History Memes

@ellisjrosen

Top left: abdication of the German Emperor and proclamation of the Republic by Philipp Scheidemann, 1918

For context, Zionism and Nazism are strongly linked and have been supportive of each other before, during, and after WW2 and the Holocaust..

Context

Context: During the second Punic War, Hannibal kinda just vibed on the Italian peninsula for 5 years making alliances that weren’t very stable and not doing anything except cause chaos.

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Simziana

i couldn’t find a ww2 version, so i had to make this myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberians (in present day Spain/Portugal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iberia (in present day Georgia)

We all know which one is cooler.

Thanks Mughal guy 👌

and then he retired to the shire to grow cabbage. the end.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas(ine)_Hall

I greatly recommend Ada Palmer’s “Inventing the Renaissance” if you have a lot of time, mild history literacy, and an interest in the Renaissance even passing. She talks a lot about Nick the practical statesmen who just didn’t want to see Florence get repeatedly invaded, conquered, and looted.

Lore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Makuka_Nkoloso

During those times they used to carry drinking water in leather bags. They were crossing a river when the emperor fell from is horse. Nizam took a leather bag, filled it with air, and used it as a makeshift life raft.