Illustrating the history meme
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bebootsWhen I was answering history prompts on that meme a few days ago, I totally intended on including with each one an image or a video, but as I fail at html, I decided to make an entirely new illustration post for everyone! :)
(Also feel free to post more history prompts! Be a welcome distraction to me from my homework!)
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beckyh2112 . Picture unrelated because trying to summarize the history of the world even in two semesters is a massive undertaking and I wouldn't presume to find a single picture that could represent all of the world's history.
dark_puck : there are far too many awesome pictures of the Defenestration of Prague. It was difficult to pick just one!
spyridona A Louis Riel Heritage Minute for you! :D
avocado_love : Charles I is my history crush. <3
anyjen : to make up for my embarrassing lack of knowledge of Argentinian history and culture, I bequeath to you a humourous GIF that summarizes nicely my reaction to hearing about the dark side of South American history. (I was so not prepared. D: )
redrikki : for someone who asked me a question about the history of medicine, here is a map from the era that I talked about in my answer. This is a reprint of Jonathan Snow's evocatively named Ghost Map, which shows the number of cholera deaths per house in 1853 in one neighbourhood of London. He used this map (each little black bar represents one death in the building) to help prove that cholera wasn't spread by miasma, but was probably waterborne: all of the ill and dead drank from one specific source, the Broad Street pump. The interesting thing about this map, too, was that it had an extreme outlier on the other side of town... but it turned out that the elderly lady who died of cholera there once lived near Broad Street and when she was feeling under the weather she'd sent her son to fetch some cool clear water from her favourite childhood pump... which was, of course, bearing the cholera. :( Still, a fascinating map and a neat bit of history!
feral_shrew asked me about awesome bits from Canadian history, and I told her about the euphemistically-titled story of the Piegan Haircut. I also talked about good ole Sir John A. I already linked her to one picture of our first prime minister by the lovely Kate Beaton, so here's a random 19th century political cartoon of a woman with an amazing hat.
And last but certainly not least,kuiskata asked me about the human skin book that I will show her in person one of these days. You also get an unrelated image to cheer you up after that gruesome tale. Exuberant puppies are exuberant! :D
(Also feel free to post more history prompts! Be a welcome distraction to me from my homework!)
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beckyh2112 . Picture unrelated because trying to summarize the history of the world even in two semesters is a massive undertaking and I wouldn't presume to find a single picture that could represent all of the world's history. dark_puck : there are far too many awesome pictures of the Defenestration of Prague. It was difficult to pick just one!spyridona A Louis Riel Heritage Minute for you! :Davocado_love : Charles I is my history crush. <3anyjen : to make up for my embarrassing lack of knowledge of Argentinian history and culture, I bequeath to you a humourous GIF that summarizes nicely my reaction to hearing about the dark side of South American history. (I was so not prepared. D: )redrikki : for someone who asked me a question about the history of medicine, here is a map from the era that I talked about in my answer. This is a reprint of Jonathan Snow's evocatively named Ghost Map, which shows the number of cholera deaths per house in 1853 in one neighbourhood of London. He used this map (each little black bar represents one death in the building) to help prove that cholera wasn't spread by miasma, but was probably waterborne: all of the ill and dead drank from one specific source, the Broad Street pump. The interesting thing about this map, too, was that it had an extreme outlier on the other side of town... but it turned out that the elderly lady who died of cholera there once lived near Broad Street and when she was feeling under the weather she'd sent her son to fetch some cool clear water from her favourite childhood pump... which was, of course, bearing the cholera. :( Still, a fascinating map and a neat bit of history!feral_shrew asked me about awesome bits from Canadian history, and I told her about the euphemistically-titled story of the Piegan Haircut. I also talked about good ole Sir John A. I already linked her to one picture of our first prime minister by the lovely Kate Beaton, so here's a random 19th century political cartoon of a woman with an amazing hat. And last but certainly not least,
kuiskata asked me about the human skin book that I will show her in person one of these days. You also get an unrelated image to cheer you up after that gruesome tale. Exuberant puppies are exuberant! :D
