This is a fun little book from my collection, published in 1945 it was an early war souvenir.
'Gek en wijs tijdens Seyss', 'Mad and Wise during Seyss', Seyss standing for Seyss-Inquart, Reich commissioner for the German-occupied Netherlands.
A what to do and what not to do 🧵
Mad; handing in all the lovely old copper, tin and nickel for war production, as the Germans ordered in June 1941.
Wise; burying it in the garden.
Mad; Showing the scummy traitors of the W.A. your support by saluting as they march through the streets.
Wise; Show them how you really feel by turning your back on them.
Mad; A police officer taking part in confiscating bicycles for the Germans, again for war production, troop transport, etc.
But an essential possession for civilians during the war.
Wise; A police officer looking the other way when he spotted a bicycle.
Mad; Dating the enemy.
Wise; Sending parcels to your husband who's a POW.
Mad; Listening to the propaganda lies of that traitor Blokzijl on the Dutch radio.
Wise; Listening in secret to the Allied radio broadcast on a wireless set hidden away, something you could be severely punished for.
Mad; Making a fortune selling tires to the Germans, like a fat war profiteer.
Wise; Deflating German tires.
Mad; A woman betrayed her neighbour who bought two ration coupons, which was not allowed, the Landwacht scum put her in jail.
Wise; Another woman with her comrades risks her life to liberate someone from a prison.
Mad; Selling the Dutch Nazi newspaper while those do show their disdain for that in public get a beating from a WA man.
Wise; Barely 16 years old this kid risks concentration camp by spreading underground newspapers.
Mad; Giving the Germans your best and most loyal friend when you're ordered to hand in your dog when ordered to do so.
Wise; Renting a small dog when you're ordered to hand in your dog so the Germans won't want it and send you away.
Mad; Betraying your fellow countrymen to the Germans which often resulted in their death.
Wise; Helping your fellow countrymen by providing them with a hiding spot.
Mad; Not caring about the war, pretending it isn't happening.
Wise; Making sure you know exactly what th situation is, keeping track of troop movement and when to expect the liberation!
Booklet was written by Wouter Loeb and drawn by Jan Lavies.
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They've done it again.
The internet is flooded with history themed Ai nonsense and people are loving it.
The History revived page has 600k followers and they're all about posting ai generated history themed rubbish.
Some of it is fun & interesting, but most of it is... well...
Lesson one every child learns: to go potty, you have to partially undress.
Romans didn't know that.
Also the sponge on a stick story is possibly nonsense.
The ghosts of Pompeii roll in their graves.
Check out the nice street lanterns and oh no, the volcano is exploding, let's all run towards the clouds of ash...
The other painting of Jean-Paul Marat's murder is more famous but this one is interesting.
It was painted by Johann Jakob Hauer (1751–1829).
Let's look at a couple of details.
Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about history with Joe Rogan.
Mr. Tyson claims that tallest thing humans built after the pyramids is the Eiffel tower... but is it?
Let's watch & check:
Let's pretend this show did what it should and had someone correcting things being said.
Even a quick google could have stopped millions of people hearing & believing this claim.
Anyway:
Tallest pyramid:
Khufu at Giza c.2570 BC: (originally) 146.7m
Eiffel tower 1889AD: 312m.
So we're supposed to believe that it took homo sapiens over 4000 years to be able to built something taller than the pyramids.
For this to be true, no building built between 2570 BC and 1889AD could have been taller than 146.7m.
Isometric sketch of a sauna stove made by master builder Heinrich Schickhardt in connection with the construction of a sauna in Stuttgart in 1616. Above the arches (A) there is space for the stone packing, on which water can be poured from the bathroom onto the stones through the openings (B). However, this stove is without the characteristic half-walls along the side walls, which are found in southern German saunas and in Næstved. After Tuchen 2003, p. 311 academia.edu/9791712/Badstu…
Yes I'm doing some random research and this is now a thread of what I find.
Nordic bathhouse, 1555.
Oven in middle, vat with water next to it, pipe bring the water to a basin, chap rinsing twigs for a thrashing, chap drinking from horn while enjoying cupping therapy.
Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt, 1533, you know when nobody bathed...
Lovely image of a bathhouse.
Just so you know, if you see this guy in a video, the odds are high that you're about to be told something iffy.
Dr. Roy Casagranda is all over social media but his research abilities leave a little to be desired.
In short: street sewers were mostly for rain & other liquids, generally not serious icky waste.
They generally didn't throw their human waste out of the windows.
They made sure to keep their wells and water sources as free from pollution as they could.
Cholera wasn't a huge problem in Europe till the 19th century.
They drank lots of water, drank beer because it's more nutritious, tastier & more fun.
The alcohol level was very very low, so they weren't drunk all the time.
Medieval people washed, bathed, used soap, did laundry and tried to smell nice because they were terrified of bad smells.
They wore linen under their woollen clothing so they weren't always itching, also some wool was quite fine and smooth. fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/med…
Let's review another youtube video by The Infographics Show, yes that lot again... they have 14 million subscribers.
This one is called:
How Did Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Actually End?
It was seen by almost 5 million people...
Can you see the first error already?
Yes, of course.
The plague doctor with the bird beak mask wasn't around during the Black Death.
Also, the title is already misleading.
The Black Death was a specific outbreak of the bubonic (and pneumonic) plague, so Black Death & Bubonic Plague don't mean the same.
Mixing them up is like saying war in general is the same as the second world war.