There are well over 100 000 articles on the Volapük version of Wikipedia, even though the constructed language only has a few dozen speakers today. Apparently a Volapük enthusiast auto-generated thou… (View Post)

The comic album Land of Black Gold from The adventures of Tintin was originally clearly set in the 1940s. The version of the album you can buy today is actually the third version, made in the early 1… (View Post)

When I was younger an old man started yelling at me for walking like this, telling me that in his days they knew how to respect nature. I was already in a horrible mood and we ended up loudly debatin… (View Post)

Eric XIV was king of Sweden between 1560 and 1568. Today he is mostly remembered for his paranoia and mental instability. This resulted in the Sture murders in 1567. The king was convinced that sever… (View Post)

They also kill a whole lot of their own members, murder anyone considered a rival/threat and have no problems with torture. As we see in Irenicus' dungeon, they will happily kill any bystander too, j… (View Post)