I love the story of the cannon which destroyed constantinople's walls: the cannon builder wanted to sell it to the byzantines first, but they turned down, because it was too expensive, so he sold it to the ottomans instead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilic_(cannon)
You can hardly make a TL;DR here - the second paragraph is 100% interesting:
Orban managed to build this giant cannon within three months at Adrianople. Due to its size, it was dragged by 60 oxen and 400 men to Constantinople.[6] The cannonball, which could be shot at a distance of one mile, weighed 1,200 pounds.[4] It was horribly powerful, and when it hit, it caused massive damage to Constantinople's walls. The cannon also killed some of its operators.[1] Additionally, due to the material the cannon was constructed of, and the intense heat created by the charge after each shot, the barrel had to be soaked in warm oil to prevent cold air from penetrating and enlarging the fissures.[3] The heat also prevented the cannon from being fired more than three times per day. Ultimately, it lasted all of six weeks before becoming non-functional.
wowee I didn't know Orban was that old. is he a vampire or something?
Orbán is a somewhat common surname in Hungary and surrounding countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orban_(surname)
If you speak about our Mighty Beloved King and Savior of Hungary Orbán, Eternal Consumer of EU Funds he is usually compared 2 Hungarian folk entities: Kisgömböc and Döbrögi.
Kösgömböc is the stomach of a pig, "Pork puding" in English. There is a widely known folk tale about a bottomless Kisgömböc, which eats everything and grows huge. There is a very nice cartoon about this story from 1977, you can enable English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnAbMhMeHs
Döbrögi, written sometimes as Döbröghy is the antagonist of the folk tale based poem Lúdas Matyi, in English: Mattie the Goose-boy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattie_the_Goose-boy_(poem) Döbrögi is a fat local lord, and his favorite daily activity is messing with the poor peasants.
TBF, the Byzantines were fucking broken by that point, and their coins has decreased substantially in size (according to the documentary I watched)
virgin wall vs chad golden box and a bunch of trumpets
Last image needs to be replaced with the image from this article - https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjy88/great-wall-of-china-damaged-by-people-looking-for-shortcut
haha totally
That webcomic hits harder than I'd like it to
The rough truth about the wall, there's plenty on your side that can still hurt you. You.
Not if I hurt him first.
You should listen to pink floyd then
All alone or in twos, the ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand, some gather together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall
-- Old Pink, c/o The Funny Farm
First thing this comic made me think of. Might have to listen to the album on the way to work.
brick by brick, tock by tick, no matter how thing no matter ho thick