Top Items About Revolutions
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Jokes | Libyan rat race (Qaddafi joke) | Here’s a story they tell in Libya. Three contestants are in a race to run five hundred metres carrying a bag of rats.... | root | 151 | |
| Anecdotes | French Revolt? | On July 14, 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, an angry mob led by Georges Jacques Danton stormed and captured... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Trivia | Madame Tussaud & the French Revolution | Philippe Curtius, a wax artist who trained with Madame Tussaud during the French Revolution, was forced to behead his... | root | 27 | |
| Anecdotes | Central Misperception | Leon Trotsky, who spent much of his time during World War I playing chess in Vienna`s Cafe Central, was regarded by... | Anonymous | 25 | |
| Anecdotes | Lapse of Memory | "In 1913, Raymond Gram Swing got himself appointed Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. When the... | Anonymous | 19 | |
| Anecdotes | Pancho Villa, Inc. | "In 1914, a Hollywood motion picture company signed a contract with Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa in which... | Anonymous | 18 | |
| Anecdotes | Dumplings | Ferdinand suffered from such severe bouts of insanity that, during his reign, affairs of state were managed by a... | Anonymous | 17 | |
| Anecdotes | Pedestals | "Amid the celebrations and the darker scenes of death and looting," David Remnick wrote in the wake of the war in Iraq... | Anonymous | 14 | |
| Anecdotes | Patrick Pearse: Sticky Situation | Sunday April 23rd, 1916, marked the first day of Patrick Pearse`s famous Easter Uprising in Dublin, Ireland. [Some... | Anonymous | 11 | |
| Quotes | Quote about Russia, Moscow and Economics | A joke from Moscow, according to World Bank staffer John Nellis: `Everything the Communists told us about communism was... | Anonymous | 10 |
