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Whats your favorite historical oddity
>in Zoroastrianism, killing a beaver was seen as worse than killing a holy person or committing blasphemy against God
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>>18327603
why's he look Jewish?
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A USSR beats the Nazis tier "victory"
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Here's an interesting fact, Germany contributed more to the 8 nation alliance that put down the Boxer rebellion than any other country, as one of the incidents that really escalated the conflict was the assassination of a German diplomat by rebels, and Empress Dowager Cixi making statements that implied she supported the attack, and thought China should go to war with all the imperialists.
While the conflict was officially not a war with China, but rather an international mission to help China deal with these rebels, the 8 nation alliance negotiated a conclusion to the mission which effectively treated China as a defeated nation. They had originally presented a list to Li Hongzang (the de-facto foreign minister, because in 1901 China still did not have a foreign ministry) of names of war criminals to be turned over to the alliance to face justice in European courts. Number 1 on the list was Empress Dowager Cixi. Li convinced them that she didn't really mean what she said and had been misled by bad people who had already been punished, that extraditing her would be such a humiliation that it could cause the Empire to collapse, and that she had been put under house arrest anyway and would not be able to foment any further rebellion.
The main provision China did agree to was an indemnity to the 8 nation alliance of 450 million ounces of silver (the population of china was estimated at 450 million people). China finished paying it off in 1940.
Bizarrely though, the peace treaty also included a provision that china had to construct a memorial in Beijing to the German diplomat. Pic related, there is also a plaque in German and Chinese on it, another stipulation of the treaty. (couldn't find a pic of it, but it's there) Talk about diplomacy of another era.
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>>18327603
Doesn't it look like the arms of Jesus on the cross or the horns of baphomet?
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