History Nerd

This blog is dedicated to history, nerd-related things, and education.

[twinktorturer]

studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday

[thedronesneedyou]

i'll never live down the time i was talking with a friend and i said "given recent events". my friend said "what recent events?" and i had to reply "the Protestant Reformation"

[opossum-in-cat-disguise]

was talking to friends about "recent" fashion trends and they said they didn't remember that being a trend, and so asked when it was trending. i casually answered "the 19th century!" like the absolute idiot i am

[depsidase]

[noartnowritingsorry]

Fucking THIS.

[accelerationist-king-piccolo]

[it-begins-with-rain]

The greatest video since “The History of Japan”

[queenofperv]

#this goes through so many stages of sounding like#the speaker has#anything from#an italian accent to a spanish accent to a german accent to a swedish accent to an icelandic accent xD#to my ears at least#aka how english would sound if it made sense like the rest of us#english can’t even blame it on ‘having a lot of vowel sounds’ cause swedish has a similar amount (or arguably more)#the difference is that swedish has a proper system and Rules#for when the letter becomes a different sound#in swedish how it’s written is what you get it’s straight forward#english is just put together with duct tape and a prayer (via @erasedcitizen2)

[jonphaedrus]

@patrexes

[thornheart-needs-a-break]

Suddenly in this, modern English sounds a lot more like Middle English. And what’s funny to me is that, because of this, some of the words in the Shakespeare selection become much closer to what the original pronunciation in the late 16th and early 17th century sounded like.

[garadinervi]

Franca Sonnino, Libro grande bianco, 1997 [Photo: Daniele Delonti. Repetto Gallery, London]

[maisonderriere]

[socialistexan]

This spreads around every 4 years, but I’ve never felt it more in my soul than I have in 2020.

[bookaddict24-7]

“I will gladly accept any and all books, however. A person can never have too much reading material. Especially on a fall or winter evening.”

— Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco 

[girlactionfigure]

Link / Link

[lemonsharks]

“How would a chicken wear pants?”

- Richard Beale, 1784

[vbartilucci]

Thank you, Richard Beale, for making our opinion of the past slightly more ridiculous.

[urhajos]

How Humans Would Look If We Had Various Animals’ Bone Structures - Gap filling illustrations by Satoshi Kawasaki

[outofcontextbiodiagrams]

Wow what a great and yet horrifying way to illustrate comparative anatomy. I’m in awe. These are brilliant and extremely accurate and I kind of hate looking at them for too long. Look at that turtle one. That is exactly how a turtle skeleton is weird. I’ve seen illustrations like these before but never executed so well.

[the-worm-man]

I saw the turtle and immediately knew I was not gonna like this post

[scoutsmoocrew]

Inuits in the Arctic can survive perfectly on a plant based diet 😤

[virginiaisforhaters]

indigenous hunting is like, the ONE kind of hunting that shouldnt offend anyone and yet

listen, i fucking love whales. i do. i have advocated against cetacean captivity and whale hunting since i was like 13. i HATE whale hunting. but have you ever seen the prices for food in a grocery store in indigenous areas, if they even have one? 

i can guarantee no vegan has ever paid $22 usd for a bag of grapes, and you cannot farm that far north. they can forage for some foods, but its not enough to sustain themselves and get a nutritionally complete diet. this isnt just cultural or religious practices (although cultural and religious practices are significant and shouldnt be stripped from them), its literal survival. indigenous people hunt in a very sustainable way (a single bowhead whale can feed an entire community for a year), they arent out here killing a bear just to hang it on their wall. they are trying to survive. subsistence hunting by native tribes is 100% morally correct, even if (like me) the thought of animals dying makes you sad. fight against the japanese whaling fleets who kill hundreds of whales under the guise of research and then sell the meat. fight against wealthy americans who kill animals just to stuff them and put them on their wall. fight against seaworld and their disgusting cetacean captivity practices. but dont come at native people who depend on subsistence hunting to survive. fucking colonizers. 

[lyricwritesprose]

Discourse entirely to the side, I’m here for a little girl who hears, “This is going to be dinner for us,” and just tries to take a bite out of the tail.  I mean, that’s peak toddler logic, right there.  Relatable to any parent ever.

(Also, indigenous practices are not equivalent to trophy hunting and thirty dollar bags of grapes are nothing short of fucking appalling.  But mostly cute toddler.)

[teaboot]

Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

[teaboot]

They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her

[edgar-allan-possum]

I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.

[sam-keeper]

So can we talk about the absolutely stunning duplicity going on here?

[lettucekitty]

…that’s cheating!

[arokanjitatsumi-deactivated2014]

HOLY SHIT

[fandomsandfeminism]

That is some DELIBERATELY EVIL data representation. Where is the super villain that designed this fucking graph?

[bogleech]

“Okay murders spiked by like well over 1000% but if we turn the graph THIS way, it’s like they went DOWN! HOORAYYYY!!!”

[tempest-caller]

For anyone confused: the red represents the murder rate. Look at the numbers at the y axis. The graph is upside down because, normally, a graph starts at 0 and then goes up, but this one ends at 0.

[laura491]

As we put it in German: never trust statistics you haven’t manipulated yourself

[antique-scarecrow]

this is fucking disgusting

[mckitterick]

There, I fixed it.

[oh-snap-pro-choice]

Holy fuck this is utterly vile.

This is why I believe everyone should have a stats class in highschool. People can moan about math all the way want but things like this affect not only your life but society itself. Being able to read graphs properly, understand statistics… It frees you from so much.

[coffee-teach-wine]

Holy shit. Saving this to use in AP Gov.

[nordic-at-heart]

Today on “rules of English language I didn’t realise were a thing until someone pointed it out”

[penroseparticle]

I read a fanfic once where the writer played with adjective order to make the person speaking sound weird and wrong and dangerous somehow and it absolutely fucking worked

[matematickcom]

😂😂👌🤣

[onpoli]

The Ford government says no teacher will lose their job involuntarily, but documents obtained by CityNews paint a different picture. Cristina Howorun with why secondary school teachers are bracing for cuts.

[onpoli]

The Ford government says no teacher will lose their job involuntarily, but documents obtained by CityNews paint a different picture. Cristina Howorun with why secondary school teachers are bracing for cuts.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Charlie Angus Grills Facebook on Disrespect for Canadian Law

International Grand Committee, May 28, 2019