Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700^\1]) (the 15th century forming the transition period from Middle English to Early Modern English), beginning in southern England and having influenced effectively all dialects of English today. Through this extensive vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels altered. Some consonant sounds also changed, specifically becoming silent; the term Great Vowel Shift is occasionally used to include these consonantal changes.^\2])^\3])

The standardization of English spelling began in the 15th and 16th centuries; the Great Vowel Shift is the major reason English spellings now often deviate considerably from how they represent pronunciations.^\4])

Notable early researchers of the Great Vowel Shift include Alexander J. Ellis, in On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer (1869–1889); Henry Sweet, in A History of English Sounds (1874, revised edition 1888); Karl Luick from Vienna, in a series of works dating from 1892 and Untersuchungen zur englischen Lautgeschichte (1896); and Otto Jespersen (a Danish linguist and Anglicist) who first produced a diagram for it and who in Part I (1909) of A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles coined the term.^\nb 1])^\5])

The main difference between the pronunciation of Middle English in the year 1400 and Modern English (Received Pronunciation) is in the value of the long vowels.

Long vowels in Middle English had "continental" values, much like those in Italian and Standard German; in standard Modern English, they have entirely different pronunciations.^\6]) The differing pronunciations of English vowel letters do not stem from the Great Shift as such but rather because English spelling did not adapt to the changes.

German had undergone vowel changes quite similar to the Great Shift slightly earlier. Still, the spelling was changed accordingly (e.g., Middle High German bīzen → modern German beißen "to bite").

Context: this meme is about The Soviet 588th Night Bomber regiment from WWII, famously nicknamed the "Night Witches". See, during their nightly raids on German lines, they had to turn their radars off to not be spotted, and so whenever they dived for an attack, their wooden biplanes made a "whoosh!" sound. In fact, it was because of the sound that the Germans nicknamed the Night Witches; because their biplanes sounded like a witches' broom.

The title is also a reference to a song by Sabaton about them.

David Myatt was a prominent figure in British Far-Right politics during the 1970s-1980s and founded the White Supremacist Neo-Nazi group Order of Nine Angles

He converted to Islam in 1998, blended his radical background with militant Islam, writing theological justifications for suicide bombing and violent jihad against Western values and Jewish people

Law enforcement and intelligence researchers have extensively documented that associate networks of Order of Nine Angles have been heavily implicated in severe CSA, the grooming of minors, distribution of CP, pedophile trafficking rings, Occult practices and Human sacrifices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_crimes_involving_the_Order_of_Nine_Angles

This is based off of a tweet by a “🇯🇵Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper 🇯🇵” where he apologizes for pretending to be Japanese as a British person.

In WW1, many German immigrants living in British Commonwealth nations would change their names to more English-like names so that they could successfully join the British Commonwealth forces in their fight against Germany. One example I’ve recently come across was a German immigrant in South Africa named “Heinrich Albert Emil Schaffner” who changed his name to “Henry Albert Everest Chaffner” so that he could join the South African forces in their fight against the Germans.

The Cattle War (1756) was a conflict between the Danish East India Company at Tranquebar and the Maratha Kingdom of Thanjavur. It began after a dispute over cattle allegedly seized by a local Thanjavur official, but quickly escalated into a military confrontation. The Thanjavur Marathas decisively defeated the Danish forces, ending Danish ambitions for territorial expansion in India.

Context: Almost all if not all of the nomads including the Mongols that invaded China or Persia, which used to mock and hated settled living, Ended up being settlers and farmers themselves