Khazar-khum posted:

At the time, photography of the dead was done to make a 'last look' possible. Thanatos.com has an excellent selection, though be forewarned: the majority are of young children, dead from the same diseases anti-vaxxers want to return.

Exhuming a body for a ritual of some kind was not unknown. People were exhumed to be executed, like Cromwell. If you were considered holy, you might be exhumed to see if you were an Incorruptable--ie, perfectly preserved--and thus eligible for sainthood.

Inez de Castro, wife of King Pedro of Portugal, was exhumed so she could be crowned. She had been murdered, which set off a terrible war; once peace was restored, the victorious Pedro ordered her to be dressed as queen and placed on her throne. All members of the court had to bow and kiss the ring on her hand.

Say Nothing posted:

Olympic champion weightlifter Vasily Alexeev, who set 80 World records in competition, which was a Guiness record at the time for the most World records set.

Platystemon posted:

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A German cake needs to be brown like Hitler, fat like Goering, puffed up like Goebbels and crumbly ("mürbe") like the German people.

LingcodKilla posted:

Don’t gently caress with Battle-Messenger-Pigeon.

By popular demand posted:

I'm guessing a horserider is a big target that's really hard to miss with machine guns.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Whenever I see the phrase protestant work ethic I'm like (Finland is about 97% protestant. Now you may look it up and see that only 68% of Finns are members of the church but the thing is atheists count as Lutherans. There's no discernable difference. It's not as if most of the people who are members of the church believe in religion or god, or go to church.)

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Ned gschompfa is gnug globd.

Jaguars! posted:

I once bought an east German belt because the emblem looks like a sextant

Carthag Tuek posted:

"1½00. 4tom søm @ 100 2 [mark] er ... [3 mark]"

this is a pretty wild way to write out numbers lol

makes sense though: 150 four inch nails, costing 2 mark per 100, for a total of 3 mark

Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris posted:

Also a hundred of wax, sugar, pepper, cumin, almonds & alum, contains 13 stones & a half & each stone contains 8 pounds for a total of 108 pounds in the hundred.
[...]
Also hundred of Canvass, and linen cloth consists of one hundred Ells and each hundred consists of 120. But the hundred of iron and shillings consists of 100.
[...]
A Hundred of [Garlike] consisteth of fifteen Ropes, and every Rope containeth fifteen Heads. Also a Hundred of Mulvells and Hard Fish consists of 160.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Personally I think the Great War just absolutely ruled

Falukorv posted:

Yeah that probably is the towns best claim to fame. Few things are more iconically Swedish than the red paint that decorate many of its wooden houses. Produced, still today, from iron oxides present in the slag produced from copper extraction. Plenty of slag heaps all over the municipality but will eventually run out of slag in an estimated 80 years or so. The mine itself was closed in 1992 and only the red paint production remains. Closed for operations that is, it is a world heritage site and open to visitors with guided tours of the shafts.

His Divine Shadow posted:

Workers in Orsa, Sweden making grindstones:


Every farm in sweden used to have a grindstone for the scythes and other tools. In a swedish novel about people emigrating to america, one elderly man totes a grindstone along with him because his son who had gone before said good grindstones where nowhere to be found in the new world.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Ett lång fordon med många låga fordon på sig.