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Krankenstyle posted:A lighter topic, then. Behold The cold Maiden, a jerkoff-"machine"confiscated by Danish police in 1937: How did the police come to get their hands on it? Why did they hold onto it for long enough for it to be of historical interest?
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Probably a vice raid at a brothel or a tobacconist selling French postcards under the counter, something like that. They have all kinds of stuff at the police museum, I guess they just saved the curiosities. Here's "The Butterfly Collection", women's pubes collected by a serial "seducer" named Kristen Pedersen Siggaard. There's an accompanying notebook with his comments on their "erotic abilities and appearance". No year given.  Apparently he also defrauded some 200 women of money with false marriage proposals. I suppose the 1934 case against him was how the police got a hold of that one. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 06:52 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Krankenstyle posted:A lighter topic, then. Behold The cold Maiden, a jerkoff-"machine"confiscated by Danish police in 1937: So, is this the 20th century gently caress machine meant to outperform the 19th century gently caress machine covered earlier ITT?
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Krankenstyle posted:A lighter topic, then. Behold The cold Maiden, a jerkoff-"machine"confiscated by Danish police in 1937: Imagine the desperation that led up to the construction of this
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Yeah tbh it looks terrible and I can't imagine it's very good.
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Krankenstyle posted:Probably a vice raid at a brothel or a tobacconist selling French postcards under the counter, something like that. 110 really ahead of her time there.
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Krankenstyle posted:A lighter topic, then. Behold The cold Maiden, a jerkoff-"machine"confiscated by Danish police in 1937: i don't get it, where does your dick go
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CoolCab posted:i don't get it, where does your dick go I assume the leather belt means you can adjust the hole size to normal girth
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PYF Historical Fun Fact: I assume the leather belt means you can adjust the hole size to normal girth
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Krankenstyle posted:Yeah tbh it looks terrible and I can't imagine it's very good. Don't knock it til you've tried it imo
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Krankenstyle posted:I assume the leather belt means you can adjust the hole size to normal girth That 4 Stam gonna be pretty handy.
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Solice Kirsk posted:That 4 Stam gonna be pretty handy. lmao
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Krankenstyle posted:A lighter topic, then. Behold The cold Maiden, a jerkoff-"machine"confiscated by Danish police in 1937: I like that they didn't even try to make it look like a woman.
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Alhazred posted:I like that they didn't even try to make it look like a woman. It's probably where the term "box" came from.
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Solice Kirsk posted:That 4 Stam gonna be pretty handy. Not a reference I expected to see in the history thread, but nice. 
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Solice Kirsk posted:That 4 Stam gonna be pretty handy.
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PMush Perfect posted:I hate how long it took me to get this. I thought I was free! you will never be free unless you bounce off the moon
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Krankenstyle posted:A lighter topic, then. Behold The cold Maiden, a jerkoff-"machine"confiscated by Danish police in 1937: There's an episode of Married with Children where Al is having fantasy about being in the old west and someone cracks a joke about Bud being behind the barn with his wooden woman, guess this answers how that would work.
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I don't think that answers more questions than it creates.
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So, this is absolutely not a "fun" fact but it’s something I didn’t know and which kinda blew my mind: In March 1942, 80% of the roughly 6 million people that were murdered during the Holocaust were still alive. Eleven months later, that number had sunk to 20%.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I don't think that answers more questions than it crates. shameful
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In april 1267 Richard de Southchurch marched to London to take it back from the rebel Gilbert de Clare. He made several demands from the local peasant in order to secure provisions for his army. He also demanded forty roosters which he planned to set on fire and hurl into London in order to burn it down.
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But there's more!Wikipedia posted:The scheme, impractical as it might seem, was supposedly based on contemporary sagas of Viking heroes. But the complaints of the local community were based on the fact that Southchurch had taken all the supplies home to his own manor of Southchurch, received 200 marks from the exchequer, yet never paid out any of what the owners of the goods were entitled to. It's Henry III who was leading an army, Richard de Southchurch was actually just a sheriff. It was clearly not the only time he did something shady: Wikipedia posted:In 1279, he received a pardon and was acquitted of a fine of 100 shilling for being present at the theft of a hart at the king's forest of Chelmsford. In 1289 he was also acquitted of the great sum of 1000 pounds for perjury, in return for releasing the manor of Hatfield Peverel to the king. Richard de Southchurch: sheriff, con artist, poacher, perjurer.
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Kassad posted:But there's more! A Renaissance man long before there was a Renaissance to be a man of
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In 1265 the varangian guard were ambushed by bulgars in a small town called Ainos. In order to free themselves they had to release a prisoner of war named Azz-Ed-In. When the emperor's other soldiers recaptured the town the varangians were forced to ride on donkeys while wearing women's clothes through the streets of Constantinople as punishment for failing to beat the bulgars.
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I'm not used to seeing the word "bulgar" and my brain keeps trying to interpret it as a horn player, a thief, a type of wheat, or a hot ground beef sandwich. I am aware of the nation of Bulgaria.
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There is a common belief that Christopher Columbus believed to the end that he had discovered a western route to the East Indies, despite mounting evidence to the contrary during his lifetime. The truth may be more complicated, however. Many of his writings do demonstrate his continued belief that he had reached the east coast of Asia. However, there is evidence in his journals and the “Book of Privileges”, a book Columbus wrote to document the rewards he believed he was owed by the crown, that he was aware that had landed on an entirely different continent.
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IIRC even back then most Europeans had such sketchy knowledge of eastern Asia that they'd probably take ages to figure out whether they were on a completely different continent or not anyway.
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People knew that the world was round and they had a pretty good idea of its radius. Columbus thought the Earth was shaped like a pear so that the accepted radius wasn’t representative of the path length between Europe and the Indies. He was hilariously wrong. Everyone back home may not have known where the hell he landed, but it drat well couldn’t be the Indies. He couldn’t have covered enough distance to make it.
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Wouldn't be surprised if Columbus at some point started pretending he knew he couldn't have been in Asia all along.
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At least Amerigo Vespucci had his act together
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I'm absolutely positive that educated Spanish & Portuguese knew the Earth's circumference. Muslim scholars in Al-Andalus had been translating and disseminating a ton of Greek works for centuries, including many works on natural philosophy, as well as writing new works. e: lol quote:1,700 years after Eratosthenes's death, while Christopher Columbus studied what Eratosthenes had written about the size of the Earth, he chose to believe, based on a map by Toscanelli, that the Earth's circumference was 25% smaller. Had Columbus set sail knowing that Eratosthenes's larger circumference value was more accurate, he would have known that the place that he made landfall was not Asia, but rather the New World.[16] Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 08:38 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Yeah the Earth's circumference was widely known in Europe at the time, Columbus was just being a goon. I listened to a program about it a long time ago, but I can't remember the details. When the knowledge of the Americas was coming back to Europe at that time, was it already known that there was an East coast of Eurasia with China etc, and that the newly-discovered Americas had to be bounded on both sides by ocean? Or did some people look at the known circumference of the earth and decide that Eurasia was just a lot longer than they'd thought, and that Columbus had found the east coast of it?
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People knew that Japan existed as an island off the coast of China. The oldest extant globe was finished shortly before Columbus returned from his first voyage and the relevant hemisphere looks like this: 
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Platystemon posted:People knew that Japan existed as an island off the coast of China. Coincidentally that (a projection of the Behaim globe) looks quite a bit like that Toscanelli map mentioned above, which was part of Columbus' planning and was sent to Columbus by Toscanelli himself expressly to pitch the idea of a Western trade route to the Spice Islands. Here is the Toscanelli map overlaid over actual geography - it badly miscalculated the size of Asia.  Columbus made the matter worse by further arriving at incorrect dimensions of the Earth. Nevertheless, the fact that the ocean separating Europe and Asia was so narrow both on the Toscanelli map and the Behaim globe (which isn't just a copy of Toscanelli, as many claim) shows that the concept of its size was not well understood universally, not only by Columbus. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 09:39 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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lol at Japan* overlapping Mexico * I assume that's what Cippangu means
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Krankenstyle posted:lol at Japan* overlapping Mexico Yeah, it comes from the Mandarin Cipan-guo which literally means "Kingdom of the Rising Sun" and was brought to Europe by Marco Polo who probably learned about it during his stay in China.
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steinrokkan posted:Nevertheless, the fact that the ocean separating Europe and Asia was so narrow both on the Toscanelli map and the Behaim globe (which isn't just a copy of Toscanelli, as many claim) shows that the concept of its size was not well understood universally, not only by Columbus. They have an excuse with longitude in that without either the telescope or an accurate and portable timepiece, deduced reckoning on a sailing ship is as good as it gets, and that wasn’t very good. There is less excuse for putting Japan and Indonesia so far south.
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