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  • Explanation: The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometimes said to be mad, once ordered the Legions to ‘make war’ on Neptune, god of the sea, stabbing at the tides, and collecting seashells as war booty.

    This may have been Caligula legitimately being unhinged. However, it may have been a punishment/humiliation for a failure to follow Caligula’s orders appropriately, or simply the time-honored practice of autocrats making people do stupid shit not (only) for entertainment, but to showcase how absolute their power is. “Remember that I can make you do anything. And be afraid of what I can make others do to you if you forget that” sort of energy.

    Of course, the TRUTH is that Caligula DROVE BACK that coward Neptune, and bought us almost 2000 years of uneasy peace with the ocean


  • Explanation: The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometimes said to be mad, once ordered the Legions to ‘make war’ on Neptune, god of the sea, stabbing at the tides, and collecting seashells as war booty.

    This may have been Caligula legitimately being unhinged. However, it may have been a punishment/humiliation for a failure to follow Caligula’s orders appropriately, or simply the time-honored practice of autocrats making people do stupid shit not (only) for entertainment, but to showcase how absolute their power is. “Remember that I can make you do anything. And be afraid of what I can make others do to you if you forget that” sort of energy.

    Of course, the TRUTH is that Caligula DROVE BACK that coward Neptune, and bought us almost 2000 years of uneasy peace with the ocean







  • https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baśka_Murmańska

    She was a tame, gentle bear, with whom even the children of the unit’s soldiers played. By daily order, she was assigned as a regimental daughter to the battalion’s machine gun company and given food rations. The battalion assigned her a guardian, most likely Feliks Mishon [ 1 ] , a non-commissioned officer in the former Tsarist army . The name Corporal Smorgoliński, which appears in numerous publications, was invented by Eugeniusz Małaczewski. In fact, none of the battalion’s personnel lists contain a soldier with that surname [ 1 ] . The corporal taught her elements of drill, including saluting and imitating the marching step. By daily order L. 33, section 8, Baśka was assigned to the Polish Army Battalion in Murman [ 1 ] . The bear followed her unit along the entire combat trail to free Poland. She was transferred to the front line near Obozierskaya with a cadre company, but did not participate in the Battle of Bolshie Ozierki. Ultimately, in the summer of 1919, she and her battalion set off for Poland, where they were stationed at the Modlin Fortress .

    Together with the rest of the unit, she took part in the 1919 parade in Warsaw at Saski Square , causing a sensation by starting to walk on two legs at the right moment and saluting the head of state Józef Piłsudski , following the rest of the soldiers, and then giving him a paw during the greeting.

    She died that same winter, shortly after arriving in Modlin . While swimming in the Vistula , she broke free from her chain and swam through the ice floes to the other side of the river, then headed towards the village. She was stabbed to death with a pitchfork by local peasants. When the soldiers, having organized a boat, finally reached the village, the bear’s fur was already being stripped. The stuffed Baśka remained for some time after World War II in the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw , from where it was later removed, and all trace of her disappeared [ 2 ] .