Fun facts

The first action of WW1 or the Western Front? I thought the Austrians kicked it off by shelling Belgrade.

The first battle of the Serbian campaign starts on August 15

>bad luck
>survived two atomic bombs
user please.

This

You can see it in his eyes. The feels.

Ya, I thought of that. Kind of like the old joke about the man whose sports car is driven off a cliff by his mother in law.

I wonder what happened to the missing guy.

"Fun" fact.

>You failed to meet our clients? Mr. Yamaguchi, why?
>What do you mean the whole town was destroyed? That's bullshit-

Pretty much. It's an interesting story...

history.com/news/the-man-who-survived-two-atomic-bombs

Likely got lost and died trying to find his way home. Got lost can be interpreted, but something obviously stopped him from returning home on his own.

>At around 6:00 am on 2 August 1914, Leutnant Albert Mayer and his small cavalry patrol illegally crossed the French border. They did not meet resistance, as the French had moved their troops back 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the border, to avoid provoking the Germans and to show good faith in their attempts to avoid war. Twice that morning, as the German party advanced further into France, they exchanged shots with small groups of French infantry.
fucking germs

>but muhh nationalism
>muhh everyone was equal in starting the war
>muhh harsh versailles

Or maybe he did return but kept hiding?

The meme of Germany being innocent for WW1 is very recent

Germany is the country that caused WW1
The current revisionism about it and the "everyone/no one is to blame" myth are due to the fact that during the Cold War, Germany was a valuable ally so they had to be rehabilitated
Since they couldn't be excused for WW2 because of the 6 gorillions, it was decided to excuse their behavior in WW1 instead since barely anyone cared about that war anymore

And this is how now, millions of uneducated retards unironically believe that France and Russia declared war first and poor dindu Germany was merely defending itself and its allies

I think it stems from the pacifism of the 20s and 30s.

People like Chamberlain and Daladier have a lot of innocent blood on their hands.

>I base my opinion on a simplistic png I found on a moldovian porn site

Didn't France refused to declare neutrality as requested by Germany?

There's hardly anything more objective than an accurate timeline of events, but feel free to explain us that Germany is innocent because your grandfather was 14/88th German

This is fucking false. The revisionism has got an upswing in the last 5 years. Don't talk shit.

Didn't Germany refused to declare neutrality as requested by Russia?

Greta Garbo, the famous old Hollywood star, was a complete shut-in.

Does it include russian mobilization?
Does it include which of the points the serbs didn't wish to accept in the ultimatum?

It's the fucking austrian's fault. It always is

And surprisingly, he lived to his 90s.

Daily reminder

>Russia messed with A-H sphere of influence first
>Russia intervened on a foreign war with no other justification than "muh historic ties"
>Russia talked shit knowing France would be dragged to any conflict with Germany

How is Germany backing his only ally on a war of aggression part of le evil kraut plan for world conquest?

He became Chancellor of Germany.

how did he survive? He was really just out of range of the nukes?

More importantly, was the first thing he said to the supervisor after the bombs hit "I told you so"?

How would I make it rain with this?

Guy was a war profiteer, fuck him.

President Dwight D Eisenhower was the first president to be put in office without being in any political office prior to running and winning the 1952 general election of the US

>Couto Misto (Portuguese: Couto Misto [ˈko(w)tu ˈmisto], Galician: Couto Mixto, Spanish: Coto Mixto) was an independent microstate on the border between Spain and Portugal. It was composed of the villages of Santiago de Rubiás, Rubiás (now in the Spanish municipality of Calvos de Randín), and Meaus (now in the Spanish municipality of Baltar), all located in the Salas Valley, Ourense, Galicia. The territory of the Couto Misto also included a small uninhabited strip now part of the Portuguese municipality of Montalegre.

>As a result of complex medieval manorial relations, this land eluded both Portuguese and Spanish control for centuries, actually operating as a sovereign state of its own right until the 1864 Treaty of Lisbon that partitioned the territory between Spain (which annexed most of the land including the three villages) and Portugal (which remained with a smaller uninhabited strip of land). As a de facto independent country, the inhabitants of the Couto Misto had numerous privileges, including exemption from military service and taxes, and could grant asylum to outsiders and deny access to any foreign military contingent.

The original atomic bombs in all honesty weren't that powerful. The reason they did so much damage to Hiroshima is because it was primarily a wood building city, so the shockwave and heat did 90% of the damage. Nagasaki got off relatively easy.

He was also the only president that I know of that both the Democrats and Republicans approached to ask him to be their candidate. He went with the Republicans purely because the Democrats had already been in power for almost 20 years, and he believed the American people needed a change of scenery.

The combined forces of both Western and Eastern halves of the Roman Empire had embarked on what is to be last major campaign of Roman history in AD 468. The Vandal Kingdom, ruled by Gaiseric, who sacked Rome itself in 455, was a target of the combined Roman war efforts. The Vandals have taken hold of one of the richest provinces of Western Roman Empire - Africa, with the the city of Carthage as their capital.

Emperors Leo I in the East, and Anthemius in the West, joined their forces. Several contemporary chronicles claim that huge resources have been assembled by Rome, Procopius for example, says Leo prepared 100,000 men for the campaign as well as thirteen hundred centenaria of gold to fund the war efforts. Other sources mention a huge fleet of ships,At the time it was the most expensive naval fleet in history.

But instead of attacking, general Basiliscus anchored his fleet about 45 miles from Carthage, at Promontorium Mercurii, what is now known as Cape Bon, and waited.
Genseric sent an embassy to the Roman ships promising an easy surrender and buckets of gold. We need only a small truce before the actual surrender can happen, the Vandal embassy said. Just so that we can get the whole idea of giving up an okay by the rest of the Vandals. Basiliscus agreed,

Five days later, night fell on the ancient city of Carthage. The wind picked up, blowing towards the Roman fleet. Roman soldiers saw something strange flicker across the water

The ships in the Vandal harbor were on fire. At once the wind hit the sails of the burning ships, blowing them towards the Roman fleet.

The result was that the Roman fleet--the largest group of ships gathered for battle ever--was crippled. Over half of its ships had been destroyed.
Only eight years later, the Westren Empire fell.

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Heh it looks like the guy behind hitler is grabbing hitlers crotch with his really long arm.

I was making fun of his "fun fact" that 3 ppl died you idiot.

This. Early atomic bombs were only had blast yields measured in kilotons. Modern ones reach megatons.

How many Americans does it take to raise a flag?

The last time the Chicago Cubs won a world series, the Ottoman and Hapsburg Empires were still around.

>tfw the cubs would have been better off disbanding along with the Empires

And one of them, a native american, would return to America and be shunned by his tribe and the white society and die drowned facedown in a ditch drunk as fuck because of the rejection and PTSD.

Why would they reject him?

Because he acted white. Featherniggers still reject their own if they act white. The proper feathernigger these days is one who acts like an actual nigger.

Dying drunk face down in the mud is symbolic of current injun culture, maybe he was trying to prove himself

most underrated Pres in US history IMO. Basically the only reason he's not up with Kennedy and Reagan in public opinion is that he did everything so understatedly and didnt make himself the center of his administration.

can't breathe

>Kennedy
He also wasn't shot in the face by a commie. That does wonders for your public image.

>the CIA, freemasons, Mafia and Bilderberg Group working together
>"commie"

I dont think so Tim

Fun fact, French can't handle the banter

>In an incident that took place 8 May 1945 at Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque was presented with a defiant group of captured Frenchmen of the SS Charlemagne Division. He asked them why they wore a German uniform, to which one of them replied by asking why Leclerc wore an American one. Leclerc told his men to get rid of them. That was taken as a death sentence. The group of French Waffen-SS men was summarily executed by the RMT without any form of military tribunal procedure, and their bodies left where they fell until an American burial team collected them.

>unironically believing in JFK conspiracies
lad...

Ike was considered kind of a do-nothing president at the time, but nowadays is considered one of the best since we can see that the things he put in place were slow burners that were very beneficial

Wouldn't be Veeky Forums without a conspiracy theory.

He lived in a courthouse?

Every bad and good thing of the 60's was a result of Ike's policies.

He was a slowburner for sure.

Were Americans the greatest humanitarians of the war? Everyone else had such bad blood.

Nah, we did fucked up shit too. Raped French women pretty often, took Jap heads/teeth/fingers/ears/literally anything as trophies, killed German who surrendered on the spot sometimes. You just don't hear about it as much because America was the "white knight" of the war. Plus, everything bad we did we made up for after the war was over by quite literally rebuilding Europe.

It's like the battle planners were looking for this guy.

He also didn't care about party politics which let him accomplish a lot.

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Wait I think that position belongs to US Grant. He went from being a 4-star general to commander in chief.

I think you have it backwards? I thought the original was posed and after someone stole the flag they retook the photo without posing

My Great Grandmother was born the year the Cubs won last, 1908, in Chicago. She just died last year, and lived her entire life in Chicago whilst living through
>WW1
>The Great Influenza
>Roaring 20's
>Great Depression
>WW2
>Korean War
>Vietnam War
>Fall of the Berlin Wall
>9/11
>The death of Bin Laden

And the Cubs just kept fucking up

He was really killed by a man who had divested from the space industries two days before Kennedy's "We choose to go to the moon" speech.

Augustus was so insecure about his height that he wore lifts

Rongorongo is a truly bizarre story, more so than a fun fact. Completely unattested before European contact, bears no resemblance to any other script in the world, and was almost totally forgotten by the time Europeans actually began to give a fuck about deciphering it.

>at Brandywine, the famous rifle corps commander Colonel Patrick Ferguson saw an elegant, mounted officer attended by a hussar. Despite having the splendid figure dead in his sights, Ferguson couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger and called out to the enemy rider to retreat while he could. That officer was likely George Washington.

Fun fact the first romans was ruled by kings who was black. Tarquinius superbus the last black king of rome was overthrown by the whiteys who ruled rome for a couple of centuries. Until sulla the great black general overthrew the whiteys and exterminated them in the social war. Now blacks was running rome again and a whitey wasnt seen in the region again until it was sacked by alaric and the whiteys eventually killed or sent the black romans to africa. Julius caesar was black

>poor WEWUZ bait
I expected better from you, Veeky Forums.

get buck first bro

Zachary Taylor went directly from the military to the Presidency and never held political office.

Damnit, are we British just too nice for our own good or something? We seem to have a habit of letting our future enemies live - everyone knows the Hitler story, and now Washington as well.

I only see 4 soldiers

Anyone have the screencap about how every philosophical school, all the contradicting opinions and axioms, all agree that Rousseau is shit?

It's from the thread where everyone took this "which philosopher are you" quiz and Rousseau was dead last for everyone.