Posts of ⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

Areal view of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1920

🇺🇸 Men lined up to vote in a US election, c. 1930s-1940s

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3 Nov 1957: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika aboard, a mostly Siberian Husky, the first animal to orbit the earth. As the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed, Laika's survival was never expected. She died by overheating hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit.

Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, c. 1900

British Trooper rescues a puppy from the ruins of a shelled German house on the outskirts of Geilenkirchen, November 1944

🇬🇧 Two soldiers in Kent, England, 1928

George Orwell speaking on a radio broadcast, 1940

Prayer services held in a bombed church in Coventry, England, 1945

1 Nov 1755: Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal

Men stand by ancient Egyptian ruins in Thebes, c. 1900

🇮🇹 A young Sicilian girl, c. 1900

Wagons of an Austro-Hungarian supply line over the Vršič Pass, October 1917, WWI

German medic and comrades help a soldier who just had his arm blown off on the East Front, 1942

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1880s

30 Oct 1340: King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeat Sultan Abu al-Hasan 'Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada at the Battle of Rio Salado in the last Marinid invasion of the Iberian Peninsula

Farmers harvesting sweet potatoes, Arkansas, 1917

Depiction of Vikings sailing a longship from a 12th century illustrated manuscript.

Soldiers of an Australian 4th Division field artillery brigade on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres salient, 29 October 1917.

A lady in the fashion of the 1920s

🗽 28 Oct 1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with a parade in New York City

Erasmus, in a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. Erasmus (28 Oct 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.

Lance Corporal W.J. Curtis, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, fixes the burned leg of a French boy, while his young brother looks on, Normandy, 1944

🇪🇸 A Spanish woman in traditional folk dress, 1924

The united forces of Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia defeat the Ottoman Turks at Giurgiu, October 1595.