Historical Speculation

Things in history which I have found interesting

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Two cowhands play the banjo outside their cabin in New Mexico. 1870s(?)

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US Population Density

(1790 - 2010)

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300 years of world population growth in 7 seconds, 1800-2100 [gif][780x338] CLICK HERE FOR MORE MAPS! thelandofmaps.tumblr.com

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The development of antimalarial drugs is fascinating – it is often driven by war and conquest. When human beings got busy trying to kill each other (during the era of colonial expansion, WWII, the Vietnam War), they often found themselves face to face with an even deadlier foe. 

Check out my animation that explores this incredible history.

Read more about the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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71 years ago today

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Today in labor history, March 12, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)-led “Bread and Roses” textile strike of 32,000 women and children ends after ten weeks when the American Woolen Company accedes to the workers’ demands. Soon, the rest of the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile companies followed suit and wages were raised for textile workers throughout New England.

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Panorama of Hiroshima after the bomb.

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Late Antiquity mint from the Roman Empire

Middle row, on the left. I think it's Constansius...why is he making duck face? Was this selfie so good he had it minted in gold?

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“I went to Africa…for just the same reason that lots of girls settled down on Main Street back home—just to be with my husband,” explorer and filmmaker Osa Johnson was once quoted as saying in an article called “A Wife in Africa.”

But Johnson, who was also billed as “The Heroine of 1,000 Thrills,” and “the greatest woman explorer” didn’t just play the rule of dutiful assistant to her adventurer husband, Martin. As a team, the Johnsons led expeditions around the world in the 1920s and 1930s, producing 14 feature films, 37 educational shorts, and dozens of filmed lectures. Several of these pieces were commissioned by the Museum and presented to sold-out crowds as part of fundraising efforts for the Akeley Hall of African Mammals. Prints of some of the Johnsons’ films, including the 1928 Simba, King of Beasts, are held in the Museum’s archives.

A 1937 plane crash in California killed Martin and left Osa in a wheelchair, but after only a few months, she was back on her feet and leading an expedition to Africa. She had previously deferred to her husband’s cinematic talents but now declared, “I can grind a movie camera as well as any man.” She passed away in 1953, in the middle of planning another expedition.

Learn more about about women in science. 

Image credit: Osa Johnson in an airplane with a gibbon. Martin & Osa Johnson (American, active 1917 - 1937), 1918-1936 Digital Positive from gelatin on glass negative, 3.25x4.25 in. Courtesy George Eastman House

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Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904 [708 x 864][OS] : HistoryPorn

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Dude, have you tried this shit?

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1917 Russian Calendar.

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Tsarist beefcake

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Historic Black and White Pictures Restored in Color

Women Delivering Ice, 1918

Times Square, 1947

Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland ca September 1862

Marilyn Monroe, 1957

Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912)

Easter Eggs for Hitler, c 1944-1945 

Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask in a smokescreen – Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942

Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin in 1919

Painting WWII Propaganda Posters, Port Washington, New York – 8 July 1942

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935

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This is awesome.

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Not something I’d typically reblog but I like.

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This is bloody fantastic.

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Honestly seeing old photos in color makes the past so much more tangible.

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it makes me feel like I could have been there!

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This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed

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group photo everyone

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everyone

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hey i look really good in this one

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1949

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Incense burner stand depicting the Jaguar God of the Underworld On his nightly journey through the Underworld, the Sun God, K’inish Ajaw, transforms into the Jaguar God of the Underworld. His daily trip to the Underworld mirrored those taken by the deceased. This vessel depicts three figures from top to bottom: a seated ruler or priest dressed as the Jaguar God; a similarly garbed noble emerging from the head and a serpent; and the head of a jaguar.

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So similar to the Egyptian Ra myth.