…and why he’s so fucking badass.
He was a sickly little kid. Asthmatic, got sick a lot. But instead of staying in bed all the time, do you know what he did? He learned to box. He killed and caught animals to learn about them. While he was in college, he boxed and rowed. When he [...]
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Why do you get a history lesson today? Because I said so, and because I feel it’s important. This is one of those awesome, interesting things of history that seems to be not taught in schools. Which is complete bull shit.
The Battle of Cable Street (or the Cable Street Riot)
London, 1936. October 4th, a [...]
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I am a complete history geek. It has come to my attention many times in recent and not-so-recent years that a lot of people are of the mind frame of “Oh, history is boring, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a bunch of dead guys, what’s so great about them?” I heard one [...]
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