Serious Frolicking posted:

history is cool because it makes it clear that nostalgia is a lie and the good old days were just as lovely as the present

Ein cooler Typ posted:

since op said History with a capital H we have to assume he means the TV channel and not the academic subject

Poetic Justice posted:

The hit HBO show "Rome" was really good. Also
Betty White is older than sliced bread. (Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented sliced bread in 1928, while Betty White was born in 1922. Bread had existed prior to that , just not in the pre-sliced form.)

The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, women were not allowed to vote.(The infamous cold streak by the Chicago Cubs baseball team extends back to 1908, when they won their second World Series. Women in the US acquired the right to vote in 1920.)

Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of "The Fresh Prince."(When James Avery (Uncle Phil) started on The Fresh Prince, he was 45-years-old. Today, Will Smith is slightly older than 45.)

Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids.(The Great Pyramid was built cerca 2560 BC, while Cleopatra lived around 30 BC. The first Pizza Hut opened in 1958, which is about 500 years closer.)

There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between Tyrannosaurus Rex and you. (The Stegosaurus lived 150 million years ago, while the T-Rex lived only 65 million years ago.)

France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars came out.(Star Wars premiered in theaters in May 1977. The last execution by guillotine took place September 10th of the same year.)

The first pyramids were built while the woolly mammoth was still alive.(While most mammoths died out 10,000 years ago, a small population still survived until 1650 BC. By that point, Egypt was halfway through its empire, and the Giza Pyramids were already 1000 years old.)

Harvard University was founded before there was even calculus. (Harvard is the oldest higher education institution in the US, founded in 1636. Calculus wasn't derived until later in the 17th century, with the work of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton.)

When Warner Brothers formed, the Ottoman Empire was still a thing. (Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire spanned from 1299 to 1923, when Turkey became an independent nation.)

The jewelry company Tiffany & Co. has been around longer than Italy. (Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young founded Tiffany & Young in 1837, while Italy didn't become a country until 1861.)

Oxford University is older than the Aztecs (Teaching started in Oxford as early as 1096, and by 1249, the University was officially founded. The Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlán in 1325.)

The oldest living person's birth is closer to the signing of the Constitution than present day. (Misao Okawa was born in 1898, an astonishing 115 years ago. The Constitution was signed in 1787, which makes her life 4 years closer to the historic Philadelphia convention than to today.)

There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. (Some of the bowhead whales living off the coast of Alaska are well over 200 years old. They were born well before Moby Dick was written in 1851, and might have been the very animals to inspire the tale.)

The fax machine was invented the same year people were traveling the Oregon Trail.(The first fax machine was developed by Alexander Bain in 1843, meanwhile The Great Migration began across America.)

But whatever, op, don't do lsd who cares.

Cigstomper58 posted:

Trail of Tears is gonna be great. Tie a dollar to a fishing line on a super hot day and just lead people on as fast as I can make them walk. I'll try to do this at the Seminole hard rock for the proper demographic.

Poetic Justice posted:

Ipad?

kikkelivelho posted:

FuhrerHat posted:

there we actually only ~50 mongol soldiers but they just paraded them back and forth in different outfits

kikkelivelho posted:

The Mongol armies actually had tens of thousands of soldiers split into heavy lancers, light mounted cavalry and auxiliary infantry. But don't let that stop you from spreading this bull

whoflungpoop posted:

troop numbers from history are often comically exaggerated. its doubtful that the mongols ever fielded more than three, perhaps four dozen soldiers on any given campaign

kikkelivelho posted:

Here's the Mongol Empire at it's strongest. Many historians have argued that it was THE greatest empire in history, even eclipsing Rome itself in size, wealth and power. The Mongol armies were incredibly strong and enemies often surrendered even before the battle had started. Contrary to popular believes however the Mongols were quite peaceful and merciful as long as their rule was not questioned. There's an incredible amount of intrigue here, certainly enough for ten different full length TV shows. If you really want to like history, this is without a doubt the place to start. There really is nothing as amazing as this.