Random Ramblings

collective-history:

The entry of Turkish sultan Mehmed II into Constantinople

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fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

[Top:] Professor talks about decomposing archives

[Bottom:] Excuse yourself so you can go cry in the bathroom

This happened to me in class today. She was talking about how she was in this small town in Guatemala and the archives were stored in the attic of a shop in the marketplace, but there was a one-foot tall airspace above the shop, so nature destroyed most of the town records. So sad.
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eclektic:

Hero

Japanese artist Toshiyuki Enoki (b.1961)

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rhaegartargaryen:

srquixote:

Letters from a Librarian: Crimsoncover

peira:

Élizabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun:  Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe (1792) via the State Hermitage Museum

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centuriespast:

Pierre Oliviers Joseph Coomans, The Panic, 1871.

Kemper Art Museum

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imageinaction:

Victo Ngai

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antonio-m:

Walter Crane , “Pegasus” 

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