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Iraq transport minister says new airport will be built on site of ancient alien airport | Daily Mail Online

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Old 10-10-2016, 12:12 AM
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:rolleyes: @ Brits laughing at somecountry else's politicians...
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Old 10-10-2016, 12:14 AM
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Old 10-10-2016, 10:34 AM
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:rolleyes: @ Brits laughing at somecountry else's politicians...
Well excuse me. We do laugh at our own politicians too. Bojo. David Icke (who got too weird for politics). The entire show Spitting Image.
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That was a spaceport, not an airport. The ignorance of some people!
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I've seen that before and it's the awesomest thing the awesome Oatmeal has ever done.

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Future history. 10 Iraqi writers imagine Iraq in 2103. 100 years after.

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History, why not.

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Time to get new calendars everborty.

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"Every year on May 5, the day Napoleon died, veterans dressed in the uniforms to pay respect to the fallen emperor marched to Paris’ Place Vendôme.On one of those occasions, probably in 1858, the following photos were taken.


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Targeted advertising in Canada has always been a roflcopter when an American ad agency gets involved, but French? English? All the same, amirite?

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We (I include the History Blog a blog about history in this royal "we") have probably had this before and if we haven't we should have. If we have, and as I said we probably have, it bears repeating.

From Delicious Visual Map of History - Wait But Why:

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Kewl...but....but...it needs something.

Wait....I know. It looks....'colonic'. I think what it needs is something akin to this along the bottom:

:shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit:


Well, crap...the emoji don't space well at all.

Just what we need here, crap turds in the horde. (And 'turd' isn't even useful in the search mechanism!)
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YOU'RE colonic!
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Well, crap...the emoji don't space well at all.
Those are not emoji. They are smilies. :nojustno:
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It looks....'colonic'.
Well, it does appear the creator pulled the relative power levels out of their ass. Interesting as a historical document of what people thought about history in 1931, though.
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I actually have a hard copy of that chart, believe it or not. (I know. Of course you believe it.) I haven't blogged about it, but now that you've given me the idea, I just might.
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I actually have a hard copy of that chart, believe it or not. (I know. Of course you believe it.)
Of course I believe it.
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I haven't blogged about it
This ... not so much ...
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