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- 16 days
What do you mean? Everybody knows the barbarians were just sitting around waiting to be civilized.
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On the upside, it’s given me a near endless amount of history to learn as an adult when I actually want to learn about it. Just search “literally_any_other_country_than_usa history” and it’s all brand spanking new stuff to me!
Just learned the beginnings of the establishment of Portugal the other day.
- psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish16 days
looked at this thread
Yeah. On that end, i would like to introduce you the man Jin Yong, the grandfather of Wuxia who wrote the legendary trilogy Legend of the Condor Heroes, Return of the Condor Heroes, and Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber. The novel is known across the sinosphere all over the world, and made into tv series. If you ever played or watched a modern wuxia game film (like Where Winds Meet) and think “wow, those attacks are wack, and woah they all can fly”, it’s all thanks to him.
- 16 days
Tommy Flowers, the man who built the first computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
- NegentropicBoy@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
Flowers’s team at Dollis Hill built the first machine in eleven months. It was immediately dubbed ‘Colossus’ by the Bletchley Park staff for its immense proportions.
Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build Colossus.
It was not until the 1970s that Flowers’ work in computing was fully acknowledged. His family had known only that he had done some ‘secret and important’ work.
- 16 days
Dang, we really should have learned about him in school. Talk about impact, and he even had a memorable name.
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The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Colorado Coal Field War & accompanying Ludlow Massacre
The Colorado Labor Wars
The West Virginia Coal Wars
The Illinois Coal Wars
Just to name a few, and those are just from the US. People need to remember these events so they can understand the world capitalists want and what they’re willing to do to achieve it.
- 16 days
Josephine Baker
A black burlesque performer who left the US and moved to France because of discrimination, then became an Allied spy during WW2
- 16 days
She’s not overlooked, maybe not always talked about but her legacy and name are well known.
- plyth@feddit.orgEnglish16 days
Ironically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta
Voltaire said: “Nothing is better known than the siege of Malta.”
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Leonhard Euler I think is not as well known in the general public
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is pretty much unknown enough that I felt the need to make his name a link.
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I was surprised to see Euler here, I was like “he’s so famous” but then I remembered I literally have a degree in mathematics and I’m fully “of course quartz”-ing
15 daysHa ha, I’m no good at maths but have two microscopes, so I knew Van Leeuwenhoek but not Euler.
- 16 days
Zhuangzi, easily one of the top 5 authors anywhere, ever.
The Taiping civil war ended a bit before the US civil war, lasted 3x as long and almost ended with china unified under a homegrown christian theocracy.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish16 days
just his impact in getting concepts to work in actual engineering. I mean don’t get me wrong we even have a school in the area named after him but if I had not read his bio I would not know anything about how our whole system of electrical generation came from him.
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It’s an event on a long enough timeline.
(Not sure if its a person, I don’t watch wrestling.)
