cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/72694016 (original title: YOU BASTARDS)
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wagner-Jauregg
Tl,Dr: He was an Austrian physician who won the noble prize in medicine in 1927 for discovering that you could treat the then incurable disease of Syphilis by contracting Malaria. The rising body temperature from Malaria would kill syphilis causing bacteria, which in turn would be treated with quinine after the syphilis had been treated.
Unfortunately, dude was also a Nazi sympathiser, keeping up with the trend of the time.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han#Insurrection_against_the_Qin_dynasty
Liu was responsible for escorting a group of penal labourers to the construction site of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum at Mount Li. During the journey, some prisoners escaped; under Qin law, allowing prisoners to escape was punishable by death. Rather than face punishment, Liu freed the remaining prisoners, some of whom willingly acknowledged him as their leader and joined him on the run from the law.
He is the definition of fun police. Also the murder, starvation and general oppression of indigenous populations.
some added context
Technically he is not directly responsible for all of these things but in all cases played some role. Death to the great man theory of history and so on.
Pictured: Emporer Wang circa 11 AD
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_IX_Hispana
The legion's disappearance is also the subject of the polarising 2010 film Centurion.
๐ฌ๐ท: we lasted 219 days before surrendering ๐ซ๐ท: we only lasted 46 days ๐ง๐ช: we held for 18 days ๐ฉ๐ฐ: you guys lasted more then 1 day? ๐ฆ๐น: you guys did not celebrate?
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Context (probably NSFL, reader discretion advised): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Suiyang
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