Historical Memes from Before Things Were Like This

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Eric Lund
Mar 20, 2020 2:00 PM EDT

Here's a smattering of historically themed memes, wtf facts and fun moments. Here are some more history memes to get your past on, or this hilarious and intriguing Tumblr thread that actually makes history fun. For a real intriguing one, here's a tumblr thread that stresses how important mundane people are to understanding history.

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  • 01
    Chemical compound - WHO WOULD WIN? Carthage, an ancient empire Some salt
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  • 02
    Cartoon - Say mhave no'idea9s What Lam doing
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  • 03
    Adaptation - Romulus: What should we name this great city? Remus: Reme. Romulus: *sharpening spear* I have a better idea.
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  • 04
    Forehead - When the Pope says you can't divorce your wife so you separate from the church and make your own religion. Improvise. Adapt. Overcome
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    Photo caption - 10,000 highly trained, heavily armored fresh and fed French knights when they see the straving English army at Agincourt in 1415: I'm sorry, is this some sort of peasant joke that I'm too rich to understand? Few thousand starving English Longbowmen: CK I'm about to end this man's whole career
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    Text - brhuge brhuge e ebrhuge vaen @brhuge You may think you're cool, but you'll never be as cool as a Mongolian shepard with an AK-47 and a pet snow leopard brhuge @brhuge vaen
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    People - German Army sharing technologies with Italian troops, 1942 (colorized)
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    Text - theoddmentemporium: Hand of Glory The Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a man who has been hanged, often specified as being the left (Latin: sinister) hand, or else, if the man were hanged for murder, the hand that "did the deed." According to old European beliefs, a candle made of the fat from a malefactor who died on the gallows, lighted and placed (as if in a candlestick) in the Hand of Glory, which comes from the same man as the fat in the candle - would have rendered mot
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    Line - #Egyptian archaeologists have dashed hopes that a newly- discovered ancient sarcophagus might contain the remains of Al- exander the Great, finding instead a mummified family swimming in red liquid ab.co/203UlaA Ross O'Donovan O @RubberNi. · 3h v Replying to @abcnews We thought it'd be this fantastic historical discovery, but all we got was untold nightmares from the depths of hell. Darn, we'll get em next time guys. 27 25 461
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    Event - Me: "I'll go out for a beer or 2 but I'm not attacking and pillaging Constantinople" *15 beers later*
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    Text - When the Mongols say they're planning on invading Japan I'm gonna stop you right there
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    Text - kidouyuuto how did they learn to translate languages into other languages how did they know which words meant what HOW DID TH brigwife English Person: *Points at an apple* Apple French Person: Non c'est une pomme *800 years of war* verbivore8642 Fun fact: There are a lot of rivers in the UK named "avon" because the Romans arrived and asked the Celts what the rivers were called. The Celts answered "avon." "Avon" is just the Celtic word for river. thejazzykittykat Fan Fact #2: When Spanish
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    Text - unclefather Can't drink the sarcophagus juice, can't eat the tomb cheese, what even is the point of archaeology ABC News O @abcnews World's oldest cheese found in Egyptian tomb – but it may be filled with a deadly disease ab.co/2VRG3IH
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    Cartoon - Never forget, that on this day in 793AD, a group of Vikings selflessly rescued the treasures of Lindisfarne from a great fire, after the monks mysteriously and spontaneously died.
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    Skeleton - But first, let me take a selfie
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    Cartoon - When you try to do a Matrix dodge during a swordfight but it's not very effective
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