Funny/Wierd History Facts

Or Kassandros.
 
Vortilex said:
Sounds like "Macbeth" :p
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You mean that play that has absolutely no basis in historical fact whatsoever, other than the names? Nope, still not really, since Macbeth didn't marry Duncan's daughter or anything like that, nor kill his son.
 
im not very deep in Western history, so ill say some historical Facts about the Arab world,that might be funny...

*Harun Rashid, the most recognizable Arab Caliphat Actually ruled from Arraqqah, in Syria, and not Baghdad...

*Al-Azhar Mosque, currently the mecca of Sunni scholars was actually built as a Shia University...

* when Mohamed Ali took Power in Egypt, Sudan, Levant, Hejaz and Libya, his state was as powerfullas The Empire of Japan...

*under the Ummayids of Andalusia (Arab Spain), the Jews had their Golden Age, living under an Islamic Arab state...

*Qadafi, in power for 40 years as the leader of Libya,has an International Prize for Human Rights with his name...
 
Some time ago it was in the papers that Fritz Darges, adjuntant of Hitler had died, and his diaries were hoped to shed light on Hilter's role in the holocaust. The papers said that Darges was sent to the east-front bacause of "minor incident with fly", so I went to wikipedia to find this:

On 18 July 1944, during a strategy conference in the Wolfsschanze, a fly began buzzing around the room, allegedly landing on Hitler's shoulder and on the surface of a map several times. Irritated, Hitler ordered Darges to dispatch the nuisance. Darges suggested that, as it was an airborne pest, the job should go to the Luftwaffe adjutant, Nicolaus von Below. Enraged, Hitler dismissed Darges on the spot and had him banished to the Eastern Front.
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Googling around suggests that Darges himself had told this story, but whether true or false, I think the joke was excellent!
 
In Kievan Rus, a man's beard and mustache was worth more than a serf's and/or a slave's life. Also it was against the law to "fight like a women" and there was a fine that was one grivna less than that of the murder of a serf and/or a slave.
 
Lord Baal said:
Somewhat dubious, as the people of Easter Island have never had a king. Also, Peru's Quetzalcoatl-type god-king was not named Conticci, but something starting with a 'V' - at least, in whatever language the Incas used. It's also possible to date when he left, due to pictures left by the pre-Inca cultures, and it was after the Rapanui reached Easter Island.

Those same Easter Islanders almost certainly did make it to Peru - as Masada said, they appear to have inadvertenlty introduced the chicken - no-one is disputing that. It's Heyerdahl's thesis that they originally came from Peru that is clearly and obviously false.

The theory that a journey would have been technically impossible was never the main objection, it was simply inflated by Heyerdahl to make it seem the main objection, so when he disproved it it made him look like he was right. Classic strawman argument. There were numerous other, far better objections, which Heyerdahl never addressed.
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The language that the Incas used is Quechua.

I think I know the king you are talking about, but I can't recall his name at the moment.

yes, I know of legends of an aboriginal tribe making it to South America (whether or not it was Peru, I don't know) and they were booted out by the future natives of the area.
 
From Wikipedia: "British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote that [Mikhail] Skobelev was the world's 'ablest single commander' between 1870 and 1914..."

Now, observe carefully what he said; Skobelev was not the "single ablest commander," but the "ablest single commander." Now perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe Monty was trying to auction him off for a date. (Well, his corpse at least.)
 
I guess he'd already had his fun with him. :lol:
 
Ever since he was a boy, Suleyman II was imprisoned in the Topaki Palace for his father feared that he would revolt. The child grew up paranoid and feared the constant threat of execution. In 1687, Ottoman Palace Officials appeared at his quarters, he immediately broke down in front of them and sobbed to them:

"If my death has been commanded, say so. Let me perform my prayers, then carry out your order. Since my childhood I have suffered forty years of imprisonment . Its is better to die at once than to die a little every day"

Suleyman was later informed that day that he would be the new Sultan.
 
Similar story: George Meade, commander of the US V Corps in the Army of the Potomac, was woken up early in the morning of 28 June, 1863. His first thought was that he was being arrested, but instead he received a promotion to the command of the entire field army.
 
The Bayeux Tapestry is intended to be a chronological narrative of the events of the Norman conquest of England, though I personally find it more amusing if you take it to be a really long conga line.
 
Dachs said:
Similar story: George Meade, commander of the US V Corps in the Army of the Potomac, was woken up early in the morning of 28 June, 1863. His first thought was that he was being arrested, but instead he received a promotion to the command of the entire field army.
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He should have seen it coming, because who didn't get their turn commanding the Army of the Potomac?
 
Just a tidbit i picked up toward the tale end of my degree, can't remember if this is too graphic for cfc forums but i'll crack on it can always be moderated!

Napoleon's first wife apparently lost all her teeth as was not unheard during the period. However, after re-marrying Napoleon found that he 'enjoyed' having a wife with no teeth and so allegedly ordered that his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria, have all her teeth removed so he could continue to 'enjoy' a wife with no teeth.
 
BCLG100 said:
Just a tidbit i picked up toward the tale end of my degree, can't remember if this is too graphic for cfc forums but i'll crack on it can always be moderated!

Napoleon's first wife apparently lost all her teeth as was not unheard during the period. However, after re-marrying Napoleon found that he 'enjoyed' having a wife with no teeth and so allegedly ordered that his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria, have all her teeth removed so he could continue to 'enjoy' a wife with no teeth.
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You have a source for that? I've never heard of either wife missing teeth, and Napoleon's Polish mistress certainly had them.
 
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