🇷🇺 Young Stanislav Petrov in uniform, the Soviet officer whose calm judgment in 1983 averted nuclear retaliation over a system error

📜 The Floralia was an ancient Roman festival established to ensure the blooming of crops. While 18th-century artists depicted it as a refined courtly celebration, the original Roman event was a raucous six-day public holiday defined by multicolored dress and theatrical freedom.

🇺🇸, Dorothea Lange, 1936: A mother's weary gaze pierces through decades, embodying the silent suffering of millions during the Great Depression.

📜, Lupercalia was one of Rome's oldest and most enigmatic festivals. Priests known as Luperci would run a circuit of the Palatine Hill, using leather strips called februa to symbolically purify the city. The rite survived for over 1,000 years before its eventual suppression.