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World History
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A page dedicated to world history, helping you get through the day while learning something new.

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it"
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Balsamic glazed pork loin

#porkloin #pork #meatlover #carnivore #foodsky #foodie #foodlover #foodblogger #balsamic #foodpic
March 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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MULE TRAIN, 1869 (really early for a Montana photo). Fort Benton was the world’s innermost port. In 1869, 42 boats docked, sometimes carrying 600,000+ pounds of cargo.

#historian #historybuff #history #UShistory #western #1800s #fortbenton #montana #blackandwhite #b&w #oldphoto
March 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Bruce Lee and his wife Linda

#brucelee #familyphoto #history #actor #acting #hollywood #history #historian #blackandwhite #b&w
February 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones (sitting in black), John Bonham (sitting in white), backstage in Indianapolis, Market Square Arena, January 25, 1975

#ledzeppelin #jimmypage #robertplant #indianapolis #1970s #oldphoto #rocknroll #rockband #groupie #backstage #history #music
February 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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View of the mines on "The Richest Hill on Earth" - Butte, Montana ca. 1909.

#1900s #butte #montana #mining #naturalresources #industrialization #industry #bluecollar #history #westernhistory #UShistory #historybuff #historian
February 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Margaret Hamilton, the lead software engineer for NASA Apollo program, played a crucial role in developing the software that enabled the Moon landing in 1969. Alongside her team, she manually wrote much of the code that controlled the lunar module

#NASA #apollo #1960s #moonlanding #astronaut
February 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Japanese girls training for the anticipated invasion of mainland Japan, 1945

#japan #japanese #1940s #worldwar2 #WWII #WW2 #worldwar #military #history #historian #historybuff #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #b&w #oldpicture
February 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, named after Italy’s first king, Victor Emmanuel II, is the oldest active shopping gallery in Italy

#italy #italian #shoppingmall #shopping #1800s #1900s #architecture #history #historybuff #historian
February 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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700 year old house, Iran

#iran #centuries #oldarchitecture #architecture #dwelling #civilization #oldhouse #oldphoto #history #historian #worldhistory #historybuff #thatsold
February 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Louis Shafer, miner, with armful of groceries bought at company store. Pittsburgh Coal Company, Westland Mine, Westland, Washington County, Pennsylvania. 1946.

#mining #coalminer #coal #coalmining #industrial #naturalresources #pittsburgh #pennsylvania #1940s #1900s #blackandwhite #b&w #history
February 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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An alpine shelter in the Italian Dolomites, built during World War I at a height of 2760 meters.

#WWII #worldwar #worldwar2 #dolomites #alpine #fortress #bunker #military #worldwars #history #architecture #historian #worldhistory
February 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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German Wehrmacht troops rest and enjoy their hot meal from a Goulsch food wagon container which was used to carry hot meals from behind the lines to the front

#germany #germantroops #WWII #WW2 #WW1 #worldwar #military #army #history #historian #worldhistory #historybuff #oldphoto
February 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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A pair of Amphicar Model 770s out on the water Loosdrecht Lakes, 1964

#1960s #1900s #vintage #oldphoto #vintagecar #amphibiousvehicle #antiques #historian #history #historybuff
February 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Three men discuss a road project that would eventually become Santa Monica Blvd. (1922)

#santamonica #losangeles #1920s #construction #roadconstruction #oldpic #blackandwhite #b&w #blackandwhitephoto #vintage #historian #historybuff
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Looks like AI, but is not.

1897 Amoskeag steam-powered fire engine of the Boston Fire Department. Weighing 17,000 pounds (7.700 kg). Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Ca. 1919

#fireengine #firedepartment #1800s #firetruck #bostonfiredepartment #history #historian #historybuff
February 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Same car type, same place and 49 years apart

#1970s #oldcar #oldphoto #gremlin #vintagecar #antiquecar #historian #historybuff #oldphoto
February 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The Old Cincinnati Library before being demolished, 1874-1955. Built in 1874, it featured five levels of cast iron shelving, a fabulous foyer, checkerboard marble floors, and an atrium lit by a skylight ceiling.

#library #libraries #publiclibrary #history #historian #historybuff #1800s #1900s
February 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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One of a few duplex double decker buses in the American Greyhound fleet during early 1930s. These buses would have been assigned to the overnight 450-mile San Francisco - Los Angeles service. Driver upstairs, left side

#greyhound #1930s #sanfrancisco #greyhoundbus #losangeles #busdriver #history
February 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Betty Garrett, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen, and Gene Kelly in a publicity photo for "On the Town." The classic Gene Kelly-Stanley Donen musical, which won an Oscar for its wonderful score.

#hollywood #actor #actress #musical #franksinatra #oldphoto #blackandwhitephoto
February 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Newport Arch, located in England, holds the remarkable distinction of being Britain’s oldest Roman arch still in use for vehicular traffic. Dating back to the 3rd century

#newport #england #romanarch #romans #romanempire #history #historian #historybuff
February 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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View of the mines on "The Richest Hill on Earth" - Butte, Montana ca. 1909.

#mining #westernhistory #westernUS #industrial #butte #montana #1900s #blackandwhite #b&w #blackandwhitephotography #historian #history #historybuff
February 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The oldest known cello in the world is "The King", made by Italian instrument maker Andrea Amati around mid-16th Century AD, in Cremona, Italy. It is so-called because it was part of set of 38 stringed instruments made for court of King Charles IX of France -

#cello #instrument #music #history
February 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Jicarilla Apache men in a Co-op Store - 1938

#apache #1930s #1900s #blackandwhite #b&w #blackandwhitephoto #vintagephoto #oldphoto #history #historian #historybuff #nativeamerican
February 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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The "Soyjack" - an 18th-century bronze torture mask from Germany.
This mask was used for physical punishment or torture, inflicting intentional harm to the eyes, rendering the victim blind. It was prohibited in the late 18th century, approximately 50 years after its production began.
February 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The remains of Medieval War Bowmen show the body alterations due to years pulling extremely heavy bows

#archer #medieval #bowmen #history #historybuff #historian #skeleton #deformation #worldhistory #ancienttimes #bowandarrow
February 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM