History Gallery

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Lucerne and the Four Cantons, Switzerland, 1935 (media.piefed.social)
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House of a Mandan (Native American) chieftain (Narcisse Desmadryl, made 1843 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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Harvesters in the Netherlands (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted 1565 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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Street corner bakery in the Netherlands (Jacob Vrel, painted ~1660 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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Christian king of Norway, Haakon Haraldsson, in dispute with his pagan subjects, 10th century AD (oil painting 1860 AD, Peter Nicolai Arbo) (media.piefed.social)
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King Harald Hardrada of Norway dying at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, England, 1066 AD (painted 1870 AD, Peter Nicolai Arbo) (media.piefed.social)
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Norwegian Ski Competition (painted ~1898 AD, Gustav Wentzel) (media.piefed.social)
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Watercolor of Krakow, Poland, made in ~1536 AD (media.piefed.social)
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Model of a riverboat, Egypt, 1981–1975 BCE (media.piefed.social)
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Panorama Du Champ-De-Mars, Exposition Universelle De 1900 (quokk.au)
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Joan of Arc by Albert Lynch, France, 1903 (quokk.au)
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Context: This was was an engraving from Figaro illustré based on an earlier painting.

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Roman fresco of a harbor, Italy, painted 1st century AD (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Sketches of Rome, Italy, drawn around ~1500 AD (media.piefed.social)
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Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire (now part of Mexico), map printed in Germany, 1524 AD (media.piefed.social)
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Map of Leiden, the Netherlands (Pieter Bast, 1600 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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Medieval Novgorod Marketplace (Apollinary Vasnetsov, watercolor, ~1908 AD) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Children at play in the Netherlands, 16th century AD (Pieter Bruegel the Elder) (media.piefed.social)
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The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius (John Williams Waterhouse, 1883 AD) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Favourites_of_the_Emperor_Honorius

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The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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Depiction of a Tibetan Weaver (William Simpson, watercolor, 1895 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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"The Ancestor", French cuirassiers visit the army museum (Jules Monge, 1921) (media.piefed.social)
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Japanese depiction of the US Civil War, 1879 AD (media.piefed.social)
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British soldier in Afghanistan (William Skeoch Cumming, painted 1894 AD) (media.piefed.social)
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"A scrimmage in a Border Station

A canter down some dark defile

Two thousand pounds of education

Drops to a ten-rupee jezail

The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,

Shot like a rabbit in a ride!"

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Bayonet charge by Bulgarian troops in the First Balkan War (Jaroslav Věšín, ~1913 AD ) (media.piefed.social)
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Painting of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 19th century AD (upload.wikimedia.org)
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