A rare photo collection from the 1899 Paris Fair Exposition Universelle which celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.
These 40 photographs all tell stories about the historical figures or events that they represent. Once taken simply to document their present, they now help us witness the past. From historical landmarks and famous people to the basic daily routines of the past, these pictures portray the past in a way that we can empathize with and understand more intimately.
Fernando Gómez Baptista crea cada una de sus infografías como si de un cómic, cuidando cada detalle visual y de guion. Para Fernando Gómez Baptista (@fernandobaptista) diseñar una infografía es muchísimo más que ordenar y presentar datos de manera lógica y bonita. Tras más de una década trabajando como infografista para National Geographic puede decirse que ha elevado esta disciplina a la categoría de arte. En el curso Crea una infografía que hará historia explica los entresijos, trucos y consejos más importantes para crear una infografía de éxito que deje al lector con un "¡guau!" de asombro en la boca.
Zwinger Palace was built in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, during the reign of Augustus the Strong in the year 1709, and has been famous ...
C'est en 1525 que Ludovico Capponi, banquier et homme politique florentin, confie à Pontormo la décoration de la chapelle qu'il vient d'acheter en l'église Santa Felicita de Florence.
Image 18 of 25 from gallery of Architecture City Guide: Amsterdam. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Usually, when you read a history article or story, it's mostly just dry facts and your imagination. But a photo gives something a bit different... It shows you how something actually looked, letting you understand the historical moment more intimately. Whether it would be a historical landmark, a famous person or random photo of the past - they all have fascinating stories behind them, and we're just about to show you.
© Francesca Cristini It's a labyrinthine citadel more surreal than even the weirdest of Fellini sets. "La Scarzuola" is a modern wannabe-Utopian estate imagined by one man and built amongst the pointy trees of Italy's Montegabbione in the 1950s. This esoteric wonderland and its elaborate surreali
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A study of the Medieval king's skeleton reveals traumatic wounds he received at the time of death.
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California, 1918. The 1918 Spanish flu killed up to 50 million people around the world and has been called “the mother of all pandemics”. Between 1918 and 1919,
Persepolis, Shiraz, Iran. MORE INFO: Darius the Great (522-486 BC) built the Persepolis after re-establish 23 state in middle east and Xerxes (Darius's son) complete the complex 465 BC.
1935: When the 'giraffe women' of Burma visited London
Early spring at Thomas Jefferson's mountain top home in Virginia.
Okay. So, I have written a historical fiction. And, should I ask, just what is a historical fiction? The obvious, of course; a fictional story that has been written in a milieu of the past. To further simplify the meaning, lets go with the...
It’s literally ‘The Swing’ her husband is pushing her on the swing while her side piece hides in the bush and gets the up skirt as she’s kicking her shoe off to him
America had Al Capone. Sydney had Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - who *hated* each other.
The towns of south west France like Bordeaux, Saint-Emilion, Bayonne and La Rochelle have beaches, great food, wine and history - discover more in our guide
Cette magnifique carte ancienne de la péninsule malaise a été publiée en 1898. Elle a été créée par John van Cuylenburg et Edward Stanford.Cette ancienne carte de la péninsule malaise a été créée en 1898 par John van Cuylenburg et Stanford. Elle montre les différents États et territoires qui existaient...
El arte es un reflejo del mundo y nada mejor para mostrar lo que es ahora el mundo que el arte... combinado con memes. Estos hijos del matrimonio entre los museos y los smartphones son lo mejor que pudo haber pasado. Primero fueron los snapchats y las pinturas; ahora es tiempo de algo más. Estos
The post "John Gray: Waiting for an Atheist Morality is Like Waiting for Godot" sparked something resembling a debate the last two days. Some of it was
Modern-day Vienna, circa 500 - 15 BC., was little more than a small town inhabited by a local tribe known as the Vendi. By 9 AD a strong Roman garrison of Vindobona had been established at this strategic meeting point of two great highways ; one...
The political situation in Albion prior to the battle Unknown, but heavyThe Battle of Penn Hill was fought in AD 665 between a British and an Anglo-Saxon coalition at Penn Hill in northern Dumnonia, the precise location of which is unknown. It resulted in a decisive British victory, and reversed the Saxon expansion westwards across Albion. Germanic migrants, mainly from the Angle, Saxon and Jutish tribes, began arriving on the east coast of Albion in the mid-5th century, during the chaos followi
The timing of his abdication, the first in more than two centuries, has spurred debate in Japan.
Eugène Alexis Girardet 1853-1907 Frankrijk
Objectives for creating timelines:To present a chronological sequence of related events along a drawn lineA fast ‘snapshot’ of time, people and eventsCreating a Timeline – A verti…
