison; he was a professional hoaxer and a charlatan who had lost his toes to frost-bite, rather than torture.
>Even as he left the interview chamber the impostor realised that he was in trouble and escaped back to Valenciennes, where many of his baronial supporters abandoned him, although the poor continued to proclaim their loyalty and prepared to resist Joan by force. Next, the hermit fled first towards Germany and then southwards into Burgundy where he was caputred and sent to Louis.
>The French king had found the whole affair at Pèronne highly entertaining and passed the prisoner on to Joan with a recommendation that she spare his life. Joan was far less amused and had the hermit tried and condemned to death at Lille. He was made to confess his true identity as a jongleur and put in the pillory between two dogs. He was then tortured, hanged and had his body impaled upon a pole surrounded by armed guards.
Beethoven was black.
The first president of the United States was black.
Mozart was black.
Pyramids were an interstellar space exploration project that ran out of funding, making black people the first to have a space program.
The list goes on.
>>905537
You forgot Jesus, Charlemagne, and Shakespeare being a black woman.
>>905537
Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the govt is lying to you about 9/11.
>>905399
SOON PROMOTED WHEN DESERVED
Christopher Lee was present at the last public execution by guilliotine in Paris
>>905551
>>905565
He also hunted Nazis.
AFTER being Dracula.
>>905551
You wish nerd.
>>901810
CALIGULA, laught my ass off reading about this guy.
>>905601
Got a thin skinned pussy here that can't handle the bantz. Must be Canadian.
>>905601
"memespouting faggots" is a meme.
>>905606
Pretty standard for a Roman Emperor. What in particular made you laugh?
>>905619
The secret to his greatness and success was shedding the blood of FOUR THOUSAND SAXON MEN
>>905504
>captured by Johannizza, king of the Bulgarians
>captivity at the hands of Muslims
Something doesn't add up
>>905575
When he was filming the hobbit, they told him "for this scene, just imagine how a man that is getting stabbed sounds like" ... His answer was "I don't need to imagine that..."
>>901810
During the Fourth Crusade, the Latins attacked a mosque in Constantinople. The Greeks came out to help defend it, and the ensuing clash started a fire that burned down large swathes of the city.
Another weird fact was the existence of Arab bandits in the Swiss Alps in the 10th century.
Also, there was a Barbary pirate attack on a southern Spanish town. The town asked for terms, the pirates met in town, and then both the pirates and the townsfolk had a party to celebrate the agreement before the pirates just sailed off.
The ottomans cooled their canons with olive oil to prevent cracks
Hans Staininger, Mayor of Braunau in southern Germany during the 16th century, had a beard about 6 foot 7 inches long and according to legends he died falling over his beard. It was cut off when he died and kept in family as a heirloom until it was donated to the town in 1911.
>>905693
>the Latins attacked a mosque in Constantinople. The Greeks came out to help defend it,
source?
the first fire was during the first siege and was set by the Latins while retreating from the Greeks, the second one is uncertain and always has been
>>905745
Madden mentions it here:
https://www.academia.edu/3334896/The_Fires_of_the_Fourth_Crusade_in_Constantinople_1203-1204_A_Damage_Assessment
Turkish Air Force attacking the Turkish Navy during the invasion of Cyprus, resulting in several destroyed aircraft and vessels. Allegedly Greek intelligence used some creative signalling in order to misled the Turks in the pursuit of a Greek Navy amphibious warfare vessel, resulting in a Turk-Turk naval battle.
The first time William of Orange got shot, doctors arranged for someone to have a finger pressed on the severed artery in his throat day and night for a week.
>>905844
Witnessed.
>>905335
>file name not 1000milesofjapain
>>905844
The fact that the Taiping rebellion in China during 1870's was started and lead by a man who claimed the be the brother of Jesus.
Considering he got a harem of about 80 women and the whole shebang ended up killing something between 10-20 million people he was pretty hardcore.
>>904827
People using the streets became such a problem that they actually released government videos to encourage people to use toilets. The Chorus of the song used in this video was literally poo-in-the-loo
>>905855
Impressive
>>904517
Tycho Bae
By the end of WW2, the IJN's paratroopers performed more combat drops than the IJA's paratroopers.
>>901810
The Catholic Church used to rape little boys and girls. Also the Catholic Church rapes little boys and girls
>>906933
You know now that I think about it I can't remember hearing about any girls being molested.
>>902453
I'm laughing harder than I should at this
>>902224
>John A. Macdonald
Kek a true inspiration for all Canadians
>>902224
also, the whole reason Canada exists was because John A. MacDonald showed up to the Charlottetown Accords (which were originally to discuss a purely Maritime union) uninvited and took over for Newfoundland, who couldn't send someone
>>904433
Mfw my dad could have been shit posting and still be alive
>>902295
Cleopatra was in Alexandria, I'm in the western Hemisphere. I think that puts her closer to Cairo.
*Oh* you mean chronologically.
>Yes, I'm getting really tired of that copy-pasta sentence.
>>902366
>Abraham Lincoln didn't believe in equal rights
Actually, not something they taught in High School in the US in the 80's.
I'd have to wake my kids to see if they are teaching that now...
The Christmas party thing, yeah, that they did - though we also hear about every friggin year.
Commanders issued a document on the walls of Baghdad, saying, "We come here, not as conquerors, but as liberators to free you from generations of tyranny." When the Iraqi insurgency against western rule in Iraq began, we shelled Fallujah, and we shelled Najaf. Intelligence in Baghdad wrote to the War Department that, "terrorists were crossing the border, from Syria". Members of the House and said, "If our troops leave Iraq now, there will be Civil war."
The odd part being that these are not the events of Desert Shield or Desert Storm - these are all events listed in the Times parliamentary report in 1920, regarding the British occupation of Iraq.
>>907614
I finsihed highschool about a year ago and don't remeber being taught about Lincoln or the Christmas thing although I did learn about both in highschool it wasn't a teacher that taught me them.
In Egypt there exists an underclass called the "Zabbaleen" which pretty much means "Trash People". There entirely livelihood is processing Cairo's trash.
There are about 70 000 of them, mostly Coptics, and they live in trash. Interestingly, most accept their lot, and it has essentially sprung into a cultural group of it's own.
pic related is where they live, it's like something out of a science fiction film
>>907659
Word of advice from someone old enough to be your father: Steal your HS World and US History books. Assuming the world hasn't come to an end by the time you are my age, it's really interesting to look at how the propaganda changes over time.
Granted, yours will probably be available on internet archives, assuming some trade deal doesn't turn the internet into a television style service.
>>904647
That's pretty cool
>>907678
This would have been a good idea but Like I said I am already out of High School and I don't think they would just let me waltz back in their and take their books.
>>904647
>The details of what is occurring on the molecular scale are not known, the scientists said, in part because the Scotch adhesive remains a trade secret.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
>>907695
Surely you had some freshmen buddies - bribe them before it's too late!
In one notable episode, Dexter faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter's mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving enough.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter?wprov=sfla1
this madman existed
The largest navy fleet in history, in terms of manpower, was a Chinese pirate fleet.
A pirate fleet that repeatedly defeated the British Empire, the Portuguese Navy, and defeated the Qing dynasty.
...and was lead by a woman.
...Who eventually managed to fandangle a deal with the Chinese government, in which she and her crewmates were given amnesty, AND allowed to keep their loot. She opened a gambling house with that booty and went on to live to the ripe old age of 69.
>tfw no biopic
>>907726
The Zhengs were already an established Pirate Clan in Southern China since 1640.
Their great ancestor was Zheng Zilong, whose more famous son was Zheng Chenggong, known as Koxinga to the West, removed the Dutch from Taiwan.
>>905373
Don't forget he was played by John Wayne in the movie Green Berets.
>>907662
Not really interesting since trash people live in every third world city.
>>905232
XD!!
GTFO
At William the Conqueror's funeral, his dead body burst open when they were trying to stuff it into the coffin, or sarcophagus whatever, and the smell made everyone flee outside for air.
>>901810
William Morris ( leader of the Arts and Crafts movement) had a arsenic mine and that mine had so much arsenic that he could kill everyone in the entire world.
And he did produce poisonous green wallpaper that slowly killed the people living inside their homes that bought it. And he denied that his wallpaper was toxic.
Green wallpaper from this time with arsenic in it was called Scheele's Green. Since Scheele's Green did produce the best green color in the world at the time.
>>904827
There was an Indian in /int/ who went on and on about designated shitting streets and made it a meme.
black people are far more intelligent nowadays than in the past because their ancestors were cucked/seeded by white masters, this is the main reason desegregation was allowed
>>905551
He's quoting Huey, a main character on the subversive racial satire cartoon The Boondocks.
He is probably doing so ironically.
>>905606
Flavian lies told by their dog Suetonius.
>>902408
Misattributed. It was some random English girl who penned that line for him in a newspaper.
>>907702
That man makes me proud to be an American.
>>907952
Does any of this wallpaper still exist?
>>902468
This one is well known as a myth.
>>908557
Yes, but they are locked in special metal tubes at different museums or private collections. But some books are still around with Scheele's Green in them.
>>901810
Queen Elizabeth II's sister died in infancy. She was born and died in the 19th century. The Queen of England's sister died in the 19th century and she reigns in the 21st.
>>904808
>Hungarian Arabs
which are they?
>>904756
vhee yused to be loos ahnd shit
>>905575
He also volunteered for the Winter War
