Weird co-ocurrences in history

Nuclear weapons were used in the same war that some soldiers carried swords into battle

Jeanne Calment met Van Gogh, saw the Eiffel Tower being built and contributed on a rap album in 1996.

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Which is older? The World Series or the Kingdom of Norway?

That's right! The World Series!

>>3022104
Fucking incredible.

Not nearly as old, but the scientist and engineer William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, saw quite a spread of technology and scientific thought in his lifetime. He would've been old enough that he remembered when people believed in spontaneous generation (maggots generating from rotted meat, mice springing fully formed from grain silos, etc.). From this era of relative ignorance, he found the correct value of absolute zero, worked on the transatlantic telegraph line, and as an electrician, did more to advance and modernize the trade than any man before him. He lived long enough to see the invention of the triode vacuum tube and the birth of radio and electronics.

>>Swords, machine guns, aircraft, catapults, maces, poison gas, sappers, and flamethrowers do not belong in the same war... unless it's World War I.

I mean, catapults are still used till this day if you count ISIS-syria war

>>3022335
Pics.

Betty White was born when the Ottoman Empire was still around

>>3022399
Who the fuck is Betty White

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Tom Mix was one of the first Western movie stars. Starting in 1909, he appeared in 291 films (before you get TOO impressed, silent movies of the day were often only a few minutes long). The crazy thing is that many legends of the wild west were still alive to see these films. Indeed, Tom Mix served as a pallbearer for none other than Wyatt Earp. To make things crazier, Mix once helped out an injured college football player named Marion Morrison; he got him a job moving props for Fox Studios thus starting Marion's career in Hollywood. You may know Marion better by his stage name: John Wayne.

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At the same time that the American Civil War was happening, the Taiping Rebellion was raging in China
In other words, a civil war in China was being fought with spears, swords, bows, polearm-wielding cavalry, matchlocks, and primitive cannon at the same time as a civil war in America was being fought with breech loading rifles, rifled artillery, carbine-wielding cavalry, and Gatling guns

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>>3022597
That's a good one, anon.

Consider this. At the same time those conflicts were happening, the Tongans were struggling to keep together a sprawling pacific empire (almost a millennium old by then) with canoes, clubs, and sharp sticks. The last emperor died in 1865.

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>>3020870
The last member of the last Roman Imperial dynasty, Ferdinando Palaiologos, is buried on Barbados in the Caribbean.

>>3020870
I just had a thought. The Samurai ended as armed warriors in the 1870s. Godzilla came out in 1954. The Japanese being a long lived people, the samurai must've still been in living memory when Godzilla came out.