What are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?
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They Might Be Giants probably wrote more than one.
I can't think of one specifically about math, unless you wanna count the Advil bit at the beginning of Til My Head Falls Off or the "count the arms the legs and heads and then divide by five" part of Certain People I Could Name. Or most of the tracks on Here Come the 123s, but those are more about numbers than math itself.
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The last execution by guillotine in France happened while Star Wars A New Hope was already in theaters.
And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
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Wasn't the 'exodus' just 5 families or something?
Wasn't it more of an eviction?
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Yep IME they often think it's ancient history though, they don't realise how recent it is
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I'm only 30 and gay men my parents' age were few and far between when I was a kid. You didn't have old trans people who were open about their life unless they were either sex workers or exceptional enough to be in the public eye. Damn near every lesbian my parents' age was some kind of psychologically broken or she wasn't really involved in the gay community.
The survivors are still around. Anyone who hasn't listened to them should while they're still here because the clock is ticking and hard lives often arent long ones.
Also anyone interested should listen to ths podcast Making Gay Historty which is interviews with influential queer people, many of which were done during the height of aids
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I think many people lump him in with the Italian Renaissance, because the name. And many people don't know quite when the Renaissance happened.
All of this makes it more confusing, not less
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And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
Christopher Lee?
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This was very surprising after having seen a few Western movies from the 1940s. They were already making movies about the period which was in living memory for a lot of people.
I suppose it makes some sense. We were making 1970s throwback shows and movies as early as the 1990s.
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There were humans who lived through both the final fall of the (eastern half of) the Roman Empire (May 29, 1453) and the European discovery of the Americas (October 12, 1492). The time between these two critical milestones in European history seems like it should have been much longer than 39 years, 4 months, and 13 days.
Romans saw the Americas
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Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year, which made them 3 years younger than Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe
Julius Caesar and Cleopatra died 40-30 years before the birth of Jesus Christ
Well, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra were an item, so it is not that surprising they were contemporary.
I knew that Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were less than two months apart with their birthdays (21 Apr 1926 vs. 1 Jun 1926), but it was always a bit surreal. Can you imagine a 80 year old Marilyn Monroe in 2006?
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And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
He was at the last public excecution which happened in 1939, after this one they were still done but not publicly
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The German ship Blücher was sunk during WW2 by a Whitehead Torpedo.
Buffalo Bill likely passed within a few hundred yards of one such torpedo while visiting Britain.
Horse noises
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The fax machine was invented almost 2 decades before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Also an eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln talked about it on a TV game show.
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Nintendo was founded the same year that hitler was born.
The Brooklyn bridge was being built when Custer’s last stand took place.
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We were so close to a neo roman Republic but instead we got America. You've ruined my day fuck you
Yeah, fuck Mehmet the second amirite guys?
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He was at the last public excecution which happened in 1939, after this one they were still done but not publicly
I stand corrected.
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Christopher Lee?
Autocorrect lol
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Nintendo was founded the same year that hitler was born.
The Brooklyn bridge was being built when Custer’s last stand took place.
The last one just feels like a docudrama
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Yeah, fuck Mehmet the second amirite guys?
I blame pope innocent the third personally
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Although they are both stories based on historical events that have been embellished, the Trojan war and the Hebrews leaving Egypt very well could have been happening at the same time (around 1180 BCE)
The pyramids in Egypt were built before, during and after Noah's flood was supposed to be killing everyone.
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I blame pope innocent the third personally
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Don't hate on my man Innocent III, he said he was against attacking Christians and excommunicated the crusader army for attacking Zara. The sore loser Alexios IV Angelos offered the crusader army too much to ignore (from Wikipedia):
There, Alexios IV offered to pay the entire debt owed to the Venetians, give 200,000 silver marks to the crusaders, 10,000 Byzantine professional troops for the Crusade, the maintenance of 500 knights in the Holy Land, the service of the Byzantine navy to transport the Crusader Army to Egypt, and the placement of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the authority of the Pope, if they would sail to Constantinople and topple the reigning emperor Alexios III Angelos, brother of Isaac II.
That fucker got ousted by the public one year later and didn't deliver anything so he essentially scammed the whole crusade. The other parts of the army not simping for Venetian and Thessalonian rat plans just went straight to Acre instead.
