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The purpose of this thread is to share vintage pictures of historical happenings....let us learn and rub minds together...

Vercingetorix (82BC-46 BC)
Vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of Julius Caesar😮

Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children reportedly chose to take their own lives rather than suffer enslavement or death at the hands of the Roman army. They were the last holdouts of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome, which had ended officially three years earlier, in 70 CE, with an unimaginable disaster: the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple. During the revolt, these families found refuge atop Masada, a remote mountain overlooking the Dead Sea that had been fortified by King Herod the Great seventy years earlier. Now, however, they were besieged by an overwhelming Roman force, and it was clear the fortress would fall. At this critical moment, the rebel leader Eleazar Ben-Yair gathered the men together and convinced them to commit mass suicide. So persuaded, each man killed his own wife and children. Then the men gathered together and drew lots, determining which ten of them would put the others to death. The ten remaining men drew lots again, and one man killed the other nine before taking his own life, as the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus describes:

Emperor Julian the Apostate
LIFE: AD 332 – 363
Flavius Magnus Magnentius - "Julian the Apostate"
Name: Flavius Magnus Magnentius
Born in AD 332 at Constantinople.
Became emperor in February AD 360.
Died in Mesopotamia on 26 June AD 363.

🌍 😲 The Roman Empire & The Mongol Empire at their peaks

The mongol empire was massive, i wonder what would have happened to the course of history if the mongols had managed to consolidate and rule of over their empire for centuries.....

🌏 Afghanistan , Pakistan
👉 Ethnolinguistic groups

🌍 Current political and military control in ongoing Yemeni Civil War (2014–present):

👉Pink : Controlled by the Government of Yemen (under the Presidential Leadership Council since April 2022) and allies(Saudi Arabia,sunni)
👉 Green: Controlled by shia Houthis(Iran)-led Supreme Political Council
👉 South and socotra(Mustard shades): Controlled by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council

Minsk24:
🌍 Current political and military control in ongoing Yemeni Civil War (2014–present):

👉Pink : Controlled by the Government of Yemen (under the Presidential Leadership Council since April 2022) and allies(Saudi Arabia,sunni)
👉 Green: Controlled by shia Houthis(Iran)-led Supreme Political Council
👉 South and socotra(Mustard shades): Controlled by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council

The geo-politics of Yemen is very complex, i wonder how the country can be reunified...will the others submit to the houthis? What is the UAE long term game plan in the south?
I am very keen on seeing what happens in Yemen going forward

Map of Croatia...
For the first time, i am seeing that Bosnia has very little Access to the sea...other huge countries to fall into this category would be ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia..e.t.c

🌍 🌍 😲 South America in 1821

Artistic depiction of Mumtaz Mahal

Mumtaz Mahal was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one of the Wonders of the World, was commissioned by her husband to act as her tomb.

Minsk24:
Artistic depiction of Mumtaz Mahal

Mumtaz Mahal was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one of the Wonders of the World, was commissioned by her husband to act as her tomb.

Imagine a woman so beautiful, so dear to the heart of the emperor,that he will order the construction of the taj mahal....

The Shalimar Gardens in Lahore are among the most famous Mughal gardens.

Depiction of Raziya Sultana (رضیہ سلطانہ) r. 1236 - 1240 CE, Sultanate of Delhi.

Raziyyat-Ud-Dunya Wa Ud-Din (Persian: سلطان رضیه الدنیا والدین) (died 15 October 1240, r. 1236–1240), popularly known as Razia Sultana, was a ruler of the Delhi Sultanate in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. She was the first female Muslim ruler of the subcontinent, and the only female Muslim ruler of Delhi.

Mohenjo-daro, one of the largest Indus cities. View of the site's Great Bath, showing the surrounding urban layout.

His Royal Majesty Ogíamè Atuwatsé III,
The Olú Of Warri Kingdom, with Ọọni of Ifè, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Tuesday, December 19, at the coronation of Soun of Ogbomosho, Oba Ghandi Olaoye in Oyo state.

Cocoa House in Ibadan, the first Skyscraper in Africa

IICC now known as Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan won the African Cup Winners Cup in 1976, posing with the trophy; Captain Ojebode, behind him; Joseph "Jossy Lad" Ladipo, in the middle; Aláàfin Oyo, Ọba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, Muda Lawal and the Club's Executive Director and facilitator, Chief Ọlálékan Salami.

In the first round IICC defeated the Kenya Breweries 5-0 home and away, followed by a 4-3 win over Rokana United of Zambia in the quarterfinals.

After a disappointing 2-0 lost to Zamalek in Egypt in the semifinal first leg, the team played their heart out at the Liberty Stadium, ring road, Ibadan, after 90 minutes the match ended 2-2 on aggregate, they went on to flog the Egyptian giant 5-3 in the penalty shoot-out.

The final against Tonnerre Yaounde was a cruise as the team trashed their Cameroonian counterpart 4-1 to claim Nigeria's first African club trophy.

Statue of Diogenes with Alexander the Great, located in Corinth.

Crates of Thebes was a Cynic philosopher, who gave away his money to live a life of poverty on the streets of Athens.

He married Hipparchia of Maroneia, who also shared his views on materialism.

Respected by the people of Athens, he is remembered for being the teacher of Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism.

Until Alexander The Great, Greece wasn't a single country. Rather, it was made up of states that governed themselves

Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons.

She fought Achilles to the death. At the moment of her defeat, they fell in love.
Penthesilea (Greek: Πενθεσίλεια, romanized: Penthesíleia) was an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope and Melanippe. She assisted Troy in the Trojan War, during which she was killed by Achilles or Neoptolemus. The asteroid 271 Penthesilea, discovered in 1887, was named in her honor.[1]

The Invincible Gunners!!

Liga top scorers from 2000 to 2020!! #pichichi

Roman Empire at its peak

🔸Iraqi Sumerian birth certificate over 4000 years old, cuneiform script with the details of the gender of the newborn and the name of the parents, in addition to a foot print of the child made of clay that represents the silent imprint of his foot. Dating from around 2000 B.C

🔸This incredible photograph from 1885 AD, of Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria, who each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

As Mallika Rao writes in HuffPost, "If the timing doesn't seem quite right, that's understandable. In 1885 AD, women in the U.S. still couldn't vote, nor were they encouraged to learn very much. Popular wisdom decreed that studying was a threat to motherhood." Given this, how did three women from around the world end up studying there to become doctors? The credit, according to Christopher Woolf of PRI's The World, goes to the Quakers who "believed in women’s rights enough to set up the WMCP way back in 1850 in Germantown.”

Woolf added, "It was the first women’s medical college in the world, and immediately began attracting foreign students unable to study medicine in their home countries. First they came from elsewhere in North America and Europe, and then from further afield. Women, like Joshi in India and Keiko Okami in Japan, heard about WMCP, and defied expectations of society and family to travel independently to America to apply, then figure out how to pay for their tuition and board. Besides the international students, it also produced the nation’s first Native American woman doctor, Susan La Flesche, while African Americans were often students as well. Some of whom, like Eliza Grier, were former slaves."

🔸A 3,300-year-old chariot bridge is still in use today. The Arkadiko Bridge was built between 1,300 and 1,190 BCE, making it one of the oldest still-used arch bridges still in existence even though it’s not suggested to drive on. It was built on a road that linked Tiryns to Epidaurus, and was part of a larger military road system.

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History will make u realise how strong and resilient the early people were.. alot of innovations we enjoy today took roots from their works and efforts.. I personally love Mathematic n science history.. Archimedes works on displacement,Pythagoras' Theorems,Newtons Laws,.. Robert Boyle,Stanislao Cannizaro,The wright brothers that made the first plane..Alex Graham bells of the telephone fame,Galileo Galilei, That evolution guy ,the x ray guy..forgotten their names

Even more recently Albert Einstein (theory of relativity,...E=mc2 etc)



Modified... Charles Darwin (evolution)


And Wilhelm Roentgen..(x-ray)