⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

2021-07-02 03:12:16 Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan watches a boat race at Oxford University during a visit to the UK in 1921. Open / Comment

2021-07-01 22:10:08 Execution after a 'people's tribunal' in the land reform movement in Communist China Huang, probably a landowner paid for his 'crime' by being shot, taken on January, 1953. Mao murdered at least 40 million people during the "cultural revolution", and millions more starved to death as a result of his policies. Open / Comment

2021-07-01 18:49:21 British troops advancing during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. On July 1st, the first day of the nearly five month long battle, the British Army lost about 20,000 men. By the time the battle ended on November 18, a total of about a million+ men from both sides had been killed or wounded, making it one of the deadliest battles in history. Open / Comment

2021-07-01 14:55:09 A 45,000-pound mine (2 ton) placed in a tunnel under the German front line positions at Hawthorn Redoubt is ignited 10 minutes before the assault at Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The mine left a crater 130 feet (40 m) across and 58 feet (18 m) deep. July 1, 1916. Open / Comment

2021-07-01 01:44:31 Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c. 1910 Open / Comment

2021-06-30 22:54:26 A telephone switchboard operator, c. 1900 Open / Comment

2021-06-30 20:09:15 Woodcut of people observing the appearance of Halleys comet in 1835 Open / Comment

2021-06-30 15:45:12 Women clearing bricks and chunks of rubble in the bombed city of Dresden, Germany, after WWII, 1946 Open / Comment

2021-06-30 02:12:32 The discovery of an ancient Maya statue deep within the jungles of Honduras, 1885. Open / Comment

2021-06-29 22:50:55 A young child shakes hands with a money at the San Diego zoo, c. 1920 Open / Comment