Actor Oliver Reed died during the production of ‘Gladiator.' He consumed 3 bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, 8 bottles of German beer, numerous cognacs after challenging sailors from HMS Cumberland to a drinking contest. He then defeated several sailors in arm-wrestling before collapsing.

Idk shit about history but recently started learning and this is honestly the coolest neighbor I've learned about so far, except maybe Martin Luther.

!chuds is your state listed?

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Someone mentioned Howard Zinn! Reeeeeeeeeeeee

I think it would be the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Nothing beats that because all of a sudden the US became a complete single unipolar powerhouse. All the nation states including India that had closed economies had to shift towards open economies as they realized that system was not working out.

You had McDonalds all the way in Russia. That is how you knew capitalism truly won over communism.

I cannot imagine any other event of the 1990's that shook the world as much as the dissolution of the soviet union.

Today that event still impacts the world as Russia in its present form is too small to fight for itself and thus fell into the sphere of influence of China.

Is there any other major event of the 1990's that had as great an impact?

!latinx !macacos !historychads some interesting footage from Brazil of that time

Bonus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill

If it were only Nero, then sure, but apparently he was involved with multiple people afterwards, one that continued to call him Poppaea, and the other Poppaea's ex-husband.

Was Rome just a bunch of schizos LARPing?

The (oxymoron I know) incel japs got so mad a White beauty won the pagent that they attacked her for the crime of dating someone and forced her to apologize on tv

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2263518/I-left-love-life-I-thought-I-better-Now-Im-childless-42.html

!macacos

I know very little about Henry VIII like why would anyone study bong history - and I'm more partial to the idea that English reformers within the Catholic Church manipulated Mr. #8 to create the Church of England they wanted, what do drama historians think about this thread?

Archidamus II (Greek: Ἀρχίδαμος Archidamos; died 427/6 BC) was a king of Sparta who reigned from approximately 469/8 BC to 427/6 BC.

Archidamus' later second marriage was to Eupoleia. The Ephors objected to this union, arguing that due to Eupolia's short stature, “She will bear us kinglets instead of kings”. He married her nonetheless and was for that fined by the Ephors.