HistoryWow @HistoryWow

Because history is fascinating and inspirational. A short, sharp hit of history each day and much more. historywow.com Worldwide Joined January 2012

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a month ago

Interesting historical fact. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was named after the Scottish trade unionist and first parliamentary leader of the British Labour Party Keir Hardie (1856-1915). A case of predetermined political future from birth?

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a month ago

@LxngevityLab Winston Churchill, who would, in his 60s, dictate up to 10,000 words a night to support an expensive lifestyle, when asked how he had so much energy replied “For a start, I don’t waste my essence in bed”. Smoking cigars and drinking heavily all his life, he lived to 90.

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2 months ago

@MrTeeconnect @thinkingwest Two thousand year old graffiti on Pompeii walls claiming the sexual availability of a bar worker and warning about a dodgy businessman. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Human nature hasn’t changed.

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2 months ago

@QINTELPRO_ What a delightful hypothesis. Bertie - ‘Edward the Caresser’ - was too busy fornicating with stylish aristocratic ladies, often via his specially made love chair, and enjoying eight course sumptuous dinners, to give much thought to such matters, let alone ‘orchestrating’ them.

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2 months ago

@Gentleman_Ways Yes of course. If it’s true. The enormously talented Welles has been described as a ‘fabulist’. As for Churchill being a gentleman, tell that to the hundreds of thousands who died under his watch.

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2 months ago

@anishmoonka After the 1915 Dardanelles disaster and he lost his mansion home a perk of him being First Lord of the Admiralty, he went to live with his brother Jack (whose middle name incidentally was Strange, the same as mother Lady Jenny’s lover). Churchill spent his days building Meccano.

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2 months ago

@saniyafatma1278 Lorena. Famous American civil war song.

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2 months ago

@Matt_Pinner And, clearly, never pack a brassiere.

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2 months ago

@KarlWuckert The ad campaign: “I’d walk a mile for a Camel”.

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4 months ago

Fascinating view on history’s print revolution related to today’s digital revolution. x.com/organizermemes…

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4 months ago

I love this video

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4 months ago

@Nostre_damus The good news is never believe predictions. Big brain Club of Rome in 1960s said no oil, copper, iron ore, etc by 1990. US most famous economist Yale’s Prof Irving Fisher said in August 1929 “stockmarket has reached permanently high plateau”. Two months later biggest crash ever”.

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4 months ago

@BigBrainPhiloso As Sigmund Freud said, ‘Man is a creature of limited intellect, dominated by his instincts’.

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4 months ago

@Rainmaker1973 That’s why the Ancient Egyptians worshiped cats. See their hieroglyphics, icons, etc.

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5 months ago

@jerr_rrej Apart from China inventing 12th century gun powder, 11th century water clock, global 16th century sailing vessels four times bigger than anything in Europe, etc, etc.

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5 months ago

@TruthFairy131 We make no condemnation of anyone, but according to an Oxford history professor, whose name regrettably escapes us, Winston Churchill’s father Lord Randolph Churchill owed Nathaniel Rothschild £65,000 when he, Lord Randolph, died in 1895. Whether this was repaid is a moot point.

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5 months ago

@Hoang_HQ It’s not for nothing that Odoric of Pordenone said these were the best people he encountered.

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6 months ago

@irvingbooks Does Mr Irving know if the £65,000 Winston Churchill’s father Lord Randolph Churchill owed Nathaniel Rothschild, when he, Lord Randolph, died in 1895, was ever repaid? The source for this information is a Churchill documentary featuring an Oxford history professor.

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6 months ago

@AGAsianGuy Sat next to a lawyer at a business lunch December 2022. Told me he had a billionaire client. He and his billionaire mates were buying gold. That’s when gold was US$1900. This morning US$4880. I guess that’s why they’re billionaires.

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6 months ago

@RositaDaz48 In an interview a journalist said to Sir Donald Bradman, “Well, you’re the greatest Australian.” Bradman replied, “No, that’s Monash.” It’s been said if Monash had been put in charge of Allied forces in World War One, the war would have ended earlier.

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6 months ago

Interesting quote from Baptist accountant and founder of Standard Oil John D Rockefeller: “Competition is sin”.

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6 months ago

THE MONEY MASTERS | HOW INTERNATIONAL BANKERS GAINED CONTROL OF AMERICA William T. Still An excellent 3.5 hour documentary on the history of money, The Federal Reserve, the takeover of the Rothschilds & Private Central Banks.