dravarian26
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Post by dravarian26 on Jun 10, 2011 4:27:48 GMT -6
While talking on the minecraft server, the topic of boys being assossiated with blue and girls being associated with pink came up. I revealed to much disbelief than before WWII boy stuff pink was and girl stuff was blue. The thought being that pink was a watered down form of red which symbolized strength and battle and other manly things. While blue was just kind of dainty and weak. This all changed when Hitler and his Nazi sorters started giving all the people they didn't like a classification based on their crimes such as being a jew, or having different political ideologies. As you can see, homosexuals were identified with a pink triangle. This led most of the world to associate the color pink with more effeminate things. So in conclusion you have Hitler to thank for all you blue baby junk if you're a guy, and it turns out all those stupid shirts saying pink is manly, were absolutely correct, 70 years ago. I think stories like this are pretty cool, and if anyone else knows some cool history junk that not many people know about, Why not share with the rest of us?
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Post by Cabi.net on Jun 10, 2011 10:40:33 GMT -6
Yessss, history thread!
History is one of my interests. I have no idea why though. I started reading history books when I was young and I never really stopped. The only "problem" was that all the books my school had were English history books. I never really figured out why though. Anyway, because of that I now know more English history than Irish.
Which is good because Irish history is boring.
Right now I am reading "The World at War", a book adaptation of the BBC series. I want to learn more about the First World War though. Any recommendations?
Cool history junk? Well, as you may or may not know, Ireland has a really bad track record of rebellions. Most, if not all of Irish history between 1166 and 1941 was Ireland trying for freedom. One of the worst examples is the Young Irelanders rebellion of 1848, while the potato blight was still causing a famine.
Allow me to quote from Wikipedia.
Yep.
The best thing is though, my textbook refers to this as the "Battle of Widow McCormak's cabbage patch."
Not exactly Gettysburg, is it?
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Post by daveshn on Jun 10, 2011 13:08:35 GMT -6
Meet the man who Chuck Norris calls 'Sir'. Simo Häyhä, the deadliest sniper in history, who killed more than 500 Soviet soldiers in the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland, and then bagged another 200 more with his submachine gun. Wanna know how long that war lasted? A hundred and five days. This guy even got the greatest nickname ever: "White Death" and he deserves it. Simo never used a telescopic lens on his gun so that he was a smaller target and to avoid revealing reflections from the lens, kept snow in his mouth to keep his breath from being seen, and, to make him even more badas s, he was shot in the head with an exploding round and lost a chunk of his face, but lived and prospered until he was 97. Now, you might be asking as to what sort of hard-discipline military family did this guy come from? He didn't. He was a Finnish farmer who "did what he was told as well as he could." After the war, he hunted moose and bred dogs. P.S. He shot the guy who shot him in the face.
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Post by Mucho The Soybean Lover on Jun 10, 2011 15:03:23 GMT -6
If the laws of nature would allow it, I'd bare that man's children. I've had a bit of a interest in history, but I don't really know anything interesting.
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Post by Gooman on Jun 10, 2011 16:44:19 GMT -6
During World War Two, the British wanted to comandeer the French fleet in the Meditterranean to keep it out of German hands. The French commanders refused to hand the ship over. Over 1000 French casualties followed.
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Post by daveshn on Jun 10, 2011 18:49:56 GMT -6
If we're going to do history, we should be citing our sources. Even if it's just Wikipedia.
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Post by Gooman on Jun 11, 2011 8:51:39 GMT -6
I actually learned that from an episode of Secrets of World War Two on the Military Channel, so I don't really have a link for you...
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dravarian26
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Post by dravarian26 on Jun 11, 2011 11:58:04 GMT -6
Awesome stuff so far. In terms of people having stuff in their head I happen to know one extremely awesome survivor. Phineas Gage. Phineas Gage was some kind of construction guy that was working on blasting through a mountain in the late 1800s (as if thats not awesome enough). Normally he would make a hole put some gunpowder in in, then put some sand in, and pack it down with a rod. Unfortunately he forgot the sand causing a spark which caused the gunpowder to explode. I whink this amazing diagram I made with explain everything else quite well. Now, most people would just die, but Phineas Gage was smart. He went home, then waited for a doctor to see him. The doctor stated that: "I first noticed the wound upon the head before I alighted from my carriage, the pulsations of the brain being very distinct. Mr. Gage, during the time I was examining this wound, was relating the manner in which he was injured to the bystanders... Mr. Gage persisted in saying that the bar went through his head .... Mr. G. got up and vomited; the effort of vomiting pressed out about half a teacupful of the brain, which fell upon the floor."Apparently this ws too much for the doctor to handle, and another doctor was brought in. He noticed a few odd things as well: "...the patient bore his sufferings with the most heroic firmness. He recognized me at once, and said he hoped he was not much hurt. He seemed to be perfectly conscious, but was getting exhausted from the hemorrhage. Pulse 60, and regular."After this, Gage fell in and out of a coma, while his family prepared everything needed for the funeral. But he was still alive after 2 month and he seemed fine. He joined the circus for a while, due to being let off from his construction job, since he had a few personality problems after missing some of his brain. When he got back to normal he moved to Chile and drove a stagecoach. He lived for 12 years after the accident. Here's a song about him by the guys I get most of my random knowledge from. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGl5SUB8IXM&feature=relmfu
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Post by Cabi.net on Jun 14, 2011 17:37:15 GMT -6
I remember reading about that guy a couple of years ago. I was amazed. I remember that the guy went through a massive personality change after the accident. He used to be happy and optimistic but then he became angry an whored his hole (hurr) out to freak shows and scientists.
Tangently related: I just bought three history books to keep me entertained on my flight to America. One on WWI, one on WWII and one on Vietnam. Should be interesting.
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Post by chaoman45 on Jun 14, 2011 20:50:43 GMT -6
If people watch "Oh! What a Lovely War!" they can learn about WWI in a surreal setting.
Pearl Harbor had a second incident in 1944, the first underwater colour photograph was taken in the 20s, and the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (Enola Gay) was built within a matter of miles from where I live.
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dravarian26
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Post by dravarian26 on Jun 16, 2011 8:51:03 GMT -6
Yeah cab, the personality problems were a bigger reason he couldn't get a job anywhere, not the actually hole itself. And since this is *random* history, I'm not even gonna try to transition from a previous post. www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.htmlNikola Tesla. Awesome Name for an awesome guy. I'm sure most of you have heard of him, or at least have heard of Tesla Coils. This article describes exactly how how awesome he was way better than I ever could. So read it. Note: the thread seems to be shifting to more of an awesome people from the past thing (mostly cause of me). just wanted to let you know that if you put down a person, they should probably be dead in order to be considered historical.
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Post by Zombie Clown on Jun 16, 2011 17:14:59 GMT -6
Anyone recognise the name Marvin Heemeyer if not you may remember his rampage he went on in his fully armored 30 ton Bulldozer, fitted out with guns. thats right, this guy went on a destruction rampage in a bulldozer with armour and guns. He was a man who had a simple life he was the owner of a muffler sales shop, till government kicked him off his land as allegations of corruption sprung up and were denied, This man snapped and built a killer bulldozer or "Killdozer" as it was so aptly named. He managed to destroy 13 buildings costing more than 700 Million in damage. He committed suicide in his tank, after it got stuck in a shallow basement. it took 2 hours to stop him and oxyacetylene torch and a crane. 12 hours it took them before they could get it open. They decided to destroy the killdozer separating into multiple pieces and throwing them into several junk yard all over the states. interesting life I must say. Source: www.damninteresting.com/the-wrath-of-the-killdozer/#more-972
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Post by daveshn on Jun 21, 2011 17:08:59 GMT -6
Take every letter of the name "Freud" and move it up 3 letters. It becomes "Cobra". The male phallic region has three parts, two testis and a penis, as is often humorously referred as a "snake".
Project mindscrew is now complete.
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