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Historical Nonfiction
historical-nonfiction: After 800 nuclear tests from 1951 and 1992, this is the view over the Nevada Test Site (formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds).
historical-nonfiction: This is a map of all the Mississippian culture mound sites in the United States — it does not even include those in Canada. The point being, the Mississipian culture was vast. Much more widespread than most people would believe
Historically black areas the average black family can no longer afford:
slaveryart:art by Sonstene, www.renderotica.com
rossum-art: Just a simple F/f render, mostly because I’ve never had a South Asian domme.
tyrant-of-den: The Robber Knight’s Prize in Color by JustineCoyne
Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.
historical-nonfiction: Welcome to Derinkuyu, an underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people. In the Cappadocia region, famous for its cave dwellings and underground villages, Derinkuyu stands out for sheer size and complexity. Locals began
historical-nonfiction: When James Harrison had chest surgery at age 13, he resolved to begin donating blood to help others in need. When he did so, doctors realized that he carries a rare immune globulin that can prevent unborn babies from suffering
historical-nonfiction: France’s first satellite was named Asterix.
historical-nonfiction: The oldest mass-produced candy brand in the United States? Necco wafers! They have been around since 1847.
historical-nonfiction: These are not just any old-timey visitors to the Great Sphinx. This is from 1864, when a group of Japanese emissaries went on a diplomatic mission to Europe. And they just stopped by the Sphinx and posed in full samurai regalia.
historical-nonfiction: Klephts, meaning “thief” or just “brigand” in Greek, were highwaymen that became self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman
historical-nonfiction: micdotcom: Whoa, scientists have finally uncovered the identity of Jack the Ripper I don’t normally reblog things, but this is simply too interesting to not make a note of! Read more at the Independent or the Mirror
historical-nonfiction: Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Islamic Golden Age or why so many astronomical things have Arabic names
historical-nonfiction: Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, during the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939. The Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which
historical-nonfiction: These rock carvings are prehistoric, painstakingly carved into granite by hand, most likely with other rocks because the metals they had access were too weak. These carvings have remained for thousands of years, surviving 30 m
historical-nonfiction: Meet Marie of Romania, royal extraordinaire she was born an English princess in 1892, aged 17, she married the heir to the Romanian throne — he was ten years older and the two did not get along Marie was assertive and had an
historical-nonfiction: Driving Around New York City - 1928
historical-nonfiction: Women delivering ice, previously a man’s job, during WWI circa 1918
historical-nonfiction: The Chinese physician Hua T’o, born sometime between 140 and 150 CE, was the first doctor known to perform surgery under general anesthetic. A mixture of hemp and strong wine called ma fei san was used to knock out his patient.
historical-nonfiction: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, a Persian scholar famous even today for his Tajrīd (“Catharsis”) a highly esteemed treatise on Shi’ite theology, saved over 400,000 manuscripts from the House of Wisdom when Baghdad was sacked by the
historical-nonfiction: This love letter was found clutched to a mummy’s chest in Korea. His name was Eung-tae, a member of Korea’s ancient Goseong Yi clan, and the letter was written by his pregnant wife after he died prematurely at the age of 30
historical-nonfiction: Inuit parka and trousers from the central arctic, circa 1920s/30s
historical-nonfiction:Harriet Quimby was one of the greatest early female aviators. In 1911, Quimby became the first woman in the country to get her pilot’s license with the Aero Club of America. When she wasn’t busy flying planes recreationally,
Historical Currency Conversions
historical-nonfiction: The imagery of this canoe prow, circa 1200–1500 CE, shows the beginning of the emergence of a distinctively Maori style from the ancestral carving traditions. The Maori’s ancestors likely arrived in New Zealand around 1100
historical-nonfiction: We’re not sure exactly where she was born, or when she was born, but we know that Mary Harris was from somewhere in Cork County, Ireland, and immigrated to North America with her family as a child to escape the Irish famine.
historical-nonfiction: The Archimedes Palimpsest was originally a Byzantine Greek copy from the 900s of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes of Syracuse and other less famous authors. It was lost to the ravages of time and uncaring Medieval monks.
historical-nonfiction: Coco Chanel and Salvador Dali. According to a recent (and controversial) biography, Coco Chanel had multiple affairs including with women and then-married Dali.
historical-nonfiction: Lindy Hoppers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York, 1939
historical-nonfiction: The megalithic passage tomb called the Mound of the Hostages (Duma na nGiall) is the oldest monument on the Hill of Tara, Ireland, dating back to between 2500 BCE and 3000 BCE. The mound splits into three passageways, each of
historical-nonfiction: Medieval padlock, using letters instead of today’s more familiar numbers. Circa 1300s or 1400s
historical-nonfiction: The Chavin were an empire in the Andes which flourished from 900 BCE to 200 BCE – it was building cities and conquering its neighbors more than two thousand years before the more famous Incan Empire set foot outside the Cuzco
historical-nonfiction: Annie Edison Taylor, who was the first person to survive going over Niagra Falls in a barrel in 1901
historical-nonfiction: Three northern kilns were responsible for producing the majority of lead-glazed Sancai (三彩) or “three-color” ware that furnished the tombs of the aristocracy for more than one hundred and fifty years of the Tang Dynasty.
historical-nonfiction: Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904
historical-nonfiction: Believe it or not, this is an early thermometer. The glass frog was filled with a liquid that changed its density with the body’s temperature. The frog would be strapped to a patient’s wrist for fifteen minutes, and the changing
historical-nonfiction: Amazingly, we have a photograph of a man who crossed the Delaware with George Washington. This is Conrad Heyer, born in 1749 and photographed in 1852 at age 103. He served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War,
historical-nonfiction: An early tintype of a group of friends. One man, thinner than the others, is seated in a wicker wheelchair in the center of the group, head turned toward the camera. He was likely disabled, one of the earliest photographs of a
historical-nonfiction: Ancient Egyptians loved their board games. Several different games were played, including “Mehen” and “Dogs and Jackals,” but perhaps the most popular was a game of chance known as “Senet.” This pastime dates back
historical-nonfiction: At the time of his death in 1601, the Danish astronomer, mathematician, and alchemist Tycho Brahe was the most respected scientist in the world. He was also a huge partier, had upended astronomical beliefs that had been around
historical-nonfiction: In 1987 boy named Diamond made a call to the Minneapolis saying that his father was physically attacking his mother. This photograph, of one boy’s bravery, was hailed as one of the most influential photographs in the world by
historical-nonfiction: Ed Dwight, the first African American accepted into the Astronaut Program, left the program because of discrimination before ever going into space.
historical-nonfiction: Unlike most of the temples of Cambodia’s famous Angkor, Ta Prohm has been largely left to the clutches of the living jungle.
Historical Artefact
historical-nonfiction: Many traditions for the holidays of Christmas, Easter, and Halloween/All Saints’ Day were created between the 300s and 600s CE, as the Christian faith spread through the Roman Empire and used its newfound legitimacy to compete
historical-nonfiction: Meet Patria, Minerva, or María Teresa Mirabal – Dominican sisters who courageously opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the 1950s. The three sisters, along with their husbands, participated in constant underground
