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#history

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Give us a history lesson

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I finished putting together the Irish-American heritage month display and Jesus CHRIST there are so few books about Ireland in our collection?? Once more, I must say:

#history

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The Coca cola company responding to complaints in 1891

#history memes #not sure if I’ve reblogged this already tbh #oh well if so have it again

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Hey, officialunitedstates, could you give me a brief history lesson on 1880-1920?

#us history

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not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny

#history #reblog #history memes #history meme #tumblr classic

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Hold up when the fuck did this happen

#not history #seriously tho #I have zero memory of this happening

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tfw you colonize a continent looking for gold and find none but it’s okay because you can grow pot now but little do you know in like a hundred years pot will be illegal

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Ancient Egyptians over there mummifying people and hippos for their cool afterlife journey and then the Italians see and are really like “ya know what we could do with that? we could hang a crocodile from the church ceiling.”

#history #relatable history #ancient egypt #ancient taxidermy #taxidermy

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if theres ever a robber in my house i WILL come down naked and beat their ass with my sword. number one,they are caught off guard because i am buck fucking naked. number two, im attacking them with my fucking sword

#history #relatable history #celts #Picts

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Land: exists

Eminent Domain:

#history #history memes #eminent domain #memes #america #les memes

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That’s my GIRL RIGHT THERE yo go my dude

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

(via Feminism)

#history #history memes #history through memes #relatable history #history is great #history meme #relatablehistory #mademoiselle de #mademoiselle de maupin

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People: can’t we go back to the good old days where people actually took things seriously instead of doing stupid shit?

- back in the good old days -

Leonardo da Vinci: me and my bro are gonna steal a river

#history #history memes #history through memes #relatable history #history is great #history chats #history meme #relatablehistory #leonardo da vinci

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*The Great Depresso*

America: *is having internal crisis and pretending it’s fine like usual*

France: Hey. Hey America? Where’s that shipment of food? I’m still kinda in need of assistance from WWI. My people are hungry!

Germany: also about that loan...

Russia: don’t feel bad France. My people haven’t had proper food for months

France and Germany: ??? Dude you okay ???

Russia: *looks into camera like their on the office* I also committed genocide

America: *dazedly looking up* you... you did what now?

#history #history memes #history through memes #relatable history #history is great #history chats #history meme #relatablehistory #the great depression #great depression #america #france #germany #russia #ussr #WWII #post wwii

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THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518

French Dude: hey look French Dude #2 died of mysterious illness. That can’t be good.

French Dude #3: eh what’s up with his corpse? It’s like his muscles are still reciving signals and causing his limbs to jerk in a sort of post-mortem seizure.

French Dude #1: a what now?

FD#2: well you see our muscles are controlled by sort of elections impulses and so this plague seems to have-

FD#1: ha ha his corpse dabbed

FD#2: are you even listening? I’m explaining the process thisnplague seems to be taking its victims-

FD#1: Imma call this the Dancing Plague

FD#2: ...

#history #history memes #history through memes #relatable history #history is great #history chats #history meme #relatablehistory #the dancing plague #1518 #the dancing plague of 1518

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Woman: I have an idea

White Male™: hold up you can’t do that

Woman: what I’m just trying to help my society and feed my kids and-

White Male™: I’m sorry women aren’t allowed to have brains or thoughts or ideas there’s something wrong here

Woman: but I’m just-

White Male™: she must be a witch

2nd White Male™: better burn her before she has anymore ideas or something

#history #history memes #history through memes #history chats #history meme #relatablehistory #witch trials #salem witch trials #the witch trials #history is a bitch sometimes

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Thomas Jefferson: I own slaves

History: so you’re against black rights

Thomas: but wait I have a black girlfriend

History: like actually your girlfriend or-

Thomas: i took her to France with me. She could have been free if she stayed but came back with me of her own will.

History: okay not the smartest choice ever made but still-

Thomas: I put in my will for her to be set free

History: well that was vaguely human of you to-

Thomas: yeah but I died with a bunch of debt so my family sold her instead of setting her free to pay it off when I died and abandoned her

History: Thomas what the fuck kind of point are you trying to make here

#history #history memes #relatable history #history is great #history through memes #history chats #history meme #relatablehistory #thomas jefferson #sally hemings #slavery era #american revolution