#Discovery of America

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The Discovery of America statue on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building by Luigi Persico

[victusinveritas]

"I have discovered America!"

"That's cute"

"Hold my beer"

[mentiradeloro]

"The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus"

Portrait of Christopher Columbus during the discovery of America. Illustration created using the traditional oil painting technique in digital format by @Mentiradeloro

👉 This work was created for the commemoration of the 550th anniversary of the Proclamation of Queen Isabella the Catholic. The illustrations, which showed images of Isabella's life, were projected in a video mapping show on ​​the east facade of the Alcázar of Segovia on Friday, October 4, 2024. Find the complete project on my website: https://www.mentiradeloro.es/proclamacion-reina-isabel/

👉 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mentiradeloro/ 👉 Full video of the

video-mapping show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfgObuH2eOM&t=1s

[loudlylovingreview]

Becky Little: What is Indigenous People's Day?

For the fourth year in a row, the United States will officially observe Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day. Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrates the history and contributions of Native Americans. In 2024, the holiday falls on Monday, October 14.  While the Joe Biden administration has officially recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day since 2021, it is not yet a federal holiday. More than a…

[michael-rosskothen]

Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta of Christopher Columbus

[waywordsstudio]

Review: "The Vinland Sagas" by Keneva Kunz (trans.) -

The two brief historical documents (history, legend, politics, lore, all of the above) that relate Leif Erikson's journey are both quite approachable. Only the intro to this edition seems quite dated!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Justin Horowitz at MMFA:

Project 2025 advisory board members have attacked or outright called for the end of no-fault divorce, the option to dissolve a marriage without having to prove wrongdoing by a partner. Research highlighted by CNN found “no-fault divorce correlates with a reduction in female suicides and a reduction in intimate partner violence,” including “an 8 to 16% decrease in female suicides after states enacted no-fault divorce laws.” Project 2025 is backed by a nearly-900 page policy book called Mandate for Leadership, which extensively outlines potential approaches to governance for the next Republican administration, including replacing federal employees with extremists and Trump loyalists and attacking LGBTQ rights, abortion, and contraception. The Heritage Foundation’s proposals have a track record of success — the first Trump administration implemented 64% of Mandate’s policy recommendations. Project 2025 is also supported by a coalition of over 100 conservative organizations, many of which have spent years promoting critiques of no-fault divorce as “destructive” for society — or even blaming it for enabling a “culture of death.” According to a Media Matters review, at least 22 Project 2025 advisory board members have made similar comments targeting, restricting, or eliminating no-fault divorce. Additionally, MAGA and far-right media figures have pushed for the removal of no-fault divorce laws across the country, and several local Republican parties in Texas, Nebraska, and Louisiana have called for the dissolution of no-fault divorce in some capacity.

Project 2025 partner organizations, including the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, and The Heritage Foundation, have called for significant restrictions or an outright ban on no-fault divorce.

[angelkarafilli]

Poster of the film "1492: Conquest of Paradise" (1992) dir.Ridley Scott

Alternative titles: Koers naar het Onbekende / 1492: La Conquête du Paradis

"Centuries before the exploration of space, there was another voyage into the unknown."

Christopher Columbus has always dreamed of sailing across the ocean in a ship and discovering new worlds. He makes plans for years and in 1491 he gets permission from the Spanish Count Sanchez to set out on a journey with a few ships to discover new worlds and to take back valuables with him.

[collinsportmaine]

Vintage Playing Card - circa 1880-1906

Clovers: the discovery of America with Ferdinand and Isabelle

[saglaophonos]

crowley love interest-ing himself was the best and worst thing that could've happened to aziraphale's ego. like take edinburgh for example aziraphale does whatever he wants, follows his protagonist whims, and ultimately Learns Something Important. crowley lets him while showing him unconditional love and just cleans up whatever mess aziraphale leaves behind. it is the perfect dynamic and the best thing that the end of s2 does is blow it up because despite going on for thousands of years it is utterly unsustainable

[life-on-our-planet]

Giant otters are the apex predator in their environment, and have no serious natural predators threatening them. The reason they're currently listed as endangered is because of poaching, habitat degradation and ecotourism, all due to humans. ©Discovery Channel

[illustratus]

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West

[thefirsthogokage]

Fuck HBO/MAX

[mentiradeloro]

"Christopher Columbus' caravel"

Today's illustration is a representation of one of the Christopher Columbus' caravels, that left Cadiz on 3rd August 1492 and that went down in history as the protagonists of one of the greatest adventures of humanity.

All the illustrations were created using the traditional oil painting technique in digital format by @Mentiradeloro

👉 This work was created for the commemoration of the 550th anniversary of the Proclamation of Queen Isabella the Catholic. The illustrations, which showed images of Isabella's life, were projected in a video mapping show on ​​the east facade of the Alcázar of Segovia on Friday, October 4, 2024. Find the complete project on my website: https://www.mentiradeloro.es/proclamacion-reina-isabel/

👉 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mentiradeloro/

👉 Full video of the video-mapping show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfgObuH2eOM&t=1s

[reasoningdaily]

Slavery's Exiles - the story of the American Maroons

The forgotten stories of America maroons―wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.

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[hylianengineer]

Pausing in my anthropology homework to come scream at the internet about it, again. In a positive way this time!

Most of us have this conception that the Americas and the rest of the world were super isolated from each other prior to 1492, right? Well, that's not true. We've been lied to by our history classes and Euro-centric perspectives.

From about 1250AD to 1450, both the Norse and an Indigenous North American group called the Thule (predecessor to the Inuit) were both in Greenland. It's kinda uncertain whether they interacted directly, but Norse goods have been found at Thule archaeological sites. Either they were interacting and trading, or they got their hands on Norse stuff some other way - one possibility is by salvaging shipwrecks. Still very cool and mindblowing that the Eastern and Western hemispheres were meeting like that a couple hundred years before most of us are aware of!

But wait, it gets better. The Thule people lived all across the Arctic from Greenland to Alaska into Asia. On the other side of the Bering Strait! They were engaged in trade across the Bering Strait, using boats, for hundreds of years! Way before Europeans had any idea the Americas existed. That's huge. That turned my entire understanding of North American history and interconnectedness with the rest of the world on its head. Holy shit. That's fucking cool.