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A little girl playing with her doll in Reims (France, 1917).

#history #military history #weapons #ww1 #france #marne #reims #guns #rifles

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Kansas City (Missouri, 1938).

#history #transport #usa #missouri #kansas city (missouri) #cars #trams

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The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (February 2020).

#architecture #islam #christianity #turkish architecture #turkey #istanbul #hagia sophia #turkish mosques

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Ruins of the ziggurat at the ancient Sumerian city of Kish.

This ziggurat was probably built by Nebuchadnezzar II, the most powerful monarch of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (500s BC). It is located in the modern-day Babil Governorate of Iraq.

#history #architecture #babylonian architecture #mesopotamia #sumer #neo-babylonian empire #kish #iraq #babil governorate #nebuchadnezzar ii #ziggurats #babylonian ziggurats

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VE Day Celebrations in London (May 8th, 1945):

A mounted policeman tries to clear a path for traffic.  Crowds of people have gathered in Whitehall to hear Churchill's speech, including Grenadier Guards, members of the Home Guard, and civilians. In the background is a soldier on top of a bus stop.

A young man holds a Union Flag aloft.  To the left of the photo, the back of a bus packed with people can be seen.

A number 3 double-decker bus slowly pushes its way through the huge crowds.  Behind the bus, people line the balconies along the street.

Photograph of the crowd taken from the Parliament Square end of Whitehall, looking past the Cenotaph towards Trafalgar Square.

#history #military history #politics #transport #ww2 #home front #ve day #britain #england #london #whitehall #cenotaph #grenadier guards #home guard #winston churchill #buses

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People wait in line to get flu masks on Montgomery Street (San Francisco, 1918).

#history #medical history #1918 flu pandemic #usa #california #san francisco #influenza #spanish flu

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Plaza de Luz (Havana, 1900).

#history #transport #animals #cuba #havana #old havana #donkeys

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Potala Palace in Lhasa (Tibet, 1939).

#history #architecture #buddhism #tibetan architecture #tibet #lhasa #potala palace

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William Stamper (82 years old) and his wife, who have lived in the Ozarks for fifty years (Missouri, May 1936). In the second photo, he is shaving oak sticks for chair braces in his workshop.

#history #economics #woodwork #great depression #usa #missouri #ozarks #william stamper

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Sumerian wall plaque showing libation scenes (Ur, c. 2500 BC).

The upper register of this plaque shows a naked priest followed by three worshippers. The priest is pouring a liquid offering from a spouted vessel into a stemmed dish or stand, in front of the figure of a horned god.

In the lower register there are three worshippers. One carries an animal offering, and one is a woman who is shown “full-faced”. She may be a priestess, or she may represent the donor of the plaque. The priest here is pouring a libation in front of an unknown temple.

This plaque was found at Ur, in the ruins of a residence of the high priestess of Nanna (the moon god). It dates from the Early Dynastic Period.

#history #sculpture #art #food and drink #sumerian sculpture #sumerian art #sumerian mythology #early dynastic period #mesopotamia #sumer #ur #iraq #nanna

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Young Italians in the Opera Nazionale Balilla (late 1920s), an Italian Fascist youth organization.

#history #fascism #italy #opera nazionale balilla

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The medieval Walls of Tallinn (Estonia, 1934), with the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the background.

#history #architecture #estonian architecture #estonia #tallinn #walls of tallinn #alexander nevsky cathedral (tallinn) #estonian cathedrals

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Cotton hoers from Memphis, Tennessee are carried by trucks to the Arkansas plantations (1937). The trucks leave at five in the morning, and the hoers are paid one dollar a day.

#history #economics #poverty #agriculture #labour #crop farming #transport #great depression #usa #tennessee #arkansas #memphis #cotton #trucks

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Looking down San Ignacio Street towards Havana Cathedral (Cuba, 1900).

#history #architecture #cuban architecture #cuba #havana #old havana

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Rough road over the Sa Ho Bridge near Peking (China, 1907).

#history #architecture #transport #chinese architecture #china #peking #beijing #chinese bridges

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A Corpet-Louvet steam locomotive on the Rapla-Virtsu line (Estonia, 1930).

#history #transport #estonia #rapla #virtsu #railways #trains #steam locomotive #corpet-louvet

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Broadway looking west from Main Street (Winnipeg, Canada, c. 1916).

#history #transport #canada #manitoba #winnipeg #trams