What happened in history that seemed too crazy to be true but actually happened?
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What happened in history that seemed too crazy to be true but actually happened?
What happened in history that seemed too crazy to be true but actually happened?
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No physical evidence for battle of Stalingrad.
no matter how much it’s memed these days the Taiping Rebellion still blows my fricking mind whenever I hear about it. An insane delusional pseudo-Marxist cult leader heading a rebellion war that killed 10-30 MILLION and utterly destroyed large tracts of continental east Asia around the same time as the American civil war, then promptly died because he ate some poison leaves
>promptly died because he ate some poison leaves
Kek. At least he won't be lonely on the way to the afterlife.
>pseudo-Marxist cult leader
The guy was literally a Christian cultist.
That Hakka was hinestly not a christian. He was given a missionary pamphlet once, that he may have looked at for a moment, then it just became scrap in his house. He had very little knowledge of christianity and was obviously improvising.
10-30 million is considered the low to median estimate too, on the high end it's 100 million. There's a possibility it was the single most deadly conflict on Earth, some Chinese dude LARPing as the brother of Jesus.
>im the brother of jesus
>pseudo-marxist
do they really?
Lie? Yes.
Jim Jones did the exact same thing.
In 1067 Malcolm III banished the Gaelic language from his court in place of English after marrying Margaret from England
I'd say the Tabernacle of G-D that's under Heel Stone, like crazy man, crazy.
Can I get a QRD Mr Quints?
I'm tired of G-D posting that too. Frickoff G-D, go back to google.
The german noble poo collapse is always funny.
The main story that pops into my head was that island of sealers where all but one man died then he went around raping and murdering the women and children until they rose up against him.
A lot of ancient sieges are also pretty crazy.
The story of cortez getting a ton of natives on his side and just creating a war out of nothing.
That final battle and most of the life of yi sun sin is pretty crazy.
Fin de la guerre in the siege of antwerpen was pretty cool. I like a lot of 1600s weird water siege tactics
How far Ancient Greek settlements spread thanks to colonization and Alexander's conquests. It blew my mind that there used to be self-governing Greek cities in modern-day fricking Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Tajikistan.
On a related note, it always amazes me when I read how they just say "Oh yeah, so we took 60 ships and went to the other side of the Mediterranean to attack that other colony and establish our own"
200 Spaniards conquering the entirety of the Americas
Bronze age collapse and the sea peoples
Read this guys section on Circisian Genocide it reads like a synopsis of a bad novel with one dimensional Villan.
Motherfricker Even became the a Satan in Circisian Folklore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zass#Russo-Circassian_War
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zass#Russo-Circassian_War
>In his reports, he frequently boasted about the destruction of villages and glorified the mass murder of civilians.[20] The military successes of the regiments led by him were highly appreciated by the high command
>Zass spread false rumors about his serious illness, then staged his own death, weakening the Circassians' vigilance. On the same night, when the Circassians were celebrating their oppressor's death, the suddenly "resurrected" Zass launched a raid that destroyed two villages.
>Zass considered Circassians to be subhumans inferior to the "European Race", particularly Germans and Russians.[13][28][16][15][14][10][12] The only way to deal with the Circassians, in his opinion, was to scare them away "just like wild animals". He kept a box under his bed with his collection of severed Circassian body parts.[29]
>Zass advocated ruthless military methods predicated on this notion, including burning people alive, cutting off heads for enjoyment, burning populated villages to the ground, spreading epidemics on purpose, and mass rape of children.[9][30]
what the frick
>He kept a box under his bed with his collection of severed Circassian body parts
Uhm what. How can even in those times something like that be accepted
>Zass loved spreading rumors about himself by exploiting Circassian tribal superstitions. Using various tricks and cutting-edge technology, he was able to convince and deceive the Circassians into thinking that he had various magical abilities, including being bulletproof and able to turn gunpowder into gold. He was known as a magical man who could do anything he wanted to do. As a result, when he attacked, the Circassians believed they had no chance and suffered a significant loss of morale; knowing Zass's cruel methods, they mostly attempted to save their lives rather than fighting.
Unimaginably based.
Had to be a German of course.
Odd looking duck, but there's something about his eyes, hypnotic. His eyes are almost entirely black!
the guy that enlisted in the ffl to track and kill a war criminal from the same village after ww2
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Rzhev
>we defeated the Nazis outside Moscow, we must counterattack immediately and drive them from the country!
>b-but Stalin we only just barely stopped them, our forces are in no condition to go on the offensive, they need time to reorganize and rebuild
>what is this cowardly nonsense!? I said ATTACK
>....
Tsar Alexei, a young monk, who would wake at 4am to pray. At Easter he would pray standing for six hours, prostrating himself more than a thousand times. Alexei sought to cleanse Muscovites of their many vices. He tried to ban drinking, smoking, the playing of mandolins and dwarf dancing.
But a German visitor noted voluptuous dances, bare-bottomed mooning, drunken naked women splayed outside taverns, adding that the locals were “addicted to sodomy not only with boys but with horses”.
One influential figure was Bogdan Khmelnitsky, who unleashed an orgy of violence against Catholics and israelites. Up to 100,000 israelites were massacred in gleefully ingenious atrocities with children eaten in front of their raped mothers. Several streets are, to this day, named after this Cossack officer, a hero for handing over the territory that is now roughly Ukraine to the tsar
>Tsar Alexei,
such a sad fate of many naive men,wasting your life away in devotion to something that doesn't exist
>Up to 100,000 israelites were massacred in gleefully ingenious atrocities
yeah, but did they have a cage with a bear and an eagle?
First battle of Acentejo. Where Conquistadors got their shit kicked in by literal cavemen who didn't even outnumber them by much.
The Castilians committed the terrible blunder of walking blindly into the ravine now called Barranco de San Antonio (Farfan was its Guanche name), in Acentejo. Despite their technological superiority —the Spaniards, protected with armour and shields, fought with blunderbusses and cannon— the Guanches, fighting naked, attacked them from the slopes with stones and spears of hardened wood (known as banotes). The Spaniards were unable to maneuver with their horses, because these slopes were covered with very thick, arboreal brush, and the Guanches, who numbered some 3,300 men under the leadership of Bencomo and his half-brother Tinguaro, chief of the comarca of Acentejo, made use of their mobility and intimate knowledge of the terrain to gain the upper hand. While Tinguaro with 300 men ambushed the vanguard of the Castilian forces, Bencomo arrived at the battle with 3,000 men, attacking the rearguard of the dispersed Europeans.
It is believed that four out of five Spanish soldiers fell in this battle, leaving 900–1,000 dead on the battlefield out of the initial 1,120. The defeat was not total, however. Fernández de Lugo, though wounded, was able to escape with his life (by exchanging the red cape of an Adelantado for that of a common soldier), and his surviving forces (some 200 men) were harried until he was forced to re-embark at Añazo and sail back to Gran Canaria.
>The defeat was not total because they didn't wipe us out to the last man
Do they really?
AVRELIAN restoring the empire in just 5 years
Sometimes they would flood the Flavian Amphitheater and host naval war games in it.
In 1281 the Mongols were invading the Levant (Mamluk Sultanate) and Japan simultaneously.
>In 1281 the Mongols were invading the Levant (Mamluk Sultanate) and Japan simultaneously.
not really surprising. One one side you have a couple thousand mongols invading the levant with conscripted conscripts (Persians and other people) and vassals (Armenians and Georgians). On the other side you have a few thousand mongols with their chinese conscripts along with their korean vassals invading Japan.
That Sheep herder that became emperor and saved the Roman empire.
>When the island [Lemnos] was occupied by the Greek navy [in 1912], Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of us children ran to see what these Greek soldiers, these Hellenes looked like. ‘‘What are you looking at?’’ one of them asked. ‘‘At Hellenes,’’ we replied. ‘‘Are you not Hellenes yourselves?’’ he retorted. ‘‘No, we are Romans."
This never happened.
The Byzantine history expert Peter Charanis recounted it, and he was one of the children at Lemnos at the time.
Well he's wrong and there's plenty of research proving that this never happened. Stop getting your info from did you know facebook groups, pleb.
>meanwhile in real life right now every shitskin east of italy goes blue in the face arguing that the byzantine empire was the TRVE roman empire and only racists classify it as something else
its easier to believe its true than to believe its a mistake or a lie if im being honest with you
>and there's plenty of research proving that this never happened.
I'm genuinely curious what you're referring to, I've never really seen this account refuted before myself and if there's a lot of research around it'd be interesting to see.
Don't post "facts" if you don't look up claims refuting them.
This never happened, and you can easily look it up.
You're a fake history enjoyer, genuinely.
This is a very incorrect take. You would have pressed the button, with your logic. Because why not?
I'm not the anon that posted it dude, I'm actually curious about this because I always just kind of took it as fact. I'm not getting shit from google and maybe I'm just moronic, but I really want to see this refuted if it's actually bullshit.
Search up the topic on any reputable journal and you'll get plenty of results.
What topic should I search? I'm googling the quote and all I'm getting is people calling Peter Charanis a reliable source. Not really sure how to phrase this as a simple topic.
What do you mean? Just searching up Peter Charanis brings up plenty of articles that refute him, and explain how he is not credible.
It was and then became something bigger than that.
Say you don't know how to find research without saying you don't know how to find research.
So you literally can't post a single example yourself? Not one? It's just impossible for you because we're the stupid ones huh?
If your next post doesn't contain a link to something you've mentioned then you're just outright a fricking liar and should be ignored. If it does then I'll concede that you are in fact correct and that people should stop posting that quote.
fine, ill do it myself
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/charanis_monk.html
That's literally one of his own works. It's the first thing that crops up on JSTOR when you google him. This is not a refutation, the frick are you posting this for?
is this scene in the movie? did they remove it in some version or something?
You asked for proof and I provided it. The only person who is delusional is you. You can not change your stubborn ways so you stick to them.
This never happened.
You didn't provide anything, you just posted one of this works after claiming you could easily find articles proving him wrong. You're a pathetic liar, case closed. Anybody replying to this guy in earnest after this post is a fricking moron.
It was in the version I watched as a kid, don't know if you're just not remembering it or what.
If you search up "is peter charanis a liar" on google you get over 104,000 results. That's 104,000 articles refuting him. If that isn't enough proof, I don't know what is.
i see youre a scholar. now google "the holocaust is fake"
Literally 0 results? Your point is??
Dammit, you were baiting. 3 morons ain't bad, nice catch.
my wife doesnt like it when i rewatch el dorado because she knows very well how much i want to frick chel but its ok shes a latina with chels body type anyway
Damn and I was really hoping I was about to be able to laugh at over a decade's worth of morons. Instead the only moron is you. I'm laughing at you anon. You sad, sad little man.
Oh, you're just delusional? Why didn't you just say so at the start?
Yeah I don't believe you now, that's what I was getting when I googled him dude. It even says he's the author at this top of this page.
>What do you mean? Just searching up Peter Charanis brings up plenty of articles that refute him, and explain how he is not credible.
Not finding anything, post some.
Looking him up on google is just showing me works of his, I'm not even getting refutations at all. I really want this to be wrong because I think it'd be hilarious if people were posting this shit for over a decade without knowing so, but I'm starting to kind of doubt you.
Ive read that a lot of groups and places are called Roman in the Greek language, but it doesn't strictly mean that they consider themselves Romans. So it's probably a faulty translation.
ok anon, ill ask you know in the present so its not theoretical. do you believe that the byzantine empire was the roman empire? or is the byzantine empire something separate in your opinion?
Angellos Exarchpapadopoulos detected.
>Provides no proof when the burden of proof lies on him even when someone's politely asking
Post some proof of your claims or you're a fricking liar.
Gayreeks BTFO
That guy who ran into battle in WWII with a fricking longbow and sword and not only got several confirmed kills but actually lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
Tht roman soldier who mooned some israelites and the resulting stampede and riot killed 10,000 more israelites lmao.
What a chad.
I see a lot of gays talking about Cortes, some claims are false. 200 Spaniards didn't conquer the whole of the Mexican empire. They had thousands of allies and there were also more than a 1000 Spaniards during the siege of Tenochtitlan.
The absolute most unbelievable thing that Cortes did was not conquering Tenochtitlan, but just walking in there, taking most of the leaders of the Valley of Mexico prisoner in the palace, and then persuading them to hand the empire over to the king of Castille, which they did apparently crying of joy (the last sentence might be Spanish propaganda.)
I've never heard a more ridiculous story than that.
The Americans employing Nazi rocket scientists and using them to go to the moon. Crazy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon
1969
https://www.space.com/ridiculously-detailed-moon-photo-artemis-1-tribute
Miriam, Aaron, and Moses slaughtered 3,000 israelites at Mount Horeb, barbecued them on their
new Charbroil Grill Master (brass altar of burnt offering), And then the israelites ate the israelites.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+32%3A27&version=KJV