Mangled history icons for all you history nerds out there~

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Did you know that the Beer Hall Putsch was a 'popular lesbian on the large scale'? Or that Plato 'invented reality'? Or that 'Pythagasaurus' fathered the triangle? Or maybe you may have missed the one about Florence of Arabia fighting for dessert. Here's a series of silly 'mangled history according to undergrads' icons. Text is quoted from Ignorance is Blitz, a compilation of history-paper howlers collected by Anders Henriksson. We took some of the most 'icon-able' of these quotes and turned them into icons.

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

Descriptions:
Blintz Krieg - the text 'Blintz Krieg' with a picture of some blintzes
Cymbals - the text 'Writers expressed themselves with cymbals' with a picture of a set of cymbals
Fashionable - the text 'Sex emerged from hiding and became very fashionable'
Florence - the text 'Florence of Arabia fought over the dessert', with some floral accents
Gallipoli - the text 'The British fought using mostly Aztec troops to fight at Gallipoli', with some Aztec print accents
Gandhi - the text 'Mohammed Gandi was the last British ruler of India', with subtle colour accents
Gorbachev - the text 'Gorbachev became head Russian after the death of Leoned Bolshevik' with a picture of Gorbachev behind some of the text
LBJ - a painting of LBJ with the caption 'Lynda B Johnson'
Peas In Our Time - the words 'Peas In Our Time' in front of a background of peas
Plato - the text 'Plato Invented Reality' accompanied by a sculpture of Plato's head
Putsch - the text 'The Beer Hall Putsch was a popular lesbian on the large scale'
Pythagasaurus - the text 'Pythagasaurus fathered the triangle' accompanied by a close-up picture of a dinosaur skeleton
Teapot Doom - 'the text Teapot Doom accompanied by a picture of a large teapot'