An Incomplete [History] of History Threads

Mayabird

One of the more popular threads of the Penny Arcade forums over the past several years have been the History threads, wherein posters discuss historical anecdotes and stories, usually because it was freaking cool.

D&D

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/181088/the-cool-stuff-from-history-thread/p1

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/196287/the-even-cooler-stuff-from-history-thread/p1

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/223743/youre-history-like-a-beat-up-car/p1

SE++

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/168809/post-a-cool-historical-fact/p1

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/161049/cool-badass-stuff-from-history/p1

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/204255/this-thread-will-go-down-in-history/p1


Four of the last six major history threads have titles involving something being cool which had suddenly switched in the most recent iterations possibly because [mutters gloomy utterings about the current day].

These of course are not an all-inclusive list, as there have been threads about specific topics in history that did not reach 100 pages, such as the Art History thread:

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/161632/the-art-history-thread/p1



Anywho, new History Thread!

RMS Oceanic

Was watching History Matters' vid on the Treaty of Trianon and it got me thinking how the romantic ideals of nationalism and accompanying self-determination really break down when applied to reality. Just like Schleswig Holstein.

Jedoc

Thomas Edison
Leif Erikson
Duke Ellington

These are just a few of history's Mister Es.

Peas

My top five threads of the forums have returned! Thanks for making it!

The Stovepipe Era: Photographs of People in the Late 1850s 23:14
https://youtu.be/YBOmXhxS2q8

Captain Inertia

Is this where we talk about how our ancestors ate ass

Mayabird

You best provide sources and documentation.

Brainleech

Today was the 410th anniversary of Henry Hudson his son and 7 others being cast adrift after a mutiny
I wondered how it was known that he was cast aside in the bay named after him as the mutineers sailed back to Ireland one of the navigators blamed two of the recent dead {one died in the crossing the other of starvation} as the leaders in the uprising because upon returning they would have been tired for piracy

But another interesting note is the company that Hudson worked for East India company in looking for the northwest passage in the early 1600's
Just the lack of sea ice lately has made that passage unnavgatable and how cargo ships of today are too large to use many ports on the west coast

Captain Inertia

Mayabird wrote: »

You best provide sources and documentation.

I presume crude drawings will suffice

Straightzi

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Mayabird wrote: »

You best provide sources and documentation.

I presume crude drawings will suffice

I would be disappointed if documentation of ass eating wasn't crude

Captain Inertia

Hmm it is almost EPYC time huh

Hobnail

Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum is a tract written by Jacobus de Teramo in around 1382. This "consolation of sinners" (with the colophon Liber Bellial) is a lawsuit between Lucifer and Jesus Christ, Solomon presiding, in which the Devil is suing Christ for having trespassed by descending into Hell.

At the first trial Moses is counsel for Jesus Christ and Belial for the Devil. At the second trial the Patriarch Joseph is judge, Aristotle and Isaiah defend Jesus Christ, and the Emperor Augustus and Jeremiah defend the Devil. In both trials the decision is in favor of Christ, but at the second trial the Devil is granted the right to take possession of the bodies and souls of the damned at the Last Judgment.

Sounds like a corker of a trial they ought to do a netflix adaptation or somethin

Mayabird

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Mayabird wrote: »

You best provide sources and documentation.

I presume crude drawings will suffice

I mean, sure.

Will also accept stone carvings and those bronze flying penis Roman amulets.

Hobnail

https://twitter.com/wikivictorian/status/1408450126830575620

Not bad

PiptheFair

what caliber is that? .05?

Jedoc

Talk about a hand gun

honovere

Literally finger guns

facetious

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Is this where we talk about how our ancestors ate ass

James Joyce or Mozart?

Captain Inertia

facetious wrote: »

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Is this where we talk about how our ancestors ate ass

James Joyce or Mozart?

Wait what’s Mozart’s deal

Depressperado

wrote a song about farts, I think

Captain Inertia

Like how they give him giant boners? Cause James Joyce wrote lots of letters about that

PiptheFair

Depressperado wrote: »

wrote a song about farts, I think

oh it's much more than that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch

and the way more vile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_schön_sauber

Gundi

and he got that published?

in the 1700s?

Depressperado

Mozart rules

PiptheFair

Gundi wrote: »

and he got that published?

in the 1700s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16

people been publishing downright vulgar shit since publishing works was a thing

Juggernut

Born too soon to travel the stars, born too late to pen the most vulgar expression ever written in Latin.

Fencingsax

Reading Catullus in high school is fun

Tallahasseeriel

PiptheFair wrote: »

what caliber is that? .05?

What is this a center gun for ants?

honovere

Fencingsax wrote: »

Reading Catullus in high school is fun

Got a special pamphlet of vocabular from our teacher for that because the regular school dictionaries were a bit useless for Catullus.

Captain Inertia

It’s wild to me that we only know about 5% of our own species’ history

Peas

Is Jesus Historical? What Do The Romans Say About Him? 28:52
https://youtu.be/A41Tm5FDKns
On this video we will have a deep historical research into the most important mentions in Latin about Jesus of Nazareth by non Christian authors such as Roman emperors, magistrates, lawyers, military officers etc. We will discuss the validity of such testimonies, and try to understand if Jesus of Nazareth really is a historical figure or if his existence was just a myth.

Juggernut

I like this guy's voice.

Zibblsnrt

Captain Inertia wrote: »

It’s wild to me that we only know about 5% of our own species’ history

Man, having a whole 5% of our history still on hand would be awesome.

That said, the reading-between-the-lines speculation or reconstruction based on the stuff we do have is its own kind of brain candy..

valhalla130

Captain Inertia wrote: »

Is this where we talk about how our ancestors ate ass

I knew I came by it honest!

Captain Inertia

Came?

ChicoBlue

https://twitter.com/CBCMarina/status/1410712881755217920

Marina v Stackelberg @CBCMarina wrote:

BREAKING: Statue of Queen Victoria has been torn down in front of #Manitoba legislature. Statue is covered in red painted handprints @CBCManitoba
@CBCNews
#cbcmb #CanadaDay

Happy Canada Day

Madican

I see you guys have those people too who are just completely, totally aghast that property damage is being done and how they might have to "Reconsider" their "Support" of First Nations people.

Tef

Evergreen:

Zibblsnrt

Madican wrote: »

I see you guys have those people too who are just completely, totally aghast that property damage is being done and how they might have to "Reconsider" their "Support" of First Nations people.

It's all kinds of fun, especially combined with the "why are we still talking about something that happened a hundred years ago?" talking point in the context of a genocide program that only formally ended in the late nineties.

Peas

A brief history of toilets - Francis de los Reyes 5:21
https://youtu.be/0dYk99S98Jc

Man I didn't know more than half of the people on this planet now still don't have access to modern toilets and waste facilities

Gundi

are you telling me we could have had canada's racist uncle in the united states?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-tcw7AZMMs

UnbrokenEva

I don't think Newfoundland is particularly noteworthy in its racism compared to... all the rest of Canada? Like, Quebec is the province that's been straight up legislating racism in the guise of "secularism", banning the wear of religious symbols by civil servants and trying to pretend real hard that it isn't about banning people whose religion asks them to wear particular clothing from civil service. Meanwhile every damn part of the country is racist as hell against indigenous people.