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Top 10 based president moments? 5 if there hasn’t been 10

1. trump high on something saying he's going to kiss every man and woman at his rally, leading his homophobic supporters to awkwardly lower their signs

2. reagan dying

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ok history lesson motherfucker

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maybe you’d like benjamin tallmadge’s signature on your blog

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via

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Also one time he was supposed to write a violin and piano duet, and he wrote the violin part, but he didn’t really feel like writing the piano part, or was too lazy etc. When the concert came up (he played the piano while a fiend played the violin) he set up a blank piece of paper (so people would think he was reading music) and improvised. After the concert he wrote it down so it could be published

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okay i’ve reblogged this before but can we just give a shoutout to the orchestra that had to sightread the overture to an audience at the premiere of an opera

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i treat my body like a temple but i’m a 16th century calvinist 

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Well ladies, gents, honorable everybodies… seeing as the DRRR–Revolutionary War edition got a considerable amount of attention, I figured I’d give it another go.

Featuring (in order)

Thomas Jefferson

Ben Franklin

John Adams

George Washington

Marquis de la Fayette

Nathanael Greene

John Eager Howard

Henry Lee

William Washington

Banastre Tarleton

Benedict Arnold

Peggy Shippen

Charles Cornwallis

Louis XVI

George III

You can also view it in its non-choppy glory here

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The old history fandom at its finest~

[mailmom]

HEY HISTORY FOLKS

I MAKING A HISTORY YT CHANNEL

WHERE I TEACH

HISTORY

please sub its for a project-

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPp9fuoPINKFuAj6FyaDX_w

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you learn something new every day

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Marilyn Monroe: Haaaaappy biiiiiirthdaaaay Mr. President ;)

John F. Kennedy:  

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America: “Nothing can save us from the Great Depression now.”

World War 2:

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How Obama joked: here is a video of my birth *shows clip from Lion King*

How Trump jokes: haha my vice president wants to kill all the gay people

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Hey future historians, please note that although tumblr is a fountain of hyberbolic sarcasm, there is exactly 0% sarcasm or hyperbole in this post.

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Tumblr in the 1700s:

Women arent allowed to own property so having slaves is actually a really radical and feminist act

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seduce me with ur history knowledge 

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vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft

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During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.

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raphael, the renaissance painter, literally fucked himself to death

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during the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after ONE of them slept with another man.

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The earths carbon levels fell by 700 million tons because Genghis Khan killed so many people

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King James (the one known for revising the Bible) liked to watch women give birth. That’s where the “tradition” of women laying on their backs to give birth comes from.

Previous to that it was common for women to have chairs with holes in them and straw underneath, so they could sit on this special chair and let gravity help with the birthing process.

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Spicy foods were thought to increase libido and cause children to masturbate. To prevent kids from touching themselves at night, a man named Kellogg invented the blandest combination of cereals, marketed it at kids, and called it Corn Flakes

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At the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers had run out of ammo against a large group of the Confederate Army. In a panic, the Union soldiers sprinted at them, screaming, with only bayonets drawn. The entire Confederate Army that was present turned and ran away in fear, not knowing that they had literally no ammunition.

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When the Roman Emperor Caligula went to invade Britain he stood on the coast of Gaul with his army and suddenly declared war on Neptune, God of the Sea. He had his men collect sea shells from the shore as “spoils from the Ocean”.

Oh and he appointed his horse to the senate.

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During the Austro-Prussian war of 1868, Liechtenstein sent over an army of 80 people, but ended up coming back with 81 people because they befriended a guy on the other side.

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People refused to send art and sculptures to be displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair because of Chicago’s history with fire. They had to fireproof the Fine Arts building to get people to agree to loan them their art. A year after the fair closed most of the grounds were destroyed by fire but the Fine Arts building survived. It’s now the Museum of Science and Industry.

[naphula]

The carbon emissions thing from Ghenghis Khan is not the whole story. He also planted trees wherever he conquered land because he liked trees and thought they were important. He conquered enough to make an impact on the global climate.

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Radu III, brother of Vlad III( Vlad the Impaler)  nearly killed Mehmed II, the future Sultan of the Ottoman’s, after Mehmed invited him up to his chambers. Radu, seemingly unaware that the offer was sexual in nature, was startled when Mehmed embraced and then tried to kiss him. Radu stabbed the prince in the leg, then ran and hid in a tree. They later became lovers, and maintained a relationship for the rest of their lives

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Just googled the last one because holy shit that’s magnificent and seemed to good to be true, but not only did it actually happen, but I also learned that radu was known as “radu the beautiful”

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fun date idea: stab him in the leg

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me sitting at my teachers desk asking for a grade fix

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