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The Fake History Hunter

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I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked. https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Nov 17

Did I mention I wrote a book?
Only a few million times I reckon, so time to remind you once more ;)
More about the international bestselling book here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2023/09/08/i...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 49m

Stop stealing from museums you absolute scum.
History belongs to us all, if you steal it, you steal from everyone.
I hope that these knaves, rogues and bribera are now cursed & will be visited by ghosts in their cells.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police checked museum security week before gold jewellery stolen

Officers were "helping with inspections of security" the week before Bronze Age artefacts were taken.

www.bbc.com

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 2h

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3h

Yes but they used woodblock printing for those large scale printing so not moveable type, it was a different kind of printing and it involved different devices & processes.
Gutenberg created complete, integrated manufacturing system and he invented the adjustable hand mold.
Made it economical.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

The new gunpowder store was build far outside the city:

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

He was incredibly talented and his career had only just begun, had he lived he would have made many masterpieces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_F...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Another victim was Carel Fabritius, a painter who was considered to be Rembrandt's most talented student, he was 32.
Many of his paintings were destroyed.
Here's a self-portrait he made:

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Part of the register of those who died.
You can sort of recognise "Een kint van", twice.
That means "a child from".
One line says 'A child from Egbert van der Poel', yes the man who made the painting that started this thread.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654, by Herman Saftleven II.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Nobody really knows what caused it, but all it would have taken was a spark.
The explosion could be heard in Texel, over 140km away.

Painting by Hendrik de Winter:

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

The powder storage was mostly underground and secret, few people knew about it.
Although originally located under an industrial area, later a street was built on top of it.

After the explosion, drawing by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

On this day in 1654 a gunpowder store with 90.000 pounds of powder exploded in the Dutch city of Delft.
Over 500 houses were demolished, thousands were injured and at least 100 people died, although that number was likely much higher.

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Painting by Egbert van der Poel:

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Ik zat als kind op de Jac P. Thijsseschool, maar wist weinig van de goede man.
Maar toen ik een van zijn albums tegen kwam op een rommelmarkt herkende ik de naam en moest hem hebben.
Daar zat ik dan als jaren 70 kindje met mooie natuur plaatjes uit oma's tijd :)

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Yes because it's the press that revolutionised the printing process, it increased speed & scale, making mass printing at a massive scale possible.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

Yes.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5h

No, this book debunks lies, not amplifies them.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12h

The Printing Press: How This 15th Century Invention Changed The World
youtu.be/aWU2iJzU3AA?...

The Printing Press: How This 15th Century Invention Changed The World

YouTube video by Progress - Science Documentaries

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Reposted by The Fake History Hunter

TallFroGuy [🔜critterposting hours] @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 14h

Fake History / Fake History-Hunter
#critterposting #alttextposting

Crude drawing of a goat headed woman reading “fake history 101 words Idon’t have room for”. Shaped like lara croft.

Crude drawing of lara croft, tombraiding. Shaped like a goat headed woman.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 14h

Hahaha, brilliant!
Mind if I share this on other social media platforms?
Of course with link to your post here.
Also, a crocodile did actually try to bite my face off once, but that was before I became the fake history hunter ;)

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 14h

Fake history, but how come my ears like it so much and my feet are tapping?
Dave Brubeck never recorded Golden Brown, but...
And no, this is not ai, this was made by a real human with talent.
youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs?...

Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown

YouTube video by Laurence Mason

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 16h

I know, I was making a joke because it looks a bit like a rocket.
I did a haha.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 18h

Even the Space Program used to be more fun in the past.

The Shapson Aquaplane, invented by S. Shapiro, being strapped onto Miss Margaret Travis.
February 27, 1935, Santa Monica, California.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 18h

Still one of my favourite ever photos a reader send in.
Also this is my sister.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 18h

Changes in crop cultivation and farming practices in the Rhineland (Germany) between the 6th and early 4th millennium BCE!
Das ist ja supergeil!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 20h

Let's have a little séance so we can thank the dead vultures who saved all these historical artefacts by nicking them for their nests!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 23h

I can speak English with accents in such a way it once fooled the entire MI6 linguistics department.