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Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...
Image credits: UrbanAchievers6371 Scouten says we can get a lot of information from an old photo. "For people who enjoy research, photos give us many clues to when the photo was taken.
Image credits: Quick_Presentation11 Ensuring historical accuracy on social media is no easy task, but it’s more important than ever. According to the American Historical Association, 26% of ...
The location of one of the most famous ax murders in history, which was turned into a B&B in 1996. According to the building's former owner, the room where Abby Borden was murdered is its "most requested room." London Bridge: An over century year old authentic English bridge...that now resides in the middle of the desert. M-185 (Michigan highway)
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
The story that Isaac Newton was inspired to research the nature of gravity when an apple fell on his head is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea came to him as he sat "in a contemplative mood" and "was occasioned by the fall of an apple". [47] The phrase "let them eat cake" is misattributed to Marie ...
The past can be quite fascinating.Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the ...
Joyce Irene Whalley and Tessa Rose Chester, A History of Children's Book Illustration, Victoria & Albert Museum (1988) William Feaver, When We Were Young: Two Centuries of Children's Book Illustration, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1977) Donnerae MacCann and Olga Richard, The Children's First Books: A Critical Study of Pictures and Text (1973)