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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A Court Jester’s Pocketful of Medieval Memes to Save Peasant Folk From the Gallows
It’s common to hear people get nostalgic about living in other decades. They’d want to live during the 1970s because the music was so good, or they romanticize the frontier days because of the hopeful freedom of horseback riding, or maybe they think the 90s would have been fun because everyone lived rebelliously. But you …
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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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An Illustration of 33 Classical Art Memes That Paint Funnies in a Portrait
Hey there, fellow meme enthusiasts, and welcome to a very special collection of memes. I am an art student, believe it or not, and I can honestly say that the more time goes on as I study art, the more I hate it. My rose-colored glasses have come off and I see the art community …
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29 Philosophy Memes for Existentialists and Absurdists Alike
One of my favorite classes in high school was a course called Global Ethics. It was an intro course to everything philosophy and ethics, from Kant to Nietzsche and more. We would have the most interesting discussions and debates, getting into weedy issues with real-life ramifications. It was a good field of study for someone …
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25+ Medieval Memes For Knights in Shining Armor And Princesses Locked in Towers
I wish we had more insight into what people actually looked like during the Medieval era. I love the medieval films of Roger Cormac as much as anybody (The Masque of the Red Death was my favorite Halloween 2023 watch), but unfortunately, 1960s movies probably do not represent the Dark Ages uber accurately. We don’t …
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The Week’s Best Classical Art Memes for High Brow Chuckler (November 12, 2023)
One of my favorite pieces of art is Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, the 1942 painting of patrons at a diner on an empty city street. It’s beautifully moody and evocative, and you can imagine the subjects’ stories vividly, even though on the surface, so little information is given. I always like to imagine that the …
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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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A Library of Funny History Memes That Haven’t Been Fact Checked
What will they say about memes in the history books of the deep future? Will anthropologists regard memes as fascinating hieroglyphs used as a complex form of communication? Or will memes be brushed aside, cast away, and forgotten by historians? Even today, it’s difficult to pinpoint when the first internet meme occurred. Many believe it’s …
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