Historic Collections & Oddities

history bits, facts and quotes to help you re-consider the world around you #History #Facts #OTD #Quotes #Antique

[Historic Collections & Oddities @COCOAntique]

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

-Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

#History #MorningMotivation

[soli @solisolsoli]

The Empty Room by Mia Bergeron

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Holy Roman Empire in 1648.

[Academia Aesthetics @AcademiaAesthe1]

The Town Hall of Leuven, Belgium.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

hellmouth, netherlands, 15th century

[Historic Collections & Oddities @COCOAntique]

The United States accounts for less than 5%of the population.

Yet consumes 25% of the world’s recourses.

[History Defined @historydefined]

1,200 stone sculptures with different facial expressions at the nenbutsu-Ju Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1814, a defeated Napoleon Bonaparte reluctantly signs the Treaty of Fontainebleau and agrees to go into exile. "The Empire of France, no more it is mine," he laments.

Spoiler alert: He'll be back.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus on Via del Abbondanza with serving counter with holes that contained amphora of food for sale.

Thermopolium was an eating & drinking house.

Pompeii (1st Century BC)

#archaeohistories

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Then vs Now :

The Great Pyramid of Giza (26th Century BC), tomb of 4th Dynasty  Pharaoh Khufu.

The pyramid of Giza were originally covered with highly polished white limestones, with the capstones at the peak being covered in gold.

#archaeohistories

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Detail of The Delphic Sibyl, 1509, by Michelangelo (1475-1564)

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

At age 16, Elie Wiesel was one of the more than 21,000 people liberated from Buchenwald #OTD in 1945. "I knew I would have to bear witness. Everyone who was there is a witness, and everyone who was there is a true witness," he told NPR in 1988. 📷: National Archives

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

For #TombTuesday a visit to the ancients at Belas Knap Long Barrow. An early Neolithic burial mound built around 5,500 years ago, with false entrance and forecourt at the northern end and four stone side chambers. The setting sun warms the western burial chamber.

#Archaeology

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

Skulls of 2 Ancient Greek girls and 2 women with a ceramic flower wreath has been discovered. These remains have been dated circa 400 to 300 B.C. kept in The New Archaeological Museum of Patras in Greece.

More info: https://t.co/AOHou5PHOH

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Restoration works on the 2,200-year-old theater in the ancient city of Laodicea, a largely unknown archaeological site before 2003, located in western Denizli province, Turkey, have been completed. This is a before & after overview

[read more: https://t.co/KsjSsjgHxm]

[Historic Collections & Oddities @COCOAntique]

Inter arma enim silent leges

A Latin maxim commonly attributed to Cicero, meaning laws fall silent during war.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 2016, a study based on 28 Greenland sharks determined by radiocarbon dating of crystals within the lens of their eyes, that the oldest of the animals that they sampled had lived for 392±120 years and was consequently born between 1504 and 1744

[more: https://t.co/qAhTSDRopm]

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Centuripe; an ancient town in eastern Sicily with a history that goes back to 5th Century BC. Town is spread out across ridges of several hills so town has a 'starfish' shape or if viewed from air, shape of a man with outstretched arms and legs.

#archaeohistories

[Historic Collections & Oddities @COCOAntique]

Men literally took the name of your “red pill community” from the creative geniuses of transgender people 😂😂😂

[Historic Collections & Oddities @COCOAntique]

Hearing conservative religious people refer to the Matrix as a perfect analogy for how the world works every 10 seconds is peak humor.

You guys do know the matrix is written by transgender people right? The Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters a long time ago.

[Historic Collections & Oddities @COCOAntique]

Just remember every time you hear someone say non-binary “agenda” are getting shoved down their throat, then they refer to a piece of writing as the basis for their understanding of the world— is written from the minds of two transgender people. 🤯