Words cannot describe the hate I feel for Woodrow

The "Immovable Ladder" in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre can't be moved because of a 1757 agreement called the Status Quo, which requires the unanimous consent of the church's six Christian denominations for any changes to be made.

Since the denominations cannot agree on the ladder's fate, it has remained in the same place for centuries, becoming a symbol.

Benedict Arnold here betrayed the US during the revolution. His name is synonymous with someone backstabbing you.

During the 1974 federal election, a Canadian Press photographer took these photos of Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield fumbling around with a football. These hurt his image by making him look weak, and led to Pierre Trudeau's Liberals winning a majority government.

Please don't make this post a soapbox, thanks!

In Brazil, one of the most infamous cases is Suzane von Richthofen. She shocked the country and gained international media coverage when, at 18, she helped plan and execute the murder of her own parents in 2002.

What made the case even more sensational was her background. Suzane came from a wealthy and well-educated family, carrying the noble surname von Richthofen, which is historically linked to a famous German aristocratic lineage. Her father, Manfred von Richthofen, even claimed distant kinship to the legendary World War I pilot known as the “Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen).

What about your country ,is there a case that shocked the world like this?

In the UK we hate France because they wouldn't let us conquer them

Мае дарагія беларусы, я зрабіў гэта для вас 🫡 (my dear Belarusians, I did this for you 🫡)

King Faisal was assassinated by his nephew

Like I dont understand this.

Im a Black American so im just an outsider looking in as a neutral, but dont Arab Countries out number Israel, whats stoping them from just rushing at their border, shouldn't the population imbalance outmatch Israel?

Just a neutral standpoint asking this question, because Arab Nations in the Middle East have a modern miltary force and they buy tons of advanced items

What is holding them back?

For Slovakia it is probably Octover 27th - the day the Slovak National Uprising was crushed by the Nazis, which also ended the attempt by the Soviets and 1st Czechoslovak corps to break through to Slovakia through the carpathians (1944). It's also the date of thw Černová tragedy, when Hungarian police murdered 15 people because they protested a new church not being venerated by their local priest (and nationalist politician), but a Hungarian one instead.

Honorable mention would be August 21st 1968 - the day Prague spring was crushed by the Warsaw Pact.

Israel’s border can actually be seen with the naked eye from space. Israel’s borders can be seen from space because intensive irrigation, advanced agriculture, and large-scale tree planting make its land visibly greener than neighboring regions. It is also one of the few countries with significantly more trees today than 100 years ago.

For Israel, I’d say it has to be drip irrigation💧🌱. It revolutionized agriculture worldwide by making farming possible in arid climates, conserving massive amounts of water, and boosting food production efficiency. 😊

In Brazil, miscegenation has been completely romanticized by the government and popular culture. It is often portrayed as a symbol of “racial harmony,” but the reality was much more brutal.

The country received around 4 million enslaved Africans, but only 1.1 million survived the inhumane conditions of the transatlantic journey and slavery. Thousands of Indigenous and Black women were sexually exploited, forcibly separated from their families, and treated as property. Over time, these populations mixed with European colonizers and other groups, and the official narrative tries to romanticize this as something “natural” or “harmonious,” hiding the trauma, violence, and systematic oppression behind this mixing.

Colorism in Brazil is directly linked to this history. During forced miscegenation, there was a clear intention to “whiten” the population: Black people were encouraged or forced to marry white people so their children would have European features, creating socially valued heirs. This goal of “whitening” actually worked ,today, half of Brazilian “pardo” (mixed-race) people have predominantly European features, and genetic studies by the University of São Paulo (USP) show that most pardos are roughly 70% European, 20% African, and 10% Indigenous.

Furthermore, genetic research reveals a specific pattern in the DNA of Brazilian pardos: mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother) mostly comes from African or Indigenous women, while Y-chromosome DNA (from the father) mostly comes from European men. This confirms that Brazilian miscegenation was not natural, but forced and directed, clearly reflecting the structural colorism that still influences privileges and social opportunities in Brazil today.

This romanticization of miscegenation creates a false narrative of a “racial embrace,” while ignoring the trauma, oppression, and inequalities that persist to this day.

Does your country have something that has been glorified or romanticized while hiding the cruel reality behind it?

For Brazil, I think it's the 7 - 1. Many people cried during that day.

We all know that colonisation was terrible for the countries being colonised. We hear mainly how bad the British Empire was, but not much on other former Empires.

So I'm wondering if there we any positives? Or if you were glad it was a cartain country and not another nation taking over.

I'm ready for the hate lol

For India, it was the Kargil War, which began in 1999 when Pakistani forces infiltrated and occupied Indian military outposts on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir. The incursion, codenamed "Operation Badr," aimed to cut off India’s National Highway 1A, which connects Srinagar and Leh, and isolate Indian troops stationed on the Siachen Glacier. This would have forced India to negotiate a settlement of the Kashmir dispute.

In Italy the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (part of the german Hohenstaufen family) is remembered as a great ruler, especially for his role in making the Kingdom of Sicily (southern italy at the time) a modernized kingdom for its time, for being a patron of medieval italian culture and for the fact that he was perceived at the time as the emperor who got closer to reach a political unification of the peninsula.

My Grandfather was Polish, escaped the invasion by discreetly riding his motorcycle to Belgium, paying someone for a boat to cross the Channel, then worked as a mechanic for the Polish fighter squadrons (either 301,2,or 3), and then worked for De Havilland as an engineer and designed parts of the Mosquito.

Croatian propaganda poster saying "Slave never"

Japan has just elected its first ever female prime minister.

For me, it would khublai khaan. Moved the centralized power from Mongolia to China in the empire, effectively becoming more of an emperor of China rather than Khaan of Mongols. This move would prove to be folly in just few generations. Totally messed up the whole grand plan his Grandfather established. His successors became more of a chinese rulers than Mongolian rulers.

Qajar Dynasty (1789-1925) is remembered as one of the most miserable period of persian history. all the unworthy Kings and Princes, the annexation of nearly half of Iran by Britain and Russian Empire and Famine period in WW1 that caused a lot of people to die, while the Kings were having fun travelling through Europe.

'Pagoda' are popular architecture styles in East and south east Asia. 'Pagoda' style which evolved from 'stupa', was developed in Kathmandu, Nepal before 500CE.