I finished listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Blueprint for Armageddon.
101 years ago.
It's insane to think about the great war how far and yet how recent it was.
The war started in 1914 looking Napoleonic, horses, swords, and lines of soldiers
The war ended in 1918 looking modern, tanks, machine guns, and helmets
in 1910 it is estimated that there were 1.7 billion people on the planet.
The mean total of deaths during the great war is 17,330,244.
0.990% of the world's population. Around 1% of all the humans on the planet at that time were killed during world war one.
I can't stop thinking about this painting by the French artist Georges Leroux. So much artillery fire that forests were leveled and craters blown to craters blown again. Poisonous gas and human body parts contaminating the water in the bottom of the explosion craters, the living soliders' only place to hide. four years this war went on like this.
Four years and 1% of the species dead.
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| L'Enfer by Georges Leroux |
It's insane to think about the great war how far and yet how recent it was.
The war started in 1914 looking Napoleonic, horses, swords, and lines of soldiers
The war ended in 1918 looking modern, tanks, machine guns, and helmets
in 1910 it is estimated that there were 1.7 billion people on the planet.
The mean total of deaths during the great war is 17,330,244.
0.990% of the world's population. Around 1% of all the humans on the planet at that time were killed during world war one.
I can't stop thinking about this painting by the French artist Georges Leroux. So much artillery fire that forests were leveled and craters blown to craters blown again. Poisonous gas and human body parts contaminating the water in the bottom of the explosion craters, the living soliders' only place to hide. four years this war went on like this.
Four years and 1% of the species dead.