Herbos

Performing #Magician. Former Vice-President of the #BelgianMagicFederation. #ArtHistorian also. Interested in #Magic, #History and all #Arts.

[Herbos @HerbosMagic]

@torfsrik Verkeerde bijlage denk ik.

[ockhams-scheermes @ockhams]

Socialist eist gratis internet van zijn buurman. Hilarisch en tragisch tegelijkertijd.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is Margaret Ann Neve at age 110 in 1902.

She was born in 1792 and died in 1903, making her the first proven person in recorded history to have lived in 3 different centuries. She is also the first recorded female supercentenarian (someone who has reached the age of 110).

Born in Guernsey, an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, Mrs. Neve fell into a 3-day coma as a small child, when she fell over a banister and hit her head on the floor. She reportedly never got sick again until the age of 105 when she caught the flu.

As a child she would recall moments of the French Revolution (1789-1799) and her father commanding a militia on the island. She would also visit the battlefield of Waterloo, shortly after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. In 1823, she married and settled in Kent, England where she lived for the next 25 years, childless. After her husband's death, Mrs. Neve went back to Guernsey to live with her mother.

According to an article from the Richmond Examiner in 1901, Mrs. Neve drank a glass and a half of sherry during lunchtime and drank whiskey and water at dinnertime. At the age of 110, she is reported to have climbed a tree to pick an apple, saying that it was much tastier when eaten right from the tree.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

America was supposed to be Art Deco.

Marvels of American Art Deco design - a thread 🧵

1. Union Terminal, Cincinnati, OH (1933)

[Herbos @HerbosMagic]

#Louvain, Belgium, today. Church of Saint Peter.

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

What an absolutely stunning photo! The 35m-long #Roman shipwreck, along with its cargo of 6,000 (!) amphorae was discovered in 2019 off the coast of the Greek Island of Kefalonia.
It’s one of the largest Roman shipwrecks found in the Mediterranean.

Photo: Ionian Aquarium

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In Michelangelo's Moses, made in 1513-1515 CE, there is a small muscle carved into forearm. Human body contracts this muscle only when little finger is lifted, otherwise it remains hidden.

© Darius

#archaeohistories

[Historygirl @janeyellene]

A bus driver and his conductor stop for a water break during the heatwave in London 1935

[Nina Willburger @DrNWillburger]

#FindsFriday! This rag-doll may look a bit creepy nowadays, but it was certainly loved by a child in the past. The #doll from the #Roman period in #Egypt is made of linen and stuffed with rags and papyrus. A blue glass bead attached to the head's left side suggests... 1/3

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

I can see like you too💙

[Simon Holland @simoncholland]

I've never been on a cooking show but I did put a kitchen towel over my shoulder once when I made a grilled cheese.

[Herbos @HerbosMagic]

@emichiel61 @torfsrik Giordano Bruno is veroordeeld tot de brandstapel omwille van zijn religieuze opvattingen - niet omwille van zijn heliocentrisme.

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Wonderfully restored. Dutch train carriage from 1904 in Art Nouveau style, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

📸 @arjandenboer

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This video by artist Howad Lee shows how you can easily draw an illusory 3D ladder with marker and ruler, using anamorphosis, or the view of a recognizable image only from a precise vantage point [source, full video: https://t.co/mbH09T1mEt]

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Cloisters Playing Cards; 1475–80.
Made in Burgundian territories (South Netherlandish)
Medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold. Dimensions: (13.2 × 7 cm)

MET Museum

#archaeohistories

[History Defined @historydefined]

The great Pyramids of Giza from above.

Photo by Mohamed Elsayed.

[History Defined @historydefined]

2000 year-old Roman face cream/lotion. Dating back to II AD. Object was found in the temple complex dedicated to Mars. It's world's oldest cosmetic face cream and it has finger marks in the lid.

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Ancient Greek ball player balancing the ball. Part of a marble grave stele, found in Piraeus, 400-375 BC. Item (NAMA) 873 of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

[History Defined @historydefined]

The stunning wooden spiral staircase of Peles castle in Sinaia, Romania.