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The Second Punic War broke out in 218 BC after Hannibal's great Army made the famous military exploit of carrying war to Italy by crossing the Alps with approximatively 37 North African war elephants.
The fate of these elephants is tragic. Most died from the cold or from lack of food in the Alps, and the rest died in the first battle of Trebbia in Italy.
They were drunk and wore heavy armor for combat.
This species of North African elephant no longer exists, they were supposed to be smaller than any elephant we know of at the time.
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outfits from Pucca Firecaster's Creations
Medhue Elephant Rider v1 from Medhue Animations
Via del Foro Piscario is a street in the Rione Sant'Angelo that crosses the archaeological area of the Teatro di Marcello. The name Foro Piscario belonged to the place where the fish market took place for centuries.
A scene from Alberto Sordi's famous film An American in Rome was filmed on this street.
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith
Castle Westhove. The castle dates from the 13th century.
The castle was in a charter of 1277 of Count Floris V mentioned as being the property of the abbey in Middelburg, but it is not clear how old the castle was then.
Here you see the left side. I just love this place!
A special thanks to Lenabem Anna for using one of her lovely textures!
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for your faves, but most of all for your friendship!
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The old windmill of Eickhorst is one of my favorite places to dive into history. Minden Area, Ostwestfalen, Germany
Rue de la Huchette is one of the most famous streets in the Latin Quarter in the center of Paris.
It is a street that was not very safe in the Middle Ages because many thieves raged in this area.
La rue de la Huchette est une des rues les plus connues du quartier latin au centre de Paris.
C'est une rue qui n'était pas très sûre au Moyen âge car de nombreux voleurs sévissaient dans ce quartier.
"The hosts and guests of history must learn
to seek to learn the lessons both must earn....."
'lacrymae rerum' the tears of things...
part of a poem by Michael Shepherd Thanks Michael!
Done with Topaz clean and b&w effect.
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It seems like there must be an interesting historical story behind these unique rock formations at Arches National Park. There are amazing landscapes throughout the park!
A shot of one part of Odunpazarı, Eskişehir. The area is full of these old Ottoman style houses, many of which, as in this street, have been restored.
Zaanse Schans Windmills
What comes around goes around. Isn't it fascinating that one of the main sources of the modern movement of "green energy" is the wind turbine? Humanity has been using windmills through recorded history in order to generate energy (in physics, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement) all the way back to the 9th Century. Windmills as a major source of energy reached their zenith around 1850, but rapidly became obsolete with the advent of steam power. But now we have circled back again, with vast fields of new wind turbines producing "work" for our energy consumption.
Here at Zaanse Schans are these wonderful examples of how history does indeed repeat itself. These windmills, dating from 1574 onwards, but transplanted from around the Netherlands to Zaanse Schans starting in the 1950s, form a living history museum and still produce energy to accomplish industry: From the left, Het Jonge Schaap is a working sawmill, De Zoeker produces oil from peanuts through crushing, De Kat is the world's only working windmill to produce paints and pigments, and in the foreground is De Gekroonde Poelenburg, another sawmill.
A visit to the Netherlands is not complete unless you can make it to one of their many windmill sites (there are over 1000 still present in the country).
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This was originally the American Brake Company plant, now abandoned. Thanks for looking back with me.
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Our city is written in the book of UNESCO. Tourists take pictures of the same things. The Painted House, Basilica, Jewish Quarter, St. Martin's Church. I also took a picture Painted house, I live here!
Allee vom Jagtschloss Falkenlust zum Schloss Augustusburg wird von der Bahnstrecke Köln- Bonn gekreuzt.
Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Bardizbah al-Ju‘fī al-Bukhārī 19 July 810 – 1 September 870), or Bukhārī, commonly referred to as Imam al-Bukhari or Imam Bukhari, was a Persian Islamic scholar who was born in Bukhara (the capital of the Bukhara Region (viloyat) of Uzbekistan). He authored the hadith collection known as Sahih al-Bukhari, regarded by Sunni Muslims as one of the most authentic (sahih) hadith collections. He also wrote other books such as Al-Adab al-Mufrad.
Imam al-Bukhari was the great theologian of the East. He collected and recorded about 600 thousand hadith, i.e. legend based on cases of life or some sayings of the Prophet. Out of them, al-Bukhari selected as “flawless” about 7400 hadith to include into the famous “As-Sahih” which became the second most important book after the Koran for the majority of Sunni.
The mausoleum of Imam al-Bukhari presents in all of its magnificence. In the complex that occupies a vast territory, there are mausoleums, mosques, hotel for tourists and pilgrims, souvenir shops and religious literature.
The mausoleum of Imam al-Bukhari is one of the main pilgrimage sites in Uzbekistan. The visiting of three shrines in Samarkand – the mausoleums of al-Bukhari, Shakhi-Zinda and Rukhabad – within one day, is called “small Hajj”.
I recently finished reading a very interesting collection of short stories entitled Save Me Stranger, by Erika Krouse. The stories are pretty wild and go in all different directions with quite a large variety of main characters and settings. Many really made me think more deeply about life situations and reality.
In any case, the collection starts out with the following quote from Anaïs Nin:
"Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."
I've been thinking about that quite a bit and I immediately start thinking about how when you are going through a traumatic incident, it is sometimes helpful to picture yourself removed from your body, as if seeing it all from an existential distance.
How will we understand and tell our own stories with this huge change in history...this turmoil, these atrocities currently happening in our names. And, of course, the "winners" are the ones who get to write those stories but none of us are winning here. Some of us may be lucky to survive but that's about all. What we've all collectively lost is immeasurable, whether we write it down or not.
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Around the beginning of the Great Depression in late 1920, an apple company decided to sell apples to people on credit, who in turn sold the apples. Five cent apple sellers could be found throughout street corners in New York.
The apple selling scheme had several benefits: It helped the apple industry move surplus produce that might never get purchased otherwise, and it helped men earn some money. But more than that, it gave men a small sense of pride. By selling apples instead of begging, the unemployed men still seemed to be in charge of their own destinies. Photographs of men selling the apples remain one of the most well-known symbols of the Depression today.
www.history.com/news/apples-weapon-great-depression
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[CZ] Panorama hradu "Rokštejn" - jeden z nejvíce zdokumentovaných hradů na moravě. Možná i proto, že hrozí zatopení místa díky budoucí přehradě (zatím to není jisté). Nicméně toto urychluje archeologický výzkum a poznatky ohledně tohoto hradu.
[EN] - Panorama of the castle "Rokštejn" - one of the most documented castles in Moravia. Perhaps because the site is in danger of being flooded due to a future dam (it is not certain yet). However, this accelerates the archaeological research and knowledge about this castle.