History

[image] Mysterious. Tiffany Studios Bronze and Turtleback Glass Tile Desk Lamp, crafted around 1910.

[image] “In preparing for battle I have found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

[video] Now this is a good use of AI. It shows an ancient Assyrian using inflated animal skins to cross rivers.

[image] This is how you turn eating dinner into a "gastronomical experience." 19th-century agate flatware.

[image] Marie Antoinette's personal theatre in Versailles.

[image] Carved around 90 AD by Euodos, this aquamarine portrait of Julia Titi, daughter of Titus, was later mounted in the 9th century as part of the Escrain de Charlemagne. One Roman imperial face, reborn as medieval treasure.

[image] Surreal. Art Nouveau Pond Lily Table Lamp, made by Tiffany Studios around 1902-10

[image] Friday 20 February 1663 Up and by water with Commissioner Pett to Deptford, and there looked over the yard, and had a call,* wherein I am very highly pleased with our new manner of call-books, being my invention. Thence thinking to have gone down to Woolwich in the Charles

[image] “Map of America” shown to King Henry VII in the 1500’s

[image] The America (built in 1897) is the world’s oldest commercially operating tugboat, still in service at the Port of Monroe, Michigan. Built in Buffalo, NY, this 83-foot steel-hulled vessel survived two sinkings, a fire, and has been converted from steam to diesel. She is now used

[image] When Winston Churchill visited the United States during Prohibition in 1932, he was issued a doctor's note authorizing the Prime Minister to drink an "indefinite" amount of alcohol for health reasons.

[image] The American War that most forget about: The 1st Barbary War After years of paying tribute to stop Barbary pirate attacks on US shipping, President Jefferson sent the Navy in 1801 to fight them. The victory ended the bribery and established American naval credibility abroad.

[image] Beauty will save us. Trembleuse Art Nouveau Dragonfly crafted with Aquamarine, Diamond and Ruby. London, around 1900.

[image] Art Nouveau Liberty Bridge, designed by János Feketeházy and built for the late-19th-century Millennium World Exhibition, spanning the Danube river between Buda and Pest.

[image] 15 March 1664 Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning … But the Doctor swears that there is not [an ulcer in the mouth indicating syphilis], nor ever was any, and my brother being very sensible, which I was glad to hear. So I sent for a barrel of oysters, and they

[image] 4th-century BC Thracian gold wreath discovered in Bulgaria.

[image] In 1518, residents of Strasbourg were struck by a bizarre and terrifying phenomenon now known as the Dancing Plague. Dozens (possibly hundreds) of people danced uncontrollably for days on end. Some reportedly collapsed from exhaustion, while others are said to have died from

[image] Circa April 1, 1775 - Daniel Boone and his party of axemen cutting their way through the wilderness of Kentucky and creating a passageway for anticipated settlers reached their final destination. As the entourage approached what came to be known as “Sycamore Hollow” near the

[image] अगर दलित ही खेती कर अनाज उगाकर आटा बनाते थे और ओबीसी ही गौपालन करके घी बनाते थे तो पंडित जी की थाली में हलवा कैसे आता था? या तो पुराने जमाने में दलित ओबीसी ब्राह्मणों को दान करते थे या ब्राह्मण खरीदते थे। और जब सब दलित और ओबीसी ही करते थे तो ब्राह्मणों ने शोषण कैसे किया?

[image] American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸 The first nation explicitly founded on the universal principles that all men are created equal with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Boldly breaking from the world of privilege and establishing a merit-based one.

[image] Thursday 19 February 1663 Up and to my office, where abundance of business all the morning. Dined by my wife’s bedside, she not being yet well.… So to my office, where by and by we sat, this afternoon being the first we have met upon a great while, our times being changed

[image] Friday 13 March 1663 Up pretty early and to my office all the morning busy. At noon home to dinner … Abroad by water with my wife and Ashwell, and left them at Mr. Pierce’s, and I to Whitehall and St. James’s Park (there being no Commission for Tangier sitting to-day as I

[image] 𝙴𝙽𝙹𝙾𝚈 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙼𝙾𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙴. 𝙱𝙴𝙲𝙰𝚄𝚂𝙴 𝙸𝙽 𝙻𝙸𝙵𝙴,𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴 𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙽𝙾 𝚁𝙴𝚆𝙸𝙽𝙳𝚂, 𝙾𝙽𝙻𝚈 𝙵𝙻𝙰𝚂𝙷𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺𝚂. 𝙼𝙰𝙺𝙴 𝚂𝚄𝚁𝙴 𝙸𝚃'𝚂 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝚃𝙷 𝙸𝚃 . Have a winning Wednesday 🔥 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙓 𝙁𝙖𝙢🩷 💙 #GoodMorning

[image] On March 29, 1516, the Venetian Republic decreed the establishment of the world’s first official Jewish ghetto in the Cannaregio district. Roughly 700 Jewish residents were forced into a small, gated, and guarded area—originally an industrial foundry site—designed to segregate

[image] "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education" - Sir Walter Scott

[image] God bless America 🇺🇸 My home sweet home

[image] Wednesday 25 February 1663 Up and to my office, where with Captain Cocke making an end of his last night’s accounts till noon, and so home to dinner, my wife being come in from laying out about 4l. in provision of several things against Lent. In the afternoon to the Temple, my

[image] A lovely display of Victorian-era cosmetics. There's just one catch. Used long enough, and they can be lethal. Victorian cosmetics sometimes contained toxic ingredients including lead, mercury, ammonia, and ... arsenic.

[image] 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃𝚂 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙻𝙳. Have a thriving Thursday ✨ 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙓 𝙁𝙖𝙢☕ 🩷💙 #GoodMorning

[image] Saturday 28 February 1663 Waked with great pain in my right ear (which I find myself much subject to) having taken cold. Up and to my office, where we sat all the morning, and I dined with Sir W. Batten by chance, being in business together about a bargain of New England masts.*

[image] On April 4, 1776—250 years ago today—George Washington set his Continental Army in motion from Cambridge, Massachusetts, beginning the long march toward New York City. Fresh off their hard-won victory in the Siege of Boston, Washington correctly anticipated that the Redcoats

[video] 😱😱Only in Yemen... Of course, don't forget the fleeing soldier is Saudi.

[image] I don’t understand why everyone is ignoring our friends in Gaza when we all know the blockade of goods remains in place and is getting worse. Prices are rising and my friend’s children are hungry, so please do everything possible to help them.

[image] Monday 30 March 1663 Up betimes and found my weather-glass sunk again just to the same position which it was last night before I had any fire made in my chamber, which had made it rise in two hours time above half a degree. So to my office where all the morning and at the

[image] Thursday 26 February 1663 Up and drinking a draft of wormewood wine with Sir W. Batten at the Steelyard, he and I by water to the Parliament-house: he went in, and I walked up and down the Hall. All the news is the great odds yesterday in the votes between them that are for the

[image] 10 March 1664 Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and at noon to the ’Change and there very busy, and so home to dinner with my wife, to a good hog’s harslet, a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, and after dinner abroad

[image] 11 March 1664 Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich’s, who not being up I staid talking with Mr. Moore till my Lord was ready and come down and went directly out without calling for me or seeing any body. …* Thence home, and by and by to the Coffee-house, and thence to the

[image] ʟɪꜰᴇ ɪꜱ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴘᴜᴢᴢʟᴇ. ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴡᴀꜱᴛᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ꜰɪᴛ. Have a thriving Thursday ✨ 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙓 𝙁𝙖𝙢☕ 🩷💙 #GoodMorning

[image] 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙎 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥: « 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜. »

[image] Tuesday 31 March 1663 I lay long talking with my wife about my father’s coming, which I expect to-day, coming up with the horses brought up for my Lord. Up and to my office, where doing business all the morning, and at Sir W. Batten’s, whither Mr. Gauden and many others came to

[image] 22 February 1664 Up and shaved myself, and then my wife and I by coach out, and I set her down by her father’s, being vexed in my mind and angry with her for the ill-favoured place, among or near the whore houses, that she is forced to come to him. So left her there … This

[image] Sunday 5 April 1663 (Lord’s day). Up and spent the morning, till the Barber came, in reading in my chamber part of Osborne’s Advice to his Son (which I shall not never enough admire for sense and language), and being by and by trimmed, to Church, myself, wife, Ashwell, &c. Home

[image] Crocodile brooch with abalone emeralds ruby and pearl.

[image] रिप्लाई ऑफ कर दिए। कब तक आप इस मुद्दे से भागते रहोगे वकील साहब। आपने जो योगदान दिए उसके लिए धन्यवाद है। पर कबतक हम अंग्रेजों के थोपे जातीवाद के साथ इस देश को चलाएंगे? आप आपके कान आंख बंद करके सत्य से विमुख नहीं हो सकते।

[image] Happy National Dog Day! George Washington: Father of the American Foxhound The man who helped birth a nation also helped birth one of America’s great dog breeds. Here’s the story of his meticulous work with hounds. Thread below 👇🧵

[image] Map of Pioneer Roads — General Drafting Co. Inc., N.Y. This details a view of the early pioneer routes including the Cumberland Road and Wilderness Road which were blazed by Daniel Boone in 1775 through Cumberland Gap connecting Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Frankfort

[image] During the Battle of Guam, July 21-August 10, 1944, 60 dogs were assigned to the marines. The dogs, sometimes called “devil dogs” were primarily Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds. These war dogs were primarily used as sentries and scouts. They sniffed out snipers, warned

[image] Winged nymphs in glowing plique-à-jour pure Art Nouveau magic.

[image] 𝚆𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚋𝚎. — Shakespeare 𓂃✍︎

[image] Elegant details and flowing designs these Art Nouveau combs turn everyday accessories into wearable art.