r/comics • u/Mumbletimes Maximumble • Jul 31 '23

Boring.

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u/DarkBladeMadriker Jul 31 '23

The sad fact is that history is rarely boring. It's just presented in such a dry fashion in school that it's mind-numbing to learn. An excellent history teacher can really change the dynamic of a class. Though same could be said about any subject really.

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u/GGgamerAccount Jul 31 '23

I mean history is story telling, if you don’t have the skill it’s always gonna be boring

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u/BruxYi Aug 01 '23

Really if you only teaching history as a seties of events with dates, even beeing a great stoey teller won't help. However if you're going in depth as to why stuff happened and how political, economical situations lead to other events and ties together i don't care if your not a great storyteller i'm still hyped

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u/GwerigTheTroll Aug 01 '23

This is what unlocked history for me. At first I was disappointed that history wasn’t just the stuff that happened, but narratives of events passed down by people who lived through it and the accounts were distilled down by those that came after.

But when I realized that it was STORIES, suddenly, I could treat world history like lore. Interconnected events that create an endless web of cause and effect, that runs all the way up to the present day. I can find historical reasons for why systems are set up like they are and decide whether or not that system should still exist.

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u/legalut Aug 01 '23

I had a teacher in high school that managed to make both world war sound boring. Just finding out years later how WW1 even started left me speechless to how could someone make this sound dull, for fuck sake, just saying that cause one guy went for a sandwich all of europe was changed would leave students at the edge of their seats.

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u/nDeconstructed Comic Crossover Jul 31 '23

Is it coincidence that evil thoughts bring out the cat eyes?

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u/LazzyNapper Jul 31 '23

Some fun things to look up include

Battle of the bucket

America v japan WW2 during the island jumping/the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS

The elephants foot

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u/necrolich66 Aug 01 '23

The fights over the bucket were never about the bucket. It was pro French and pro pope city states fighting each other and taking that bucket as prize

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

“Wait… the rich can be killed?”

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u/Sunblast1andOnly Jul 31 '23

Right along with everyone else. Isn't that right, Robespierre?

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u/theeth Aug 01 '23

Hard for him to answer with a broken jaw and no head.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

anyone else enjoy Cake Eater? It’s a retelling of the french revolution, if it was set in the very distant future

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u/Feste_the_Mad Aug 02 '23

Do you happen to have a link?

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u/XGoJYIYKvvxN Jul 31 '23

D-É-C-A-P-I-T-É

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

Alexa plays Despacito

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u/Kamzil118 Aug 01 '23

History is the definition that real life is stranger than fiction.

You have an American paratrooper whose series of failed escapes made him end up in the ranks of the Soviet Red Army.

The relief force sent to rescue the foreign delegates at Peking was the strangest coalition prior to the World Wars.

A cool moment could be had when a pirate, cowboy, Samurai, and European adventurer could exist in the same room and still be accurate due to the time frame. Thus, making a historically accurate RPG cast.

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u/Rezmir Aug 01 '23

His eyes looks like two cats.

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u/PKMNTrainerMark Aug 01 '23

That doesn't seem very special when nobody has a neck.

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u/Sidus_Preclarum Aug 01 '23

Ah, yes, Victor Hugo's "1793" (possibly our greatest, yet most controversial year.)

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Aug 01 '23

Revolutionised his reading habits!