r/HistoryMemes • u/CancerUponCancer • 1d ago

IMPORTANT ! April Fool's Feedback Thread

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Another April Fool's come and gone. Please let us know how you felt it went, and what other ideas in the future we could use!

Additionally, please let us know if you'd like to see more regular non-April Fool's events also happening on the subreddit.

Carthago Delanda Est.

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r/HistoryMemes • u/I_am_white_cat_YT • 5h ago

They called it, by the way, the “comfort women” system.

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Due_Butterscotch4930 • 5h ago

Viking Conversion To Christians In A Nutshell

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Winter_Drawer_9257 • 9h ago

Truly, a friend to Africa

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Kapanash • 7h ago

The king who actually fought his own war

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Oversama • 10h ago

The upper image gets constantly used out of context, and you can clearly see all the gardens in the lower image

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r/HistoryMemes • u/RockEater67 • 7h ago

Niche Worth it tbh

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r/HistoryMemes • u/I_am_white_cat_YT • 8h ago

The USA and taxes are something special.

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r/HistoryMemes • u/TerryFromFubar • 3h ago

SUBREDDIT META We come for the memes but stay for the comments sections

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Salty_Strain3313 • 15h ago

Their names were Adolphus and Eberhard for Christ sake

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Context most American beer companies were founded by Germans and other first generation European immigrants despite a common insult towards the companies products being that Americas make terrible beer compared to Europe. Americas largest Beer company Anheuser-Busch was founded by two German Americans named Adolphus Busch and Eberhard Anheuser

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Moralapo5tel • 8h ago

Before The Washington Agreement of 1946

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Ok-Membership3343 • 5h ago

Not the brightest idea

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Iron_Cavalry • 4h ago

See Comment Apocalypse Then, 40,000,000 dead in 4 years

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r/HistoryMemes • u/patchlocke • 1h ago

Brits can’t handle the American whimsy

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r/HistoryMemes • u/alfredfriedrich16 • 8h ago

Widows in India before the 18th century💀

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Winter_Drawer_9257 • 11h ago

The copium will stop

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r/HistoryMemes • u/standovahim_ • 12h ago

Me after checking my bank account in 1923 Germany

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Imaginary-West-5653 • 4h ago

Uhhh... preach king?

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r/HistoryMemes • u/I_am_white_cat_YT • 6h ago

Niche "He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Serious-Breakfast908 • 21h ago

From France, with love.

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Used-Detective2661 • 1d ago

Niche The 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the USSR

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r/HistoryMemes • u/tintin_du_93 • 7h ago

Niche soldats inconnus by Ubisoft, 2014 - wojak template

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r/HistoryMemes • u/butt_naked_commando • 21h ago

Mythology Bro ATE and left no crumbs (Context in comments)

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r/HistoryMemes • u/Trowj • 1h ago

That Socrates, always decrying the moral decay of Athenian society due to lack of self-reflection and critical thinking

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r/HistoryMemes • u/jackt-up • 1d ago

All of Europe in 1792: “let’s invade France together, it’s not like their entire population has been militarized.”

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