History Addicts Are Sharing Interesting Pics And Facts And Here Are 50 Of The Best Ones

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Now that he's turned off aid to Ukraine, he'll be a blood orange. What am I saying, he probably already is.

The Germans were known for their fine boots.

There's a movie made about her, actually. It's in Hindi, though (with English subs available).

The sides of the fish are darker on the side towards the shadows at the 'bottom'.

Agreed. They could have saved a few hundred words by writing 'Gary drew some shadows, so now the the fish look cool.'

As an artist, I admire this example of BS art-splaining! Well done!

Those are the actual fish shaped dark areas that seem to be the shadows of fish on the bottom of a pool.

Lest We Forget.

"About six-in-ten registered voters who say they have served in the U.S. military or military reserves (61%) support former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, while 37% back Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a Pew Research Center survey"

More reliable too.

God, that was awful! Have another upvote.

We were not a single people, after all, and there was no internet and dissemination of information was very, very slow and haphazard!

I suppose 2000 years ago you had to be an artist to paint, by the middle ages you only had to be a monk (re illuminated manuscripts that is)

I'm gonna blame the ergot poisoning and plague.

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Different cultures, different civilizations.

No lights on in the dark ages either.

Yes. It's called the fall of Rome. You know, the Dark Ages. People forgot how to make glass, even; for 400 years they were just remelting the Roman glass and reusing it, until Charlemagne's little mini-Renaissance came along. And anyway, medieval art was frequently a stylistic choice, too.

This is a mosaic on a floor, or a wall. It's big. Famously ugly medieval drawings are in the margins of books. They are tiny. Try getting all details right on something that is 5cm long

Historical progress is not consistent. This mosaic is from Alexandria, Egypt which would have been part of the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Rome until its conquest by a successor of Mohammed in 639. The Muslims, Indians, S Asians, Chinese, Africans, and peoples of the Americas all had periods of great scientific and cultural success while Western Europe was getting itself sorted.

Really? A value of an artwork is determined by how photorealistic it is? So Chinese artists or 20th century Western painters also “don’t know how to draw a dog” just because they don’t follow the aesthetics of primitive realism? Don’t get me wrong, I love Graeco-Roman antique art, but why perpetuate the ignorant myth of “dark” Middle Ages disguised as narrow-minded taste in art and stylistic intolerance?

It seems so...during the middle ages the only ones who could write (or were alliowed to) were the people in the monasteries...they translated original writings into Latin and many mistakes crept in, when I only think of the herb »centaurium«, which derived from ancient Greek as »Centauron« and the monks translated it as centum + aurum, although according to the myth it was the centaur Chiron who was the first to discover the effects of the herb...🤷🏽