piefed.zeromedia.vipFetch me my powdered wig, I must join the Revolutionary War!
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Every Western European nation and their former colonies have their own gallery of powdered wig men. There is nothing uniquely American about this.
Yeah but powdered wigs were a pretty short-lived fashion trend, basically just the 18th century. For us, it’s the most important event in our history, our founding. For most Western European countries, it was
tuesdayjust another century.@PugJesus
You really want to tell me that Americans know History?
A surprising amount know no history but can still name old guys in powdered wigs
It’s the American pantheon, really.
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A surprising amount know [....] old guys in powdered wigs.
Which is really one of the most important things one can learn.
It’s not like they’ve even got much to learn and remember.
That’s why we have to get granular with it - Civil War re-enactors who can tell you the fucking minute of the day a given action happened.
“So then the 55th Battalion charged?”
“Oh, goodness no, that’s wasn’t until 9:44, 8 minutes later! At 9:36, the fourth cannon of the 116th Artillery was still being unjammed from a double-load…”