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History
Man
Best Tweets
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History Man is the name used on
Twitter by British children's
writer Paul Perro. Having an interest in history, Paul tends to tweet
jokes that have a historical theme. We recommend you follow
him -
he does not tend to tweet very often, but when he does it's comedy gold. Here are some of our favourite
History
Man tweets.
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The secret of Genghis Khan's success
was his Khan-do attitude.
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If the Fire of London was so Great,
how come we haven't had another one?
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You know, I met the explorer Captain Scott once.
I found him rather cold.
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I believe Charles I lost the English civil war
because his soldiers
lacked discipline.
If you ask me they were a bit cavalier.
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At school, my Spanish teacher used to refer to her tests as
"inquisitions"
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My little boy thinks Adolf Hitler was the leader of
the Nasty Party. I have not corrected him.
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If the pirate Blackbeard had lived longer,
would he have had to change
his name to Greybeard?
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We hear a lot about The Domesday Book.
When is Domesday though?
Why
don't Hallmark do a Happy Domesday card?
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Custer's last stand was followed shortly afterwards by Custer's last
lie down.
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My dad used to refer to the electricity bill as
"The charge of the
Light Brigade"
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I was offered a business opportunity in Egyptian real estate. It think
it is a pyramid scheme.
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Eric the Red - a Viking who lived in the days before sunscreen was
invented
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Archaeologists in Athens have found a
collection of historic walking frames.
They believe they were used by the Ancient Greeks.
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I used to think that the Duke of Wellington's
first name was "Beef".
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The American Civil War was North vs South.
East and West were knocked out in the semis.
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Rommel was The Desert Fox.
I like to think of Nigella Lawson as The Dessert Fox.
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If
Florence Nightingale had thought more about disabled access at her
hospitals she might have been called
"The Lady with the Ramp"
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Just been reading about a skiing competition for dark sorceresses - the
Slalom Witch Trials.
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From what I've read of Napoleon,
I think he might have had some sort of complex
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Surely "Shakes Spear" is a native American name?
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If William Wallace had been a coward,
his nickname would have been Chickenliver
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Suitcases were invented during the Lugg Age
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The Norman Invasion had nothing to do with General Schwarzkopf
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