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Hogge Wild posted:Mao didn't clean his dick except by loving virgins. Truly the gooniest of dictators. 
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In 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Trotsky and Freud all lived in Vienna. 
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Hogge Wild posted:In 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Trotsky and Freud all lived in Vienna. Truly the weirdest season of Friends
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Hogge Wild posted:In 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Tito, Trotsky and Freud all lived in Vienna. Montefiore mentions this in Young Stalin, I think. He also says that both of them enjoyed taking walks in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace. It's interesting to think that they theoretically have bumped into each other without knowing... 
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Comrade Koba posted:Truly the gooniest of dictators. If we count absolute monarchs as dictators the gooniest one was Charles XII of Sweden. He was a highly intelligent and belligerent celibate autist who hosed things up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden
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Dec 27, 2015 15:57
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goose fleet posted:Truly the weirdest season of Friends Call it An unholy alliance.
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goose fleet posted:Truly the weirdest season of Friends The season after that was pretty strange, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC5Gi1hS6PQ System Metternich has a new favorite as of 16:46 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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Whitey Bulger, although no Stalin, is known to be have a pretty brutal dude when he was head of the Boston Irish mob. When he and his girlfriend where in hiding they were known in the neighborhood as that nice older couple that liked to take walks and always stopped to pet and chat with any cats and dogs they met on the way. They were also feeding a stray that lived in the area and would take him to the vet when he got ill. I've also heard that Whitey is pretty good with kids and generally a pretty warm and fun guy when he isn't murdering you. I think that generally speaking people who do horrible things are just as human as the rest of us.
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Dec 27, 2015 19:31
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Aesop Poprock posted:To expand on this: On the flipside, Patton set up Task Force Baum to free his son-in-law when he was captured by the Germans. It was a spectacular failure. Of the 300 soldiers 32 were killed and only 35 evaded capture. All 57 vehicles that were used were lost.
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Alhazred posted:There's more evidence that he died of stomach cancer. Oh, huh. Still, his wallpaper definitely contained Scheele's green and St. Helena's climate had the conditions for it to release arsenic. Some other members of the household also showed signs of arsenic poisoning. I think it's likely that his wallpaper had a negative effect on his health and may have sped up his death.
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TWIST FIST posted:Oh, huh. Everything back then contained arsenic as the article about Humbug Billy proves.
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Hogge Wild posted:Mao didn't clean his dick except by loving virgins. And Jefferson hosed his slaves.
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Alkydere posted:That would be the Maginot Line. The French didn't trust the Germans after The Great War, especially after watching rather aggressive fascism start coming to power there. So they built a massive loving wall of guns and bunkers and fortresses. Basically a giant letter saying "You want to take us, you're going to have to relive the last miserable, pointless loving siege against us, only we've got 100 times better defenses already set up than those lovely old trenches." The whole point WAS to force the Germans through Belgium. France was expecting them to circumvent the line, and actually hoped for them to do so through Belgium (fighting the next war mostly in Belgium was vastly preferred to France getting shelled to gently caress again). They just didn't expect them to go through the Ardennes specifically due to the rough terrain.
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Your FAVORITE FACTS! Iowa and Iowa State University has been instrumental to the American way of life! Iowa State is the first state granted Public University in the United States, paving the way for other states to found their own universities and colleges with public dollars! Iowa State was instrumental to the United States' victory in World War II. The Ames process was critical in the production of large amounts of uranium which was essential to a timely deployment of the atomic bomb. The Ames Labortaory still functions today as the ONLY U.S. Department of Energy lab on a campus and the only non-industry facility to receive accolades from the military in 1945 and since. Iowa State is the birthplace of the worlds first electronic digital computer in 1937, essentially responsible for everything we know and love about computing today. In 1917 Fort Des Moines was the first OCS school for African American men. Sam Walton of Wal-mart fame learned a lot of his retail know-how from working in Des Moines, Iowa as a management trainee for J.C. Penney. Ronald Reagan started his radio career in Iowa as an announcer for the Chicago Cubs in Des Moines, Iowa. Too bad he ended up being a shitheel, sorry about that one, America. In Tinker vs Des Moines Public Schools, the Supreme Court ruled that students still retain 1st amendment rights in schools and other public places. Thanks to Iowa, this landmark case paved the way for greater freedom of expression for our young people. In 1982 Des Moines again lays claim to a dubious honor: Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off of a bat during a live concert. A lesser known fact that I can't find the source for: during the states founding the founders got together to draft the charter and open the ceremony with a prayer. A substantial minority objected to the idea of a prayer in a government function and moved to strike any mention of god from the minutes as well as from the founding documents. An actual vote was held and debated hotly for several hours with the secularists losing out by a slim margin. Iowa was to be one of the first (eventually to be only) state that forbid prayer before public session. Pretty interesting stuff. Also a lot of the founders of Iowa were part of the Underground Railroad, so suck it Southerners.
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Say Nothing posted:Talking of historic cosmetics, the plant deadly nightshade used to be used in eyedrops by women to dilate the pupils of the eyes to make them appear 'seductive'. They also used to use a shitload of lead as the basis for their face powder.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Needlessly huge honking gun. The Soviets put a gun with almost identical ballistics into a medium tank in 1943, but with a much smaller breech. And then, an even smaller gun with identical ballistics, just because. I've never heard this before. From what I have read, he did get his dangle into all sorts of poo poo that he didn't officially touch, including the development of the AK. Not saying your wrong, or that I am absolutely right- the truth is somewhere between, but I always want to see sources that counter to my own knowledge, so if you could drop some links, I would appreciate it. Walmart's founder, Sam Walton, had a son who was apart of a clandestine unit of the US Army doing cross-border operations In Laos and Cambodia with the unit MACV-SOG.
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Hogge Wild posted:If we count absolute monarchs as dictators the gooniest one was Charles XII of Sweden. He was a highly intelligent and belligerent celibate autist who hosed things up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden His skull has been examined several times, hoping to determine if he was killed by an enemy shot or was murdered by his own men.
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TWIST FIST posted:Oh, huh. Arsenic is a good preservative. Exhuming his body would tell us if it was really stomach cancer, arsenic, or murder. There was a theory he was actually shot in the stomach, and that it was only announced he'd died from cancer. Arsenic, coupled with the embalming of the time, would tell us much. His tomb is in a building known as Les Invalides. Created by Louis XIV, it was a combination of hospital, home, and training center of injured veterans. Recovered men learned trades if they had no training before, or were now no longer able to pursue their profession. They learned all sorts of trades, from basic manufacturing to complex studies like law or theology. Ironically, a place dedicated to healing and helping veterans is now a war museum and Napoleanic shrine.
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The execution of Charotte Corday has some weird details. The execution was postponed with a day so that a painter could paint a portrait of her. After she was beheaded a man called Legros picked it up and slapped it on the cheek, according to the crowd the head had an expression of "unequivocal indignation" when it was slapped. Legros was imprisoned for three months because of this. Afterwards the body was autopsied to determine whether or not she was a virgin, to everyone's dismay she was found to be virgo intacta. Her body was quickly disposed of but apparently her skull was preserved.
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Samovar posted:
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Khazar-khum posted:His tomb is in a building known as Les Invalides. It's a small, tasteful thing (my photos)  Tomb of Napoleon by Joe Pitha, on Flickr Napoleon in repose by Joe Pitha, on Flickr
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Say what you will about the French, but they have oodles of style.
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Khazar-khum posted:His tomb is in a building known as Les Invalides. Created by Louis XIV, it was a combination of hospital, home, and training center of injured veterans. Recovered men learned trades if they had no training before, or were now no longer able to pursue their profession. They learned all sorts of trades, from basic manufacturing to complex studies like law or theology. Ironically, a place dedicated to healing and helping veterans is now a war museum and Napoleanic shrine. Yeah but to be fair it is a very cool and interesting museum. I recommend a trip there to anyone visiting Paris.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I've never heard this before. From what I have read, he did get his dangle into all sorts of poo poo that he didn't officially touch, including the development of the AK. Not saying your wrong, or that I am absolutely right- the truth is somewhere between, but I always want to see sources that counter to my own knowledge, so if you could drop some links, I would appreciate it. http://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2014-08/thumbs/1408818912_poslednyayahar.jpg It's in Russian, naturally. It lists the projects he worked on from 1946 to 1951, namely: - box magazine for the PPSh - magazine for the Mosin - draft of an 8 mm submachinegun "Due to Schmeisser's narrow speciality, he is only used in occasional work and nothing he does is secret... Due to a lack of technical education, he cannot perform any work. He contributed nothing of value during his stay. His psychology is capitalist. He has a decaying effect on the other German specialists."
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Ensign Expendable posted:http://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2014-08/thumbs/1408818912_poslednyayahar.jpg Trully, a military genious.
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All these Napoleon facts. Napoleon's mother language was Corsican. He first stepped on the French mainland in 1778, only eleven years before the Revolution.
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did you know a bear carried ammo during world war 2? fuckin' czrazy
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Mans posted:Trully, a military genious. Well, he was the main guy behind the first assault rifle.
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Hogge Wild posted:Well, he was the main guy behind the first assault rifle. He was a Mexican arms designer??
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Mans posted:did you know a bear carried ammo during world war 2? Even crazier, that bear lived in Vienna at the same time as Hitler and Stalin! I wonder if they ever met during that time.
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That bear's cousin was Czar of Russia through Queen Victoria(who is the ancestor of all modern European bears) and the two were apparently very hard to tell apart. There is even a picture of them together where the bear is in the czar's regalia and the czar naked and tearing apart a salmon with his teeth.
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and that salmon's name? Albert Einstein
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FreudianSlippers posted:That bear's cousin was Czar of Russia through Queen Victoria(who is the ancestor of all modern European bears) and the two were apparently very hard to tell apart. There is even a picture of them together where the bear is in the czar's regalia and the czar naked and tearing apart a salmon with his teeth. Lies, the ancestor of all modern bears was invented by the nazis
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Ensign Expendable posted:Lies, the ancestor of all modern bears was invented by the nazis I call it the 'phantom bear' hypothesis. No one can prove that bears existed before 1930. NLJP has a new favorite as of 04:10 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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Nancy Wake a.k.a The White Mouse In 1940 Nancy Wake was living in France. There she helped Jews escape the Gestapo and was a courier for the resistance. Because she constantly evaded the Gestapo they called her the White Mouse. When a 5 million franc prize was set on her head she decided to flee France in 1942. She reached Britain and joined the SOE. Then in 1944 she parachuted into Auvergne (wearing high heels). There she led 7000 maquis and coordinated the communication to Britain. She led several raids and on one occasion killed a SS soldier with her bare hands. At one point the codes for communication were destroyed during a German raid and Wake had to bicycle 500 kilometres through several German checkpoints in order to resume communication. After the war she was awarded the George Medal, the United States Medal of Freedom, the Médaille de la Résistance, and thrice the Croix de Guerre.
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Alhazred posted:There's more evidence that he died of stomach cancer. His abdomen was pretty much just tumors towards the end. And didn't every building on St. Helena have that green wall paper because it was literally all they had?
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Was looking for an old post of mine and came across these two splendid examples of historical handwriting: To be fair, the top one is cyrrillic cursive & the bottom is gothic cursive (though in Danish), neither of which are at that similar to the latin cursive that our grandparents and parents were taught in school.
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Thank god for typewriters & computers.
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Kennel posted:Thank god for typewriters & computers. I can read most gothic cursive, but the example above took me + 3 older & more experienced readers weeks on/off to make sense of. The writer was a certain copyist Mohr who worked for the probate court of Copenhagen in the 1840s and is notorious in genealogy circles for his horrid handwriting.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:I can read most gothic cursive, but the example above took me + 3 older & more experienced readers weeks on/off to make sense of. The writer was a certain copyist Mohr who worked for the probate court of Copenhagen in the 1840s and is notorious in genealogy circles for his horrid handwriting. It's only horrid if you try to read it. Think of it more as cross hatch shading trying to talk.
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