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Cool/badass stuff from history
manwiththemachinegun
METAL GEAR?!Registered User regular
METAL GEAR?!Registered User regular
I love studying history. I like learning about different badass people, places and things. Share the awesome things you've discovered and learned about.
People:
Jean Valette
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/valette.html
A 71-year old commander of pirate knight doctors who defeated a Sultan's army and navy while outnumbered at least 4-1. Not only a participant in hand to hand combat, at one point he had to be physically dragged off the battlements by his men. Probably told the Janissaries to get off his lawn too.
Götz von Berlichingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Götz_von_Berlichingen
A mercenary cyborg who fought a crap-ton for pretty much everyone and invented the phrase, "kiss my ass". His prosthetic was legendary for its design and he was quoted as saying it served him better in war than his flesh and blood hand.
Weapons:
A Gunblade? That's only for freaking anime weabo-, wait, they're real?
Jesus Christ.
Technology:
See this little thing here?
It's called the Antikythera mechanism. No big deal, just some rusted gear right?
Wrong.
That's a part of a mechanical astronomical computer, circa 1st century B.C. A device that would not be replicated for another 1,500 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
(If picture sizes are a problem mods, let me know and I'll delete them.)
People:
Jean Valette
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/valette.html
A 71-year old commander of pirate knight doctors who defeated a Sultan's army and navy while outnumbered at least 4-1. Not only a participant in hand to hand combat, at one point he had to be physically dragged off the battlements by his men. Probably told the Janissaries to get off his lawn too.
Götz von Berlichingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Götz_von_Berlichingen
A mercenary cyborg who fought a crap-ton for pretty much everyone and invented the phrase, "kiss my ass". His prosthetic was legendary for its design and he was quoted as saying it served him better in war than his flesh and blood hand.
Weapons:
A Gunblade? That's only for freaking anime weabo-, wait, they're real?
Jesus Christ.
Technology:
See this little thing here?
It's called the Antikythera mechanism. No big deal, just some rusted gear right?
Wrong.
That's a part of a mechanical astronomical computer, circa 1st century B.C. A device that would not be replicated for another 1,500 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
(If picture sizes are a problem mods, let me know and I'll delete them.)
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The Prokythera mechanism is the computer.
i am from...
history!
that made more sense in my head
A-ha-ha! You are as PRESUMPTUOUS as you are POOR and IRISH. Tarnish notte the majesty of my TOWER of HATS.
I think I'm gonna go look for this in AssRev
it would be amazing yet unsurprising if they put it in
Screw nature, we have Leonardo Da Vinci and his robo-knights of justice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo's_robot
One of my favorite bits of trivial but strange historical decisions.
When you are re-drawing Europe after beating Napoleon, and two nations both want to claim a piece of land containing a zinc spar mine, you could decide to award it to one or the other.
Or you could turn it into a shared mini-nation, with its own independent control.
The more I read and see about Da Vinci, the more I'm convinced he actually was an Assassin.
He is my history buff pal.
He was fucking strong.
pigs.
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Pig-War/
Well, thankfully it stopped there.
Tell me about more cool people with mustaches.
That guy was strong.
45º
those are some pans that i have.
4 horses being whipped.
106 year old chocolates
"the leatherman", a canadian hobo who wore an outfit made entirely of leather. he lived in rock shelters known as 'leatherman caves'
Cockle bread was a bread baked by English women in the seventeenth century which was supposed to act as a love charm or aphrodisiac. The dough was kneaded and pressed against the woman’s vulva and then baked. This bread was then given to the object of the baker’s affections.
John Aubrey wrote of it: Young wenches have a wanton sport which they call ‘moulding of cocklebread’ - they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they can then they wabble to and fro with their buttocks as if they were kneading of dough with their arses, and say these words:
‘My dame is sick and gone to bed/ And I’ll go mould my cocklebread’. I did imagine nothing to have been in this but mere wantonness of youth … but I find in Buchardus’s book Methodus Confitendi … one of the articles of interrogating a young woman is, if she did ever subjugere panem clunibus, and then bake it, and give it to the one she loved to eat … So here I find it to be a relic of natural magic, an unlawful philtrum [i.e. aphrodisiac or love charm]. [from A. McLaren, Reproductive Rituals (1984), p. 37].
se++ (circa 2005)
se++ (modern day)
No, we don't. We really don't.
'creeping' (old word for crawling) baby doll
this thing is funny because if it somehow is not a hoax then its eyes would be too large for its brain to process what it sees
it sure as fuck wouldnt have survived childbirth though and no more of its bones were found so its probably a hoax
Boo.
Now you've probably seen a lot of the early flight failure stuff. But holy cow, robot golfers, swim trainers?
Also, that suit of armor looked ridiculous yet awesome.
dang it pip
i clicked on this thread to make that very post
not nearly enough casual misogyny and forced quips