History Buff Thread

A thread for all things historical - good, bad, or neutral. Just give us the facts, Sir.

First up is an interesting clarification concerning Nazi Germany and their supposed obsession with blonde hair & blue eyes and willingness to harm people if they didn’t have them. Whilst Nazi leadership did indeed promote those desirable traits in their propaganda, the reality is quite different when it comes to how people were treated - most Germans did not have blonde hair.

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July 29th, 2025: Quence is banned from the Golden Corral buffet near her trailer park in East Parump, Kentucky, after she refused to stop tipping vats of shrimp n grits directly into her mouth.
 
in england, before plumbing, people used to throw their filth/waste in cesspits n after a while of steady accumulation, nightmen (they were only allowed to do this job at night) would be lowered by rope into the cesspit n heave it out in buckets to be moved elsewhere. one such man called richard the raker was doing this job when the cesspit caved in n he drowned in the shit pit

couple centuries later, after the bare minimum of plumbing had been installed (it all ran into the thames n the scent permeated the london air), the paddle steamer princess alice collided with the bywell castle in the thames, sinking the alice and drowning 600-700 people angl*s in human waste
 
yesterday (january 15th) was the 107th anniversary of the great molasses flood

once upon a time, molasses was the murrican sweetener of choice. and regulating industries was unpatriotic, so a 50ft tall, 90ft wide tank holding over 2 million tons of molasses that was known to have a leak (parents would send their kids out with cups to gather molasses draining from the slowly failing beast). the tank was not made of appropriate metal (it was too brittle, hence the leaks/cracks) so on a nice, harsh winter day it caved and sent sticky molasses you could not escape from all over the place, killing like, 20 ppl n injuring 100+
here ya go
 
1518-summer in strasbourg
in a fit of mania over government/clergy corruption, crop failures, n the general suckiness of being a medieval peasant, frau troffea begins to dance. she continues to do so, until she collapses from exhaustion, and then when she wakes up, she dances some more. her feet bleed. a handful of days later, authorities haul her to a shrine for St. Vitus (patron saint of dance). by the time this is done tho, others had started dancing as well. at first authorities decided to encourage it, setting up bands n makeshift dance floors. then, when there were like, 400 ppl dancing they were all "fuck, maybe this is a bad idea"
they then started giving the worst afflicted little red shoes (maybe cuz it didn't show the blood?) n carting them off to the St. Vitus shrine as well
this went on for abt a month and at its peak there were abt 15 ppl a day dancing until they fucking died
no it was not caused by ergotism
 
Sweden did Poland even better than Germany did Poland

We destroyed more than half of the population.

"
The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War (1655–1660) only; in Poland and Lithuania this period is called the Swedish Deluge (Polish: potop szwedzki, Lithuanian: švedų tvanas, Swedish: svenska syndafloden), or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge (Polish: Potop szwedzko-rosyjski)[6][better source needed] due to the simultaneous Russo-Polish War.[7] In a wider sense, it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, comprising the Polish theatres of the Russo-Polish and Second Northern Wars.[8] The term "deluge" (potop in Polish) was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel The Deluge (1886).

During the wars the Commonwealth lost approximately one third of its population as well as its status as a great power due to invasions by Sweden and Russia.[9] According to Professor Andrzej Rottermund, manager of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the destruction of Poland in the Deluge was more extensive than the destruction of the country in World War II. Rottermund claims that Swedish invaders robbed the Commonwealth of its most important riches, and most of the stolen items never returned to Poland.[10] Warsaw, the capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, was destroyed by the Swedes, and out of a pre-war population of 20,000, only 2,000 remained in the city after the war.[11] According to the 2012 Polish estimates, the material damage caused by the Swedish army amounted to 4 billion złotys. 188 cities and towns, 186 villages, 136 churches, 89 palaces, and 81 castles were completely destroyed in Poland.[12]"

 
Charles VI seemingly had it all. The son of Charles V (known as the Wise), he inherited a strong army with France bouncing back during the Hundred Years War. With the horrors of the Black Death all but a memory attacking Europe a generation earlier, one would think that the health of the 11 year old king of France wouldn't be a major problem.

This Saturday, come watch as the wacky 24 year old Mad King spurs his mount and attacks one of his own knights ... only to be grabbed from his mount and placed on the ground, falling into a coma.

Several schizophrenic episodes later, we come back to the king in his mid-30's when he refused to bathe or change clothes for five months. He now spends his time screaming through the palace, forgetting that he was king, and forgetting that he had a wife and children

It was around this time that something strange happened. Nobody could tell what was happening, but the king was frantically ordering everyone away from him. "Don't you dare touch me! I'm fragile! I'll break into pieces!"

Charles VI wasn't just mad. He was a trend setter. This French king had just created the glass delusion. He refused physical contact with others, had a fear of falling or being jostled and avoided any movement that might "shatter" him. Additionally, he had iron rods sewn into his clothing so he wouldn't shatter if he came into contact with another person. Bonus - he would intermittently forget that he was glass to attack servants or run around until exhausted.

More glass delusion havers:
- A 15th century scholar who sat on a straw stool because he feared his butt would shatter if he sat on anything harder
- A Dutch nobleman who wrapped himself in blankets because he believed his limbs were glass and would break if exposed
- A Spanish man who thought his head was glass and refused to move quickly or bend down
- A 17th century Frenchman who believed he swallowed a glass piano
- A woman who believed her entire body was a glass bottle and refused to be touched or hugged (who says autism is a recent invention)

With Charles VI incapacitated, France went back to being France and nearly lost their France until some young girl rose up and got burned at the stake for her effort in some boring story that never gets told.
 
Sweden did Poland even better than Germany did Poland

We destroyed more than half of the population.

"
The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War (1655–1660) only; in Poland and Lithuania this period is called the Swedish Deluge (Polish: potop szwedzki, Lithuanian: švedų tvanas, Swedish: svenska syndafloden), or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge (Polish: Potop szwedzko-rosyjski)[6][better source needed] due to the simultaneous Russo-Polish War.[7] In a wider sense, it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, comprising the Polish theatres of the Russo-Polish and Second Northern Wars.[8] The term "deluge" (potop in Polish) was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel The Deluge (1886).

During the wars the Commonwealth lost approximately one third of its population as well as its status as a great power due to invasions by Sweden and Russia.[9] According to Professor Andrzej Rottermund, manager of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the destruction of Poland in the Deluge was more extensive than the destruction of the country in World War II. Rottermund claims that Swedish invaders robbed the Commonwealth of its most important riches, and most of the stolen items never returned to Poland.[10] Warsaw, the capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, was destroyed by the Swedes, and out of a pre-war population of 20,000, only 2,000 remained in the city after the war.[11] According to the 2012 Polish estimates, the material damage caused by the Swedish army amounted to 4 billion złotys. 188 cities and towns, 186 villages, 136 churches, 89 palaces, and 81 castles were completely destroyed in Poland.[12]"

White on white violence
 
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