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In 1897, an uprising in the Northwest area of British Pakistan and Afghanistan featured an Pashtun Afghan army of about 10,000 men which went after several forts in the frontiers. The outpost of Saragarhi was in between two main forts, as a signal station. 21 Sikh soldiers were deployed there. They saw the oncoming army surrounding their signal post. They refused the offer made to them to give up the fort in return for their lives. The other forts were unable to send reinforcements in time. They fought to the very last man, the final one alive in the fort, having received permission to pack up his signalling mirror, was seen by one of the other forts through a telescope to be fighting with the last of his ammunition and sword, shouting the battle cry of  "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal!", which can be translated as the quote in the meme.

They were all given the Indian Order of Merit, the equivalent of a Victoria Cross, and the highest they could have achieved, and gave time for the other forts to reinforce themselves.

For people who are less than 35, Napster was a popular website that preceded Google in many ways as a file sharing website. Knapping is how one takes a piece of stone or obsidian and hammers it in the right places to turn it into something useful.

This is Mithradates VI Eupator. A king who ruled a Greco-Persian state in what is now Northern Turkey called Pontus. It was a descendant of the conquests of Alexander the Great. At a young age he feared being eliminated by his enemies and decided to start taking small doses of things known to be poisonous so as to build up an immunity to them. He developed this into a state sponsored science eventually to see how to do this properly when he was king.

He fought the Roman Republic a number of times, but one time when he lost to the Romans and expected to be captured by them, he feared that if he was, he would be taken to Rome and paraded in a military parade by whatever general took him alive. He didn't want to do that so he tried to drink poison on purpose, but he was in fact successful at preventing assassination by poison because it didn't kill him. The Romans failed to capture him regardless as he had a servant stab him.

A bit tenuous as a pun, but it appeals to me given that I happen to be one of the people who just likes the word Milliard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotha_Lintorn-Orman

No matter what one thinks of Bush Jr's "cunning plans", there is no denying Saddam's end being rather poetic. And yes, it was 20 years ago.

Bizarrely, the Constitution of Canada literally does not mention the prime ministership, the most powerful person in the entire country, to any degree whatsoever in any unexpired clause. The two expired clauses were for requiring the PM to hold a conference with all the provincial premiers by 1992, and for the PM to hold a conference with the aboriginal leaders by 1992. That's it.

What it does expressly protect is the right of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, formerly the Dominion of Newfoundland, to make and sell margarine, subject to the comparable food quality regulations imposed on typical food and drugs in the rest of the Dominion of Canada.

If you don't believe me, here is the actual quote in the Constitution:

>40, (l) Oleomargarine or margarine may be manufactured or sold in the Province of Newfoundland after the date of the Union and the Parliament of Canada shall not prohibit or restrict such manufacture or sale except at the request of the Legislature of the Province of Newfoundland, but nothing in this Term shall affect the power of the Parliament of Canada to require compliance with standards of quality applicable throughout Canada. (2) Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides or unless the sale and manufacture in, and the interprovincial movement between all provinces of Canada other than Newfoundland, of oleomargarine and margarine, is lawful under the laws of Canada, oleomargarine or margarine shall not be sent, shipped, brought, or carried from the Province of Newfoundland into any other province of Canada. From the Newfoundland Terms of Union 1949.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa was the tyrant of Central Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. He had the cunning plan of crowning himself emperor in 1976, despite not in fact ruling over an empire nor doing anything to elevate his country into anything close to being one or exercising hegemony over anyone else. He was quickly deposed 3 years later when France (whose empire Central Africa was part of) and some other groups overthrew him. He was sentenced to death in abstentia, then he returned, was set free after some court cases, and died in 1996 at age 75.