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probably already removed from wikipedia
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2015 12:36 |
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# ¿ May 7, 2024 18:46 |
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hard counter posted:I've read that 50% would have been the expected contemporary rate with a skilled 'physician' but I can't recall my source at the moment - odds weren't great in any case. wouldn't want to be cruel to the men you're castrating.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2016 07:37 |
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cash crab posted:I can't stop laughing about how jewy his eyes look. Wow.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2016 04:25 |
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Doffen posted:The attack delayed the Germans taking Oslo for about 24 hours, allowing the royal family and the government to flee the city, and also provided the bank of Norway with enough time to transport nearly 50 tons of gold out of the Nazi's reach. so everything important escaped
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 15:10 |
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I always wondered why people didn't just cook with seawater if they lived anywhere near the coast
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 11:17 |
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I learned reading Bill Bryson's excellent At Home: A Short History of Private Life that good black paint wasn't available until the late industrial age. All those period pictures with Victorians walking around in front of black-painted iron railings? All wrong! Might as well have cavemen riding dinosaurs in the background.
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2016 05:35 |
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Yeah! Racist. I hear you like to have race-themed breakdowns in DnD
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 06:08 |
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Lol yes let me just defend myself to you, Cumslut1895. Here in the PYF Historical Fun Fact thread. fun historical fact: Slavery good?!?!? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 06:28 |
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Prep The Bull (the one banning eating horse meat)
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2016 08:04 |
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Infyrno posted:Username/post I imagine penguin would be very oily
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2016 01:48 |
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Say Nothing posted:According to the author, Kentaro Miura, Guts from Berserk wasn't inspired by Götz. Boo! Boo this man!
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# ¿ Dec 26, 2016 01:35 |
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Hogge Wild posted:medieval conscripts are a myth Medieval Rulers Did Nothing Wrong
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2017 00:08 |
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Zero One posted:Without potatoes Matt Damon would have died on Mars. he also had a big ol' bottle of multivitamins
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2017 10:02 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Re: counter-factuals: I'm sure there must be some folks in this thread who will find this amusing. alter-factuals
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 01:06 |
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Jesus and Moses used guns to conquer the Romans
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# ¿ Apr 21, 2017 09:01 |
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PMush Perfect posted:Considering racism and slavery were a key part of the discussion... well, at least we know they weren't falsely accused. RenegadeStyle1 posted:Yeah but they probably had some weak poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABhyKEK-CDg
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# ¿ May 27, 2017 14:44 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I thought the entire thing was completely apocryphal. Even losing 150 men to blue on blue crime speaks to remarkable incompetence. No one ever wants to talk about blue-on-blue crime
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# ¿ Jul 3, 2017 11:56 |
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Plus he also did all that ethnic cleansing. So that's a plus.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2017 00:07 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I went to look up the French president who died while getting blown by his mistress and found his Wikipedia page (shorter than expected, considering that I imagine the President of France would have been quite important in world politics in the 1890s, but there's probably not the sources in English): Félix Faure. That's pretty godamn french
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# ¿ Jul 5, 2017 20:32 |
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Historical_Video.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Lvv1f5Qu4
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2017 08:12 |
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# ¿ May 7, 2024 18:46 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:i'm just kind of imagining a different world where Sol Invictus or the Mithra cult won prepares thursday roast beef
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# ¿ Aug 5, 2017 07:28 |