An banner ad for Canadian Beef on KingMammothHunters, a major Pickup Artist/Men's Right's Activist website, catering to the hypermasculinity and homophobia of the website's users.
A quote from an infamous Internet critic about the negative reception of Dane Cook's recent comedy routine. He noted the poor-quality of American comedy at the time, considered the lowest form of entertainment.
Losing the Great War did not quite destroy France as a nation, but it did destroy its political stability -until Maurras arranged a palace coup and seemed to restore something resembling law and order. Unfortunately it would only be the start of a terror regime the likes of which had not been witnessed before, and the world fervently hopes never to witness again.
A speech given by Soviet general Georgy Zhukov to his troops, shortly before he defected to the Germans in 1942. Following the Imperial German Army's razing of Yekaterinburg under the orders of Marshall Heinrich Himmler—a notably brutal commander placed in charge of Germany's Eastern Front operations in the Second Great War—Zhukov's betrayal sent shockwaves through the Eurasian Socialist Republic, with mass desertions and widespread civil unrest following. The Eurasian war effort rapidly collapsed, culminating with the suicide of Chairman Leon Trotsky. His successor, Mikhail Kalinin, finally negotiated an armistice with Germany in early 1943, and another with Japan in the following months, ending the bloody conflicts between Russia and Germany that had spanned over the last 30 years and preserving communism within the rump Siberian Socialist Republic, centered on Novosibirsk. When asked in a 1964 interview about the reasons for his betrayal, Zhukov replied that he had hoped it would finally lead to peace; his true motives remain the subject of wide speculation.
New York Representative Humphrey Bogart speaking with canadian immigrant to Columbian presidential candidate William HM King.
President Christopher Hitchens of the United British Republic following the atomic bombing of Rome and Mecca, ending the Third World War between the Secular League and the Holy Alliance (which was led by the Papal Kingdom of Italy and the Hashemite Empire).
An imperial inspector to a fleeing Hebrew slave. Emperor Fantabulous was infamous for the thorough searches of his men as well as his---admiration---for his sweaty muscled workers.
Some holymen associaed with the Waldenisian Church, offering him sainthood as part of attempts to grow the influence of the Church and safety. Additionally, both had a common enemy in the Catholic Church due to papacy's disbelief in the actions of Joan of Arc. De Rais did not give them an answer until talkking over with Joan. Eventually, Joan let them and De Rais became a saint of the Church. While this angered the Catholic Church, this also forced them more to side with the British and turned the rest of France against them, resulting in France becoming a Waldenisian state when the nation would be unified and Joan of Arc martyred.
Said in a documentary detailing the rise to power of the Kalmar Union, which would go on to dominate European politics for centuries to come.
William Travis to Sam Houston after finding the latter hunched over the lifeless body of Santa Ana
Travel author and TV personality Rick Steves on the first episode of his 2008 series, Rick Steves: Mexico Through the Back Door, focusing on the hidden gems of travel within the Kingdom of Mexico. In this episode, he explored the northern heart of Alta California, starting in the city of Nueva Helvetia (where he spoke this very line) and making his way down to the port town of Yerba Buena before ending in the provincial capital of Monterrey. Mexico Through the Back Door became a widely popular and critically acclaimed series, boosting Steves' fortunes and allowing him to expand the scope of his travels to the rest of Latin America.
Cardinal Rasputin II to Czar Edmund I on the assassination of Edmund's brother, the King of England. The assassination was blamed on Edmund, who proclaimed his innocence; without much evidence, however, and with the Labour Syndicalists in power, there was little recourse to prove Edmund's uninvolvement.
From a recorded conversation between co-emperors Heraklonas and Constantine III of the ERE, 645 AD. Following the failure of their father Heraclius to repeal the Sassanids, the Persians forced a humiliating peace on the Byzantines in 618 AD, which saw the empire loose Egypt, Syria and most of Anatolia. With their father would be broken by this, dieing in 630 AD, both brothers would grow up to hate the Persians, as did most of the empire. By 640, the public opinion was that the Sassanids were all incestuous, hedonistic sinners at best and the greatest abominations against God and most likely creations of Devil himself at worst. However, by 645, rumours were spreading that the Persian empire was falling into revolts facing many enemies at once, while its rulers fought each other. Rumours even begun spreading that the Persians were being attacked by great christian hosts from unknown lands. Both of the co-emperors were highly pious and as this conversation shows, believed that god himself has decided to punish the vile Persians. The Byzantines would soon commence a great reconquest, seizing back all their old territories and even Ctesiphon itself. The invaders would show themself to not be Christians, but the new Muslim Arabs and Gökturk tribes from Asia, which would divide the Persian heartlands amongst each other. This war against Persians would however create quite good relations between the new Muslim faith and Christianity, with the Arabs focusing most of their future expansion on India and Africa, while the Eastern Rome would once more, this time with even more success, focuse itself on Western reclamation.
Karl Mannerheim to the Finnish 12th Division as Vlasov's Northwestern Front prepares to assault Helsinki, May 1940. Mannerheim's speech is credited with bolstering the resolve of the beleaguered Finnish Army in its desperate defense of the city, and is seen as one of the major factors in helping blunt the Soviet offensive. Vlasov, for his failure, would surrender to the Finns rather than face Soviet justice. He would later spearhead the Finnish offensive into Karelia in 1942.
