Before Julius Caesar invaded Britain, many Romans didn’t believe it existed.

Mechanic comments on Mar 28, 2021:

I’m really enjoying your group, all the little bits of history.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 28, 2021:

Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you're here! Then I don't feel so alone in my obsession with history :)

Before Julius Caesar invaded Britain, many Romans didn’t believe it existed.

Haraldson comments on Mar 28, 2021:

The Romans had also never before encountered chariots until Caeser reached Britain (55BC). After Caesar it took another ~100yrs before the Romans returned in 43AD under Claudius, and another 50yrs before achieving conquest.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 28, 2021:

Nice! Learn something new everyday!

The Soviet Union tried to snuff out the memory of Genghis Khan.

Mechanic comments on Mar 27, 2021:

It’s almost like history repeats itself.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

Almost my man..... Almost... Oh wait..

Still waiting for your "Blood Eagle " post...tick tock... don't make me do it

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 27, 2021:

The blood eagle is a myth I'm afraid :) It's just only described as hypothetical form of punishment. There's no evidence it was actually used in real life.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

@MikeHunt the best clue is that what is described as the ritual isn't physically possible according to forensic experts. But they did ransak villages while naked and on magic Viking mushrooms... I hope that helps.....

The first gun and gunpowder are widely regarded to come from China during the 10th and 9th ...

MikeHunt comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Come join our Firearms group, it got lots more fun there since i revived it

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

You got a link?

Tesla Masks

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Is it because it's overpriced and breaks down in cold weather?

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

@MikeHunt is that an honorary title you English speaking weirdos have made? I choose to believe so...

Hm, Vikings weren't Vikings....

MikeHunt comments on Mar 27, 2021:

There was an Olde English prayer or addition to a prayer, and i paraphrase "...and save us frome the fury of the Norsemen.."

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

Yeah, about that.. sorry... But not really... *Giggles in Norse*

Slight bit of static

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 27, 2021:

The corona doo..

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

@MikeHunt yupp!!

Tesla Masks

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Is it because it's overpriced and breaks down in cold weather?

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

@MikeHunt they do say smoking is bad for ya....

The University of Oxford, which opened its doors to students in 1096, is actually older than the ...

MikeHunt comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Yeah, but how many human sacrifices did Oxford do? Ha, gotcha there!

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

Well....there are some rumors....

German U-boat U-1206 was sunk by its own toilet!!! The complex toilet required a special technician ...

MikeHunt comments on Mar 27, 2021:

I actually just read this story last month

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

It must have been a crappy way to die...

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.” – Joseph Stalin

MikeHunt comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Hard to argue with that logic

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

He got us there. But the scary thing is: environmentalists say exactly the same thing.....

The Celts had a thing for severed heads.

MikeHunt comments on Mar 27, 2021:

The must have enjoyed the stench and extra flies

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

Perfume was probably expensive.. so...

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.” – Joseph Stalin

DaveO276 comments on Mar 27, 2021:

Maybe Joseph Stalin could have solved a lot of problems for a lot of people if he had just killed himself?

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

True, very true.

Africa wasn't always dry as a dad joke: some 6,000 years ago, a lake called Mega-Chad (The country ...

KeVince comments on Mar 27, 2021:

The area between the cascade mountains and the rocky mountains used to be a large inland see at one time until it all ran out through the grand canyon.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

Do you know how long ago that was?

Appalling': Boys made to apologise to female classmates on behalf of gender | Sky News And that,...

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 27, 2021:

On behalf of all females, I apologize to these poor boys!!

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 27, 2021:

@DaveO276 I see your point and mildly disagree with it. But my apology wasn't forced. It was straight from the heart. I have a son, he's got a lot of female friends because he treats girls well. I can't imagine my fury if he was forced to do this.

In 1644, English statesman, Oliver Cromwell, banned the eating of pie.

Poncho69 comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Wow. Interesting history

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 26, 2021:

Got any pies?

HIV vaccine goes very wrong. People get HIV from vaccine

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Funny that... How they haven't been able to create a vaccine for that virus. But covid? ~ yeah give us 10 min and we'll have it ready for ya.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 26, 2021:

@Poncho69 it's not even a treatment. You are more likely to die from the "cure" than from the virus it self if infected.

If a Viking landowner brewed too little beer for winter solstice, he would get fined.

Poncho69 comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Sounds like the best law ever. Even though I don't drink anymore

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 26, 2021:

Haha. I don't even like beer... And I like the law too.

Pardon my French

AdrianRainbow comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Baguette, Bud, Beret? Three, is the magic number? No regrets?

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 26, 2021:

It's french weed... Oui'd .. ..

IDW/Slug is infested with peeps who "click like" as though they were viewing Facebook memes.

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 26, 2021:

I click "like" on a lot. But because English isn't my first language, I can't always participate in the debate.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 26, 2021:

@Poncho69 English is NOT a logical language spellingwise.

During the prohibition era, the government did not just try to dissuade drinking through fines and ...

Mechanic comments on Mar 26, 2021:

The government was doing it for your protection?

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 26, 2021:

They sure protected them to death....

Why Do Teenagers Only Travel in Groups of Three? Because they can't even.....

ktpinto comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Did anyone else say it in "the tone"...

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 26, 2021:

I hear the tone every time I read it LOL

the federal reserve corporation may print the money but they are making the taxpayer the slave to ...

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 24, 2021:

American communists always point to Norway and say: Look! They have free healthcare!!! But we don't! We pay an INSANE amount of taxes to fund our healthcare system. By all means, when it works, it's awesome! But when it doesn't.... There's no alternative. And we've paid our butts off in taxes for ...

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 25, 2021:

@WilyRickWiles corporatism... At its worst.

the federal reserve corporation may print the money but they are making the taxpayer the slave to ...

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 24, 2021:

American communists always point to Norway and say: Look! They have free healthcare!!! But we don't! We pay an INSANE amount of taxes to fund our healthcare system. By all means, when it works, it's awesome! But when it doesn't.... There's no alternative. And we've paid our butts off in taxes for ...

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 24, 2021:

@Weltansicht our system isn't useless. But it isn't this magical solution either. The American healthcare has flaws too, but at least you can choose where you want to go.

Ronald Reagan's first job was as a lifeguard.

Mechanic comments on Mar 24, 2021:

But did he take on Cornpop like our supreme leader?

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 24, 2021:

Nope. That's the huge shame he took to his grave....

The Celts had a thing for severed heads.

KeVince comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Nothing like a few sculls of your recent victims hanging on the trees around your house to keep trespassers away, even those that are literate will understand.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 24, 2021:

@KeVince haha *blush* , no. But let's pretend you're right 😂

The Celts had a thing for severed heads.

KeVince comments on Mar 24, 2021:

Nothing like a few sculls of your recent victims hanging on the trees around your house to keep trespassers away, even those that are literate will understand.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 24, 2021:

I'm somewhat of a decapitator my self....

The Celts had a thing for severed heads.

Mechanic comments on Mar 24, 2021:

I just have to convince the wife, I’m sure that will work out.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 24, 2021:

@Mechanic you lucky bastard LOL.

The Celts had a thing for severed heads.

Mechanic comments on Mar 24, 2021:

I just have to convince the wife, I’m sure that will work out.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 24, 2021:

A Gucci bag might help....

Will Trump run in 2024?

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 23, 2021:

He's not getting any younger. He'd be wise to focus his efforts on other important matters.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 23, 2021:

@toronto_Georgia I'm not saying he's a dementia case. But he really isn't getting younger. No one is. I think he can do more good as a non-president. I have by no means written him off.

Certainly looks like it...

MikeHunt comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Yoink.....stolen for use elsewhere, sorry not sorry

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 23, 2021:

I just stole it from my own brother.....

Warning! Possibly an offensive joke! Sorry, sorry, sorry!!! (Funny though... 😅)

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 22, 2021:

That's actually not a joke, it's a fact. CPR doesn't work very often. But it's given in case this is one of those few times.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 23, 2021:

@Serg97 one is 100% better than 0

Warning! Possibly an offensive joke! Sorry, sorry, sorry!!! (Funny though... 😅)

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 22, 2021:

That's actually not a joke, it's a fact. CPR doesn't work very often. But it's given in case this is one of those few times.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 23, 2021:

@Serg97 I never said it didn't work, what I said was it doesn't work very often. In fact some studies I've seen ( I'll be honest and say that these were made several years ago, thibgs might have changed) says that it works less than 20% of the time. Meaning, 80% of the time it doesn't. Scenarios where it had the MOST chance of succeeding : Drowning and other conditions where the heart has stopped due to lack of oxygen.

Warning! Possibly an offensive joke! Sorry, sorry, sorry!!! (Funny though... 😅)

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 22, 2021:

That's actually not a joke, it's a fact. CPR doesn't work very often. But it's given in case this is one of those few times.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 23, 2021:

@Serg97 good for you

Warning! Possibly an offensive joke! Sorry, sorry, sorry!!! (Funny though... 😅)

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 22, 2021:

That's actually not a joke, it's a fact. CPR doesn't work very often. But it's given in case this is one of those few times.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 22, 2021:

@Serg97 sometimes if you get there quick enough, you can keep their brain oxygenated until help arrives. But a lot of times they're dead, finished, and you can't save them. If they're gone they're gone. But you don't know for sure who's possible to save or not until you've tried.

Since written accounts of history only began about 6,000 years ago, about 97% of human history is ...

Weltansicht comments on Mar 22, 2021:

I just had a You Tube video on my recommended suggestions and it has a city from 10,000 years ago, it sticks in my mind because the images were taken by the Corona spy satellite 50 years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aYij-RuBU

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 22, 2021:

That's very interesting! I wish we knew more!!

Since written accounts of history only began about 6,000 years ago, about 97% of human history is ...

KeVince comments on Mar 22, 2021:

The time line of history is a made up fiction that is meant to mislead and confuse. the fact that there are so many out of place artifacts that keep turning up as people explore the world around themselves is evident to this. There are also civilizations that have been erased from the record to ...

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 22, 2021:

True. Most of what we assume is our history is disputed. They've even discovered new advanced human species that they were unaware of until recent time. Neanderthals were far more intelligent than they first thought and a lot of the "world wonders" gives us a clue that they had a lot more going on than we think. Pyramids (shouldn't be humanly possible to build with the technology we claim they had available), stonehenge, shouldn't be possible either. There's a lot more ro our history than people are willing to admit. Sometimes conspiracy theories aren't theories.

Iceland’s Parliament is the oldest in the world, and has been in existence since 930.

KeVince comments on Mar 21, 2021:

from what I have seen of Iceland it looks like a place I would like to spend some time in.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 22, 2021:

@KeVince a short trip yes. Expensive, cold and windy, but WOW...amazing. You'll get all 4 seasons in an hour. People are introvert like us Norwegians, but friendly.

Guilty yepp

Mechanic comments on Mar 21, 2021:

I resemble that remark.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 21, 2021:

We introverts should unite, separately, in silence and far away from each other.

Guilty yepp

MikeHunt comments on Mar 21, 2021:

LOL, but i just keep a chin diaper, in NYC You still cant enter a supermarket with out one fully employed

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 21, 2021:

I kind of like the masks. If I run into relatives, I can just pretend I don't recognize them and walk away.... It's downright wonderful. I hope it never ends... Did I mention I'm an introvert?

Iceland’s Parliament is the oldest in the world, and has been in existence since 930.

KeVince comments on Mar 21, 2021:

from what I have seen of Iceland it looks like a place I would like to spend some time in.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 21, 2021:

Wild and beautiful ❤️❤️

Hm, Vikings weren't Vikings....

AdrianRainbow comments on Mar 20, 2021:

The word was actually reintroduce by a historian 'Jamieson' in the early part of the 19th century, however, it is a revival of the Old Norse word Vikingr, meaning 'one who came from the Fjords'. Once again, I can't cite because this fucking stupid site doesn't let you copy/paste.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 20, 2021:

In Old Norse, "Viking" is two words, both nouns: a víkingr is a person, while víking is an activity. A víkingr was someone who went on expeditions, usually abroad, usually by sea. The activity of víking means "to boldly travel". It could certainly include raiding, but was not restricted to that.

Aaaaaaw!!!

TimTuolomne comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Wuhan bat

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 19, 2021:

And darkness.... He's also darkness. Don't forget.

Funny History Fact: - Whoever invented the fire hydrant deserves a lot of credit, but we’ll ...

Mechanic comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Very interesting and ironic.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 19, 2021:

It's kind of sad. The guy must have saved millions of lives worldwide.

The Ukrainian famine was so bad that the government had to issue flyers telling people that it was ...

KeVince comments on Mar 18, 2021:

This should be a concern to most citizens of the world as corporate billionaires buy up farm land around the world, history may repeat itself.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 18, 2021:

I think you're right. We've learned nothing unfortunately.

The streets in Virginia City, Nevada, were once unknowingly paved with silver ore in the 1800s.

KeVince comments on Mar 18, 2021:

There are still mines there to this day, no large ones just small claims that people work on a part time.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 18, 2021:

Nice to know if I need some quick cash.

The first gun and gunpowder are widely regarded to come from China during the 10th and 9th ...

MommaDog comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Now this is an extreme example of ‘to kill or cure’!

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 18, 2021:

Kind of hilarious really. - Sweetheart, have you seen my tummy pills? - Yeah... I shot our neighbors with them...

The Ukrainian famine was so bad that the government had to issue flyers telling people that it was ...

Tom81 comments on Mar 18, 2021:

I may have this wrong, but, I believe it was part of the plan to kill of at least 80% of the population (🤔wait... isn't someone else trying that at the moment...), and replace a lot of the local farmers with Soviet Russian ones - who would eventually breed out the rest of the 20% remaining. The ...

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 18, 2021:

I've heard several theories on the Ukrainian famine. And the one you mention is the way I see it one of the nore plausible ones (IMHO)

The Vikings were not filthy barbaric animals. They were neat and clean barbaric animals.

Mechanic comments on Mar 17, 2021:

You have to appreciate neat clean barbaric animals.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 17, 2021:

It's so much better to be slain by a guy that smells good.

Who are your favourite Utube talking heads?

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 17, 2021:

Jordan Peterson, Lauren Southern, Paul Joseph Watson, Prager U, Sydney Watson, Steven Crowder and Russel Brand ( yes he's a communist, but he's got a lot of good points when he forgets that he is).

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 17, 2021:

@DaveO276 exactly. He doesn't hate anyone, and he treats people with respect. He has also repeated time and time again that he doesn't want a debate, he wants a dialogue, because dialogues are what creates results. Even when he's far into one of his "capitalism is the root of all evil" rants he's quite palatable. The fact that he has no filter helps a lot too. Refreshing.

Laws were important to Vikings, but if a law turned out to in practice be unfair, it was against the...

KeVince comments on Mar 16, 2021:

When laws cause men to turn from common respect of their fellow men then I will become an outlaw.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 17, 2021:

I hear you. Sometimes just surviving is considered a crime.

They speak it to this day.

KeVince comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Sadly there seems to be a push to destroy some cultures past so that there can be a rewriting of history. Old language and writing should be preserved as well as records of the cultures of the people that used them.

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 17, 2021:

Globalism, the killer of cultures.

They speak it to this day.

AdrianRainbow comments on Mar 16, 2021:

OK, but Runes though!

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 16, 2021:

Yeah. I miss those

History of gun laws in Norway.

Weltansicht comments on Mar 15, 2021:

skol

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 15, 2021:

@Weltansicht not all websites are Viking friendly :)

History of gun laws in Norway.

Weltansicht comments on Mar 15, 2021:

skol

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 15, 2021:

Skål 🇧🇻

I'm officially taken!!!!! ...

Weltansicht comments on Mar 14, 2021:

That's a relief or maybe congratulations is in order. My 1st thought was you were abducted by aliens for the Intergalactic Zoo lol

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 14, 2021:

Well.,. That would have been an improvement.....

you are here

Weltansicht comments on Mar 12, 2021:

I forget ~ is it the 1st left or 1st right after the exit ? lol

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 12, 2021:

It's 2 steps forward and 1 step back for 94 miles. Then take 4 lefts in a row, then 1 right, next right, right and right again...

Portland mayor seeks $2 million to stem rampant gun violence. [news.yahoo.com]

HistoryCorner comments on Mar 12, 2021:

Wait, what? Why doesn't he just ban violence? It's free!!

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 12, 2021:

@Poncho69 we need to make a list. #BanEverything

Poor poor agent...

KeVince comments on Mar 11, 2021:

I live in technology dead zone my only contact is hard wire DSL at a blazing 15 Mbytes per second or slower when someone starts to monitor my phone that needs an Internet connection the transmission begins to pulse the same with the computer lag time is noticeably longer so I alway know when snoopy ...

HistoryCorner replies on Mar 11, 2021:

Give'em something to really study :D