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An Incomplete [History] of History Threads

MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
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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

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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!

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    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.

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Thomas Edison
    Leif Erikson
    Duke Ellington

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

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    PeasPeas Registered User regular
    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

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Is this where we talk about how our ancestors ate ass

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    MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    You best provide sources and documentation.

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    BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    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

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Mayabird wrote: »
    You best provide sources and documentation.

    I presume crude drawings will suffice

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    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

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    Hmm it is almost EPYC time huh

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    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.
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    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

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    MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Mayabird wrote: »
    You best provide sources and documentation.

    I presume crude drawings will suffice
    main-qimg-d515ed79a9b4a9eb36cd36eaa21a097f

    I mean, sure.

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

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular


    Not bad

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    what caliber is that? .05?

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Talk about a hand gun

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    honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Literally finger guns

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    facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Is this where we talk about how our ancestors ate ass

    James Joyce or Mozart?

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Robert Khoo wrote: »
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    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

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    wrote a song about farts, I think

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Like how they give him giant boners? Cause James Joyce wrote lots of letters about that

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    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

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    GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    and he got that published?

    in the 1700s?

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Mozart rules

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    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

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

    https://www.instagram.com/evansinkworks/
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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Reading Catullus in high school is fun

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    TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    what caliber is that? .05?

    What is this a center gun for ants?

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    honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    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.

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    It’s wild to me that we only know about 5% of our own species’ history

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    PeasPeas Registered User regular
    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.

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    JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I like this guy's voice.

    https://www.instagram.com/evansinkworks/
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    ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    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..

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    valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    Captain Inertia wrote: »
    Is this where we talk about how our ancestors ate ass

    I knew I came by it honest!

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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Came?

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    ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular

    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

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    MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    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.

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    Evergreen:

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    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
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    ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    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.

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    PeasPeas Registered User regular
    edited July 2021
    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

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

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    UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    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.

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