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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20+ Old Posts and Past Declarations That Aged Like Milk

It’s very easy to be smug in the present, especially if we ended up being on the right side of history. We all know the internet is full of people doing stupid things, and this is never truer than when we look to its past (or when it’s representing the past). Everybody has made mistakes that …
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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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25+ Ancient Greek Memes That Make a Herculean Effort at Humor

Forget whether or not you were a 90s kid. The real dealbreaker growing up was which branch of ancient history you were most interested in. Yeah, yeah, the Roman Empire may have become contemporary slang for something that people just can’t stop thinking about, but everyone who was a cool kid was into Ancient Greece …
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24 Historians Give the Verdict on the Worst Mistakes in History

The great thing about the entirety of human history is that it is basically one big guide of what not to do if we want to see progress and peace. For being supposedly the most intelligent species on this planet, we’re not very bright. For every great thing that has happened since people existed, there …
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29 Fascinating Posts From the Underbelly of Wikipedia

As I’ve said here before, if I could only keep one website on the internet, it would be Wikipedia. In fact, maybe I’d be okay with wiping the internet and starting over with just Wikipedia. No more social media, no more harmful content, just a wholesome fountain of information that never has ads and is …
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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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30+ History Memes That Educate as They Entertain

Call me a nerd, but history was always one of my favorite classes throughout school. Especially when I got to US History junior year of high school because I had an excellent teacher who really made me care about the subject. That’s all it takes to get someone interested in something: a good teacher. Consider …
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20+ Astronomy Memes For Lovers of the Stars

Looking up at the stars on a clear night is one of life’s simple pleasures, and most of us live in places where there is too much light pollution to do it. Damn you, industrialization. Nonetheless, that doesn’t stop many from having a fascination with all things outer space. We may not have definitive proof …
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