#HIStory

[thehmn]

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

[sami--onley]

My wish and dream is to have a loaf of bread and a drink of water for me and my family to live on.

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[classicalcanvas]

Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

[the-art-archive]

Spirit of the Forest (1890) by Odilon Redon

[a-meh]

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze statue fragment uncovered near Geneva, Switzerland.

Roman, 1st century AD

from The Geneva Museum of Art and History

[frostedmagnolias]

“Mary Wallace was the first woman bus driver with the Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. Her job applications were rejected for three years, but her persistence paid off. She was eventually hired under an affirmative action program. Wallace became one of the city’s most popular drivers over her thirty-three year career.”

Happy Black History Month!

[revon-aurora-borealis]

fr like im an artist and a huge history and zoology nerd.

plus before cameras were common enough and didnt only take photos mainly in bw, art is one of the main ways to be able to see the past

for example this is the Olympic's dazzle paint job she bad during her serivce in ww1

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

[beggars-opera]

Trump: STOP BEING MEAN TO MY FRIEND'S BUSINESS! BOYCOTTING IS ILLEGAL! I WILL MAKE YOU BUY HIS STUFF!

Me, gazing into Boston Harbor with a tear in my eye: that's what they said about the British East India Company my dude

[wordcubed]

something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.

[anteregem]

Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

[the-cybersmith]

Ancestral memories of Agartha compelling people to explore what might be down there.

caving as an extreme sport is sooo unfathomable to me why are u as a creature of the daylight doing that. were u born without the dread in ur bones or something

[prokopetz]

Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

[deathtokillian]

As a kid learning about the holocaust, I never understood how people could let Nazis rise to power. But now I’m watching it happen in real time.

[that-bluesybitch]