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@ Neoprusiano Reina Juana I de Castilla, de Aragón, de Navarra, de Nápoles y de Sicilia Regina Ioanna I Castellae, Aragoniae, Navarrae, Neapolis et Siciliae Königin Johanna I. von Kastilien, von Aragón, von Navarra, von Neapel und von Sizilien Queen Joanna I of Castile, of Aragon, of Navarre, of Naples and of Sicily Reine Jeanne I de Castille, d'Aragon, de Navarre, de Naples et de Sicile Rey Felipe I de Castilla y Duque de Borgoña Rex Philippus I Castellae et Dux Burgundiae König Philipp I. von Kastilien und Herzog von Burgund King Philip I of Castile and Duke of Burgundy Roi Philippe I de Castille et Duc de Bourgogne Meester van Affligem

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November 1st 1894: Nicholas II becomes Tsar On this day in 1894, Nicholas Romanov became the new Tsar of Russia. Aged 26, Nicholas succeeded to the throne after the death of his father Tsar Alexander III. Nicholas was largely unprepared and inexperienced to lead his country, and his rule saw Russia’s defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and beginning of Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War One. He was known for violent suppression of protests, such as the peaceful 1905 Revolution which was fired upon by imperial troops. He ruled Russia until his abdication on March 2nd 1917, following the Bolshevik Revolution which removed him from power. The Tsar and his family were then imprisoned, and eventually executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in 1918.

Roman coins found during excavations on the site of the former County Hospital, Dorchester, England. Shown 1st is a reverse of Julia Mamaea (222-235 AD), the 2nd is a reverse of a Valentinian II coin showing Victory walking with a wreath in her hand, and the 3rd, Allectus 293-296/7 AD. Next is Carausius 286-293 AD, Vespasian 69-79 AD, and the final coin is a reverse of Nummus of Flavius Victor (387-388 AD). The mintmark on this coin is for Trier, and it is of the Spes Romanorum type, depicting a camp gate. All coins courtesy of Wessex Archaeology , check out here for more information on the Dorchester Hospital excavations.

Rubens. Detail from David meeting Abigail , 17th Century.

Roman Stylus and Ligula , 2nd-3rd Century AD A tapering bronze round-section stylus with baluster and angled scraper; secured by a length of chain to an equal-arm cross plaque and a triangular hooked ligula. A stylus was a metal pen used for scratching words into wax on wooden tablets. A ligula was an instrument with a narrow cup-shaped scoop, which may have been used as a medical probe, an ear scoop or for picking up small quantities of ointment.

c a. 1883, [tintype portrait of a man petting his dog] via I Photo Central, Charles Schwartz Ltd.

17th Century Artist Combined and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book Dutch artist known as “A. Boogert” is credited to be the first person to compose the first book with every color imagined on Earth in 1692. Extremely detailed, the artist handwrote the book with an intricate guide on how to mix and create different colors with the purpose of educating the mass. You can view the book in hight resolution here .

October 27, 1858: President Theodore Roosevelt Is Born On this day in 1858, Teddy Roosevelt was born in New York City. Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were the most prominent members of one of the most important families in American history. Theodore and Franklin occupied the White House for nineteen of the first forty-five years of the twentieth century, years during which much of the modern world – and the modern state – was created. They shared an unfeigned love for people and politics and a willingness to defy class prejudices to help create a true democracy of equal opportunity. Along with Eleanor, Theodore’s best-loved niece and Franklin’s wife, all three overcame personal obstacles as they independently – and collectively – transformed the model of a nation’s responsibility to its citizens and the wider world. Take a look at a timeline of key events during Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s lifetimes using photos, quotes, and clips from Ken Burns’s The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Image: Official White House portrait by John Singer Sargent

Pazuzu Amulet, Assyrian, 799–600 BC (Pazuzu was the inspiration for the demon who possesses Regan in 1973 film The Exorcist.) The deity Pazuzu was an Assyrian and Babylonian demonic god of the 1st millennium BC. He normally has a dog-like face like here, and where his body is depicted he has a scaly torso, a snake-headed penis, the talons of a bird and usually wings. He is often regarded as an evil underworld demon, but he seems also to have played a beneficent role as a protector against disease-bearing winds (especially the west wind). He was closely associated with the demoness Lamashtu who stole babies from their mother’s womb or when newly born. Pazuzu acted to counter her evil: he forced her back to the underworld. Amulets of Pazuzu like this were therefore placed in dwellings and attached to bedroom furniture. Smaller versions were hung around the necks of pregnant women.

東京名所之内銀座通煉瓦造鉄道馬車往復図 Famous Sights of Tokyo: Horse-drawn Tramcars Come and Go on the Brick-Building-Lined Ginza 三代 歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige III 1882

Silk fukusa (gift cover) embroidered with a flight of cranes, Japan, 1800-50, Edo period. Museum no. T.20-1923. VAM

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Viking Silver Filigree Ring, 9th-11th Century

Buster Keaton’s stunts before green screen - 1920s

John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down Monday First Lines | Every Monday, we offer the opening sentences of a Penguin Classic to start the week.

In 2008, pieces of a 1500 year old stringed instrument made from wood and carved goat horn were found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Mongolia by someone chasing a lost sheep. After several years of study and experimentation, Mongolian ethnomusicologist Ganpurev Dagvan has recreated the instrument. He is currently on a world tour with a folk music band to introduce the goat-horn harp to the world.

I love when people try to excuse founding fathers for owning slaves and trying to say they were really against slavery and weren’t all that bad when one of their contemporaries and “ forgotten” founding father Robert Carter III manumitted all his slaves, gave them the land he felt he owed them as well as training and apprenticeships, and was promptly ostracized from Virginia and political society by the likes of Jefferson for making them look like assholes. Jefferson and Washington and all of them could have freed their slaves. They could have abolished slavery. They didn’t. Stop excusing them and the atrocities they committed.

An old Hungarian map showing what great powers would look like if post-WW1 territorial losses of Hungary would be applied on them. (red - lost territories, yellow - remaining territory).

Female Monarchs - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg HRH Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, reigned from 1912 to 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg, its first female monarch since Duchess Maria Theresa and the first Luxembourgish monarch to be born within the territory since Count John the Blind (born in 1296).