Stroller designed against gas attacks, England, 1938
Ceremonial warhammer, Germany, 16th century AD
Liquor being discarded by Prohibition Agents, USA, 1929
Cutaway of a Chinese Treasure Ship, 15th century AD
Ruins of a coastside Roman villa
Painting of a 16th century AD church interior
Bronze shield of King Pharnakes of Pontus, 2nd century BCE
Persian ceremonial blade, gold, Iran, 5th century BCE
Several men and a PUG in a Saloon, Illinois, USA, ~1910s
Peter Freuchen, Arctic explorer and later part of the antifascist resistance, with his first wife, Navarana Mequpaluk (died 1921 of the Spanish Flu), picture taken ~1912
Meanwhile, Marx: "Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class"
Attire of Mastro Titta, executioner of the Papal States, retired 1864 AD
Ancient Roman city of Augusta Bilbilis in modern Spain
Sacra di San Michele, Italy
Carnival floats in Antwerp, 1670 AD
evelynefoerster, to history 
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #archaeology
Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01449-y
olaf_radicke, to history German 
@quakers I found this interesting article about the "A Short History of #ConservativeFriends":
http://snowcamp.org/shocf/shocframes.html
SeumanOtwal, German 
@olaf_radicke @quakers — It’s a good history, although it has not been updated in 32 years.
megalithic, to Archaeology 
Ever wondered how you date a standing stone? This one fell down.
Excavation of the stone hole yielded organic material that was dated to 1090BCE +/-100years #StandingStoneSunday (and then it was re-erected. )That’s late Bronze Age. A fairly typical date for many single stones. So nothing like as ancient as much that we share on here. But why though? What were they for?
Photo by @megportal member Horatio, with permission. More
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=15045 #archaeology
An East German border guard passing a flower through a hole in the Berlin Wall, 1989
Hattusa Green Stone from Bronze-Age Hittite ruins in Turkiye
JeremyMallin, to Etymology 
Funny. A character in this show who was declared by others to be disgruntled, argued that she used to be "perfectly gruntled".
Now I'm wondering if "gruntled" is a word that was ever commonly used.
schoudaan, 
@JeremyMallin @Cassandra
I'm not a native speaker, but I assumed the "peel" is a metaphor for your eyelids. So keeping your eyes peeled is keeping them open. Does that make sense?
Cassandra, 
@schoudaan @JeremyMallin Yeah, my partner's guess was “unpeeled" must mean lids closed.
Teenager Danuta Siedzikówna, medic of the Polish resistance, executed by the postwar Communist government in 1946
CarveHerName, to history 
#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory
sarahijackson, 
@CarveHerName absolutely! gah
CarveHerName, @sarahijackson this is why sometimes we get a tad grumpy. All we’re doing is posting nuggets to stop people saying, as a school librarian once did to us, “there’s no women in history books because women didn’t do much”. And then we see the media, in our own lifetime, erase women from history.
Gah, indeed.
Ceremonial axehead of a Venetian admiral, 16th century AD
