>Commodus (ruled AD 180–192) >Commodus was the son of the philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius >Vain and pleasure-seeking, Commodus virtually bankrupted the Roman treasury and he sought to fill it up again by having wealthy citizens executed for treason so he could confiscate their property. >Soon, people began plotting against him for real, including his own sister. The plots were foiled, however, and Commodus set about executing still more people, either because they were conspiring against him or because he thought they might do so in the future. Eventually the Praetorian prefect and the emperor's own court chamberlain hired a professional athlete to strangle Commodus in the bath.
>The Roman Emperor Commodus once collected all the disabled and little people he could find and ordered them to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers in the Colosseum.
So this the following of this helpful thread . Learning about history is one of the best way to elevate your soul. If you have any interesting/forgotten/weird/funny or important historical event/fact/character, post it so we can dig it further ourselves.
> Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, then forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
> In the 13th century 30,000 children went on what is known as the Children's Crusade. They were convinced God would allow them to take back the Holy Land without incident, but most died on the journey or were sold into slavery.
>The United States and Allied forces were preparing to deploy mustard gas in Europe during the second world war. A cargo vessel made port in Italy carrying large volumes of gas but was bombed by Stukas raiding the port, this caused a massive gas release and massive civilian death toll.
>Before Caesar was assassinated he planned to invade the Parthian empire and was collecting resources in order to do so. This was to avenge the death of Marcus Crassus, who led a previous expedition with his son and died by getting molten gold poured down his throat.
>Marcus crassus was one of the most richest men in history, and had a nickname Dives, meaning "Rich". His total net worth was around 200 million sesterce, or the annual spending of the Roman Empire at the time. One of the ways he made his wealth was his own firefighting company. He would set fire to a tenament or building, wait for it to burn for a bit, buy it from the owner and neighbors at firesale prices, and then put out the fire
>The United States and Allied forces were preparing to deploy mustard gas in Europe during the second world war. A cargo vessel made port in Italy carrying large volumes of gas but was bombed by Stukas raiding the port, this caused a massive gas release and massive civilian death toll.
My grampa was there,we was miles away from the explosion but it still menaged to throw him under a Parker car
>The Constitution of the Confederate States of America banned the slave trade.
>When the American Civil War started, Confederate Robert E. Lee owned no slaves. Union general U.S. Grant did.
>England’s King George I was actually German
>In 1838, General Antonio López de Santa Anna (President of Mexico) had his leg amputated after his ankle was destroyed by canon-fire. He ordered a full military burial for it.
>At the start of World War I, the US Airforce had only 18 pilots and 5 - 12 airplanes.
>The Parliament of Iceland is the oldest still acting parliament in the world. It was established in 930.
Lucas Cox
>buy it from the owner and neighbors at firesale prices, and then put out the fire he'd buy it while it was on fire?
Gabriel Hughes
>The Roman Emperor Commodus once collected all the disabled and little people he could find and ordered them to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers in the Colosseum.
>If you count various executive actions as part of a chain through successive presidents, the US federal government has been in a continoius state of emergency since 1973
>Otto Skorzeny aka the most bad ass commando to ever live, landed in Hungary with less than 50 men and forced an entire government collapse, singlehandedly extending the war for months (Operation Panzerfaust)
>A federal judge in Nevada has signed an order approprating land from a Nevada family that has lived in the area since the 1870's, ostensibly for a expansion of Area 51, the first such expansion in 20 years
Brayden Miller
>He would set fire to a tenament or building, wait for it to burn for a bit, buy it from the owner and neighbors at firesale prices, and then put out the fire That's the most ancap thing I have ever read.
Jason Jackson
shouldn't this thread be in /his/?
Luis Powell
bump because nice thread
Michael Perry
>During the Middle Ages, cataract surgery was performed with a thick needle. The procedure involved pushing the cornea to the back of the eye.
>It was once believed that if a person did not pray to St. Fiacre (the “protector against hemorrhoids”) they would suffer from, you guessed it, hemorrhoids. If you were one of those unlucky fellows, you’d be sent off to the monks—who would put a red-hot iron up your anus. Nasty, but the less painful alternative was equally less effective: they’d send you to go and sit on St. Fiacre’s famous rock, the spot where the seventh-century Irish monk was miraculously cured of his hemorrhoids. It was for this reason that throughout the Middle Ages, hemorrhoids were called “Saint Fiacre’s illness.”
>Trepanning involved boring a small hole into the skull to expose the dura mater, the outer membrane of the brain. The practice was believed to alleviate pressure and treat health problems localized within the head, though it was also thought to cure epilepsy, migraines, and mental disorders and were a common “fix” for more physical problems such as skull fractures. Needless to say, such exposure of the brain to airborne germs would often be fatal.
>Doctors of the medieval period believed in things called “humors.” The word “humors” referred to certain fluids found in the body: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. “Humorism” was developed from the musings of Greek and Roman physicians who believed an excess or deficiency of any of the four humors would strongly influence a person’s health. For some reason, in the Middle Ages, blood—and excess blood in particular—was often seen as the cause of multiple ailments. Therefore, doctors would remove large quantities of blood from a person’s veins in the hope that it would cure them. The two main ways of doing this were leeching and venesection. .
Jason Ramirez
If they didn't sell he could just let it burn to the ground y'see?
Juan Flores
Bumping for interest, great threads!
Andrew Gutierrez
>Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons. They also provided top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the USSR.
>For decades, the Rosenbergs' sons Michael and Robert Meeropol and many other defenders maintained that Julius and Ethel were innocent of spying on their country and victims of Cold War paranoia. After the fall of the Soviet Union, much information concerning them was declassified, including a trove of decoded Soviet cables, code-named VENONA, which detailed Julius's role as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets and Ethel's role as an accessory. Their sons' current position is that Julius was legally guilty of the conspiracy charge, though not of atomic spying, while Ethel was only generally aware of his activities.
Isaac Hughes
"On a related note, when the Soviet archives were made available in the 1990s they also showed that Senator McCarthy was completely right that the US government, and the Hollywood establishment, were riddled with Soviet infiltrators.
I read somewhere that McCarthy's activism started when a CIA whistleblower came to him and told him that there were communists everywhere and no one was doing anything about it. So McCarthy started naming names, and at first got recognition for it because someone was finally having the balls to name the communists. Then the CIA realised where McCarthy was getting his information from, and instead of just shutting down the source started feeding him false information, which would lead McCarthy to discredit himself.
Makes you think when you realise that maybe McCarthy wasn't the alcoholic bully the media painted him as, but one man fighting against a corrupt system who turned to drinking after the traitors managed to discredit him."
Thomas Rodriguez
How can the son of Marcus Aurelius be this much of a loser?
Parker Sanchez
>During the interwar period, the United States fielded two 'flying' aircraft carriers.
892: Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney strapped the head of his defeated foe, Máel Brigte, to his horse's saddle. Brigte's teeth rubbed against his leg as he rode, causing a fatal infection.
1016: Edmund Ironside was stabbed whilst on a toilet, by an assassin hiding underneath.
1131: Crown Prince Philip of France died while riding through Paris, when his horse tripped over a black pig running out of a dung heap.[31]
1258: Al-Musta'sim, the last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, was executed by his Mongol captors by being rolled up in a rug and then trampled by horses
1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumoured to have been murdered by having a horn pushed into his anus through which a red-hot iron was inserted, burning out his internal organs without marking his body.[33][34] However, there is no real academic consensus on the manner of Edward II's death and it has been plausibly argued that the story is propaganda
1387: Charles II of Navarre, known as "Charles the Bad". The contemporary chronicler Froissart relates that the king, suffering from illness in old age, was ordered by his physician to be tightly sewn into a linen sheet soaked in distilled spirits. The highly flammable sheet accidentally caught fire and Charles later died of his injuries. Froissart considered the horrific death to be God's judgment upon the king
Charles Howard
He was initially a decent ruler but quickly became unpopular. In other words he couldn't handle the burden of affairs of State.
And if Meditations is an indicator it was quite a mess Marcus Aurelius had to deal with already.
Colton Morris
Marcus Aurelius spent most of his life waging war and traveling the the length and breadth of the Empire. He died away from home, somewhere in Anatolia.
Commodus is one of the best examples of how wrong it is raising fatherless boys.
Chase Cooper
Another super corrupt and scandalous whiteoid faggot politician you say who's greed and degeneracy has run an empire into the ground you say?
hehe, history repeats dont it.
whiteoids should be forbidden from taking position of political power down to not letting them even be cops or take part in the military.
Gabriel Hill
>Meanwhile in the islamic world
>Shit >Just absolute shit.
>0 education >0 art >0 tech production >0 science >export nothing but murder, oil and more islam.
The occasional falling empire is the price we pay for living at the top.
Angel Cox
you literally used Arabic numbers to do your math in, you sick in the head , culture stealing, whiteoid subhuman.
Ryan Turner
>If you were one of those unlucky fellows, you’d be sent off to the monks—who would put a red-hot iron up your anus.
bull fucking shit
Hunter Lee
I don't think Stoicism makes for good fathering.
Lucas Johnson
How much tnt can a freighter carry Before somebody deems the effort a bad idea?
Kayden Lewis
>whiteoid fucking kek. I shit on muhammad though hope you get droned faggot
Grayson Miller
>T-this o-one t-t-t-time th-thousands of years a-ago Arabs contributed to society, that totally justifies t-the cancerous ideology they invented later on.
Literally as retarded as a deadbeat heroin addict aids infected trailer-living older brother bragging to his wall-street working mansion owning hot-wife-having younger brother about that one time he taught him how to hadouken in Street Fighter.
You're so right Achmed, that one thing unrelated to the cult of Islam arabs did completely justifies every retarded idea you have for the rest of all stable time in the universe.
Robert Butler
>an anglo is nothing but a shit talking stooge of no worth
as if nobody knows this by now, even the rest of yurope hate you vermin.
But I think the middle east will get to you first and exterminate your disease kind off this world.
Which should have happened long ago
Oliver Powell
this terrifies the sandnigger
Dylan Turner
This actually gets delivered to the anglo from Allah with no love.
Benjamin Rogers
Who are you quoting?
Europe (France and Germanistan) hates us because we left their gay little club.
The middle east can't even sort it's own retarded shit out, let alone take and hold lands in the first world - all your creeping cancerous ideology does is shit-up every place it touches and makes every last metric of progress, happiness and productivity freefall into nothingness.
Which isn't because you're arabs. It's because you're indoctrinated by the shackles of Islam. You could have been a world superpower thousands of years ago, but you've been dragging around the ball and chain of that disgusting, laughably worthless cult for so long you've convinced yourselves it's your ally.
For as long as Islam is clasped to the bleeding ankles of Arabs, you will never. Ever. Under any circumstances.
Be anything of worth, respect or fear.
You are a joke that doesn't even know it's a joke.
Enjoy your goat.
Carson Green
pic of muhammad
Jayden Williams
>Blow up a bus >Stab a few people >Shoot some shit up.
Damn, you're totally on an equal footing with the legion of automated killing machines that have unequivocally locked down all air superiority over every islamic land.
You've got us by the balls achmed!
Asher Barnes
tldr
next time keep your perfidious bullshit short because its not worth wasting my time reading.
Kayden Cooper
Arabs are so inbred little sandfaggots lol
Matthew Myers
He wasn't as bad as people portray him. Remember all the stories about him were written right after his death by people he wanted dead. Imagine how Napoleon would have been portrayed if Anglos destroyed all of France and described the man. Or Hitler rn for that matter.
Tyler Fisher
Romans used shithouse walls as an analog Sup Forums
Charles Mitchell
Actually those were invented by Indians. Indians are our cousins in the Indo European family. Fuck off.
Jackson Cook
every time I read something from a perfidious anglo it's nothing but bullshit, half assed intimidation, half assed subversion.
it's like reading what a homosexual teenager just typed.
These subhumans over there are definitely not right in the head.
Adam Sanders
>It's okay bro, i know full well you Islam-riddled poor souls are basically completely illiterate.
All those big words and long blocks of text probably scare you more than the drones.
Landon Hughes
>Ōkawa Haruyoshi, who was seven years old and the son of the Sankebetsu village mayor at the time of the incident, grew up to become a prolific bear hunter. He swore an oath to kill ten bears for every victim of the attack. By the time he reached the age of 62, he had killed 102 bears. He then retired and constructed the bear harm cenotaph (熊害慰霊碑 Yūgai Ireihi), a shrine where people can pray for the dead villagers.
>Takayoshi, Haruyoshi's son, in 1980—after an eight-year chase—hunted down a 500 kg brown bear who was nicknamed the north sea Tarō (北海太郎 Hokkai Tarō).
Alpha as fuck
Brandon Wood
Always found this story funny >Amsterdam, 1920s >Group of artists establishes Rappaile Partij (Rabble Party) >Campaign for city government by proposing free alcohol, allowing fishing in the park and abolishing compulsory voting >Take some vagabond, make him top candidate >He's actually elected >Never served because he got arrested for being drunk in public
Hunter James
I bet he is rolling in his grave at the fact that modern japan is a bitch vassal to the anglo sphere.
suck a dick tojo
Owen Nguyen
If you're intimidated by the sheer facts of the world, then that's your problem.
That feeling is the human part of you that understands just how retarded the cancer of Islam is for your body, your soul, your family and your civilisation.
But facing that is too much, so you gotta double-down!
If i'm going to be 100% brutally honest with you, buddy. I feel sorry for you. I genuinely do. You probably didn't make any of these decisions yourself, you've just landed in a lions den and been indoctrinated by adults whom also aren't truly to blame.
I'm sorry your mind has been abused by a viral meme that has gotten out of hand.
You don't deserve this. None of you arabs do.
Bentley Cooper
>2017 >Not using Nagarjuna's quaternary logic
Brody Taylor
>Commodus once collected all the disabled and little people he could find and ordered them to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers in the Colosseum.
Fucking awesome! I need to re-watch the director's cut of Gladiator.
Dominic Rivera
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Luke Taylor
>You literally used Indian numbers to do your math, you educated, culture creating Anglo ubermensch. FTFY.
Evan Johnson
Also good is the correspondence between the Zaporozhian Cossacks and the Ottoman Sultan
Letter of Sultan to Cossacks >Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks: >As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians - I command you, the Zaporozhian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks. >Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV
Reply of the Cossacks to the Sultan >Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan! >O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother. >Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother! >So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse! >Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.
Gabriel Barnes
this type of thing would send me into a rage but knowing that there are over 10 jihadist training camps in Iraq that have been assembled since their invasion and are putting out jihadists who will be wrecking havock in your cities and countries these next few decades puts me at ease.
We will rip you all out a new asshole
Jackson Johnson
>Before Caesar was assassinated he planned to invade the Parthian empire and was collecting resources in order to do so. This was to avenge the death of Marcus Crassus, who led a previous expedition with his son and died by getting molten gold poured down his throat. Wasn't Caesar actually planning on conquering Parthia and then marching north to attack the Germanic tribes in the rear?
Logan Lopez
You and your Religion of Retardism aint going to do shit aside from disturb the peace occasionally.
All whilst your nations are slowly converted into glass by the unending rain of missiles and bombs delivered by drones fuelled by the oil you sell us.
In 100 years the middle east will be one giant mirror.
Evan Mitchell
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Henry Butler
>and he sought to fill it up again by having wealthy citizens executed for treason so he could confiscate their property.
That feel when you realize leftist politics are just a ripoff of a ripoff of a ripoff
Parker Gray
this is true, and of other infamous emperors as well. their biographies were written by their enemies who had just killed them.
Asher Edwards
A "military" government desu?
Michael Ramirez
the indians invented them. they're called arab numerals only because that's who transmitted them to us.
Aiden Morales
The entire Arauco war, it lasted 300 years and you don't know a single date of it.
Nathaniel Mitchell
He also collected all the dwarfs, cripples, and freaks he could find in Rome and had them brought to the Colosseum where they were ordered to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers. Commodus was widely reckoned to be mentally unstable.
OMG IT'S FUCKIN' TRUE!!
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN!
Christian Parker
I can believe that. The poo's may not have toilets figured out, but they have a pretty impressive history of cleverness, both scientific and philosophical.
Oh the joys of being protected by a range of inhospitable mountains to a degree they couldn't be easily brainwashed early on by mudslimes.
Nathan Morris
>the crick in our dick
Andrew Baker
yeah my ass fuck off pajeet you don't get to be aryan either
Grayson Lee
The "Dark Ages" were caused by the never ending raids by muslims in the Mediterranean. They only ended on 9/11 1683 when the king of Poland finally threw back the Ottoman Turks at the gates of Vienna. This is known as the "Siege of Vienna" and afterwards the muslims slunk back to their desert shit holes, and Europe finally started to prosper.
Xerxes sent an emissary to Sparta, asking them to submit, and telling them that if Persia conquered them, their wives and children would be slaves. Sparta responded with one word: "If."
Josiah Martin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Suiyang >All the soldiers cried, and they did not want to eat. Zhang Xun ordered them to eat the flesh. Afterwards, they caught the women in the city. After the women were run out, they turned to old and young males. 20,000 to 30,000 people were eaten. People always remained loyal.
Camden Peterson
When Spartans departed for war, their mothers would point to their shields saying "Son, either with this or on this". Meaning they would either be victorious (and not flee dropping their shields) or die (corpses were brought back on shields)
When asked "How far do Sparta's boundaries stretch?" King Agesilaus showed his spear and replied "As far as this can reach"
A Spartan mother said to her son who had fleed the battle, after showing herself naked to him: "In making your escape, where is it your going to? Do you plan to creep back in here where you emerged from?"
city of Sparta located in governate of Laconia, where is from comes the expression "laconic" - using few words to expain things
Isaiah Sullivan
>9/11 what did they mean with this?
Nicholas Long
Flaming arrows can't melt castle walls
Dylan Davis
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karánsebes >During the conflict, some infantry began shouting "Turci! Turci!" ("Turks! Turks!"). The hussars fled the scene, thinking that the Ottoman army’s attack was imminent. Most of the infantry also ran away; the army comprised Austrians, Serbs, Croats, and Italians from Lombardy, plus other minorities, many of whom could not understand each other. While it is not clear which one of these groups did so, they gave the false warning without telling the others, who promptly fled. The situation was made worse when officers, in an attempt to restore order, shouted "Halt! Halt!" which was misheard by soldiers with no knowledge of German as "Allah! Allah!" the power of multiculturalism
Carson Brown
Spartan admiral Lysander defeated the Athenians in 405 BC. He sent a message to Sparta "Athens is taken". When the Spartan Lysander finally entered Athens triumphantly and put an end to the 27 year Peloponnesian War, he sent a message back to to Sparta that read "Athens is taken". The reply read: "All you needed to say was 'Taken'."
Dominic Cook
The two Greek virtues for men were wit and courage.
Look around that filthy fucking desert land called the Middle East, every single country of importance is a vassal to the west.
You're so fucking deluded it's glorious to behold. Mohammed was a rapist pedophile -- may ham and sausage blessings be upon her
Gavin Wright
> 10 jihadist (the most hilarious of memes btw) training camps Ahahahahahahahaha
We kill you disgusting mudslimes like the vermin you are... by the tens of thousands. It's fucking hilarious hearing you say anything you could possibly do what even remotely affect the balance of power.
The whole fucking world laughs at you fucking inbred retards!
Hudson Rivera
>believing Nero was a bad Emperor
James Robinson
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Austin Jackson
There's a Netflix series my dude
Aaron Lopez
your bothers and sisters aren't worth the lead we riddle their bodies with
>By 1213 King John of England had alienated practically everybody it was possible for a medieval English king to alienate: His barons, the guilds, the knights, the peasantry, the Church, the Emperor, the King of France. He had previously alienated the Pope, too — was under a decree of excommunication from 1209 to 1213 — and to save his crown had made a humiliating submission to papal authority that rankled bitterly.
>Desperate to hold on to his position and confound his numerous enemies, John decided on a dramatic course of action: He would embrace Islam and turn England into a Moslem country! He thereupon dispatched a delegation to the most powerful Moslem ruler he knew of. This happened to be the Emir of Morocco, who rejoiced in the name Abu Abdullah Mohammed al-Nasir and was the fourth ruler of the fanatically Shi'ite Muwahid dynasty.
>Mohammed was not in the best frame of mind to receive John's ambassadors. As well as his dominions in North Africa, he held a swathe of land in southern Spain. However, the Christian Spanish had inflicted a crushing defeat on him the previous year at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, and he was plotting his counterattack. At this difficult point in his fortunes, three Englishmen showed up at his court: the knights Thomas Hardington and Ralph FitzNicholas, and Master Robert, a London cleric. (A tonsured monk in a habit, padding into the presence of a ferocious Islamic warrior! I wonder what Master Robert had done back at the abbey to draw that short straw!) The envoys told Mohammed that John "would voluntarily give up to him himself and his kingdom, and if he pleased would hold it as tributary from him; and that he would also abandon the Christian faith, which he considered false, and would faithfully adhere to the law of the prophet Mohammed." Hardington also gave a glowing account of England, of the richness of its soil and the skill and industry of its people.
John Taylor
>Chingis chan send messenger to make trade deal in arab world. Muchammed firend execudet him and send his head back to chingis khan. Mongols took some seriuos revenge that sand niggers still afraid of mongols. There was pyramids of sculs , all thrown out koran painted river with ink and etc.
