History

2021-05-23 01:16:26 'You can stop this man'
(South Africa, 1992).
The man depicted is an extremist of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement. The National Party was advocating a yes vote to begin negotiations to end apartheid, with the warning that to continue the system risked increasing violence and civil war. The referendum, which only whites could vote in, saw 68% of the voters approving the proposal. Open / Comment

2021-05-23 01:05:47 Principal Races and Religions of India (Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1901) Open / Comment

2021-05-22 00:24:46 I don't often post video games but Victoria II is a solid game that set me on the course to study history. I am pleased that the sequel has been announced.



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2021-05-21 00:23:16 Village near Calcutta (Garden Reach) (Frederick Fiebig, India, 1851).
Garden Reach was a suburb of Calcutta where large 'garden houses' stood along the river's edge. This area appears to be more impoverished. The photograph has been hand-coloured.
The British Museum says that 'some 250 of [Fiebig's] photographs relate to Calcutta and form the earliest extensive photographic documentation of the city, made at a time when photography was just starting to supplant the engraving and the lithograph as the dominant medium of visual record.
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2021-05-21 00:16:57 Journalist Egill Bjarnason on Iceland's role in WWII. Also available in audio.

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/that-time-hitlers-girlfriend-visited-iceland-and-the-british-invaded Open / Comment

2021-05-20 00:43:48 L'art gothique (Eugène Grasset and René Wiener, 1898). The church-like building appears to be Notre Dame. Source Open / Comment

2021-05-20 00:39:16 The dragon with seven heads (Claes Brouwer, c.1400-1450).
It appears to be an interpretation of the Beast from the sea, from Revelations in the Bible, that is told to emerge during Armageddon.
'And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.' Open / Comment

2021-05-19 00:40:21 Flag of the Austrian Netherlands (1714–1797). The territory was ceded to Austria partly out of concern as to French domination of the region, which included much of modern-day Belgium and Luxembourg. Open / Comment

2021-05-18 00:37:20 Who wrote the Bible? The start of a new series that looks to be very interesting. The video speaks for itself.


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2021-05-17 22:33:49 https://interlude.hk/erik-satie-like-nightingale-toothache/ Open / Comment