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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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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Highly Evolved Exhibit of 35 Museum Memes for Natural History Nerds
It’s cold and rainy outside (maybe even snowing for some of y’all), which means we no longer can do the outdoorsy things we always love. How is a nature lover supposed to get their fix of nature puns, rock jokes, and flora n’ fauna? Well, the local Natural History Museum of course! Museum lovers are …
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