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[–] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a westerner, I would say everyone outside the Anglosphere.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    On the upside, it's given me a near endless amount of history to learn as an adult when I actually want to learn about it. Just search "literally_any_other_country_than_usa history" and it's all brand spanking new stuff to me!

    Just learned the beginnings of the establishment of Portugal the other day.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    looked at this thread

    Yeah. On that end, i would like to introduce you the man Jin Yong, the grandfather of Wuxia who wrote the legendary trilogy Legend of the Condor Heroes, Return of the Condor Heroes, and Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber. The novel is known across the sinosphere all over the world, and made into tv series. If you ever played or watched a modern wuxia game film (like Where Winds Meet) and think "wow, those attacks are wack, and woah they all can fly", it's all thanks to him.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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    Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

    Flowers's team at Dollis Hill built the first machine in eleven months. It was immediately dubbed 'Colossus' by the Bletchley Park staff for its immense proportions.

    Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build Colossus.

    It was not until the 1970s that Flowers' work in computing was fully acknowledged. His family had known only that he had done some 'secret and important' work.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    The Battle of Blair Mountain

    The Colorado Coal Field War & accompanying Ludlow Massacre

    The Colorado Labor Wars

    The West Virginia Coal Wars

    The Illinois Coal Wars

    Just to name a few, and those are just from the US. People need to remember these events so they can understand the world capitalists want and what they're willing to do to achieve it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Josephine Baker

    A black burlesque performer who left the US and moved to France because of discrimination, then became an Allied spy during WW2

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Ironically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta

    Voltaire said: "Nothing is better known than the siege of Malta."

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Leonhard Euler I think is not as well known in the general public

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is pretty much unknown enough that I felt the need to make his name a link.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Zhuangzi, easily one of the top 5 authors anywhere, ever.

    The Taiping civil war ended a bit before the US civil war, lasted 3x as long and almost ended with china unified under a homegrown christian theocracy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Gladys West

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Epstein files

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Thomas Meagher

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    Like, just the profession in general?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    just his impact in getting concepts to work in actual engineering. I mean don't get me wrong we even have a school in the area named after him but if I had not read his bio I would not know anything about how our whole system of electrical generation came from him.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    François de Cuvillié

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