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marzipanandminutiae · 2 years

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“this would kill a medieval peasant” “that would kill a medieval peasant”

listen those light-up faux branches and flower sprays from mid-range mall kiosks would give a Victorian aesthete coma-inducing orgasms and that is a fact

#history #victorian #shitpost #history memes #history humor #aesthetic movement

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chaotic-archaeologist · 1 year

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When there are holes in the historical record

#he speaks #history humor #academic humor #academic problems

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themuseumlady · 1 month

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we are sorting the mannequins! it has started me so many times!

the museum is currently littered with mannequin parts and bodies as we work to sort our exhibit mannequins - which is exciting!! but also extraordinarily unnerving as I keep running into mannequins that are not where I expect them to be

here are some of the less scary (newer) ones next to my archive entrance

unfortunately I can't post the torsos and heads on the first floor (the ones being decommissioned) for privacy reasons. I wish I could though, because it is hard to put into words how genuinely unnerving these figures are.

immediately upon entering the museum each day I am greeted by a distant hoard of torsos, limbs, and heads decorated in obscenely dramatic makeup - the mannequins having been taken apart for ease of transport down the stairs. This is actually my first time seeing the faces of many of these figures, during the exhibit season they were covered with stockings as the makeup did not suit the clothing displayed. Which was frankly also pretty terrifying, seeing just the clear ghost of a hidden face underneath the fabric

a part of me feels bad for the ones we are disposing of?? they have spent their career in this institution, helping us display history, and now their future is wholly unknown

-- but also they are the type of model that do pose a threat to delicate historical clothing (damn you articulated arms that can pinch and tear), so I am glad we have found the means to upgrade --

ANYWHO - despite my terror the museum is once again filled with life! we are preparing for our opening, building exhibits, and diving back in to in-person projects! :)

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punstars · 1 year

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#puns #punny #pun #punstars #funny #humor #history humor #jokes #anne boleyn

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troythecatfish · 4 months

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voluptuarian · 11 months

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tag yourself: early modern revolutions

#this thousand year old meme format may be dead to YOU #but it lives on in my heart #i claim no credit for any of the meme pics of course #tag yourself meme #tag yourself #english civil war #the glorious revolution #oliver cromwell #american revolution #george washington #french revolution #maximillian robespierre #haitian revolution #toussaint louverture #history jokes #history humor #history memes

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acrossthewavesoftime · 2 months

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I sat down for a cup of tea and realised that the podcast I'm listening to while sipping my mid-morning cuppa is about the Boston Tea Party. I consciously selected the podcast, I consciously made the tea, but it took a while for me to make that connection and realise the inherent irony...

#r rambles #history humor #boston tea party #18th century #history

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greekbros · 1 year

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(so I made this literal warcrime of a meme)

#hellenistic #greek posts #greek myth memes #greek memes #history memes #history humor #rome memes

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kingoftheu · 1 year

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#history #memes #calvin and hobbes #hobbes #thomas hobbes #leviathan #history humor

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grimm-the-tiger · 2 months

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I think some of the best examples of “anything sounds cool when you say it in another language” are the names of the Soviet space dogs. Like, we all know about Laika, and it’s a pretty cool-sounding name...that translates to “Barker”. Because she had a really loud bark and there was already a dog breed called the laika. This carries over into the rest of the dogs in the program too, for the record; Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to survive being shot into space and to come down safely, had names that translate to “Squirrel” and “Little Arrow”. There were also Pchyolka (“Little Bee”), Mushka (“Little Fly”), Chernushka (“Blackie”), Zvyozdochka (“Starlet”), Veterok (“Light Breeze”), and Ugolyok (“Ember”). Also, Strelka had a puppy who was given to John F. Kennedy. The puppy’s name was Pushinka, or “Fluffy”. This isn’t really relevant, I just think it’s cute.

#shitpost #language #space race #cold war #linguistics #linguistics humor #history #history humor #what happened to most of the dogs is pretty sad #it's just funny how cool the names sound if you don't look up their translations #and how even in the Soviet Union people still gave their dogs cutesy names #even if said people are scientists launching animals into space pretty much just to see what would happen #also don't look up the first cat in space #i did #now i'm sad

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nordleuchten · 8 months

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Medieval Trades

Here is a photo that I recently took in a museum with a long list of trades that were around in the middle ages. Zoom in and tag yourself with the first trade that you see. I am a Landkartenmaler (painter of maps).

#landkartenmaler #history #middle ages #medieval #history humor #schloss gottorf #my photos

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funky-cheese · 3 months

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“I need help like how Abe needed a hole in his head” - My APUSH Teacher (again)

#dark humor #apush me off a cliff #apush references #american history #us history #abraham lincoln #history humor #history jokes #heimler's history is my only saving grace #ap student lifestyle #that means no sleep lol

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wronghands1 · 2 years

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#epithets #hierarchy #history #nicknames #historical #monarchs #tzars #kings #queens #wronghands #john atkinson #webcomic #cartoon #history humor #funny

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troythecatfish · 3 months

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lildudie18 · 4 months

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🐞 oh no ! I accidentally caused the bubsy time machine to work ! and now you and I are forced to be thrown back two centuries in time ! 🐞

🐞 can you, fellow traveler, guess who this is ?! 🐞

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🐞 hello everyone ! as a huge ahh history nerd it's my time to shine and portray a certain era in a funny way ! as always don't take my words for granted for history can be portrayed and perceived differently by everyone, again: this post is for entertainment purposes so do not get all worked up over it 🙈 🐞

🐞 here's your comic 🏃‍♀️ 🐞

🐞 (if you did guess correctly you get smth from me ig..) 🐞

🐞 thank you for reading *sprints so far away you can't catch me and question why I made this but I stop once I see you're questioning the amazing eye ball perspective I drew instead* 🐞

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coinandcandle · 1 year

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The Tyr deity deep dive is queued for 2 o clock this Tuesday as I thought it was appropriate to do so lol

#get it #cuz tuesday is Tyr's day #history humor

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