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Fandyien
But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
history is full of tidbits that range from "pretty rad" to "fucking mindblowing man". i, like many of you, sometimes end up in JSTOR or wikipedia or wherever else for hours at a time hoovering up irrelevant historical factoids for my own personal edification
so i dunno, post something cool about history
here is something cool - Rabban Bar Sauma, a Christian mongol from beijing in the 1200s, travelled all the way from Beijing to Bordeux, then back to Baghdad where he died in 1294. the wikipedia map of his journeys really helps emphasize just how incredible they were, travelling across the known world on horseback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabban_Bar_Sauma
today we tend to think of marco polo as the "discoverer" of china and of the east as a land totally detached from european affairs, but that's becoming more and more ambiguous as time goes on. for me the idea of someone travelling from china to france or portugal to thailand long before the invent of even steam power is freaking cray cray
what blows your minds
so i dunno, post something cool about history
here is something cool - Rabban Bar Sauma, a Christian mongol from beijing in the 1200s, travelled all the way from Beijing to Bordeux, then back to Baghdad where he died in 1294. the wikipedia map of his journeys really helps emphasize just how incredible they were, travelling across the known world on horseback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabban_Bar_Sauma
today we tend to think of marco polo as the "discoverer" of china and of the east as a land totally detached from european affairs, but that's becoming more and more ambiguous as time goes on. for me the idea of someone travelling from china to france or portugal to thailand long before the invent of even steam power is freaking cray cray
what blows your minds
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Fact.
it's been that way all throughout history
the people of France loved him, of course
because of his policies the economy was in the toilet, so the king fired him
because of this, the people attacked the Bastille and BAM the french revolution started
and then after the new government formed, he was brought back on, and his ideas were still terrible, and he was fired again
also, Jacques Necker helped buy a necklace for a woman who claimed to be the queen while he was economic minister, but it turned out that she was an imposter
Who doesn't though?
ergot is a hallucinogen and it grows primarily on rye in damp land. The Salem community mostly ate ryebread made from local produce which was grown in damp fields, and it is highly likely that there was ergot in their bread. Ergot builds up and has a LSD-like effect on the local populace.
As a result, it is possible a lot of the people who claimed they saw spiritual disturbances and went into strange seizures may actually not have been faking it, as was long suspected!
Steam
even after schacht's Mefo bills the government was quickly running out of time, and austria and czechoslovakia just so happened to be two of the world's wealthiest countries in terms of gold and foreign currency reserves
so until september 1939 it was less of a war and more of a central bank robbery spree
Between 1907 and 1938, Corbett tracked and shot a documented 19 tigers and 14 leopards — a total of 33 recorded and documented man-eaters. It is claimed that these big cats had killed more than 1,200 men, women and children. The first tiger he killed, the Champawat Tiger in Champawat, was responsible for 436 documented deaths. He also shot the Panar Leopard, which allegedly killed 400 people.
Drunk History
dissatisfied with their situation but unable to really do anything about it, some poor Parisians vented their frustrations in a very unusual way. See, due to cats use when it came to catching vermin and so on, Parisian cats were often fed proportionately more than the people in the streets outside! This meant that a lot of well fed cats could be seen slinking around the city's poorer areas. This made the poor people mad.
So one day, they decided to punish the cats for their gluttony, and held widespread cat trials.
Cats were "arrested," put on trial, accused, they had defenses and everything, and those found guilty of being greedy were put to death
the Parisians knew that this was ridiculous, of course. But they did it anyway to let off steam. When asked about it, one man said it was the most fun he'd ever had in his life!
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this has been regarded by many as a very bad move
you read cracked eh
Relevant wiki please
maybe? I read about this guy years ago, it may have been from cracked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll
e: note also that WWII caused 20+ million civilian deaths in china, I don't know if that's on there twice
Which I learned reading this list.
if it's cool it's cool
It is beleived that a bog-preseved body found in 2010, had it's nipples cut off so he couldn't be a king.
If anyone's interested in good, sourced information on death tolls, I can direct them to this site. It's not a pleasant read though.
History's greatest monster
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Merci buckets you both