I finally started reading ‘The Secret History,’ and holy moly, y’all…I finally understand what all of those TikTokers were going on about in 2020! If you’ve never heard of this book, it’s about a group of Classics students at a small liberal arts University in Vermont who descend into an inescapable spiral of murder and …
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35+ History Memes That Will Make History
Memes are a part of history. They might not have existed in ancient Babylon or during the Crusades, but they will undoubtedly be in the history books in the not-so-distant future. Memes express what real people were thinking about historical moments while they were happening better than their memories ever could. I might remember how …
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45 Ancient Rome Memes For History Dudes Still Mentally In 1025 AD
Why is Ancient Rome still such a popular historical period to obsess over? It’s one of the few places and times in the ancient world where we have so much documented about their history. There are a lot of emperors to memorize and tons of ground to cover. For me, the driving interest in Roman …
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40 Ancient History Memes That Launched 1000 Ships
I wish I knew more about world history, but alas, I went to an American public high school. One of the biggest issues with schools in America is that they teach American history nearly every year, leaving crumbs for kids who want to learn about the history of the world and world geography. I know …
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15 Ides of March Memes to Beware
Happy Ides of March, everybody! I know that in the grand scheme of historical time, March 15th is not a happy day for everybody, but I extend an olive branch to anyone who wants to celebrate the most famous political assassination of all time. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t have some fun on this …
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45 Ancient Rome Memes For Dudes Still Thinking About The Roman Empire
It’s often been said that men think about the Roman Empire at an unusually high rate. I was shocked when I first heard this meme about guys contemplating the Roman Empire at least once a week, if not more. I probably don’t think about said period in history more than a couple of times a …
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41 Ancient Rome Memes For Dudes Thinking About The Roman Empire
I am not a Roman History expert by any means, but I was fascinated with one iconic event in Ancient Roman history when I was a kid. I’m talking, of course, about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. This interest may or may not have been spurred by a Magic Treehouse Book where …
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45 Ancient Rome Memes For Dudes Still Thinking About The Roman Empire
Unlike so many boys, I do not think about the Roman Empire multiple times a week. However, I do think about Paul Giamatti’s character in the Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers at least once a week, if not more, and I don’t even want to know how many times per day Paul Hunham thinks about that …
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25 History Memes for Online History Buffs
You know what they say about history. That if we don’t learn it, we are doomed to repeat it. Is the same true for history memes? If so, study up, young historian, for you have many memes to sift through. These won’t appear on your AP test though, as far as we know. Though we’re working …
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Weekly Internet Roundup: Mexican Aliens, Love Surges, and Thoughts of Ancient Rome
Plus, the politics of online snitching.