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Bulgarians on the Salonika front. Note all the hand-grenades they are carrying. The bomb overshadowed the rifle as the preeminent weapon of trench warfare.
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BOSCH, Hieronymus
Paradise: Ascent of the Blessed
1500-04
Oil on panel, 86,5 x 39,5 cm
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
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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 digging in the 500s BCE. The city consists of over 600 doors, each of which can be closed from the inside. Each floor could be closed off as well. And just to make attacking completely impossible, the entire city was deliberately built without any logic. Its maze-like layout makes navigating the city nightmarish for unfamiliar invaders.
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Exposition universelle de 1900, Paris. Section de la peinture française au Grand Palais. © Léon et Lévy / Roger-Viollet
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Nine Maidens Stone Circle, Devon, England
This stone circle is located near the village of Belstone which is on the edge of Dartmoor National Park’s north moor. The nine standing stones surround a Bronze Age burial site. Legend states that a group of nine young ladies were discovered dancing on a Sunday and thus turned to stone.
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VAN GOGH, Vincent
The Church at Auvers
June 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise
Oil on canvas, 94 x 74 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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Four Gospels in Armenian,Medieval Art
Medium: Tempera and gold on paper; stamped leather bindingPurchase, Fletcher Fund, Hagop Kevorkian Fund Gift, in memory of Hagop Kevorkian, Tianaderrah Foundation, B.H. Breslauer Foundation, Aso O. Tavitian, Karen Bedrosian Richardson, Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard and Arax Simsarian Gifts and funds from various don
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it’s really interesting how reconstructions of Proto-Indo-European have been used to figure out was Indo-European culture would have been like. For example:
- the reconstructed language has no word for king, but it does have a word for clan chieftain so it’s been theorized that Indo-Europeans were organized in small groups or clans
- there is a word for daughter-in-law but none for son-in-law which suggests that women would have joined their husbands’ families after marriage
- there are many words for animals and few for fruits, veggies, and grains suggesting a meat-based diet
- the existence of words for snow and winter suggest Indo-Europeans lived in a more northern climate
but it’s important to note that “the absence of a word in the reconstructed proto-language is far less compelling evidence than the presence of a word: a lack of evidence it not itself sure evidence”*.
*notes from Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages by Orrin W. Robinson
Jacques, bottier
Active in Paris (?), early 19th c.Boot that Belonged to Napoleon I
About 1807
Leather, fabricMontreal Museum of Fine Arts
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Coin of Ptolemy II, Alexandria, Egypt, 280-279 BC
A gold pentadrachm with the diademed bust of Ptolemy II wearing an aegis is on the obverse - An eagle on a thunderbolt is on the reverse with a monogram in the field and ΠTOΛEMAIOY – ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ written around. Sold at auction for around 11,421 USD.
Ptolemy II Philadelphus was the king of Ptolemaic Egypt from 283 to 246 BC. He was the son of the founder of the Ptolemaic kingdom, Ptolemy I Soter, a former Macedonian general to Alexander the Great. Ptolemy II extended his inherited power by skillful diplomacy and by developing agriculture and commerce. He made Alexandria a leading center of the arts and sciences. Read more about Ptolemy II here.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 - today is Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity or German Reunification Day). It’s Germany’s national day, celebrated annually on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates the anniversary of the German Reunification, which was formally completed in 1990, when the goal of a united Germany that originated in the middle of the 19th century, was fulfilled again. The name thus addresses neither the re-union nor the union, but the unity of Germany.
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REGNAULT, Jean-Baptiste
The Genius of France between Liberty and Death
1795
Oil on canvas, 60 x 49 cm
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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The oldest known sculpture of a horse. Carved in mammoth ivory, the Vogelherd Horse is 35,000 years old.
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