High on History
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Exploring the past, one story at a time. Rare pictures, videos and artefacts.
Joined May 2022
What's one opinion on history you would defend like this?
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@Morbidful A video editor brought Goodfellas, Scarface and The Sopranos together for a short scene.
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@historyinmemes "What happens is you get so far that programmers that made the game, they never expected you to make it that far. And so the game starts breaking down and eventually it just stops," - Gibson.
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@historyinmemes There is a special kind of awe that you feel when you see those celestial bodies by yourself.
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@historyinmemes A slice of England's iconic A303 road shows how it changed over thousands of years.
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@historyinmemes In 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time in Nagasaki, where he survived another atomic blast.
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@historyinmemes Don Cheadle, Barack Obama, Tobey Maguire and George Clooney after some early morning basketball 🏀, 2011
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@historyinmemes A native American man looking over the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada, 1869.
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@creepydotorg Her response a few years after the event when asked about it is quite a well known quote:. "I understand why he has to do this — to prove he's a man," Merkel said. "He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
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@historyinmemes Carl Sagan explains how Greek polymath Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of earth around 2000 years ago. All you need is sticks, eyes, feet and brain.
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@Morbidful Gandolphini's "The Sopranos" was so accurate that on Monday morning when the FBI listened to their wiretaps the real mob would be discussing the show and thought they had somebody on the inside. They couldn't believe how accurate the show was.
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@historyinmemes Chuck Berry and John Lennon were both legendary singers in their own right when they joined forces in 1972 to make television history. Yoko Ono tried to chime in but was her mike was cut during the second song.
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@historyinmemes The religious devotion, cultural significance, and architectural aspirations we once had
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13-year-old Magnus Carlsen gets bored against the World Champion Kasparov. #magnuscarlsen #Chess #chessWorldCup2023
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@fasc1nate While at a party Marilyn Monroe was insulted by a columnist that called her dress 'cheap and vulgar' and that she may as well have worn a potato sack. This was her response.
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@fasc1nate Jeremiah Denton was taken prisoner in Vietnam and had to take part in a propaganda ad campaign, he blinked in Morse code T-O-R-T-U-R-E, confirming for the first time to U.S. Naval Intelligence that American POWs were being tortured.
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@historyinmemes U.S. soldier interviewed whilst in combat in Iraq. After serving, he died in 2006 after an accidental OD. He had been diagnosed with PTSD.
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@historyinmemes This masterpiece of animation was created 92 years ago and won the Academy Award for best animated short film (Silly Symphony, Flowers and Trees July 30, 1932 - Walt Disney
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@fasc1nate Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to a huge stack of code written by her and her team and that was used to take humanity to the moon, 1969.
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@historyinmemes In 2008, 100s of love letters btw two gay WWII soldiers,Gilbert Bradley & Gordon Bowsher, were discovered. One of them said, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we
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@historyinmemes Until 1956, French children were allowed to drink wine with their lunch in school.
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@historyinmemes In August 2023, lightning struck the Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala, causing a "spider" effect at the top of the volcano.
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@fasc1nate Mary Jane Rathbun - popularly known as "Brownie Mary" was an American medical cannabis rights activist. As a hospital volunteer at San Francisco General Hospital, she became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDS patients. 1980s
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@historyinmemes I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?. -Diogenes.
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@fasc1nate The cow tongue was accompanied with a note that said, "if you ever touch my darling Heather or any other woman again, the next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box! '"
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@fasc1nate In 1913, John D. Rockefeller was worth $900 million, or 3% of the entire GDP of the United States that year. His fortune was worth a modern equivalent of $418 billion.
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@historyinmemes "I think anyone under that circumstance would do the same thing. ". - Jermaine
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@fasc1nate When Mary, who is White, met Jake, who is Black, it was 1940s Britain and although they were living in a city, Jake was one of very few black men. It would have been easy for Mary to walk away but she had fallen in love and would do anything she could to stay with her love, even
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@historyinmemes A girl who grew up in a war zone draws a picture of "home" while living in a residence for disturbed children, 1948
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@historyinmemes Princess Leonor the future queen of Spain at the start of her 3 years of military training. She's to spend one year with each service.
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@historyinmemes A moray eel and diver who have been friends for years. Valerie Taylor is an accomplished ocean researcher, as well as a cinematographer from Australia. One day in 1974, while diving she decided to try to make a new friend. The moray eel from Indonesia wasn't so willing to warm up
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@historyinmemes Maximilian Kolbe, a Saint that offered his life in the place of a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz. Kolbe was a Franciscan priest and religious leader. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1939 for his anti-Nazism but was later released. He used the centre to shelter an estimated
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@historyinmemes In your opinion, what is the single funniest joke in TV history?. I'll go first -
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@historyinmemes In 2016, tourists woke up to 3 lions licking water off their tent in Botswana. It is believed by some that lions among other safari wildlife, see tents as solid objects and put them in the same category as rocks.
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@fasc1nate Princess Diana broke the royal rules for her son William by taking part in the Mother's Day running race at her son's school. She won.
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@historyinmemes Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in behind the scenes of IT 2. The eyes, the facial expressions and the laugh.
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@historyinmemes An elevator parking lot where the cars are hoisted up on individual platforms to save space, circa early 1920s
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@historyinmemes Michael Phelps with the longest televised putt ever, 160 feet. Yes, Michael Phelps.
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@historyinmemes A stockbroker named Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 Czechoslovakian children, most of them Jewish, by taking them to England. He never told his wife what he had done. He refused to take credit until his wife found a scrapbook of the children that he saved and gave it to
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@historyinmemes Greatest or not but the Yamato Dynasty is the longest blood-line Dynasty in the human history. The Imperial House of Japan, also known as the Yamato Dynasty, contains the longest-ruling royal family. With 126 recognized rulers today, the Japanese monarchy supposedly began in
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@historyinmemes Despite being the oldest of the 'golden girls', Betty White outlived her co-stars by more than a decade before her death on 31 December, 2021, just 17 days shy of her 100th birthday.
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@creepydotorg A restaurant in New York still serves Coca-Cola the traditional way since 97 years.
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@historyinmemes A book from the 19th century creating the impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance
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@historyinmemes For a brief period of 6 years , it was possible to mail a baby or a small child through the US Postal service. A postman with a baby in his mailbag, 1913.
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@historyinmemes This painting by Leng jun is considered to be the most realistic painting in the world.
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@fasc1nate Queen Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year. This is them meeting at a movie premiere in London 1956, both at the age of 30.
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@historyinmemes The Chernobyl containment dome couldn't be constructed on-site (for obvious reasons). This is how they moved it into place for its expected 100 years of service
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@Morbidful Las Vegas Police facing Mike Tyson after he'd just bitten Evander Holyfield's ear off, 1996.
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@historyinmemes The Great East Japan earthquake rocked Japan violently for almost 6 minutes. It resulted in over 18,000 dead, including several thousand victims who were never recovered.
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@historyinmemes A rare photo of Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein at the premiere of City Lights (1931)
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@historyinmemes In 1996, a newborn baby girl was left in a garbage can near the city of Kolkata, India. Three friendly street dogs discovered and protected her for nearly two days, even attempting to feed the child before authorities were contacted and the young one was saved.
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@historyinmemes Alexander had a great respect for wise men like Diogenes, so he decided to meet the philosopher for himself. Alexander came upon Diogenes as the philosopher was basking in the morning sunlight. Thrilled to meet the famous thinker, Alexander asked if there was any favor he might
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@creepydotorg There is one crucial physical difference between tungsten and gold and that is the speed at which sound travels through metal. Sound velocity for gold is 3240 m/s . For tungsten it is 5180 m/s. The velocity of sound can be measured by applying ultrasonic pulses and measuring
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@creepydotorg 44 Ukrainian soldiers were released in April 2023, in a POW exchange after nearly 1 year of Russian captivity. This is how one of them reacted to receiving an apple
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@historyinmemes Chimerism : How a Man's Unborn Twin Fathered His Child. Paternity tests are well known for producing some unexpected surprises, but the case involving a Washington man presents a new head-scratcher. After undergoing fertility treatments and having a son, the man and his partner
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@historyinmemes W.H. Murphy and his associate demonstrating their bulletproof vest on the 13th of October, 1923.
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@historyinmemes Once Diogenes was captured by pirates and auctioned off as a slave in Corinth. He spotted a rich man in the crowd named Xeniades and said, "Sell me to this man; he needs a master.".
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@historyinmemes The moment that changed perceptions of people with HIV and AIDS, Princess Diana shook hands with AIDS patients during a visit to the Middlesex Hospital. This simple gesture turned out to be a turning point in breaking down the stigma surrounding the illness.
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@historyinmemes Despite being the oldest of the 'golden girls', Betty White outlived her co-stars by more than a decade before her death on 31 December, 2021, just 17 days shy of her 100th birthday.
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