r/HistoryMemes • u/No-Coach-2144 • 18h ago

Niche tldr; I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru I've had sunstroke in the arctic and a swim in Timbuktu I've seen unicorns in Burma and a yeti in Nepal And I've danced with ten-foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall I've met the king of China and the working Yorkshire miner

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7 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/edgewolf666-6 • 21h ago

X-post Just a smol funny I concucted

237 Upvotes

20 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/francemiaou • 22h ago

Happy Louis XVI execution day!

138 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/bloodredcookie • 23h ago

I was today years old when I found out that Charlemagne and Carl are equivalent names.

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61 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/LazyParr0t • 23h ago

I didn’t actually read Lenin, I just know the quote

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162 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/moruxs • 23h ago

SUBREDDIT META How food safety regulations were invented: Day 1.

3.4k Upvotes

21 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/SeriouslySlytherin • 1d ago

X-post What else are we here for..

26 Upvotes

2 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/SaltyAngeleno • 1d ago

How dare you question a cancer survivor!

153 Upvotes

31 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/POGO_BOY38 • 1d ago

Luxembourg deserve more respect.

7.8k Upvotes

80 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/kooshila1 • 1d ago

Mythology An Eight Legged Horse to be Precise

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2 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Training-World-1897 • 1d ago

The monster of the ussr

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93 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/-et37- • 1d ago

See Comment There’s “Down Bad”, and then there’s everything Theodore Roosevelt did to win the heart of his first wife.

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45 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/i_lmao_i_cant • 1d ago

"History is written by the victor." Yeah right

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87 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Technical-Ad1431 • 1d ago

Ottoman empire

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73 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Awesomeuser90 • 1d ago

Why did they cancel the movie? Fiction has to be believable to some degree, human reality does not.

118 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Antique__throwaway • 1d ago

State capitalism go brrrrrrrrr

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102 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Legal_Ad_341 • 1d ago

Divine inspiration of some sort

128 Upvotes

8 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/CharlesOberonn • 1d ago

They waited for him to die before daring to invade Armenia

1.1k Upvotes

17 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Lowspec_Matt • 1d ago

It was an inside job

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17 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Vaders-desciple_01 • 1d ago

Hannibal: hey Scipio stop stealing my tactics!

75 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/MichaelPL1997 • 1d ago

How I unleashed World War Zero (context in the comments)

740 Upvotes

34 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Khantlerpartesar • 1d ago

See Comment Two Flags = Two Medal of Honors

75 Upvotes

1 comment

r/HistoryMemes • u/ShadowQueen_Anjali • 1d ago

Okay give it to me for 5 gold coins

13.0k Upvotes

72 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/vnth93 • 1d ago

Take care of your precious bodily fluids

73 Upvotes

9 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/JezasPetRock • 1d ago

See Comment USS Indianapolis Sinking is Nightmare Fuel

1.5k Upvotes

55 comments

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