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Chimps make spears in the wild. Unnervingly like this (Onion), or Planet of the Apes.

Ifthekar, a young man from Britain, goes on jihad in Syria:

His major complaint — which echoed the complaints of many of the foreigners who had come to these battlefields — was that of boredom. Weeks turned into months, and he and many of his fellow fighters had yet to wage jihad. Many manned roadblocks or checkpoints; others performed menial tasks...

Compare Timothy Corsellis, who joined the RAF at the outbreak of the Second World War, aged 19:

I was ready for death
Ready to give my all in an expansive gesture
For a cause that was worthy of death....
But I never expected
The weary hours of waiting while the sun rose and set...
We sat together as we sat at peace
Bound by no ideal of service
But by a common interest in pornography
And a pride to outdrink one another.

Both Ifthekar and Corsellis were killed a little later.

Francis Drake on inequality

Sir Francis Drake, off the coast of America, addresses questions of socioeconomic inequality and integration.

Nothing new under the sun, part II

At one point in the proceedings, Bishop Turner rose to the podium and thundered a diatribe against legalized U.S. racism, prompting the Constitution to report "He Prefers Hell To United States; Calls American Flag Dirty and Contemptible Rag." ... Turner wrote to the Constitution a letter accusing them of misquotation but reiterating, "there was more color babble in the United States than in hell itself."
-- Mark Bauerlein, Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta 1906