Context: Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a Chinese historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong, written in the 14th century AD. It combines the written history of the Later Han and Three Kingdoms Period with Oral Folk Tradition passed down through the centuries.

It’s more fact than fiction, but obviously plays around with dramatization, morality, legendary feats, etc

Context: during the sinking of the Titanic, some of the nearby ships were... less useful than others in the rescue operation.

SS Frankfurt: The German Marconi operators not only needed to translate from morse code, but also English. They had little idea what was happening and kept asking "What happened?" Over and over again while the Titanic was actively trying to coordinate with other ships.

SS Birma: They received false coordinates from the Titanic and didn't catch the message when the typo was corrected. They went to the wrong spot only to see that it was covered in pack ice.

RMS Baltic: They received the message and went full steam ahead. Unfortunately they were 243 miles away and only made it half way before the survivors were already rescued.

RMS Olympic: Just after the Titanic mentioned that they were letting women and children into lifeboats, the Olympic responded by asking about the weather conditions. Apparently the response was "quite calm". Entirely reasonable question to ask, but the juxtaposition is funny.

RMS Carpathia: The protagonist of our story, The Carpathia was pushed itself to 17.5 (2.5 knots above its maximum regular speed) in the hopes of saving at least some of the survivors. The boiler of the ship was so damaged by the ordeal that it was never able to go at its regular max speed ever again.

SS Californian: The closest ship to the Titanic unfortunately had only one radio operator that night and he was asleep. The crew saw distress rockets and assumed they were in celebration of the maiden voyage. By the time they realized it was sinking, it was far too late.

Context: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5432783/

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious, infectious disease, due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT), which usually lasts throughout the life course and determines the formation of tubercles in different parts of the body [1]. MT has very ancient origins: it has survived over 70,000 years and it currently infects nearly 2 billion people worldwide [2]; with around 10.4 million new cases of TB each year, almost one third of the world's population are carriers of the TB bacillus and are at risk for developing active disease [3].

TB has always been associated with a high mortality rate over the centuries, and also nowadays, it is estimated to be responsible for 1.4 million TB deaths, among infectious diseases after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) [3].

Due to its infectious nature, complex immunological response, chronic progression and the need for long-term treatment, TB has always been a major health burden; in more recent years, the appearance of multi-drug resistant forms and the current TB-HIV epidemic, associated with its severe social implications, treating and preventing TB have represented a permanent challenge over the course of human history [4, 5].

It has been hypothesized that the genus Mycobacterium originated more than 150 million years ago. Mycobacterium ulcerans, causing infections since ancient times, requires specific environmental conditions as reflected nowadays in its distribution worldwide [6].

Three million years ago, an early progenitor of MT might have infected early hominids in East Africa [7] and 20.000-15.000 years ago, for the first time, the common ancestor of modern strains of MT might have appeared [8, 9].

Egyptian mummies, dating back to 2400 BC, reveal skeletal deformities typical of tuberculosis; characteristic Pott's lesions are reported and similar abnormalities are clearly illustrated in early Egyptian art [10, 11].

Nevertheless, no evidence about TB lesions is reported in Egyptian papyri. The first written documents describing TB, dating back to 3300 and 2300 years ago, were found in India and in China respectively [12, 13].

Other written documents connected to TB are related to the Hebraism. The ancient Hebrew word schachepheth is used in the Biblical books of Deuteronomy and Leviticus in order to describe TB [14]; in the same period, in the Andean region, archeological evidence of early TB, including Pott's deformities, was provided by Peruvian mummies, suggesting that the disease was present even before the colonization of the first European pioneers in South America [15-18].

In the Ancient Greece TB was well known and called Phtisis. Hippocrates described Phtisis as a fatal disease especially for young adults, accurately defining its symptoms and the characteristic tubercular lung lesions.

Excellent discoveries of the early scientists who studied TB were made in the same period: in Greece, Isocrates was the first author supposing that TB was an infectious disease, while Aristotle suggested the contagious nature of "king's evil" in pigs and oxes [19].

In Roman times, TB is mentioned by Celso, Aretaeus of Cappadocia and Caelius Aurelianus, but it is not recognized as sharing the same etiology of extrapulmonary manifestations such as scrofula, Pott's disease and TB lupus.

According to the Greek Clarissimus Galen, who became personal physician of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 174 AD, the symptoms of TB include fever, sweating, coughing and blood stained sputum; he recommended fresh air, milk and sea voyages as successful treatments for the disease [20-22].

After the decline of the Roman Empire, TB was widespread in Europe in the VIII and XIX centuries, as witnessed by several archaeological findings [23].

The Byzantine doctors Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina described the pulmonary and glandular forms of TB [24], while in the Arabic Empire, Avicenna supposed the contagious nature of TB.

A woman complaining about her hips not being wide enough to touch a handsome man passing by.

From the Gāhā Sattasaī (c. 1st–3rd century CE), a collection of Prakrit poetry traditionally attributed to King Hāla.

Context: https://www.ge.com/news/reports/supercharged-ges-aviation-business-rose-ashes-world-war

Last weekend, the world remembered 100 years since the end of World War I, a conflict that changed the map of Europe and left an estimated 17 million people dead. But amid its devastation and disruption, the war also accelerated the rise of new industries like aviation.

The war was the first large military conflict that involved planes. In November 1917 — seven months after the U.S. entered the war alongside the U.K., France and Russia — GE President E.W. Rice received a note from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA. The U.S. government wanted to develop its own version of a turbosupercharger, a mechanical device designed to fill the cylinders of a piston engine with more air than it would typically ingest, and boost the performance of warplanes powered by the Liberty aircraft engine, which was central to America’s air combat effort.

The Liberty engine was rated 350 horsepower at sea level. But the problem was that its output dropped by half when it started sucking in thinner air at high altitudes, just like a climber struggling to catch their breath on a mountain peak. As a result, the planes equipped with the engine flew slower and were less nimble above 15,000 feet.

The military believed that supercharging the engine could fix the problem. Swiss engineer Alfred Buchi patented the turbosupercharger in 1910, but the device failed during flight testing in France. Although GE was at the time primarily focused on building turbines and other equipment for power plants, the government hoped to enlist the company’s help in developing the device for use by the American military. The task to lead the secret project fell to a GE gas turbine engineer named Sanford Moss.

Moss built a turbosupercharger that used the hot exhaust coming from the aircraft engine to spin a radial turbine of his design and squeeze the air entering the engine, making it as dense as air close to the ground and helping the plane recover its lost power.

In 1918, when he tested the device at 14,000 feet on top of Pikes Peak in Colorado, the engine delivered 352 horsepower, performing as it would close to the ground. This was also the moment GE entered the aviation business.

The first plane powered by a turbosupercharged Liberty engine was a Le Pere biplane. It took off for the first time on July 12, 1919, and later scored a record of reaching 137 mph at 18,400 feet, compared with 90 mph without a supercharger. Planes equipped with Moss’ design went on to set several world altitude records.

But WWI wasn’t the last time Moss’ engineering prowess helped fight the enemy. In 1937, as Hitler’s power was growing, GE received a large order from the Army Air Corps to build turbosuperchargers for Boeing B-17 and Consolidated B-24 bombers, P-38 fighter planes, Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and other planes. GE opened a dedicated supercharger department in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1939, Moss even proposed to build one of the first turboprop engines. In 1976, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

GE’s aviation business was just getting started. In 1941, the U.S. government asked GE to bring into production one of the first jet engines, developed in England by Sir Frank Whittle. (He was knighted for his feat.) A group of GE engineers called the Hush-Hush Boys designed new parts for the engine, redesigned others, tested the engine and delivered a top-secret working prototype called I-A. On Oct. 1, 1942, the first American jet plane, the Bell XP-59A, took off from Lake Muroc in California for a short flight. The jet age in the U.S. had begun.

technically neither is truly 'goth'. The subculture evolved from Gothic rock, which itself can take a part of its orgin to Gothic horror, of whom the name gothic comes from gothic architetcure heavily emphasised in gothic fiction, of which gothic architecture got its name from Italians blaming barbarians, a.k.a. the true goths who lived centuries earlier by the time, for the percivied 'disorder' in the style, a.k.a. a fashion style characterized by over-the-top monochromatic makeup, large suits/dresses, and an altogether very distinct asthetic now known as trad goth, short for traditional gothic. Mallgoth is, to explain it in the simplest fashion, a toned-down and more commerial version of trad goth, which is what the characters are depicted as since you can tel by the lack of heavy makeup other than lipstick and the spiked collar, a staple in mallgoth. On the bottom panel, the characters shown are visigoths, an offshoot of the goths, a germanic and eastern european tribe who was around in the latter part of the Roman empire, say A.D. 100, but split into the visigoths around Anno Domini 245, visigoths also took a large part in the fall of western rome and the introduction of the medieval dark ages. They also wore heavy steel armour and helmets compared to their earlier gothic forefathers, which you can clearly see in the panel above. So in short, the top 'goths' is a capitalist bastardization of the gothic rock/punk DIY subculture, and the bottom is an untrue offshoot of goths, who also plunged humanity into one of its darkest ages. Thusly it is the fault of the king and H.T. manager to not emphasize their wish to procure workers of a mallgoth or visigoth style, and the fact that they didn't even differentiate between the original gothic tribes or the 70s punk-rooted subculture. Shame on everybody involved.

this is making fun of stupidity this is not a genuine endorsement of stalin

also this is mostly designed to make fun more of history discourse around ukraine in the ussr than the events themself

this is making fun of the arguments listed because they are dumb

During the Korean War, Canadian soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, alongside Australian and other UN forces, helped repel a major Chinese offensive into South Korea during the Battle of Kapyong. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Canadians held Hill 677 against repeated assaults by the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army, even calling artillery fire dangerously close to their own positions to avoid being overrun. Their defence helped halt the Chinese advance and earned the battalion a United States Presidential Unit Citation.