Spoken just before his hanging by Mexican authorities on, ironically, May Day 1865. Within a year the Marxist Revolution had spread throughout the Mexican Empire. Within five years, Emperor Maximillian's corpse was hanging from Chapultepec Castle, and the Mexican Marxist Republic was founded. It lasted another 10 years until the end of the Second Mexican-American War. But that's another story.
Tweet by YouTuber and comedian Mark Fischbach, better known by his screen name Markiplier, in response to businessman Elon Musk's announced plans to build a city in Wyoming for employees of his company, which seemed to also implement policies based on the principles of transhumanism. The plans eventually fell through after Wyoming Governor Larry Hicks filled a lawsuit against Musk.
Harvey Milk giving his eulogy over to former President George Moscone, who would pass away over in August 11, 2003 at the age of 73. George Moscone was quite a beloved figure in San Francisco, but he would reach national headlines when he would survive his assassination attempt by former supervisor Dan White, by having tackled him to the ground before the cops arrived. White would die laters by suicide in police custody. According to Harvey Milk, the assassination gave Moscone a change in outlook, which he believed made him want to become more ambitious. With support over from Governor Jerry Brown and Harvey Milk, Moscone would challenge Jimmy Carter over for the Democrat primary in 1980. The race was neck in neck, but Moscone's passion had won out over Carter, who would congratulate him on his victory (Jimmy Carter would later become Secretary of State under the Moscone Administration.) Moscone with his running mate in Frank Church would run against fellow Californian Ronald Reagan. Both ran a prominent race, with it being neck in neck, though ultimately Moscone would manage to get a win, which some attributed due to his charisma boost.
Despite attempts at stamping out competing ideologies by the Legalist Qin, Mohism would rise to the dominant philosophy, as minor landowners and the peasantry embraced its teaching of universal kindness and general meritocracy. This would cause later dynasties to be forced to balance between their own power and that of powerful local communities which demanded a certain amount of autonomy, and had self-sufficiency. While not precisely democratic, these communities would later form the basisis of what would be called the "Chinese Enlightenment" by Europeans, which is a misnomer, as this enlightenment came before that in Europe. While Chinese Dynasties would rise and fall, they were known for remarkable stability as the meritocratic ethos ensured that those considered the best would be placed in their proper positions.
British general Stonewall Jackson’s last words on his death in the American Revolution of 1863 in which the United States would at last gain independence from Great Britain getting rid of King George IV. To this day Stonewall Jackson is not held in high regard in the now United States.
Modernized text from the letters of an unidentified Federalist soldier, c. 1793, during the American Civil War (1790 - 1794). The American Civil War was fought between the pro-Constitution, primarily northern Federalists (also known as the "Constitutionalists") and pro-Article, primarily southern Confederates over the structure of the United States after the failure of the Constitutional Conventions of 1787, 1789, and most importantly 1790. Foreign mercenaries from Hesse-Darmstadt came to the aid of the Federalists in 1793, giving the Federalist troops a massive boost in both morale and combat, leading to a Federalist victory in 1794 and the ratification of the Constitution of the United States.
Popular American song “Marching on New Berlin”, written during the Prussian-American War (1900–1902). The Prussian-American War began when the Prussian Empire invaded and occupied New York City after the United States refused to recognize their “territorial claims”. The Prussian Empire, which occupied much of France, the Netherlands and Belgium found it hard to keep their troops in New York supplied from across the Atlantic Ocean, and domestic resistance to their arrival, especially from German immigrants, proved to be a festering sore for Kaiser Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck. The war would end in an American victory, and the beginning of the end for the Prussian Empire as their army was destroyed in costly European Wars.
Greeting spoken by american radio celebrity Adolf Hitler, also known as "Mister Hitler", to one of his guests, in this case William Joseph "BJ" Balskowitz, retired american soldier, European War veteran, and descendant of polish immigrants, in an episode of his popular show "Tea Time at Hitler's", in an episode dated 12th of April 1946.
A quote widely attributed to Genghis Khan but is unknown if he actually said this quote. Khan is reported to have shouted this to his soldiers in relation of a military engagement during the Mongolian invasion of China.
Andrew Ryan's complaint to the executives of NBC regarding the head of Standards & Practices, Frank 'the Atlas' Fontaine. He said about the head of Standards & Practices censoring his show, The Rapture Experience, a talk show in which Andrew Ryan commented on current events in the 1950s, under spurious, dubious claims that the show wasn't attractive to advertisers and said it caused trouble. The unpleasant experience of dealing with the censor and the apathy of NBC caused Andrew Ryan to migrate to DuMont Network, where his show became the most popular show on the network.
Excerpted from a history book published in 2015. Ciano's response to Chiang's denunciation was to order the expulsion of all Chinese diplomatic personnel from Italy, with the exception of the ambassador, who passed away due to "cardiac arrest" (translation: shot). Needless to say, when word reached Nanjing, Chiang was pissed. Thus, Chiang began to reopen ties with the west, especially the United States. Whether they knew it or not, this would be the beginning of the end of the Axis.
A actual conversation between Michael Gorbachev and Ronald M. Reagan, leaders of the National Salvation Front and OSS respectively, during their plots to overthrow the collapsing Centralist Republic of Columbia. It was propelled to fame by the famous cartoon segment “Gorby and the Don”, a zany and wacky satire of their decade-long attempts at a coup to restore democracy.
From the animated history show “My American History Book”, which used a combination of zany cartoon antics, topical humor and pop culture references to tell the story of American History. In particular this line is from the episode ”Macho Macho Man Teddy Roosevelt”, where Teddy’s efforts to break up trusts and monopolies is portrayed as a WWF wrestling match. Another episode would portray the destruction of the battleship Yamato as Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star, complete with the pilot, Airman George H.W. Bush, having a personal connection with the episode’s big bad, Toshiro Yokomaki (He had cut Yokomaki off in traffic before the war).
Excerpt from Flowers in the Sky, by M. Francis Foley, which followed the Space Race between the victorious powers in the Second Great War, from the break-up of the Trans-Oceanic Alliance to the collapse of the Greater EastAsia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Kenny O'Donnell, the former chief of staff for President John F. Kennedy (1961-1969) during a documentary about the former President. This particular bit was about his post presidency, regarding a scandal with his daughter Patricia Kennedy. Born during his second term, Patricia Kennedy would grow up to be a Senator for Massachusetts like her father. First elected in 1994, many thought she would follow in her father's footsteps all the way to the Presidency, but scandals soon interrupted due to two facts Patricia Kennedy had tried to keep secret: she was bisexual and she had seemingly inherited her father's tendencies to sleep around. The ensuing scandal caused a rift between father and daughter that only healed just before Kennedy's passing in 2004, during which he voiced support for gay marriage.
Hubert Humphrey's comments about the George Wallace administration. In the aftermath of the 1968 presidential election, George Wallace of Alabama, holding the Democratic ticket, became the President of the United States. Under the George Wallace administration, the government re-segregated and enacted a nationwide Jim Crow policies as a result. It also began a military build-up in response to Fascist Italy and Somalia pledging support of the ANC and other anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, leading to the 1976 mass killings in South Africa.
Muriel Gray during a 2022 ComicCon panel on the portrayal of women in American anime. The panel had low attendance and was not brought back in 2023.
