oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.
Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.
Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.
When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.
Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.
Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed
This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.) Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.
daydreaming is often a coping mechanism for people who are often lonely or don’t receive a good amount of love in their life, so they make people inside their heads that will love them so they can feel the right amount of love.
if you guys look it up there’s pictures of them like wrestling and hanging out and just generally being good ol boys who love each other and it’s really cute
man scientists really sound like the kind of people who should set normative social conventions huh
Listen but if you lived that close to the South Pole and eternal darkness was a legitimate thing you experienced fall through winter you’d go a little nuts too
Y'all just mad cause antarctic scientists fuck more than you
I’ve spent time in Chile at the ALMA observatory which is kinda isolated in the desert and let me say there was mad fuckin. Scientists fuck man.
Scientists fuck and will continue to fuck until we stop them.
Go far enough north and you get the same effect. Depression because of the lack of sunlight is also a thing
New fanfic trope: we met during six months of darkness at the Antarctica station
