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doodlebugs: Feb 18, 2015; by Lowtax

Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who fought for the Japanese Army, the Soviet Army and the German Wehrmacht.

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

# ¿ Nov 7, 2015 01:19

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 07:23

doodlebugs: Feb 18, 2015; by Lowtax

Anosmoman posted:

Not to be confused with the Principality of Sealand in the North Sea.

or the principality of Hutt

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

# ¿ Nov 7, 2015 05:29

doodlebugs: Feb 18, 2015; by Lowtax

Communist Zombie posted:

Didnt his rampaging also gently caress them up so bad that they only recently (last 50 years) got back up to pre Khan population levels?

He killed 75% of the population and his wife was also named Bort.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2015 02:42

doodlebugs: Feb 18, 2015; by Lowtax

Matthias Ulungura took prisoner the first Japanese soldier captured on Australian soil.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-24/war-hero-matthias-ulungura-honoured-with-statue/7542520

"So he crept behind a tree ... and then he just ran and took the gun off him and he poked him with his tomahawk and said to him 'stick em up, I'm Hopalong Cassidy'."

# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 14:15

doodlebugs: Feb 18, 2015; by Lowtax

this website has pictures and videos from the past.

http://www.yourememberthat.com/

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 10:37

doodlebugs: Feb 18, 2015; by Lowtax

David Adams made a bunch of cool documenteries about various countries and their history

http://davidadamsfilms.com.au/

He was in Afganistan shortly before they blew up their Buddhas.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2016 09:40

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 07:23

doodlebugs: Feb 18, 2015; by Lowtax

FuhrerHat posted:

I'm gonna use this opportunity to rehash in hopes of discovery the Roman Dodecahedron.

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

Hundreds of these things have been found in modernity from all over the (formerly Roman) world, and it's likely many more exist or did exist before being re-purposed.

Problem is: While they make an interesting decoration now, nobody has a definitive idea of what they used to be for. One would think it makes a fine standard of measurement in an age without the metric system, except for that they frequently came in non-standard sizes.

It really bothers me to not understand a particular engineering choice. I'll go to lengths to dig up technical diagrams of my desktop stapler so I can find out why the engineer designed a particular lever like they did. I must know why these exist.

they may have been used to make gloves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76AvV601yJ0

# ¿ Nov 23, 2016 13:21

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