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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Praise be to Urkle!
Love how this basically just sent up a flare for all the NDs with Specific Hyperfixations
If you like those two, you should read about Khan leading the Mongols. Undeniably fascinating.
Jokes on you, I know a lot about the Spanish Civil War, Second Italo-Ethiopian War, and Second Sino-Japanese War too.
You should check out the founding of the Mexican government, lots of walks through the betrayal garden.
I’ll have you know I’ve listened to all episodes of the Revolutions podcast and remember nothing.
They’re
Your write.
Jaleel White
Oh boy am I about to go off on the lead up to ww1
their ≠ they’re
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.
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.
It all began when John Train had a great idea for a new method of transport…
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.
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.
After we hear about Carthage, sure thing
Not much to hear about Carthage 😔 (because of rome)
include ottomans, Netherlands, Mongolia and Japan please
China is based though, if you like or love Chinese history I consider you to be cool as fuck, you are in fact cool if you love Chinese history, Chinese history is so fun educative and it’s just so good
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—)
