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  • uservoid1@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"They're the same picture"
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    13 hours ago

    Which Poland borders?

    Over the years borders are dynamic. Most of the time they are changed via wars, violent conflicts and later treaties, some more stable than others. It happen all over the world throughout history. Unless there is a large physical border, you can look at almost any part of the world and see the huge amount of border changes over the years. Focusing on just two places like the above “meme” is hypocrisy.


  • uservoid1@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"They're the same picture"
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    1 day ago

    While OP show north america in the 1800s they failed to supply the original British mandate area from the 1920s which gives a bit perspective to the next images. Also note that while the Jewish leadership accepted the UN partition plan it was rejected by the Arab/Palestinian over and over.

    And it is not a meme.





  • uservoid1@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzGoals in 1871
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    1 month ago

    Source: The Illustrated police news vol.11 #285 April 11, 1872. Page 8

    A Quebec Woman Creates a Sensation, Riding Through St. John Street in a Bearse, Reclining on the Coffin-Bed, and Smoking a Pipe. What will women do next to distinguish themselves, we wonder! A female in Quebec, the other day, perpetrated a ghastly joke, mocking death in his own domain, by lying down in a hearse and smoking a pipe as the funeral chariot was driven through the street. If this exhibition had been made in the United States, our neighbors at the North would have made it the sub- ject of very strong animad- versions.










  • uservoid1@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.world1941 hipster
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    8 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_claims_and_urban_legends

    A photograph from 1941 of genuine authenticity of the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia is sometimes alleged on the internet to show a time traveler. It was claimed that his clothing and sunglasses were of the present day and not of the styles worn in the '40s, while his camera was anachronistically small.

    Further research suggested that the present-day appearance of the man would not have necessarily been out of place in 1941. The style of sunglasses he is wearing first appeared in the 1920s. On first glance the man is taken by many to be wearing a printed T-shirt, but on closer inspection it seems to be a sweater with a sewn-on emblem, the kind of clothing often worn by sports teams of the period. The shirt resembles one that was used by the Montreal Maroons, an ice hockey team from that era. The remainder of his clothing would appear to have been available at the time, though his clothes are far more casual than those worn by the other individuals in the photograph. His camera is smaller than most of that era, but cameras of that size did exist; while it is unclear what make his camera was, Kodak had manufactured portable cameras of equivalent size since 1938.

    The “Time Traveling Hipster” became a case study in viral Internet phenomena which was presented at the Museums and the Web 2011 conference in Philadelphia.