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parrotiny

i want to know what bears think sometimes

mediocrechick

parrotiny

morgluxia

doublesslightpeppa-deactivated2

ofools

catfromwonder

Sylvia Ritter

pearlbody

@ayat-the-aquarius

the-letter-why-in-parenthesis

I’m not into pranking people, so I decided I’d show you some animals that look silly instead.

Andean Cock of the Rocks (ALWAYS WATCHING)

Arabian sand boas (DOING THEIR BEST)

Dik diks (SMALL?????????)

Cantor’s giant softshell turtles (SMOOTH BOYS)

Christmas tree worms (FESTIVE FRIENDS)

Saiga antelopes (I LOVE YOU BUT WHY)

Baikal seals (ROUND BOYS)

romansuggestions

is he…you know [makes motion of sucking a dick] greek?

hellenicpoliticiansuggestions

is he … you know [makes motion of bribing and murdering people for power in an oligarchic and timocratic war state] roman?

themoistplinth

things heating up in the classical civilisation fandom

historical-nonfiction

The name jaguar is derived from the Native American word yaguar, which means “he who kills with one leap.”

historical-nonfiction

tauntedoctopuses: It would be nice to know what specific Native American group/language this was from.

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, jaguar comes from the Tupi word “jaguara.”

The Tupi were a large indigenous people in Brazil, who lived along the Atlantic coast and parts of the Amazon rainforest. Some of their words made it into Portuguese, including “jaguar,” from which it was borrowed directly into English. Save for a few isolated communities, the Tupi have been wiped out by Portuguese enslavement, European diseases, and ongoing assimilation.

kayforpay

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

kayforpay

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

unclebeanbag

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.

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charlesoberonn

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

goteveryonewatchinus

Anne Frank, Audrey Hepburn, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year: 1929.

valtsv

literally anyone in the lord of the rings: oh geez we’re getting overwhelmed…we can’t hold the enemy back much longer…

legolas:

stankyleg-deactivated2918973

Me: Small but knowing

xtec

you don’t be knowing what the top shelf looks like

llama-of-pangea

my tribute to the fall of vine, the thrilling conclusion

part 1/part 2/part 3/part 4

#there are some quality vines here

l-o-t-r

“A chance for Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.”

theartofangirling

incorrect lotr quotes: (18/?)

skywalkers-daughter

A moodboard!

ridleydaisy

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) dir. George Lucas

markv5

Какие милые котята

teal-deer

unexplained-events

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

smileforthehigh-deactivated2017

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

desiremyblack

(via TumbleOn)

pearlsnapbutton

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

kiwianaroha

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

theopensea

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

thegirlthewolfate

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

archaeologistforhire

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year.

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

crazythingsfromhistory

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

fluffmugger

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians. So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least