Thiudareik

Oera Linda; The Forbidden Chronicle In 1867 a manuscript known as the "Book of Oera Linda" appeared in Friesland. Written in old Frisian, supposedly passed down from generation to generation, it tells the story of a vanished culture, Atland, in Northern Europe. The chronicle tells of a caste of priestesses who kept "the light of truth". It mentions wars with peoples from the South, a flood that swept away vast regions and a time when the peoples of the North still possessed great power. The mainstream quickly dismissed the work as a forgery, supposedly a 19th-century joke. But there is one detail: linguistic details appear in the text that were not scientifically deciphered until decades later. How could a supposed forger have known words and laws of language that were way ahead of his time? Even more interesting: many motifs are reminiscent of Atlantis, the flood, but also Nordic myths. Could the chronicle of Oera Linda be a buried memory of a true culture originating in Europe, a kingdom erased from the History books?

We are Yamnaya conquerors saar

Crazy that Constantinople fell almost entirely because the Emperor didn't want to pay for a Hungarian's autism project (building a 19 ton cannon with a 30" bore inspired by much smaller models introduced by the Mongols) so the autist in question asked the Ottomans if they would like to fund his superweapon instead. Being tired of repeatedly losing, they said yes and threw money at him to make the damn thing, which destroyed the previously unassailable walls of the city using 1200lb cannon balls with a range of up to a mile. Dude wasn't concerned with politics, religion, or the civilizational consequences of his actions. He just really wanted to make an enormous cannon, and by god did he succeed.