Veritable Hokum

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What you might wear if you were one of the fancyest, pantsiest mercenaries of the 1500′s: a landsknecht! Source (and a longer write-up on the origins of codpieces, among other things): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/landsknecht/

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Source (and, as usual, descriptions of all those glowing folks up there): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-egyptian-god-family-tree/

EDIT: Oh also! I’m selling posters now! Including this one! http://store.veritablehokum.com/products/the-egyptian-god-family-tree

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Source (and a thought on economics that links to a picture of Keanu Reeves): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/tulip-mania/

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Source (and more info/trivia on the colors pictured above): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/mummy-brown-and-other-historical-colors/

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Source (and a longer explanation of how they actually did it): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/voltaire-broke-the-lottery/ Oh also. Hi! This tumblr now has more than 250 followers! I honestly never would have expected that. Like, one time a few years ago I made a tumblr and I got like, five followers? Maybe? So you guys are great and I feel great and thank you so much and I’ll definitely keep putting out silly history pictures.

~Korwin

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Source (and little write-ups on all the people/sort-of-people/skulls pictured): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/pre-humans-a-primer/

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Source (and extended descriptions of everyone pictured): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-norse-god-family-tree/

EDIT: Hey also! I’m selling posters now! Including one of this one! http://store.veritablehokum.com/collections/posters/products/the-norse-god-family-tree

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Source (and slightly longer descriptions of the true events this comic is based on): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/management-secrets-of-genghis-khan/

Genghis Khan makes me disappointed in modern fictional villains. He’s like a decades-long natural disaster, with a death-toll that would fit in with a list of history’s worst plagues, and he did it in the 1200′s. Writers gotta get their acts together.

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Source (and links to a bunch of other weird historical radioactive health products): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/radithor/

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Source: http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-emu-war/

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Source: http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/irish-potato-famine/

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Greek Gods

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I’m Korwin! I made this! It’s got like a million billion notes! I don’t even know what to do with myself.

Um. My actual non-tumblr site is www.VeritableHokum.com.

Oh and here’s where I wrote up little profiles of all those people up there: http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-greek-god-family-tree/

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EDIT: HEY ALSO! I sell posters now! Including one of this one! http://store.veritablehokum.com/collections/posters/products/the-greek-god-family-tree Source (and written profiles on everyone pictured): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-greek-god-family-tree/

Some kind soul posted a screencapped version of this from my site, and I only noticed today when suddenly hundreds of Tumblr folks arrived looking for more content. Like I actually got emails asking for more.

So anyway here I am! Excited and terrified and at your service. And I hope I don’t break any unwritten rules or anything while I’m figuring this whole Tumblr thing out.

Love, Korwin

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Source (and serious discussion of a conspiracy theory I probably made up about Frederick the Great): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/potato-ii-potato-rises/This is part 2 out of 3 of me spending more time than anyone expected on the history of potatoes.

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Source: http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/when-the-us-almost-nuked-north-carolina/Also, 15 followers! I AM A TUMBLR GOD

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Source: http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/potato-begins/

The first week I had my comic up, I started a poll on what to spend multiple comics explaining. More or less everyone voted for “A Vegetable” so I got stuck reading about potatoes for like three weeks.

This is part 1.

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Source (which also contains a link to the most fabulous photo of Liberace I’ve ever seen seriously he looks like a flamingo): http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/what-to-wear-in-1785-2/

I keep accidentally posting these to my own Tumblr, which has literally no posts on it. If you’d like to see a totally empty default Tumblr occasionally post and delete comics... korwinbriggs.tumblr.com