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Showing posts with label silly things in history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silly things in history. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2018

The Time Pepsi (Briefly) Had a Navy

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For a few days in 1989 the Pepsi Corporation was the owner of the world's 6th largest navy. Russian Pepsi logo. Yes, you read tha...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The Football War

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Sporting events can be intense, especially when rivals meet. Large groups of highly emotional people can sometimes result in riots, but in ...
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Monday, October 16, 2017

The Milk War

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The Russian-Belarusian 'Milk War' of 2009 lasted a little over two weeks, and during those two weeks no shots were fired. One of th...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

The Micro-est of Micronations?

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If you've never heard of Sealand, rest assured, I am not making this up. Sealand is a very real principality located on a very real WWI...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

The Time Da Vinci and Machiavelli Teamed Up to Steal the River Arno

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Coming up with a way to steal an entire geological feature is the sort of whimsical nonsense that you would expect from inventor/engineer/a...
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Operation Nifty Package

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We've talked quite a bit about war , especially ludicrous  and unnecessary  wars, but today we're going to talk about one of my all...
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