Fucking Jefferson.

Chad Big Ben as usual 🙏

Also of note, Jefferson’s limited (theoretical, rather than practical, considering that he never made any serious attempt to free his own slaves) anti-slavery views distinctly did not come with anti-racism. Ben Franklin, on the other hand, became an anti-racist as he interacted with Black folk on an equal basis, noting that the difference between white and Black folk was merely visual rather than mental.

I’m guessing it’s Operation Bernhard

Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War.

The cylindrical automata is probably the closest, but that’s more like a music box (still very advanced and cool) than a gramophone.

Trump only got winged, I vote he takes a shot to the chest just to be sure.

Indigenous folk: “Yo this is a real, actual threat you will encounter”

European colonists, 90% of the time before dying horribly: “lmao yeah right, I’m sure we can handle it”

When in a new region… listen to the fucking locals. They may not always be correct, but they sure as shit know more than you do about the area, lmao

Fuckers really going for Greater Israel, huh.

Mood.

He sounds reasonable enough, and tbqh, nearly anyone is preferable in comparison to Keiko Fujimori.

Note: Muslims traditionally regard Jesus Christ (“Isa”) as a prophet of God and an important religious figure, so this isn’t quite as absurd as it might initially appear. To the Christians, they are performing a ritual in the name of the Son of God (and who is also, simultaneously, God); to the Muslims, they are receiving a ritual in the name of a great servant of God!

Time to ride a horse across the the Bay of Baiae, fuck them prophecies

Explanation: The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometimes said to be mad, once ordered the Legions to ‘make war’ on Neptune, god of the sea, stabbing at the tides, and collecting seashells as war booty.

This may have been Caligula legitimately being unhinged. However, it may have been a punishment/humiliation for a failure to follow Caligula’s orders appropriately, or simply the time-honored practice of autocrats making people do stupid shit not (only) for entertainment, but to showcase how absolute their power is. “Remember that I can make you do anything. And be afraid of what I can make others do to you if you forget that” sort of energy.

Of course, the TRUTH is that Caligula DROVE BACK that coward Neptune, and bought us almost 2000 years of uneasy peace with the ocean

Mine draining ain’t shit if the miners are eating unevenly cooked meat like animals 😭

His soul goes marching on!

!shermanposting@piefed.social

What utter lunacy

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baśka_Murmańska

She was a tame, gentle bear, with whom even the children of the unit’s soldiers played. By daily order, she was assigned as a regimental daughter to the battalion’s machine gun company and given food rations. The battalion assigned her a guardian, most likely Feliks Mishon [ 1 ] , a non-commissioned officer in the former Tsarist army . The name Corporal Smorgoliński, which appears in numerous publications, was invented by Eugeniusz Małaczewski. In fact, none of the battalion’s personnel lists contain a soldier with that surname [ 1 ] . The corporal taught her elements of drill, including saluting and imitating the marching step. By daily order L. 33, section 8, Baśka was assigned to the Polish Army Battalion in Murman [ 1 ] . The bear followed her unit along the entire combat trail to free Poland. She was transferred to the front line near Obozierskaya with a cadre company, but did not participate in the Battle of Bolshie Ozierki. Ultimately, in the summer of 1919, she and her battalion set off for Poland, where they were stationed at the Modlin Fortress .

Together with the rest of the unit, she took part in the 1919 parade in Warsaw at Saski Square , causing a sensation by starting to walk on two legs at the right moment and saluting the head of state Józef Piłsudski , following the rest of the soldiers, and then giving him a paw during the greeting.

She died that same winter, shortly after arriving in Modlin . While swimming in the Vistula , she broke free from her chain and swam through the ice floes to the other side of the river, then headed towards the village. She was stabbed to death with a pitchfork by local peasants. When the soldiers, having organized a boat, finally reached the village, the bear’s fur was already being stripped. The stuffed Baśka remained for some time after World War II in the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw , from where it was later removed, and all trace of her disappeared [ 2 ] .

Sometimes, human progress is just an idea.

… other times, it’s what that idea is applied to, lmao

History is arbitrary af

Pictured is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a major figure in Turkish nationalism.

Control of the islands between Greece and Turkiye have long been… contentious.

Many asterisks involved for Spain. And some even for Rome!

One major Roman legal concept was the right to marry Roman citizens. Now, this didn’t mean that Roman citizens and non-citizens without this right couldn’t shack up - they could and very often did. But if they entered into a marriage without this right, their children would not be citizens - making the acquisition of that right very important. Only some non-citizens were granted this right.

… of course, this could be gotten around pretty easily if the Roman citizen in the citizen-noncitizen relationship was the woman, simply by refusing to declare who the father was. By Roman law, a child with an unknown father and a citizen mother was a citizen, and Roman law made no provision for disputing the parentage of children born out of wedlock.

That being said, the Romans did believe that making Romans out of locals (or at least some of them) was both possible and desirable. SHOW YOU ARE WORTHY, AND YOU WILL RISE HIGH IN THE REPUBLIC

Who said geopolitics aren’t delicious?

Oh no, even 20th century history gets this treatment!