Cold Warriors
During the Cold War many Aleuts had to deal with the immediate generational trauma of internment by the Japanese and Americans during WW2. This last waterbender of the Northern Water Tribe lost her mother when the fire nation attacked.
Who is Katara from Avatar?
This "Little Corporal" who fans will trip over themselves to tell you was *actually* of average height for the time was eager to reestablish slave economy in Haiti and to codify the unequal and inferior treatment of women under French law. He was this tall.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
What is 5’6”? (Modern Imperial)
This country became a republic after their second and final emperor, Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga, became so elderly and tired of his job that he simply refused to oppose a coup against him.
What is Brazil?
This desegregated socialist settlement founded in Guyana by Jim Jones' People's Temple was the site of a mass suicide by drinking poisoned Flavor Aid, an act which Jones himself described as "revolutionary suicide". The term "drinking the Kool-Aid" has subsequently emerged from the deaths at this site.
What is Jonestown?
This fraudulent form of investment scheme was named after a famous Italian-American charlatan, and involves paying investors with money acquired from subsequent investors.
What is a Ponzi Scheme?
During the Cold War, the Vietnam peace movement involved many allies within and without establishment circles, metaphorically in and out of suits. This super-suit-seeking superhero is one of the Incredible family's closest allies.
Who is Frozone from the Incredibles?
These two wartime prime ministers led the British Empire against the Hun amid politically turbulent times, both governing during watershed moments in the independence movements against the empire mid-war. They were this tall.
Who are Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George?
What is 5′6″?
According to Herodotus when the Samians came to the magistrates of this city state and gave a speech requesting aid, the magistrates responded that "they had forgotten the things which had been spoken at the beginning, and did not understand those which were spoken at the end."
What is Sparta?
This qigong inspired religious movement is led and founded by Li Hongzhi, an archconservative Chinese emigré who has gone on record in interviews saying that "aliens have introduced modern machinery like computers and airplanes," and "the aliens want the human body." They are watched and persecuted in the PRC.
What is Falun Gong or Falun Dafa?
This precocious white collar criminal was sentenced at the age of 31 to 25 years in prison for fraud, having secretly hollowed out the liquid reserves of his crypto exchange FTX to give massive illegal loans to his other company Alameda Research, which operated in the very volatile industry of speculative crypto trading.
Who is Sam Bankman-Fried?
During the Cold War Apartheid South Africa retained economic stability in spite of diplomatically and economically ruinous policies largely thanks to extracted mineral wealth such as diamonds. In the 1997 film Batman and Robin, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays this cool customer who commits a string of diamond robberies to power his life-supporting cryosuit.
Who is Mr. Freeze from Batman?
These two chameleons of the British Empire spent part of their lives far from their place of birth dressing as a high-class member of their adopted societies and serving them as partially integrated members, but eventually both returned to their country of birth. Both were involved in colonial independence movements. The first was born in Gujarat and the second in Wales. They were this tall.
Who are Mohandas Gandhi and T. E. Lawrence?
What is 5'5"?
When a crew of pirates captured a young Julius Caesar and set him a ransom of 20 talents of silver, this aspect of their demands insulted him, and he promised to crucify them.
What is undervaluing your hostage?
This is a 19th century Chinese religious movement centered around Hong Xiuquan, a man who experienced ecstatic visions wherein he was entrusted with a magical demon slaying sword by God and told he was Jesus' eldest brother. They organized the largest rebellion in human history, leading to a similar number of deaths as World War I.
Who were the God Worshippers?
This year saw massive revelations in the New York financial world. First, a crash in housing prices, housing derivatives and mortgaged backed securities because of a housing bubble induced by bogus credit ratings and bad transparency practices. This lead to cascading bank failures and global recession, during which a $64.8 billion investment management fraud by former Nasdaq chair Bernie Madoff unraveled.
What is 2008?
During the Cold War the superpowers often propped up dictatorial regimes whose association with their ideology was primarily aesthetic. This man-shattering ninja was originally developed as a reskinned character design of another fighter, but eventually became one of the primary protagonists of the franchise that he is a part of.
Who is Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat?
This cornlord party man came from a coal mining family and often disturbed foreign leaders with his coarse manners. He had famous admiration for grocery stores. He was this tall.
Who is Nikita Khruschev?
What is 5′3″?
After his father Mehmet II officially sanctioned this practice in the Ottoman Empire, Cem Sultan vigorously fought to take the throne before his brother Beyezid could.
What is royal fratricide?
This group of apocalyptic evangelical Christians followed a particular end-times theology that predicted the return of the Davidic Kingdom of Israel before the end times. After a succession crisis a member named Vernon Howell took control of the community, renamed himself David Koresh and declared himself the Lamb of the Seven Seals in Revelation. The Waco Siege occurred as a consequence of an attempted arrest of Koresh.
Who are the Branch Davidians?
The year 1720 saw the the stocks of these two fraudulently promoted European charter companies collapse.
South Sea Company and Mississippi Company
During the Cold War superpowers often facilitated and nurtured proxies that took on completely different forms from those expected by their patrons. This frozen Lord of the Scourge who has taken on several mortal bodies was created by a demon called Kil'Jaeden to challenge and weaken the Alliance and Horde on Azeroth.
Who is the Lich King from World of Warcraft?
This pint-sized titan of world history became politically active at the age of 15 by participating in protests during the May Fourth Movement, and became involved in official Communist organization as a teenager working at the Schneider Ordnance Factory and the Hutchinson Rubber Factory in Chalette-sur-Loing. He was this tall.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
What is 4′11″ or 5'?
When Soviet censors banned this book/series from publication, fans attempted a comical variety of workarounds, including an offer to translate the story as a science fiction novel with characters from Stanislav Lem's book Eden inserted in.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
This community of the followers of the German preacher Paul Schäfer put down roots in Chile as a consequence of outstanding warrants in Germany against Schäfer for child molestation. They constructed an isolated, homogenous German colony in the wilderness and collaborated extensively with General Pinochet.
What is Colonia Dignidad?
This German front company was incorporated in 1933 by four German industrial giants at the urging of Hitler's first economics chief Hjalmar Schacht. It was used by the Nazis to pay arms producers in this company's bills of exchange, despite the fact that this company had no revenue to back the bills.
What is MeFo (Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft or Metallurgical Research Society)?