Stronger than Death

[redarmyscreaming]

An Austro-Hungarian officer reading a famous Italian war bonds poster in the captured Italian town Udine, November 1917.

[yama-bato]

Domenico Taddioli - Lontane realtà

[stukablr]

Sightseeing tour in Rome with Panthers

[nobrashfestivity]

Keika Hasegawa, Chrysanthemums, 1893, Wood Block Prints

[sovietpostcards]

Dog guarding incoming mail. Photo by G. Koposov (1986).

[dervishofdarkness]

A Bosnian Muslim girl, holding an AK-47 rifle smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service at Sarajevo’s Lion’s cemetery on Monday, Sept. 14, 1992.

[through-a-historic-lens]

Two U.S. soldiers look over the ruins surrounding the Cologne Cathedral. 1945

[peashooter85]

Japanese cuirass, 18th-early 19th century

from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[thesociologicalcinema]

Buddha Sculpture Bamiyan Valley Afghanistan, 1992. The statue was destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. Photo credit: Steve McCurry

[historicaltimes]

There have been several movies about German submarines and how they looked back in the day, but here is an actual picture taken from 1918.

via reddit

[sunwheel-warrior-v7]

Germans really are crackhead energy applied to engineering, this confirms it

[henk-heijmans]

Oration: boy tells cat of his plans, Spitalfields in London’s East End, ca. 1901 - by Horace Warner (1871 - 1939), English

[jamesusilljournal]

‘Extermination of Mongolian Ships’, Kyosai Kawanabe, 1863 

[infanteriesauvage]

1951: Indochina, preparing an operation inside a pagoda.

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[signorformica]

Fig.1: Detail of Buddha’s hands. Mustang caves in Nepal ~ ca.13th century

Fig. 2, 3, 4: illuminations from Sarvadurgatipariśodhanasamādhi (Nepal, 1866), a Tantric Buddhist text containing a series of instructions for the hand-gestures (mudrās) and rites for the elimination of fateful destinies, aimed at procuring a better rebirth for the dead and a better life for the living  • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

Full manuscript, via Cambridge University Library:

 http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01278/1

[met-ancient-art]

Relief fragment: cavalryman leading his horse beside a stream, ca. 704–681 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932 Size: 24 7/16 × 22 7/16 × 1 ¾ in. (62 × 57 × 4.5 cm) Medium: Gypsum alabaster

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322625

[vurtual]

Summer sun (by Tom Engelhardt)