[burning with an urge to tell you about indigenous transgender priestess revolutionaries]
Don’t forget low quality copper
If you like those two, you should read about Khan leading the Mongols. Undeniably fascinating.
They hate it when you clown on Sparta like a smug Athenian too.
If it’s not in a song by Sabaton or Iron Maiden, it ain’t real history.
Fuck Rome and nazi Germany. Lemmie tell yous about railway history.
I learned railway history from Hell on Wheels
That’s a pretty good source to understand the zeitgeist of the whole railroad boom. It’s fictionalized but pretty truthy.
Oh, my sibling in sin, I will tell you things about railways you wouldn’t believe, like a proto-railway that played a role in the 1745 Battle of Prestonpans, or rope haulage, or how the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales was designed to constantly go downhill because it was opened in the 1830s before steam locos were both powerful enough or widespread enough to be practical.
Sit down, I’m going to tell you about how the inventor of the RORO Train Ferry died in shame.
After we hear about Carthage, sure thing
Not much to hear about Carthage 😔 (because of rome)
It all began when John Train had a great idea for a new method of transport…
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Railway history is incredible because it was very much built on personal spats between various millionaires and scam artists. Yerkes is probably my favourite example of both.
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Your write.
Yore rite. (Ancient ceremony)
I was about to write that it feels like it could be a Terry Pratchett thing.
But then I realised that he actually did it with Equal Rites.
The times of you’re.
Jaleel White
Just because I like music doesn’t mean I have to like every genre and artist.
I know it’s a meme, but this logic is 🗑️
Plus it’s like… they might know all sorts of other shit but not the one particular thing you ask about
Like famous YouTubers!
Oh, you like reading? Name every word
Aladeen
reads them from a dictionary
That’s a very good way of putting it actually.
Ancient Egypt nerds present!
Actually I am a slightly overweight bald man with a beard so Vikings are my personality
I feel attacked. But my excuse is that my mother is from Norway and my name is Bjørn.
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Bullshit! I’m an Aztec nerd!
tell me your top 3 aztec facts please
One: Women would use indigo hair dye called xiuquilitl to turn their hair blue.
Two: In Tenochtitlán human waste would be collected from public toilets for fertilizer. Thus it was someone’s job to sail the “poop canoe” to deliver night soil.
Three: Only a certain type of cacao was used as currency. Counterfeiting was rampant.
Blue hair and probably also pronouns… damn woke Aztecs! The poop canoe seems pretty ordinary to me, after all, shit is gold in an agricultural society. Then, how does one counterfeit cacao??
Even with billions of cacao beans exchanges, Aztec cacao sellers took great measures to disguise their fake cacao. According to Bernard Sahagun, a Spaniard documenting Aztec lives, cacao sellers processed fakes using hot ashes, chalk, and a generous coating of amaranth dough, wax, or avocado pits (Coe 100). To further camouflage their counterfeit cacao, sellers mixed the fake cacao with pure Theobroma cacao beans. Other cacao deception experts exploited empty shells by filling the insides with mud (De Maré).
Sahagun was one of the first westerners to document the indigenous people of Mexico.
Have you heard of Karl 12 of sweden ?!!
/Swedish racists
Should I know about the other 11 before digging into that one?
Nah they’re just more or less the usual ashole king. The 12th was a complete douche, think angry spoiled kid, went on a war rampage in russia/poland and grabbed some land, got wrecked (but that’s just bad luck eh right?) went to invade norway, got shot in the head lol. Such a great king.
I’ll have you know I’ve listened to all episodes of the Revolutions podcast and remember nothing.
As a young nerd, I was happy that the national broadcaster decided to show history documentaries every week.
I was kind of disappointed that it devolved into a World War 2 Hour. But I guess it was inevitable.
(At least we don’t have the History Channel, otherwise known as the H—)
Love how this basically just sent up a flare for all the NDs with Specific Hyperfixations
