Link me some weird wikipedia articles about history
Link me some weird wikipedia articles about history
Henry Garcia
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Angel Price
Camden Ortiz
inb4 some sperg comes in here and complains about Wikis resourcefulness. Literally anyone who does that is a shill for their private blog or some payed website with a disgusting format full of malware and pretentiousness.
Jace Allen
Noah Adams
Very strange. I have never read about the Cagots, before. They aren't really an ethnic group, but a group of outcasts by inheritance, it seems. I wonder what started the whole thing?
Jace Hernandez
Owen Nguyen
No one cares, 0/10
Very surprsing. Hell, I have never heard of it and I am french.
Smiled throughout the whole article, thank you user
Christopher Wood
This is very interesting, is there any evidence of their wrongdoing?
Charles Roberts
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Liam Davis
Fuck I gotta get me a copy of that executioners diary it sounds rad.
Ian Thomas
Ryder Long
Hunter Richardson
Apparently not, according to the scholars cited n the article.
It's compared to the caste of untouchables in India; people just learned to hate them. The upper classes and intellectuals seemed to be their only friends.
Jaxon Williams
This is what they were suposed to look like but Im not sur If this was just a weird case or all of them trully had those features
Noah Cruz
Jackson Green
I can see why no one wanted them around.
Aaron Carter
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Bulgarians get wrecked.
>The 14th century Bulgarian translation of the Manasses Chronicle numbers the prisoners at 8,000. Basil divided the prisoners into groups of 100 men, blinded 99 men in each group and left one man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home
Carson Ortiz
James Barnes
Juan Russell
can I link you my favorite wikipedia article instead
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this one is exceptionally well done
Cooper Howard
Thomas Gonzalez
>dancing epidemics
They just liked to party. Nothing wrong with that.
Angel Rodriguez
Kevin Rogers
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Well worth the read
Jason Thompson
Chase Cooper
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guy apparently lived 250 years.
Oliver Hughes
I remember when there was only one photo of him which was kind of bad and that there was some vague mention that someone somewhere claims to posses a better one. Just this once it has been delivered.
Landon Cook
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The Miracle of 1511 (Dutch: De sneeuwpoppen van 1511) was a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical and pornographic snowmen. Examples of snowmen built included a snownun that was seducing a man; a snowman and a snowwoman having sex in front of the town fountain; and a naked snowboy urinating into the mouth of a drunken snowman. There were also snow unicorns, snow mermaids, a snow dentist, snow prostitutes enticing people into the city's red light district.[1]
Among the political snowmen created were "a snow virgin with a unicorn in her lap", that was built in front of the ducal palace in Coudenberg, the home of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. This was in protest to him being absent and instead living with his aunt Margaret of Austria in Molines.[2]
Before the Miracle, there had been six weeks of cold weather. Combined with mass population growth and a large wealth discrepancy between the peasants and the ruling House of Habsburg, the locals decided to use the snowmen as a form of protest. The different socioeconomic classes each constructed different kinds of snowman. As a result, the poor would destroy snowmen built by the ruling classes.[1] Eventually, the Miracle concluded when the snow thawed during the warm following spring, which led to flooding in Brussels.[2]
Dutch poet Jan Smeken wrote about the Miracle in his poem "Dwonder van claren ijse en snee" [The miracle of pure ice and snow].[3]
Benjamin Hernandez
Damn. I had read the word cagot a few times in old books, and I heard it maybe once as an insult from an old person, but I had no idea that was the roots of it.
These ones (from the Spanish side of the border, but still) look normal, so I don't think this is what they all looked like.
Nathaniel Wilson
>Admiral Paulo Moreira da Silva, Brazil's Navy expert in the field of oceanography who had been sent to assist the diplomatic committee during the general discussions,[15] argued that for Brazil to accept the French scientific thesis that a lobster would be considered a fish when it "leaps" on the seafloor, then they would have in the same manner to accept the Brazilian premise that when a kangaroo "hops" it would be considered a bird.
Dylan Reed
Anthony Howard
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Aaron James
This «lobsters are not fishes» nonsense is just a deep rooted Brazilian conspiracy. Wake up ! They just bribed the entire field of oceanography to go along with their nonsense.
Chase Cook
More spooky stories pls
More obscure wars pls
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Leo White
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Connor Brooks
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>when your ideology is so destructive that not even cockroaches survive it
Jaxson Hughes
>was 7 feet tall
>had 24 wives
what the fuck
Chase James
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idk how well known this is but it always makes me laugh a bit
David Thompson
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>the Bolsheviks hate Lavr Kornilov so much that after he died in battle, they dug up his body and mutilated it
Christopher Myers
Jose Howard
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what the fug
James Long
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>He was granted quadruple rations but remained hungry; he would scavenge for garbage in gutters and refuse containers, eat the scraps of food left by other patients, and creep into the apothecary's room to eat the poultices. Military surgeons could not understand his appetite; Tarrare was ordered to remain in the military hospital to take part in physiological experiments designed by Dr. Courville (surgeon to the 9th Hussar Regiment) and George Didier, Baron Percy, surgeon-in-chief of the hospital.
>On another occasion Tarrare was presented with a live cat. He tore the cat's abdomen open with his teeth and drank its blood, and proceeded to eat the entire cat aside from its bones, before vomiting up its fur and skin. Following this, hospital staff offered Tarrare a variety of other animals including snakes, lizards and puppies, all of which were eaten; he also swallowed an entire eel without chewing, having first crushed its head with his teeth.
Tyler Brooks
>Tarrare was called on by Beauharnais to demonstrate his abilities before a gathering of the commanders of the Army of the Rhine. Having swallowed the box successfully, Tarrare was given a wheelbarrow filled with 30 pounds of raw bull's lungs and liver as a reward, which he immediately ate in front of the assembled generals.
the absolute madman
Camden Fisher
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>all the prisoners hated Speer because he betrayed the Reich by confessing, and Donitz thought he stabbed him in the back to get him arrested
>everyone hated Hess because he refused to do any work and constantly screamed at the guards and accused them of poisoning him
>Erich Raeder and Donitz didn't like each other, but ran the library together because they were contemptuous of the other, non-military inmates; while Donitz spent his entire sentence asserting that he was still the rightful leader of Germany
Justin Morales
Seems like the psycho wasn't just contained within Hitler and Goebbels.
Jordan Rivera
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>ywn be a US Marine punishing savages for fucking with your merchants and missionaries
Jack Green
if that's not enough, read about Ribbentrop
>chosen as the Nazi Party's diplomat because "as a travelling salesman, he was the nazi that knew the most about the world outside of Germany"
>spent 4 years in London with nothing to show for it but the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the hatred of every man in the British foreign offices
>created the "Hitler wanted peace and it was just the British government that wanted the war to start" meme to cover up his absolutely inept negotiating
>lied to Mussolini about the Pact of Steel, causing Italy to enter WW2 with a completely unprepared army, even by Italian standards
>talked Stalin and Molotov into a Soviet-German alliance against Britain, which Hitler declined because muh aryan brothers we have to kill the untermensch
Kayden Price
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He was just a young man who loved his country and was looking for adventure, wasn't too keen on Hitler himself but Germany needed him.
Jace Clark
>this kills the gun grabber
Henry Roberts
Here's something similar
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Ayden Morales
Swedes, Germans and Scots try to work together against Russians in Estonia. You don't belive what happens next!
>Wesenberg was stormed twice, but without success. Thus, the besieging forces were demoralized. In addition, supplies ran out and tensions grew after the German faction blamed the failures on a lack of Scottish support. On 17 March 1574, a brawl between German and Scottish mercenaries occurred, triggered by insults and/or unpaid ale in the canteen. First, a German officer tried to intervene, but when he was unsuccessful and the brawl turned into an open fight, de la Gardie, Tott and Ruthven arrived to the scene in person. They were however likewise attacked and fled, with Ruthven suffering severe injuries.
>When the commanders had fled the scene, Scottish mercenaries overwhelmed the German artillery, seized the guns and took aim at the German cavalry. The German cavalry charged, hit by Scottish artillery fire on their way, and cut down the Scots. The result was 30 dead Germans and 1,500 dead Scots. The German and Swedish infantry stood by without taking action, neither did the Scottish cavalry intervene Several Scottish officers were among the dead, including David Murray, Jacob Murray and George Michell. About 70 Scots escaped to the Russian forces in Wesenberg, the last historical record of them is that they were subsequently brought to Moscow.
>The siege was aborted and the army withdrawn to Reval by the end of March.
Nathan Moore
The Seventh Seal. Great film but, poor on historical accuracy.
Isaac Powell
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Makes me think of a jew friend I have. He left home at 16 and travelled the whole world by himself fucking people over.
Jaxon Howard
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Australia strikes me as a place where the Old West mythology was a reality
Landon Williams
Leo Smith
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>no one can move that ladder according to some weird ancient religious laws
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Lost my shit.
Isaac Lopez
>this ladder has never been moved, except twice when it was
so... this is the power... of Orthodoxy... impressive
Oliver Reed
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tl;dr weird Filipino fishing magnate started the whole South China Sea territorial dispute between China and various Southeast Asian countries when he founded a microstate in the Spratlys Islands with him as president and his fishing fleet a navy.
Brandon Cooper
>100km means 100km
t. the sultan of Brunei
Christopher Parker
jesus christ what a trainwreck
Xavier Hughes
>I look like the guy with the moustache
>I live in Baztan (town with cagots)
fuuuuuuck
Elijah Myers
>Malaysia has reasonable claims while everyone else claims the whole thing just to fuck around
Daniel Brown
How have I never heard of this?
Nolan Price
His story reads like that one annoying kid in elementary school who used to say his dad was in the CIA and he was training to be a secret agent.
Brayden Hill
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>The produced anthrax culture had to be dried to produce a fine powder for use as an aerosol. Large filters over the exhaust pipes were the only barriers between the anthrax dust and the outside environment. On the last Friday of March 1979 (30 March 1979), a technician removed a clogged filter while drying machines were temporarily turned off. He left a written notice, but his supervisor did not write this down in the logbook as he was supposed to do. The supervisor of the next shift did not find anything unusual in the logbook and turned the machines on. In a few hours, someone found that the filter was missing and reinstalled it.
>Had the winds been blowing in the direction of the city at that time, it could have resulted in the pathogen being spread to hundreds of thousands of people
Grayson Hernandez
You have to go back
John Sanchez
Brayden Allen
>the Free Territory of Freedomland
fuck i wasn't ready
Jeremiah Campbell
>His relationships with his wife, daughter, and son also suffered. This became evident when he started telling visitors that his wife had died (despite the fact that she was still alive) and that the woman who frequented the building was simply her ghost.
>In one notable episode, Dexter faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter's mock wake. Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving his death sufficiently.
Ayden Wright
>250 years old
>7 feet
>25 wives
Jesus
Adam Green
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That reminds me of this incident where the US Army accidentally killed 6,000 sheep in Utah.
>On 13 March 1968, an A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft flew a test mission over the Dugway Proving Ground with chemical dispensers containing the nerve agent VX. One of the dispensers was not completely emptied during the test, and as the A-4 gained altitude after its bombing run, VX trickled out in a trail behind the aircraft, drifted into Skull Valley, north of the proving ground, and settled over a huge flock of sheep.
>The sheep incident was one of the events which helped contribute to a rise in public sentiment against the U.S. Army Chemical Corps during and after the Vietnam War. Ultimately, the Chemical Corps was almost disbanded as a result.
Oliver Gonzalez
Owen Gutierrez
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Here's a doozy.
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Anyway, Wikipedia themselves have a category for Unusual articles, a lot of which are history related. So have fun.
Hunter Price
Surprisingly exiting
Cooper Powell
Brandon Morris
is that weird dog ok? He's just sleeping right?
Brayden Gonzalez
Yeah, don't worry. He just took a little nap, that's all. Being all the time under a ton of wool is like the best blanket ever!
Michael Rogers
believe it or not the /x/ sticky has a bunch of great wiki articles
Blake Clark
>DESIGNATED
>LOBSTER
>SEAFLOORS
Owen Reyes
Afrikaners in Mexico
Chase Morris
>tfw you recognize this guy because he's a character in Warhammer 40,000
Samuel Davis
Tarrare is horrifying, and something that can't be a myth as he's so well-documented
Jack Williams
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Quiet and pious janitor, who was creating a massive manuscript that was only discovered after his death. I'm sure a lot of you have heard of him, but I still find his backstory fascinating and kinda sad.
Cameron Reed
>Freedomland
Christian Murphy
Also, because this is Veeky Forums, I have to quote this part of the article.
>One idiosyncratic feature of Darger's artwork is its apparent transgenderism. Many of his subjects which appear to be girls are shown to have penises when unclothed or partially clothed. Darger biographer Jim Elledge speculates that this represents a reflection of Darger's own childhood issues with gender identity and homosexuality.[22] Darger's second novel, Crazy House, deals with these subjects more explicitly.[23]
Nathan Reed
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Owen Wilson
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>Dundas was to be elected in a simple formality, returned uncontested. This was complicated, however, when "Joseph Clayton Jennings, a barrister and reformer, arrived on the scene", making it unexpectedly a contested election, and found a person who claimed to be entitled to vote in his favour. A voter was therefore also brought in for Dundas. Dashwood, acting as the returning officer, rejected the ballot for Jennings, and Dundas was duly elected with one vote.[1][2][3]
Got any more meme elections?
Brandon Price
>Everything I can't explain is Ergotism: A Child's guide to Medieval Revisionism
Fucking tired of this
Samuel Morris
Julian Moore
>On July 6, 1956, Cloma declared to the whole world his claim and establishment of a separate government with its capital on Flat Island (also known as Patag Island).
>On July 7, 1956, after China (ROC) protested, Cloma surrendered the flag he stole to the China's embassy in Manila, and apologized officially
Kek
Jaxson Bailey
38 minutes long
Levi Gutierrez
this one's a favorite. imagine if a stupid event like this kickstarted the end of the world
Christopher Torres
bhutan once again manages to blow my mind
Asher Ward
Benjamin Diaz
Why is this read by a robot from Samurai Jack?