History

[image] Art Nouveau Lamp cast in bronze from around the 1890s.

[image] Thursday 19 February 1663 Up and to my office, where abundance of business all the morning. Dined by my wife’s bedside, she not being yet well.… So to my office, where by and by we sat, this afternoon being the first we have met upon a great while, our times being changed

[image] Appomattox: The Collapse of a Dream. On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee realized that further fighting was futile and that he must ask Grant for surrender terms. Lee said, “I would rather die a thousand deaths.” But he sent the message to grant. A Civil War history

[image] Friday 13 March 1663 Up pretty early and to my office all the morning busy. At noon home to dinner … Abroad by water with my wife and Ashwell, and left them at Mr. Pierce’s, and I to Whitehall and St. James’s Park (there being no Commission for Tangier sitting to-day as I

[image] On March 29, 1516, the Venetian Republic decreed the establishment of the world’s first official Jewish ghetto in the Cannaregio district. Roughly 700 Jewish residents were forced into a small, gated, and guarded area—originally an industrial foundry site—designed to segregate

[image] "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education" - Sir Walter Scott

[image] God bless America 🇺🇸 My home sweet home

[image] Wednesday 25 February 1663 Up and to my office, where with Captain Cocke making an end of his last night’s accounts till noon, and so home to dinner, my wife being come in from laying out about 4l. in provision of several things against Lent. In the afternoon to the Temple, my

[image] A lovely display of Victorian-era cosmetics. There's just one catch. Used long enough, and they can be lethal. Victorian cosmetics sometimes contained toxic ingredients including lead, mercury, ammonia, and ... arsenic.

[image] During the First Barbary War, young Lt. Decatur led a daring nighttime raid into heavily defended Tripoli Harbor The Barbary pirates had captured an American frigate, so Decatur snuck in and set it ablaze Under heavy firing of enemy batteries, but he didn’t lose a single

[image] 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃𝚂 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙻𝙳. Have a thriving Thursday ✨ 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙓 𝙁𝙖𝙢☕ 🩷💙 #GoodMorning

[image] Saturday 28 February 1663 Waked with great pain in my right ear (which I find myself much subject to) having taken cold. Up and to my office, where we sat all the morning, and I dined with Sir W. Batten by chance, being in business together about a bargain of New England masts.*

[image] On April 4, 1776—250 years ago today—George Washington set his Continental Army in motion from Cambridge, Massachusetts, beginning the long march toward New York City. Fresh off their hard-won victory in the Siege of Boston, Washington correctly anticipated that the Redcoats

[video] 😱😱Only in Yemen... Of course, don't forget the fleeing soldier is Saudi.

[image] I don’t understand why everyone is ignoring our friends in Gaza when we all know the blockade of goods remains in place and is getting worse. Prices are rising and my friend’s children are hungry, so please do everything possible to help them.

[image] Monday 30 March 1663 Up betimes and found my weather-glass sunk again just to the same position which it was last night before I had any fire made in my chamber, which had made it rise in two hours time above half a degree. So to my office where all the morning and at the

[image] Thursday 26 February 1663 Up and drinking a draft of wormewood wine with Sir W. Batten at the Steelyard, he and I by water to the Parliament-house: he went in, and I walked up and down the Hall. All the news is the great odds yesterday in the votes between them that are for the

[image] Friday 10 April 1663 Up very betimes and to my office, where most hard at business alone all the morning. At noon to the Exchange, where I hear that after great expectation from Ireland, and long stop of letters, there is good news come, that all is quiett … Off the Exchange

[image] 10 March 1664 Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and at noon to the ’Change and there very busy, and so home to dinner with my wife, to a good hog’s harslet, a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, and after dinner abroad

[image] 11 March 1664 Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich’s, who not being up I staid talking with Mr. Moore till my Lord was ready and come down and went directly out without calling for me or seeing any body. …* Thence home, and by and by to the Coffee-house, and thence to the

[image] ʟɪꜰᴇ ɪꜱ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴘᴜᴢᴢʟᴇ. ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴡᴀꜱᴛᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ꜰɪᴛ. Have a thriving Thursday ✨ 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙓 𝙁𝙖𝙢☕ 🩷💙 #GoodMorning

[image] Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865. “After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the survivors of so many

[image] 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙎 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥: « 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜. »

[image] On this day, April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic vanished into the icy North Atlantic, just hours after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage. While over 1,500 lives were lost, the tragedy revealed profound acts of courage and selflessness, especially among the men who stood back

[image] Tuesday 31 March 1663 I lay long talking with my wife about my father’s coming, which I expect to-day, coming up with the horses brought up for my Lord. Up and to my office, where doing business all the morning, and at Sir W. Batten’s, whither Mr. Gauden and many others came to

[image] On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride to warn the colonists that the “British are coming!” An important spark that lit the American Revolution. What’s your favorite Revolutionary War story, battle, or figure? Drop it below — let’s talk American history!

[image] 22 February 1664 Up and shaved myself, and then my wife and I by coach out, and I set her down by her father’s, being vexed in my mind and angry with her for the ill-favoured place, among or near the whore houses, that she is forced to come to him. So left her there … This

[image] Sunday 5 April 1663 (Lord’s day). Up and spent the morning, till the Barber came, in reading in my chamber part of Osborne’s Advice to his Son (which I shall not never enough admire for sense and language), and being by and by trimmed, to Church, myself, wife, Ashwell, &c. Home

[image] Tuesday 7 April 1663 Up very betimes, and angry with Will that he made no more haste to rise after I called him. So to my office, and all the morning there. At noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had been with Ashwell to La Roche’s to have her

[image] The Permanent Corps of Discovery, (Lewis and Clark Expedition) was the core group of soldiers and civilians, about 33 people, who continued from Fort Mandan to the Pacific Ocean and back, 1805–1806, after the preliminary crew returned. In April 1805, the expedition was split.

[image] Crocodile brooch with abalone emeralds ruby and pearl.

[image] रिप्लाई ऑफ कर दिए। कब तक आप इस मुद्दे से भागते रहोगे वकील साहब। आपने जो योगदान दिए उसके लिए धन्यवाद है। पर कबतक हम अंग्रेजों के थोपे जातीवाद के साथ इस देश को चलाएंगे? आप आपके कान आंख बंद करके सत्य से विमुख नहीं हो सकते।

[image] Happy National Dog Day! George Washington: Father of the American Foxhound The man who helped birth a nation also helped birth one of America’s great dog breeds. Here’s the story of his meticulous work with hounds. Thread below 👇🧵

[image] Map of Pioneer Roads — General Drafting Co. Inc., N.Y. This details a view of the early pioneer routes including the Cumberland Road and Wilderness Road which were blazed by Daniel Boone in 1775 through Cumberland Gap connecting Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Frankfort

[image] Tuesday 21 April 1663 Up betimes and to my office, where first I ruled with red ink my English “Mare Clausum,” which, with the new orthodox title, makes it now very handsome. So to business, and then home to dinner, and after dinner to sit at the office in the afternoon, and

[image] During the Battle of Guam, July 21-August 10, 1944, 60 dogs were assigned to the marines. The dogs, sometimes called “devil dogs” were primarily Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds. These war dogs were primarily used as sentries and scouts. They sniffed out snipers, warned

[image] Winged nymphs in glowing plique-à-jour pure Art Nouveau magic.

[image] 𝚆𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚋𝚎. — Shakespeare 𓂃✍︎

[image] Elegant details and flowing designs these Art Nouveau combs turn everyday accessories into wearable art.

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[image] Tuesday 3 March 1663 (Shrove Tuesday). Up and walked to the Temple, and by promise calling Commissioner Pett, he and I to White Hall to give Mr. Coventry an account of what we did yesterday. Thence I to the Privy Seal Office … And here (dinner) Mrs. The. shewed me my name upon

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[image] March 30, 1867: America bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, roughly 2 cents an acre. Many thought it was a crazy purchase and called it "Seward's Icebox" after Secretary of State William Seward and President Johnson's “polar bear garden".

[image] On April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in American history came to a tragic end. William Henry Harrison, the 9th President, had delivered the longest inaugural address in U.S. history—lasting nearly two hours in cold, wet weather—just 32 days earlier. He caught pneumonia

[image] 𝙼𝙰𝙺𝙴 𝙿𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚃𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃𝚂 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙴𝙽𝙹𝙾𝚈 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝙼𝙾𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙸𝚂 𝙳𝙰𝚈. Have a triumphant Tuesday 💥 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙓 𝙁𝙖𝙢☕ 🩷💙 #GoodMorning

[image] On this day, April 4, 1818, the United States Congress passed the Flag Act, forever shaping one of America’s most enduring symbols. With the nation rapidly expanding westward, lawmakers decreed that the Stars and Stripes would feature 13 permanent red and white stripes

[image] Appomattox: The Final Salute. On a cloudy day, April 12, 1865, four years to the day from the firing on Fort Sumter, the Union Fifth Core led by Joshua Chamberlain, the hero of Little round top at Gettysburg, marched into Appomattox to receive the surrender of the Army of

[image] Independence Hall 🇺🇸 By Robert Finale

[image] First Baptist Church Meeting House, Providence, Rhode Island, 1850 — Unknown photographer (daguerreotype) This church is the third meeting house of the congregation founded in 1638 by Roger Williams. One of the oldest Baptist churches in America.

[image] Pickett's Charge, Cemetery Ridge, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863 — Mort Künstler painting, "The High Water Mark," 1988