The above image is called the Man Catcher. It’s a weapon that was used in Europe from around 1601 to 1800. It was used during times of war to pull riders off their horses. The business end was shoved onto someone’s neck and then the person using it pulled them off their horse. What a…
History
Joseph Stalin’s Order Number 270
I’ve been listening to a really fantastic history podcast, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. The most recent episode is Ghosts of the Ostfront II. It is the second part of a show that deals with what the Russians refer to as The Great Patriotic War, the theatre of war between the German Third Reich and the…
More proof Thomas Edison was a dick
When Thomas Edison wasn’t running around stealing inventions that weren’t his own, he was publicly electrocuting defenseless animals. He was trying to make Nikola Tesla‘s Alternating Current (AC) look somehow more dangerous than his own Direct Current (DC). He would normally electrocute stray dogs and cats, but one time he got to fry an elephant….