History in General

Pergamon Altar Nordfries / The great Altar of Pergamon North frieze

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Pergamon Altar Nordfries / The great Altar of Pergamon North frieze
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Great Altar of Pergamon / North frieze
An unidentifiable giant in the struggle against Aphrodite, goddess of love, her mother Dione “The Earth Mother” and her son Eros, god of sexual love and beauty

London by night

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:36:00 +0000

London by night
Originally uploaded by foreyesonly

Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

women playing a game with knucklebones

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women playing a game with knucklebones
Originally uploaded by rosewithoutathorn84

Made in Campania
340-330 BC
Terracotta

a view of heaven Hampton Court

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a view of heaven
Originally uploaded by rosewithoutathorn84

detail of Hampton Court gates

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detail of Hampton Court gates
Originally uploaded by rosewithoutathorn84

Earthquake damaged Taiwan

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:33:00 +0000

Earthquake damaged Taiwan
Originally uploaded by squitten

The Japanese built this railway bridge when they occupied Taiwan, it was destroyed in 1991 by an earthquake

Erotische Szene geschnitzt in eine Erbsenschote / Erotic scene carved into a pea pod

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Erotische Szene geschnitzt in eine Erbsenschote / Erotic scene carved into a pea pod
Originally uploaded by josephdesarre

Erotic scene in a Amulet
Carving, Germany, 15th Century
Arts and Crafts Museum / Hamburg / Germany

'shabti' ipay (rmo leiden egypt 18d)

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:31:00 +0000

'shabti' ipay (rmo leiden egypt 18d)
Originally uploaded by koopmanrob

Ophelia

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:29:00 +0000

Ophelia
Originally uploaded by rosewithoutathorn84

Thomas Francis Dicksee, 1875

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detail of the Annunciation

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:24:00 +0000

detail of the Annunciation
Originally uploaded by rosewithoutathorn84

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Runestone of the week

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Runestone of the week
Originally uploaded by catarina.berg

This is stone nr Vs 13, Vs stands for Västmanland, which is a province in Sweden. The stone stands in front of
a gravemound, the so called Anunds-
mound, which domnates a large grave-
field. The stone dates from 1000-1050 AD. - The text reads:
"Folkvid raised all of these stones in memory of his son Heden, Anunds brother. Vred cut the runes."

Prehistoric horse

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:48:00 +0000

Prehistoric horse
Originally uploaded by blaat70

The Meditation Garden At Elvis Presley's Graceland Mansion In Memphis, Tennessee

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The Meditation Garden At Elvis Presley's Graceland Mansion In Memphis, Tennessee
Originally uploaded by The Nite Tripper

Flußgott Acheloos / River god Achelous

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Flußgott Acheloos / River god Achelous
Originally uploaded by josephdesarre

Mask of the river god Achelous, attic, 470 BC, found in Marathon

Vatican City 2007 - St. Peter's Square

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:33:00 +0000

Vatican City 2007 - St. Peter's Square
Originally uploaded by \W/intermute

The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace".

Athens 2006 - The Parthenon

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:33:00 +0000

Athens 2006 - The Parthenon
Originally uploaded by \W/intermute

The Parthenon has stood atop the Acropolis of Athens for nearly 2,500 years and was built to give thanks to Athena, the city's patron goddess, for the salvation of Athens and Greece in the Persian Wars. The building was officially called the Temple of Athena the Virgin; "Parthenon" comes from the Greek word parthenos, "virgin."

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WORLD RENOWNED SCIENTISTS REVEAL A REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:22:00 +0000

From the beginning, Ida's unveiling has been a master class in ballyhoo. A week ago, the first breathless press releases began to arrive, portending the presentation of the now famous 47-million-year-old primate fossil from Germany: "MEDIA ALERT," the notice shouted in all caps. "WORLD RENOWNED SCIENTISTS REVEAL A REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING."

The press releases were followed by an international press conference at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the publication of a book, The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Little, Brown), an ABC News exclusive and on May 25 a primetime television special on the History Channel. Of the avalanche of media-related promotion, Jorn Hurum, a Norwegian paleontologist involved in Ida's discovery, told the New York Times, "Any pop band is doing the same thing." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2008.)

This isn't exactly the stamp of approval most scientists look for, though, and in this case the puffery is especially unfortunate because the actual scientific finding, described in a paper published on Tuesday in the online journal PLoS One, really is important. First, the young mammal, which would have looked like a cross between a lemur and a small monkey, is astonishingly complete. "Most of what we understand about primate evolution is pieced together from bits of teeth and jaws," says Michael Novacek, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Ida, by contrast, has pretty much every bone, from the skull to the tip of the tail, and they're all in place. Not only that: You can also see impressions of its fur in the surrounding material, and there are even the remains of what was presumably Ida's final meal (leaves and fruit) still visible where the digestive tract used to be.

The fossil is so perfectly preserved because Ida probably died quickly and nonviolently: Her resting place was an abandoned quarry called the Messel Pit, near Frankfurt. At the time she lived, the pit was a lake out of which poisonous volcanic gases probably belched from time to time. Likely felled by such an outburst, she tumbled into deep, oxygen-poor water where she would have been buried by sediments before she could decompose. Indeed, the Messel Pit is such a rich source of well-preserved fossils that it's been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Read about China's fossil trade.)

The second reason the discovery is so important is its age. Ida — her scientific name is Darwinius masillae — dates to about 47 million years ago, when temperatures were warmer than they are today and when mammals underwent a burst of evolutionary diversification. In particular, that's when the primates began splitting off into two branches. One became the anthropoids, whose descendants are monkeys, apes and humans. The other turned into prosimians — lemurs and their kin.

Ida is intriguing because she has some characteristics of both branches, which suggests that she could be a transitional animal that gave rise to the prosimians and, ultimately, to us. "How transitional it is," says Novacek, "is a matter of debate and further study. I expected that from the beginning. The ratio of vertebrate paleontologists to actual specimens is high, which makes for a lot of theorizing." A specimen like this will reduce the theorizing, but in the end it may not settle anything at all.

For their part, the authors of the new paper clearly lean toward the idea that Ida is one of our distant ancestors. They don't claim they've proved it, though — in fact, they carefully include a disclaimer that "we are not advocating this here." Even if they were, though, and even if paleontologists all agreed on the matter, Ida could at best be considered a first step on an evolutionary pathway that took another 40 million years to reach the divergence point between chimps and our earliest hominid ancestors.

All of which renders the press release touting a "revolutionary scientific find that will change everything" absolutely true — as long as by "everything," you mean "whether the branch of the primate family that includes monkeys, apes and humans comes from the suborder strepsirrhinae or the suborder haplorrhinae," according to the PLoS One paper. And by "change," you mean "adds information that may or may not help settle the question, but whose implications won't be known for a long time in any case."

Most paleontologists roll their eyes at that sort of overhyped nonsense, especially given that there's real science lurking underneath. After wading through the false advertising, though, most people might have a hard time finding it. source:

The Argo. Price: $295.00

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:38:00 +0000

The Argo. Price: $295.00
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John Mulliken, Jr., 1920

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John Mulliken, Jr., 1920
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Athlete, between 1918-20

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Athlete, between 1918-20
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On the beach, 1920

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On the beach, 1920
Originally uploaded by bobster855

Hoopsters

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Hoopsters
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Friends Select School basketball team. Taken in 1919 or '20.

Marie Smith, 1920

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Marie Smith, 1920
Originally uploaded by bobster855

Rescue me

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:34:00 +0000

Rescue me
Originally uploaded by bobster855

Calvin Coolidge and Mother Jones, 1924

noreply@blogger.com (TheViewers) — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Unlikely pair
Originally uploaded by bobster855

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), born in Cork, Ireland, was a prominent American labor and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist.

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His actions during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of Warren G. Harding. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative.