fyeah-history:

Village feast with theatre performance c. 1600

allaboutchinese:

十二生肖 The 12 Symbolic Animals - 北语的汉语教程

wwii-in-photographs:

When the Jews facing extermination fought back: Haunting new images of doomed Warsaw Ghetto uprising are revealed to mark 70th anniversary.

brudesworld:

A Mermaid by John William Waterhouse, 1901.

ancientpeoples:

Ivory head of a roaring lion

Neo-Assyrian

Found in Mesopotamia, Nimrud 

9th-8th century BC 

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

jtotheizzoe:

The World as 100 People: Equally interesting and shocking.

(via Visual.ly)

ancientpeoples:

Buddha schist 

From Gandhara, Pakistan 

Kushan Dynasty, 2nd - 3rd century AD 

Source: Tokyo National Museum 

space-pics:

Ground crews just extracted Chris Hadfield from the Soyuz
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collectivehistory:

Vice President Nixon and members of the press on a plane during a visit to the U.S.S.R., by Thomas J. O’Halloran, 5th August 1959 (LOC) 

wtfevolution:

A female kangaroo is always pregnant. While one joey grows in her pouch, another one gestates in one of her two uteruses. As soon as the developed joey leaves the pouch, the next one is ready to come down the pipe—of which, by the way, she has three. Happy Mother’s Day. 

obama2016:

Virginia Clinton Kelley and Ann Dunham with their sons the 42th and 44th future President of the USA

thelandofmaps:

The North Frisian coast, before the Grote Mandrenke (“great drowning of men”, aka 2nd Marcellus Flood) 1362, directly after and today [519 x 500, 3-frame animated gif]
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collectivehistory:

Emergency workers treat a young victim of the atomic explosion. He was brought to the temporary aid hospital on a cart, but died soon afterwards. (Magnum Photos)

ancientart:

Bronze war chariot of the Ancient Chinese Terracotta Army, late third century BC.

Courtesy & currently located at the The Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, China. Photo taken by Maros Mraz